[Chicago, IL]

David Grubbs - "Now that the audience is assembled" Reading & Performance
April 13, 2018, 6:00 pm
at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore

David Grubbs discusses "Now that the audience is assembled." The reading and conversation will be followed by a short live performance. About the book: Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in "Records Ruin the Landscape," David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. "Now that the audience is assembled" is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. About the author: David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of "Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording," also published by Duke University Press. As a musician, he has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 180 commercially released recordings. Grubbs is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Angela Bulloch and Anthony McCall, and his work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. More information on the Seminary Co-op Bookstore's website here, and on the event's Facebook page.