has written and published a number of essays on music, including: "Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms: Concerning Musical and Technical Means and Political Needs" (1990) – an essay on the evolution of recorded music, published in The Cassette Mythos. "Plunderphonia" (1994) – an essay on plunderphonics, published in Musicworks 60. "Scale" (1997) – an essay on the scale of sounds in music, published in The Gramophone Special Edition "Perspectives on Contemporary Music". "Thoughts on Music and the Avant Garde" (2005) – an essay commissioned for a book dedicated to Professor Gunther Mayer, published in Perfect Sound Forever. "Locality" (2006) – published in Resonance Magazine. "The Road to Plunderphonia" (2011) – published by Quaderns d'àudio/Ràdio Web MACBA. Radio broadcasts From 2012, Cutler has been producing a series of podcasts/lectures entitled "Probes" that examine the history of music from the invention of sound recording to the present day. The series was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, and published and broadcast by Quaderns d'àudio/Ràdio Web MACBA. Podcast transcripts: "Probes 1" (20 August 2012) "Probes 1.2 Auxiliaries" (18 October 2012) "Probes 2" (3 December 2012) "Probes 2.2 Auxiliaries" (23 January 2013) "Probes 3" (25 February 2013) "Probes 3.2 Auxiliaries" (9 May 2013) "Probes 4" (25 June 2013) "Probes 4.2 Auxiliaries" (22 July 2013) "Probes 5" (27 August 2013) "Probes 5.2 Auxiliaries" (30 September 2013) "Probes 6" (21 November 2013) "Probes 6.2 Auxiliaries" (19 December 2013) "Probes 7" (30 January 2014) "Probes 7.2 Auxiliaries" (24 April 2014) "Probes 8" (14 July 2014) "Probes 8.2 Auxiliaries" (8 August 2014) "Probes 9" (30 September 2014) "Probes 9.2 Auxiliaries" (6 November 2014) "Probes 10" (15 December 2014) "Probes 10.2 Auxiliaries" (27 January 2015) "Probes 11" (11 March 2015) "Probes 12" (30 April 2015) "Probes 12.2 Auxiliaries" (25 May 2015) "Probes 13" (9 June 2015) "Probes 13.2 Auxiliaries" (10 August 2015) "Probes 14" (15 September 2015) "Probes 15" (19 October 2015) "Probes 15.2 Auxiliaries" (3 December 2015) "Probes 16" (14 January 2016) "Probes 16.2 Auxiliaries" (1 February 2016) "Probes 17" (26 February 2016) "Probes 17.2 Auxiliaries" (8 March 2016) "Probes 18" (29 April 2016) "Probes 18.2 Auxiliaries" (5 August 2016) "Probes 19" (3 September 2016) "Probes 19.2 Auxiliaries" (23 November 2016) "Probes 20" (2 January 2017) "Probes 20.2 Auxiliaries" (18 April 2017) "Probes 21" (4 September 2017) "Probes 21.2 Auxiliaries" (21 November 2017) "Probes 22" (22 January 2018) "Probes 22.2 Auxiliaries" (20 February 2018) "Probes