Michael Cutting

Michael Cutting is a Manchester-based tape musician, one half of the experimental pop duo hyperdawn and founder of the group Almost Credible Music. Michael creates music with acoustic instruments and analogue devices. Derived from experiments with reel-to-reel tape machines, his work is characterised by warped loops, lo-fi noise and an emphasis on the theatricality of performance.

Michael's solo output ranges from electronic releases to multimedia performances, works for symphony orchestra to semi-improvised live sets, and has been presented in numerous festivals across Europe - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Klangspuren (Austria), AHEAD Festival (Lithuania), Manifeste Academy (France), SPOR Festival (Denmark) and Heidelberger Frühling (Germany), in venues from the Royal Festival Hall to Cafe Oto, Royaumont Abbey to Rotherhithe Tunnel Shaft. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and NTS Manchester