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David Grubbs
Professor
Music, Conservatory of
Location: 505s Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1188
Fax: 718.951.4502
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David Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 commercial releases. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press) as well as the collaborative artists' books Simultaneous Soloists (with Anthony McCall, Pioneer Works Press) and Projectile (with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City). Grubbs was a founding member of the group Gastr del Sol and has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Matmos, Will Oldham, the Red Krayola, and many others. His ongoing collaborations include projects with visual artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch and poet Susan Howe. Grubbs is a grant recipient in music/sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and directs the Blue Chopsticks record label.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago - 2005 (English)
M.A., University of Chicago - 1991 (English)
B.A., Georgetown University - 1989 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
Experimental music and sound art, poetry, sound recording, popular music.
Books and Publications
"Bonne nuit tour le plaisir était pour nous." Trans. Alexandrine Kirmser. Revue & Corrigée no. 132 (June 2022): 14-19. (Books and Publications: Other) 2022
"David Grubbs: On Derek Bailey." Roulette Radio podcast, Jan. 1. Archived at https://soundcloud.com/roulette_intermedium/david-grubbs-on-derek-bailey. 2023
Composer Grant (with Jan St. Werner). Musikfonds e.V. Berlin, Germany. (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
"The Practice of Multidisciplinary Collaboration." Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Nov. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Contributing Editor, BOMB Magazine. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
Instructor, "Collaborative Experimentation in Sound," Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry and Fundação Serralves summer school, Porto, Portugal, June 12-16. 2023
Good night the pleasure was ours. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022.
(Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2022
"Good night the pleasure was ours." Hotel 7 (Spring 2021): 331-38. (Books and Publications: Other) 2021
Reto Geiser, David Grubbs, and John Sparagana. Projectile. Chicago: Drag City, 2021. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2021
"Music: Best of 2020." Artforum 59, no. 3 (December 2020): 48. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
"Quickness." Frieze 213 (September 2020): 132. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
The Voice in the Headphones. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2020
"'The Scented Parabola': Occasions of Cecil Taylor's Poetry." American Music Review 49, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 1-4. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Afterword." In Luc Ferrari, Complete Works, ed. Brunhild Ferrari. London: Ecstatic Peace Library, 2019, 439. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Now that the audience is assembled." In reiheM 2009-2019, ed. Frank Dommert, Hans W. Koch, Dirk Specht, and Volker Zander. Cologne: reiheM, 2019, 26-27. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Self-Portrait as Crescendo." In John Sparagana. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2019, 5-9. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"The Voice in the Headphones." Ear | Wave | Event 4 (2019): 6-9. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Toggle Ensemble." In Angela Bulloch: Euclid in Europe. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2019, 8-21. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
Simultaneous Soloists (with Anthony McCall). Brooklyn, NY: Pioneer Works Press, 2019. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2019
"Between the Event and Sometime Later: This Is Not This Heat Interviewed by David Grubbs." BOMB Magazine (July 20, 2018). Online. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/between-the-event-and-sometime-later-this-is-not-this-heat-interviewed. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
"Skylight Recording." Hotel (January 29, 2018). Online. http://partisanhotel.co.uk/David-Grubbs (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Grubbs, David, and John Sparagana. "On the Chaos of Bodies: David Grubbs and John Sparagana in Conversation." BOMB Magazine (April 6, 2018). Online.
Joseph, Branden W., and David Grubbs. "Perverse Medium Specificity: Tony Conrad in the 1990s, 1960s, and Now." In Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, ed. Cathleen Chaffee. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2018, 44-57. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2018
"La foire d'antiquités: improvisation libre et culture du disque." Trans. Pierre-Yves Macé. Le son du grisli 3 (December 2017): 4-27. (Translation of excerpt from Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage the Sixties and Sound Recording.) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
"Legacies of Pauline Oliveros at Brooklyn College." American Music Review 47, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 1-2. Online.
