Adam Francis Cuthbert (b. 1988) is a Detroit-based producer, DJ, and synthesizer artist.

Their work fuses acoustic instruments with the infinite palette of synthesized electronic sound to create immersive sonic environments, drawing inspiration from techno, classical, and the flow-state experience of open-world video games. Described as an “eerie dreamscape” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) and “like pneumatic drills tearing up pavement in the midst of a traffic jam” (The New York City Jazz Record), Cuthbert’s sometimes spare, sometimes brutal music has garnered acclaim from NPR, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, which finds it “hard to resist the vigor and inventiveness” of their writing.

Performing on trumpet and electronic instruments in the live techno duo, I-R (Detroit Underground), and DJ and solo project, Kuuma, Cuthbert has appeared throughout DIY club circuits in the midwest and east coast, performing at techno clubs, comic and anime conventions, as a resident DJ with Glotaku (Columbus, Detroit) and has been presented by the Intersection Arts & Music Festival (Toronto), Festival of New Trumpet (NYC), and Noise Engineering’s Noiseblast Hour (LA). Their sound works for dance and theatre have been performed at The Asia Society (NYC), La MaMa ETC (NYC), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn).

Cuthbert has worked in music production, audio engineering, and composition roles with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kronos Quartet, Friction Quartet, Michael Gordon, and John Adler, and has artistic credits in the recording catalogs of Detroit Underground, Ghostly International, 7K! Records, Cantaloupe Music, Innova, ModyWorks, Underground Producers Alliance, people places records, and their house label, slashsound records.

Creative mentors include Bill Ryan, Todd Reynolds, Raz Mesinai, and Michael Gordon, and artist development fellowships include the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA, Underground Producers Alliance’s full-stack studio music production course, and New Amsterdam Records’ Composers Lab on genre fluidity. Cuthbert is co-founder of slashsound records. They live in Detroit with their spouse, Rebecca, and cats, 千代 & 平三.

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