David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He teaches in the Brooklyn College MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of Now that the audience is assembled and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (both published by Duke University Press). Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 190 releases, including Creep Mission (Blue Chopsticks). In 2000, his album, The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe, visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. His work has been presented at MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou among other venues. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait. He has performed with the Red Krayola, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and many others. His collaboration with Eli Keszler, One and One Less was published in 2017 as the first vinyl record of the UDPR series.

Eli Keszler is a New York-based artist, composer, and percussionist who situates his practice within the intersections of architecture, performance, installation, notation, and composition. Keszler’s installations and visual work have appeared at the Victoria & Albert Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Barbican, Luma-Foundation, Tectonics Festival Reykjavik, and Centraal Museum in Utrecht among many others. Keszler has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, performing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Joe McPhee, Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, T Model Ford, and Ilan Volkov with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. His writing and work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Frieze, and Modern Painters. He has received commissions and awards from Gaudeamus, National Public Radio, and the Foundation For Contemporary Art. Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music.