"Strike While the Iron's Shatteringly Cold." In Greater New York: Notes on Performance, ed. Jocelyn Miller. New York: MoMA PS1, 2017, 26-39. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
"'Those writing essays are ugly': Kai Althoff's Recorded Music." Frieze d/e 25 (Autumn 2016): 90-93. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"Die Ökologie des Wummerns." Trans. Sylvia Prahl. Die Tageszeitung, October 7, 2016, 15. (Translation of "Tony Conrad: Skantagio, an Appreciation") (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"Epiphanies." Reprinted in Albert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle boxed set, ed. Reto Thüring and Christopher Williams. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"Tony Conrad: Skantagio, an Appreciation." Music & Literature (August 4, 2016). Online. http://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2016/8/4/tony-conrad-skantagio-an-appreciation (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"David Grubbs on the Seismic Shock of Short Performances." Epiphanies: Life Changing Encounters with Music. Ed. Tony Herrington. London: Strange Attractor Press. 81-83. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
"The Accompanist's Laughter." Amnon Wolman, A Piece for Two Floors and a Corridor. Ed. Liora Belford. Holon: The Israeli Center for Digital Art. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
レコードは風景をだいなしにする: ジョン・ケージと録音物たち Translated by Yu Wakao and Eisuke Yanagisawa. Tokyo: Filmart, 2015. (Japanese translation of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording) (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
Les disques gâchent le paysage: John Cage, les années 1960, et l'enregistrement sonore. Translated by Pierre-Yves Macé. Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2015. (French translation of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording)
(Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
"Collateral Damage." The Wire 360, February: 16. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Kai Althoff." BOMB 126, Winter: 58-64. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
I dischi rovinano il panorama. John Cage, gli anni Sessanta e la musica registrata. Italian translation of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording. Translated by Gianluca Testani. Rome: Arcana Edizioni. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2014
Respondent, "What Is Jazz?" Sound American 8, March. Online at http://soundamerican.org/david-grubbs. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Diese seltsame Präsenz." Trans. Harriet Fricke. Die Tageszeitung, Sept. 1-2: 23. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
McCall, Anthony, and David Grubbs. "Leaving (With Four Half-Turns)." Frieze Blog, Oct. 11. Online at http://blog.frieze.com/leaving-with-four-half-turns. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives." American Music Review XL. 2, Spring: 1, 3, 12-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Gently Electrocuted." Liner notes for Various Artists, Sonig Box Set Thing (Sonig 83 2xCD + DVD boxed set). 2-4. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Teardrop." The Book of Guilty Pleasures. Eds Song-Ming Ang and Kim Cascone. Singapore: Circadian Songs. 82-3. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"All Together Now (Zeros and Ones)." The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 7.1, Summer: 33-35. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Gnosis, Musik, und Internet," translated by Krystian Woznicki. Berliner Gazette, Feb. 2. Online at http://berlinergazette.de/gnosis-musik-und-internet. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." Black Clock 11, Fall 2009-Winter 2010: 97-100. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Looking Back: Music." Frieze 128, January-February: 22. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations with Susan Howe." Voiceworks. Online. May 18. http://www.voiceworks.org.uk/sounding_board/shadowy_hush_
"Always at the End." Frieze 124, June-August: 142-47. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Review: Ashley's Operas." American Music Review XXXVIII.2, Spring: 11, 15. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Review: The Last Performance [dot org]." TDR 53.3, Fall: 172-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations." Chicago Review 55.1, Winter: 186-90. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Trocken und hart," translated by Julian Weber. Die Tageszeitung, May 2-3: 21. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Uncoole Leidenschaften: Ein Maximum an Beweglichkeit." Vernetzt. Trans. and ed. Krystian Woznicki. Berlin: Verbrecher: 138-51. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
"Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers." Afterall 20, Spring: 114-22. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"Epiphanies." The Wire 296, October: 114. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Uncoole Leidenschaften: Ein Maximum an Beweglichkeit," translated byKrystian Woznicki. Berliner Gazette, Aug. 27. Online at www.berlinergazette.de. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Der Gesamtwerker," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 26: 14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"Der komische Heilige der letzten Tage," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 11: 12. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"Disciplinarity and Audience." Positionen 71, May: 35. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"Do It Yourself," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 28: 12. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"Don't Look Back." Modern Painters, December 2006-January 2007): 68-70. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
