Strange Vibrations

Go ahead, Quake my day: Ex-Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler shakes things up.

Multi-instrumentalist Thomas Dimuzio.

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8 p.m. Friday, November 10, $10-$12
303-759-1797

Cameron Church, 1600 South Pearl Street, Denver

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• Chris Cutler
• Thomas Dimuzio
• Fred Frith
• John Cage
• Henry Cow

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As exhilarating as it may be to stare down a blank sheet of music paper like a couple of steely-eyed, double-barreled gunslingers at high noon, Cutler and Dimuzio both seem to know when noise, glorious noise, becomes music. "Anything from the John Cage school of thought can essentially be music," Dimuzio states. "Just simply opening the window and listening is music. I try to integrate elements of that in my own work but make it obvious to the listener." Cutler takes it a step further. "The thing that John Cage pointed out -- and everybody already knew about, anyway -- about amplification, was that it's like a microscope," he says. "You can make a very, very small sound into a very, very large one. I can take an egg slicer, and I can play it very softly with my fingers, and it could be louder than an acoustic drum kit."

Which begs the question: Which came first -- the chicken or the earthquake?