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Chris Carter is best known for being a founder member Throbbing Gristle and one half of electronic duo Chris & Cosey (aka: Carter Tutti). He began his career in the late 1960s working for various TV stations (Thames, Granada and LWT) as a sound engineer on numerous TV shows and documentaries. He also got involved in designing and presenting light shows and visual effects for numerous festivals, events and performances, including bands as diverse as Yes and Hawkwind. This work led to commissions for BBC TV shows, Colour Me Pop and The Old Grey Whistle Test.

In the mid 1970s Chris began an experimental music/sound collaboration with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Genesis P-Orridge, who at the time were also performing as COUM Transmissions with Peter Christopherson. The results of this musical collaboration was the creation of Throbbing Gristle, Industrial Records and the birth of the ‘Industrial Music’ phenomenon. Working as Chris & Cosey during the 1980s, Chris Carter recorded and collaborated on innumerable releases, most notably with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Robert Wyatt, Coil, Boyd Rice, Lustmord, Monte Cazazza and many more. In 1994, Chris moved into journalism and regularly has technical articles and reviews published in UK magazine Sound On Sound. Chris made a few successful forays into DJ'ing (mostly with Cosey) but that avenue has been temporarily waylaid by their increased work with TG and Carter Tutti. Chris & Cosey have also remixed tracks for Exciter, Liars, Platikman, Erasure and John Cage.

Recent Throbbing Gristle work includes an audio/visual performance at Tate Modern turbine hall and their three-day ‘public recording session’ at the ICA London. Chris was also central to the technical realisation of the TG/Cerith Wyn Evans collaborative audio sculpture A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n. In 2009, Chris Carter worked extensively with Christiaan Virant in designing and developing the Gristleism handheld loop playback unit for Industrial Records & TG.

During 2010 his acclaimed early solo album 'The Space Between' is being re-released as a limited-edition remastered vinyl album. He has also been commissioned by The Technology & Innovation Research Centre to write an experimental piece of music in 2010 for the Dirty Electronics Ensemble.