"Der Fluch des Perfekten," translated byKarl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feb. 22: 12. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Die Ästhetik des Unkomponierbaren," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 25: 14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Fahey, When the Dust Cleared." Liner notes for Sea Changes and Coelacanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey: 27-30. (Table of the Elements Astantine 4xCD boxed set) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Lieder," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung 12, June 21. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Oscillating With Lucier." ISAM Newsletter XXXVI.1, Fall: 10. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Salut Luc," translated by Carole Rieussec. Revue et Corrigée 67, March: 32. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Sirenenmusik," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 22: 14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers." essay, commissioned by ICA Boston for on-site mediatheque. June. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
"Als der Postpunk zum Kentucky-Derby kam," translated by Julian Weber. Vierter: Sportbuch. Eds. Henning Harnisch, Oliver Kleinschmidt, Valerie Trebeljahr and Julian Weber. Berlin: ID Verlag. 18-25. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2005
"Bilder von Adolf," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung 14, Sept. 21. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005
"Die Glasgow-Schule," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 17. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2005
Creative Work
"Lendrick Muir Bible Study Weekend" b/w "Congress of Poodles" (with Kramer) 7" in Kramer with Various Artists, Rings of Saturn 6x7" boxed set (Shimmy-Disc Shimmy 2666, 2023). 2023
A Sound that Never Was (online artwork by The Dim Coast [Steve Bates and Jake Moore] includes sound recordings by David Grubbs): https://asoundthatneverwas.net. 2023
Anthony McCall, New Solid Light Works and Early Drawings, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, July 14 - August 25. (Exhibition includes Skylight [2020], soundtrack by David Grubbs.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Anthony McCall, Raised Voices, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France, April 1 - May 20. (Exhibition includes Raised Voices [2023] and Skylight [2020], soundtracks by David Grubbs.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Courtis, Alan, and David Grubbs. Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves CD/LP (Husky Pants HPR-031, 2023). DG: electric and acoustic guitars.
2023
David Grubbs. "Aging Young Lovers," on Various Artists, A Giant Has Nowhere to Go: Selections from Comes With a Smile, 2000-2006 LP + 7" (Tongue Master TMASTLP004, 2023). 2023
David Grubbs. From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black DL (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2023). DG: lap steel, electric guitar, Serge synthesizer. 2023
Duo performance with Eli Winter (DG: electric guitar). 411 Kent, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 26. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Duo performance with Eli Winter (DG: electric guitar). The Empty Bottle, Chicago, Jan. 22. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Duo performance with Wendy Eisenberg (DG: electric guitar). Please Y.S., New York City, Aug. 10. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Duo performance with Wendy Eisenberg (DG: electric guitar). The Stone, New York City, Sept. 9. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Good night the pleasure was ours reading and solo guitar performance. Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, Sept. 22. 2023
Good night the pleasure was ours reading, Florence Street Studios, Melbourne, Australia, March 29. 2023
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. KMFA, Austin, TX, Feb. 26. 2023
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. Pro qm, Berlin, Germany, June 22. 2023
Josiah McElheny, From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Sept. 21 - Nov. 4. (Exhibition includes six works with soundtracks by David Grubbs.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Polyorchard. scree/n CD (Tripticks Tapes TTT 030, 2023). DG: electric guitar. 2023
Solo and duo performance with Jan St. Werner (DG: electric guitar). Sonoscopia, Porto, Portugal, June 12. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo and quartet performance with Louis Chude-Sokei, Julia Reidy, and Jan St. Werner (DG: electric guitar). KM28, Berlin, Germany, June 24. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo performance (electric guitar). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 5. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo performance (electric guitar). KMFA, Austin, TX, Feb. 26. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo performance (electric guitar). Picture Theory, Brooklyn, NY, July 7. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo performance (electric guitar). Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia, April 1. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Solo performance (electric guitar). The Substation, Melbourne, Australia, March 30. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
"Historic Metadata" on Various Artists, Other Slightly cassette (eë editions 02, 2022). 2022
