Ricardo Cutz

Born in August, 1975, in Brasilia, Brazil´s modernist capital, Ricardo Cutz, anthropologist, composer, sound designer, artist and producer kicked off his musical carreer in 1994. Working from 1994 to 2000 along leading theatre directors, choreographers and fashionists Ricardo Cutz has composed pieces, jingles, and sound tracks for plays, parades, and various events putting him in the spotlight. Since 1998 he has dedicated himself to cinema, mixing for movies and commercial producers such as Tv Zero, National Geographic, Zazen Films, VideoFilms, Toscana Films, RavinaFilms, Conspiração films and Oestudio. He has collaborated with directors such as João Moreira Salles, José Padilha, Eduardo Escorel, FlavioTambelli, Jose Henrique Fonseca, and Karin Anouz amongst others. As of 2001 Ricardo Cutz sets up the elecro group Hapax,, releasing one album called "o que está acontecendo " in 2004 and playing at various events and electronic music festivals across Brazil, and putting sound in art exhibits and sonic installations curated by Lucas Bambozzi, Ivana Bentes, and Ernesto Neto such as: Motomix 2004, Nokiatrends 2005, Panorama de Arte Conteporânea-MAM 2001, "Mostra Corpos Virtuais- arte e tecnologia 2005" and art exhibition "Abra Alas 2006"- Galeria Gentil Carioca, of Ernesto Neto. Today Ricardo Cutz is focusing on his own productions, exclusively enrooted in minimal-techno.