Chris & Cosey Interview (Throbbing Gristle)

The latest episode of Electric Independence features an interview with Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti, the Chris & Cosey of Throbbing Gristle:

Not only did Carter and Tutti change the entire electronic music game as founding members of the legendary avant-garde industrial group Throbbing Gristle: they continued their love affair with music, gear and each other over the next 30-odd years with their mind-blowing, ahead-of-the-curve approach to drum machines, sampling, performance, and all manners of visceral electronic skullduggery. “It’s really good to get physical with sound,” says Tutti, “because it does reduce people to human beings, and their physicality, rather than them trying to intellectualize about it. The violence of the sound completely bypasses that.”

Between the electro-pop of Chris & Cosey, the spooky ambience of Carter Tutti or their continuing aural experiments under their mysterious ‘CTI’ moniker, the pair have left an indelible, beautiful bruise on the face of electronic music.

They took us for a spin around the home studio they’ve been recording in for 25 years, demonstrated some of the bits and pieces they’re using in their current incarnation, performed a special improvised track for us, and taught us how to give an asthmatic cat his daily dosage of medicine.

You can view other episodes in this series at the site Motherboard.tv.

8 thoughts on “Chris & Cosey Interview (Throbbing Gristle)

  1. I love that they look like this entirely "normal" suburban couple, in their kitchen with the air freshener over the sink, and then they're creating this hard industrial music!

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