Drum Listens to Heart, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Sept. 1, 2022 - March 4, 2023. (Exhibition includes Susan Howe and David Grubbs, Six Pages from Concordance [2022], 60' sound recording.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Carl Stone (DG: electric guitar). 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, Sept. 23. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Elisa Assler (DG: electric guitar). Acéfalo Festival, Dinamarca 399, Valparaíso, Chile, Nov. 11 (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Fred Lonberg-Holm (DG: electric guitar). Verbatim festival, Opus40, Saugerties, NY, Sept. 10. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Jan St. Werner (DG: voice, electric guitar, organ). Sonoscopia, Porto, Portugal, June 14. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Jan St. Werner (DG: voice, organ, electric guitar). Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 19. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Jan St. Werner (DG: voice, organ, electric guitar). Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany, Feb. 16. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Jan St. Werner (DG: voice, organ, electric guitar). KM28, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 15. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Duo performance with Ryley Walker (DG: electric guitar). Outpost Artists Resources, Ridgewood, NY, Oct. 22. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Eli Winter. Eli Winter LP (Three-Lobed Recordings TLR 140, 2022). DG: harmonium. 2022
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, Sept. 23. 2022
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. Ecstatic Peace Library series, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, Sept. 19. 2022
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Nov. 9. 2022
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, July 2. 2022
Good night the pleasure was ours reading. Verbatim festival, Opus40, Saugerties, NY, Sept. 10. 2022
Grubbs, David, and Jan St. Werner. Translation from Unspecified LP (Blue Chopsticks BC37, 2022). DG: voice, electric guitar. 2022
Mota, Manuel and David Grubbs. na margem sul CD (Room40 EDRM431, 2022). DG: electric guitar. 2022
Solo performance (electric guitar). 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, Sept. 23. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Solo performance (electric guitar). Espacio Almaza, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 10. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Solo performance (electric guitar). Public Records, Brooklyn, Sept. 16. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Solo performance (electric guitar). Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan. 28. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Someone's Been Here Before Us, Cosmo, Rome, Italy, Feb. 5-6. (Exhibition includes Susan Howe and David Grubbs, Frolic Architecture [2011], 30' sound recording.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada, May 21. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
With nothing but words or nearly so (solo online performance). You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death series, Wave Farm, Acra, NY, Dec. 12. (Exhibition or Performance) 2022
Antietam. His Majesty's Request: A Wink O'Bannon Select DL (Motorific Sounds, 2021). DG: electric guitar. 2021
Callahan, Bill, and Bonnie Prince Billy. Blind Date Party 2xLP/2xCD (Drag City DC803, 2021). DG: electric guitar, organ, voice. 2021
Connors, Loren, and David Grubbs. Arborvitae LP (Improved Sequence IMP023, 2021). Reissue of 2003 CD release. DG: piano, electric guitar. 2021
Duo online performance with Taku Unami (DG: nylon-string guitar). The Quarantine Concerts, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, June 5. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Duo performance with Manuel Mota (DG: electric guitar). Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal,
Barreiro, Portugal, July 16.
(Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Duo performance with Ryley Walker (DG: electric guitar). Public Records, Brooklyn, NY, Dec. 12. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Grubbs, David, and Mats Gustafsson. Off-Road LP (Improved Sequence IMP042, 2021). Reissue of 2003 CD release. DG: electric guitar, computer, harmonium. 2021
Grubbs, David, and Nikos Veliotis. The Harmless Dust LP (Improved Sequence IMP024, 2021). Reissue of 2005 CD release. DG: piano, Hammond organ. 2021
Grubbs, David, and Ryley Walker. A Tap on the Shoulder CD/LP (Husky Pants HPR-010, 2021). DG: electric guitar, piano. 2021
Grubbs, David, and Ryley Walker. Fight or Flight Simulator DL (Takuroku T133, 2021). DG: electric guitar. 2021
Howe, Susan, and David Grubbs. Concordance LP (Blue Chopsticks BC36, 2021). DG: piano. 2021
Lyrik Sound & Co. Now that the audience is assembled / versammelt (German-language performance based on Now that the audience is assembled). Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany, Sept. 11. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Lyrik Sound & Co. Now that the audience is assembled / versammelt (German-language performance based on Now that the audience is assembled). Künstlerhafen, Bonn, Germany, Sept. 10. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Recognizance (solo online performance and reading). Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, May 28, 2021. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Solo online performance (electric guitar). Abolition 2021: A Benefit in Support of the Families of Those Incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary. April 16. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Ciclo Appleton Garagem festival, Igreja de Santa Isabel, Lisbon, Portugal, July 15. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
Solo performance (electric guitar). Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL, Nov. 12. (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
The Dirty Three. Ocean Songs 4xLP (Bella Union BELLA900V/Touch and Go TG367LP, 2021). Expanded reissue of 1998 CD/2xLP release. DG: piano, harmonium.
2021
The Underflow. Instant Opaque Evening 2xLP (Blue Chopsticks BC34, 2021). DG: electric guitar, voice. 2021
The Voice in the Headphones online reading. "The Red Room in Your Room" web series, Baltimore MD, April 15. 2021
Words and Things. A cycle. Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, September 2021. (Online exhibition includes Susan Howe and David Grubbs, Concordance [2021], 6' excerpt from sound recording.) (Exhibition or Performance) 2021
"It's easy to learn the thing that makes the audience howl." Clip 2 (July 20, 2020). Online.
