Art Sex Music: Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Delia Derbyshire is best known for arranging the original Dr. Who theme music, although she only received proper credit for it 50 years later. Biographer Cosey Fanni Tutti , an experimental musician herself, talked to Derbyshire’s former collaborators, friends, colleagues, and fellow wayfarers in life, even working with archival materials, to reconstruct her life story. What makes this a true work of electronic music herstory is Tutti’s work in reconstructing Derbyshire’s relationships, the personalities with whom she surrounded herself, and how they affected her progress as a musician. Tutti, who has already published an autobiography , peppers her account of Delia’s life with some of her own personal experiences. Through affinity and empathy, Tutti excavates the social and emotive circumstances in which the musician and the woman Delia Derbyshire lived, worked, coped, and faced the big choices of her life and of her time. Cosey Fanni Tutti In the meantime, if you want to enjoy some electronic music herstory through your headphones, I have compiled this playlist on Spotify with as many titles as I could find of artists mentioned in the book, such as Daphne Oram, Suzanne Ciani, Maddalena Fagandini (“Ray Cathode”) and of course, Delia Derbyshire . COSEY FANNI TUTTI - 'Artist/Model' Richard Kern exhibition, Panel member at open discussion. I.C.A London, UK COSEY FANNI TUTTI - ‘In Conversation’ with Milovan Farronato at the Festival of Contemporary Art, Faenza Italy.

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How do relationships, and the everyday entanglements of personal life, impact the success of women artists?” This seems to have been Tutti’s guiding question all along. The resulting narratives about Delia Derbyshire’s life are surprising, engaging, and not always easy to read. |March 13 COSEY FANNI TUTTI - In Conversation: Cosey Fanni Tutti & Maxine Peake - In celebration of International Women’s Day . | LINK

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Everywhere, parallels leapt out at Tutti. And so Re-Sisters is a three-pronged account of outsider women and their works; how all three struggled to express themselves within male-dominated milieus, often fighting against oppressive injustice to make their “recordings” (whether on magnetic tape, or paying a priest-scribe to lay it down on parchment); how, somehow, the underappreciated Derbyshire, the self-publicising mystic Kempe and the once-reviled Tutti (a lot of her early work was pornographic in nature) were now not just vindicated but saluted. As much as Derbyshire and Tutti were able to express their sexualities (being around in the late 60s-70s cusp helped), Kempe took control of hers in a way that was exceptional for the time. She earned the church-given right to not sleep with her husband so she could remain chaste for Christ. June 03 COSEY FANNI TUTTI - In conversation with David Sefton. Audience Q&A and Book Signing. Medway Literary Festival, Kent. UK. |Sep 25 COSEY FANNI TUTTI - ‘In Conversation’ with Andrew Weatherall. - Festival Number 6, Portmeirion. UK

COSEY FANNI TUTTI

Re-sisters is the story of three women consumed by their passion for life, a passion they expressed through music, art and lifestyle; they were undaunted by the consequences they faced in pursuit of enriching their lives, and fiercely challenged the societal and cultural norms of their time. She was no shrinking violet and she’d put them right, often in public at a meeting or a party – much to the annoyance and indignation of the men she corrected. THROBBING GRISTLE - performance at Camber Sands as part of Jake and Dinos Chapman curated weekend. UK COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Solo COSEY FANNI TUTTIperformance, 'Confessional Electronica' SPITZ venue, London, UK THROBBING GRISTLE - performance, 'A Psychic Youth Rally’, Heaven, London, UK Filmed by Derek Jarman.COSEY FANNI TUTTI' - 'CONFESSIONS - PROJECTED'. 20min DVD screening, Flourish Nights, Glasgow, SCOTLAND |Nov 21 COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Gave talk on Mail Art at the Museum at Manchester Metropolitan University COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Solo audio/visual performance in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern 10th Birthday weekend. London. UK. Saturday 15th May. Art Sex Music is a brutally honest read, no stone left un-turned. Aided by her diaries Tutti takes us through her life from her birth and upbringing in Kingston upon Hull during the fifties and sixties, to her meeting with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and subsequent work with the once notorious now celebrated COUM Transmissions performance and mail art collective, through the forming, disbanding, and reformation of Throbbing Gristle, right up to the present day. Cosey is an artist, a partner, a mother and every section of her life is described in unflinching detail making Art Sex Music an enjoyable, uplifting, sometimes unbearably raw read. COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Lecture/presentation on multi-disciplinary practice at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. UK