CHRIS CARTER BIOGRAPHY


Chris Carter began his career in the late 1960's working for various TV stations
(Thames, Granada and LWT) as a sound engineer on numerous TV shows and documentaries. 
This gave him an invaluable grounding in sound and audio techniques and theories. 
He also found himself getting more involved in the visual side of entertainment, 
which eventually progressed into designing and presenting light shows and visual 
effects for numerous festivals, events and gigs, including bands as diverse as 
Yes and Hawkwind. This led to commissions for BBC TV shows, Colour Me Pop and 
The Old Grey Whistle Test.  By the early 70's Chris was touring universities 
and colleges with a solo, multimedia show playing self-built synthesisers and 
keyboards and incorporating a myriad of lighting effects gleaned from his previous 
work. During this time he also worked extensively with visual artist John Lacey 
on many 8 mm & 16 mm experimental films and multimedia presentations. 

In the mid 1970's, and through his connection with John Lacey, Chris began an 
experimental music/sound collaboration with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Genesis P-Orridge, 
who were also performing as COUM Transmissions with Peter Christopherson. 
The results of this musical collaboration was the creation of the now legendary 
Throbbing Gristle, Industrial Records and the birth of the 'Industrial Music' 
phenomenon.  During the first few years of TG the four members each continued 
with other solo projects and work. It was during this period when Chris recorded 
his first solo album for Industrial Records called 'THE SPACE BETWEEN' 
(available on MUTE, CC1CD). He also worked at the London bureau of the ABC News 
agency as a sound engineer and during that time designed and constructed their 
London radio studio. He was offered a contract to build another studio in Rome 
but turned it down and instead decided to concentrate on his music and video 
work and continue as a member of Throbbing Gristle. 

Shortly after the demise of Throbbing Gristle in 1982 Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti 
formed the Conspiracy International record label CTI (with backing from Rough Trade) 
and began working together as Chris & Cosey and CTI. Initially releasing only music 
they soon moved into producing video works, and with the help of Doublevision released 
a number of CTI experimental video films and soundtracks. As well as successfully 
touring all over the world they also recorded and collaborated on innumerable releases, 
most notably with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Robert Wyatt, COIL, NON , Lustmord, 
Monte Cazazza
and many more. In 1985 Chris released his second solo album MONDO BEAT (now available 
as COLLECTIV 1 ,CTI001CD). Chris & Cosey have also remixed two tracks for Erasure, the 
single Run To The Sun and their version of Abba's SOS. 

In 1994 Chris also moved into journalism and regularly has technical articles and 
reviews published in Sound On Sound magazine. Chris is also an accomplished photographer 
and graphic designer. In collaboration with Cosey he has produced many outstanding 
CD covers, albums, posters and art pieces. 

1995 saw Chris return to solo performance work after a gap of some 15 years. With a 
subtle return to his  earlier works but with obvious influences from his more recent 
collaborations. His set was minimal,using  video projections, a sampler, a synth and 
a PowerBook. 

In 1998 Chris released a compilation CD of tracks from his 1995 Blast First/Disobey 
tour DISOBEDIENT and In 2000 he released a solo studio album: SMALL MOON. 1998 also 
saw the releas of CAGED , a collaboration album with electro musician Ian Boddy. 
One of his on going projects with Cosey Fanni Tutti is a series of remix albums 
entitled: ELECTRONIC AMBIENT REMIXES. The first of these (EAR ONE) was released 
in the summer of 2000. 

In 2002 he released his solo EAR THREE ambient CD, which consists of remixes of his 
original Throbbing Gristle rhythm tracks. He is also working on a new CARTER TUTTI 
CD for release in 2004. 

In 2003 Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti also decided to to cease releasing material 
and performing as Chris & Cosey and will in future work under the title of CARTER TUTTI. 

Chris and the other original members of Throbbing Gristle have recently regrouped for 
a series of TG related releases and events. These include the TG24 CD boxed set, an 
exhibition in London and a special 'one off' RE~TG event at Camber Sands, Sussex in 2004. 


Aug 2003 ©