"On & On" on Various Artists, On & On CD (Mute, 2020). 2020
"The Snake on Its Tail / The Furthest Farthest." AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine DL. 2020
David Grubbs. October 19, 2017 DL (Fire Over Heaven, 2020). DG: lap steel, electric guitar. 2020
Ensemble performance of Luc Ferrari, Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue (DG: electric guitar). CENTQUATRE. Paris, France, Jan. 17. 2020
Excerpt from The Voice in the Headphones. Verse (August 17, 2020). Online.
Grubbs, David, and Taku Unami. Comet Meta LP (Blue Chopsticks BC32). 2020
How about That?, Hey-Check this Out Gallery, New York City, Dec. 13, 2020 - Jan. 24, 2021. (Exhibition includes David Grubbs, Untitled [Amplify everything] [2020], wall drawing.) 2020
Matmos. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form 3xCD (Thrill Jockey Thrill 526, 2020). DG: violin. 2020
Solo online performance (electric guitar). The Quarantine Concerts. Experimental Sound Studio. Chicago, April 6. 2020
The Voice in the Headphones online reading and conversation with Josiah McElheny. Greenlight Bookstore. Brooklyn, NY, April 8. 2020
The Voice in the Headphones online reading. Duke University Press. Durham, NC, May 3. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Angelica Centro di Ricerca Musicale. Bologna, Italy, Jan. 24. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Centre for Culture in Lublin. Lublin, Poland, Jan. 20. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Centro d'Arte, University of Padua. Padua, Italy, Jan. 25. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Confort Moderne. Poitiers, France, Jan. 22. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Elfie & Ignaz. Hannover, Germany, Jan. 19. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). JazzIt. Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 23. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Les Ateliers Claus. Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 18. 2020
Trio performance with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek (DG: electric guitar and voice). Pardon, To Tu. Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 21. 2020
WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER (performance with Susan Howe). Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT, Feb. 11. 2020
Duo performance with Caroline Bergvall (electric guitar). The Poetry Project. New York City, October 9. 2019
Ensemble performances of works by Luc Ferrari (DG: electric guitar). "Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms" concert series. Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, Nov. 18-19. 2019
LIAF 2019, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway, Aug. 30 - September 29. (Exhibition includes Susan Howe and David Grubbs, WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER [2015], 42' sound recording.) 2019
Performance with Apartment House of works by Luc Ferrari (DG: electric guitar). Stereo Spasms festival. Café OTO. London, Feb. 13. 2019
Solo and duo performance (electric guitar) with Loren Connors. H0l0. Ridgewood, Queens, Jan. 5. 2019
Solo performance (electric guitar). Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery. Chicago, June 28. 2019
Solo performance (electric guitar). Fridman Gallery. New York City, March 20. 2019
Solo performance (electric guitar). Public Records. Brooklyn, Nov. 8. 2019
Solo performance (electric guitar). Ruba. Philadelphia, June 27. 2019
Solo performance (electric guitar). The Lab. San Francisco, CA, March 14. 2019
Solo, duo, and trio performances (electric guitar) with Mats Gustafsson and Rob Mazurek. Underflow. Athens, Greece, May 31 and June 1. 2019
Stefano Pilia. In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni LP. Die Schachtel Decay 002. David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2019
The Underflow, The Underflow CD/LP. Corbett vs. Dempsey CvsD CD063/Underflow 09. DG: electric guitar. 2019
The Voice in the Headphones reading. Sunview Luncheonette. Brooklyn, NY, June 16. 2019
The Voice in the Headphones reading. Surface Noise. Louisville, KY, Dec. 28. 2019
Acoustic Holographic Language. Bureau des Réalités. Brussels, Belgium, May 10 - June 30. (Exhibition contains Susan Howe and David Grubbs, WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER, 42' sound recording.) 2018
Danser Brut. LaM. Lille, France, Sept. 28, 2018 - Jan. 6, 2019. (Exhibition includes Anthony McCall, Leaving [With Two-Minute Silence] [2009], soundtrack produced in collaboration with David Grubbs.) 2018
Double Lives. mumok. Vienna, Austria, June 23 - November 11, 2018. (Exhibition includes video documentation of Angela Bulloch and David Grubbs, The Wired Salutation [2013], collaborative performance). 2018
Duo performance with Taku Unami (DG: electric guitar), Hand Saw Press, Tokyo, Japan, April 4. 2018
Duo performance with Taku Unami (DG: electric guitar), The Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, March 31. 2018
Duo performance with Taku Unami (DG: electric guitar). Dotolim. Seoul, Korea, March 27. 2018
Four Simultaneous Soloists performance with Maria Chavez, Sarah Hennies, and C. Spencer Yeh within the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works. Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, Jan. 19 (DG: electric guitar). 2018
Grubbs, David, and Manuel Mota. Lacrau LP (Blue Chopsticks BC31). 2018
Grubbs, David, and Taku Unami. Failed Celestial Creatures LP (Empty Editions EE003). 2018
Music composition ("Potato Lettuce") used in BBC Radio 4 documentary series On and Off the Valley Lines, April. 2018
Music curator, Four Simultaneous Soloists performance series. Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, Jan. 19 - March 2. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Arkaoda. Berlin, Germany, September 18. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Festival of Endless Gratitude. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 21. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Nachtmix, Bayern 2 Radio. Munich, Germany, September 15. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Westwerk. Hamburg, Germany, September 16. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar), Hand Saw Press, Tokyo, Japan, April 5. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar), The Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, March 31. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar). Christine König Galerie. Vienna, Austria, September 13. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar). Gewölbe. Cologne, Germany, September 14. 2018
Solo performance (electric guitar). Seendosi. Seoul, Korea, March 25. 2018
Solo performance (harmonium). Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, March 10. 2018
Speak in Order that I May See You or Whistle and I'll Come to You, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria, September 13 - October 13, 2018. (Exhibition includes David Grubbs, Untitled [Now that the audience is assembled] and Untitled [two opposing breaths], wall drawings, and Susan Howe and David Grubbs, WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER, 18' sound recording.) 2018
One and One Less (performance with Eli Keszler). Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, NY, July 18. 2017
"Awkward Silences I Have Known" on I Said No Doctors! 2xLP (Dymaxion Groove Dymax-107). 2017
Amplified Drone Strings (performer on composition by Tony Conrad; David Grubbs: electric guitar). National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. 2017
Creep Mission CD/LP (Blue Chopsticks BC29). 2017
Duo performance with Eli Keszler (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Knockdown Center. Maspeth, Queens, April 8. 2017
Duo performance with Eli Keszler (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Laxart. Los Angeles, April 12. 2017
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER collaborative performance. Yale School of Art. New Haven, CT, Nov. 15. 2017
Horse Sings from Cloud (duo performance with Anne Bourne of composition by Pauline Oliveros; David Grubbs: electric guitar), "Legacies of Pauline Oliveros," ShapeShifter Lab. Brooklyn, Nov. 3. 2017
Listen Hear: The Art of Sound. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, March 8 - Sept. 5. (Exhibition includes David Grubbs, Your Shadow on a Cloud, 60' sound installation.)
2017
One and One Less (performance with Eli Keszler). Laxart. Los Angeles, April 11. 2017
One and One Less (with Eli Keszler) LP (UDPR 1). 2017
Solo and duo performance with Taku Unami (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Give Me Little More. Matsumoto, Japan, August 4. 2017
Solo and duo performance with Taku Unami (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Kichimu. Tokyo, Japan, August 11. 2017
Solo and duo performance with Taku Unami (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Parlwr. Nagoya, Japan, August 5. 2017
Solo and duo performance with Taku Unami (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Soto. Kyoto, Japan, August 9. 2017
Solo and duo performance with Taku Unami (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Toklas. Tsuruga, Japan, August 6. 2017
Solo performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Outpost. Ridgewood, NY, November 19.
2017
Solo performance (electric guitar) as part of Documenta 14. Romantso. Athens, Greece, June 22. 2017
Solo performance (electric guitar). Extrapool. Nijmegen, Holland, June 25. 2017
Solo performance (electric guitar). Goethe-Institut. Boston, March 8. 2017
The Wired Salutation (collaborative performance with Angela Bulloch; David Grubbs: electric guitar and organ). Fundação Serralves. Porto, Portugal, November 26.
2017
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). K.D. Japon. Nagoya, Japan, Jan. 18. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Seika University. Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 19. 2016
"Graham Dolphin." Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA),
Sunderland, UK, July 2 - October 22, 2016. (Exhibition includes 2 Colours, Single Motion [Adze], drawing by Graham Dolphin with accompanying sound recording by David Grubbs.) 2016
"Sehen," "Wurzel," "Warum," "Blätter" on Wassily Kandinsky: Klänge 2xCD (Intermedium 064). 2016
Amplified Drone Strings (performer on composition by Tony Conrad; David Grubbs: electric guitar). Tate Modern. London. 2016
Anthony McCall, Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence), Galerie Martine Aboucaye. Paris, France, Sept. 3 - Oct. 22. (Contains 32' electroacoustic soundtrack produced in collaboration with David Grubbs.) 2016
Collaborative performance with Mantra Percussion (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Frost Theater of the Arts. Brooklyn, Dec. 4. 2016
Jan St. Werner, Felder CD/LP. Thrill Jockey Thrill 410. David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2016
Live accompaniment with Okkyung Lee and Jennifer Walshe to the film AN GLEACHT (David Grubbs: electric guitar, khaen, hulusi). Anthology Film Archives. New York City, Sept. 9.
2016
Performance with the University of Louisville Sinfonietta (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Speed Art Museum. Louisville, KY, March 5.
2016
Prismrose CD/LP (Blue Chopsticks BC28). 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Cafe OTO. London, UK, Oct. 14. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Filmwerkstatt. Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 12. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). LOFT. Cologne, Germany, Oct. 13. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Westgermany. Berlin, Germany, Oct. 9. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Westwerk. Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 11. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Guggenheim House. Shioya, Kobe, Japan, Jan. 17. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Kichimu. Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 23. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Musicasa. Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 22. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar). Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Ceremony. Judson Church. New York City, Feb. 24. 2016
The Wired Salutation (collaborative performance with Angela Bulloch; David Grubbs: electric guitar and organ). Theater der Künste. Zürich, Switzerland, Feb. 17. 2016
Solo performance (electric guitar). Dreamland. Louisville, KY, Dec. 30. 2015
"1+2+3: Solos, Duos, and Trios" concert (David Grubbs: electric guitar and harmonium). Greater New York exhibition, MoMA PS1. Long Island City, NY, Nov. 15. 2015
"One Poem" reading. Dreamland. Louisville, KY, Dec. 30. 2015
"Souls of the Labadie Tract (excerpt)." ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, NY, Dec. 9. 2015
"White Glove Test: Louisville Punk Flyers 1978-1994." Exhibition contains flyers by David Grubbs. Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 6 - April 5. 2015
White Glove Test: Louisville Punk Flyers 1978-1994. Chicago: Drag City. Book contains numerous flyers by David Grubbs. 2015
Composed and produced for Bayerischer Rundfunk Hörspiel and Medienkunst (Munich) musical settings of four prose poems from Wassily Kandinsky's artist book Klänge. First broadcast: Jan. 16. 2015
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Bolognetti. Bologna, Italy, June 11. 2015
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Klamm. Rome, June 14. 2015
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Riot Studio. Naples, Italy, June 13. 2015
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Teatar &TD. Zagreb, Croatia, June 16. 2015
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar and voice). Teatro Bloser. Genoa, Italy, June 12. 2015
Duo performance with Eli Keszler (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Greene Naftali Gallery. New York, March 7. 2015
Duo performance with Otomo Yoshihide (David Grubbs: electric guitar). The Stone. New York, April 15. 2015
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER collaborative performance. Presented by The Home School. Time and Space Limited. Hudson, N.Y., Aug. 9. 2015
Harrell, Trajal. The Return of the Modern Dance, Cullberg Ballet (includes Codeine, "W," solo piano arrangement and performance by David Grubbs). First performance: Dansstationen, Malmö, Sweden, March 19. 2015
Howe, Susan and David Grubbs, Thiefth LP + letterpress print. Distributed Objects DO4. 2015
Howe, Susan and David Grubbs. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER (Excerpt). A Perimeter no. 2 Online at http://aperimeter.com/issue2/howe-grubbs.html. January.
2015
Howe, Susan and David Grubbs. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER CD/LP. Blue Chopsticks BC27. 2015
Nakatani Gong Orchestra (David Grubbs: percussion). Green Building. Brooklyn, N.Y., March 18. 2015
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Bergen Kunsthall. Bergen, Norway, Jan. 21. 2015
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Last Train. Oslo, Jan. 23. 2015
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Le Laboratoire. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12. 2015
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Rönnells. Stockholm, Jan. 18. 2015
Solo performance (electric guitar). The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. New York, May 9. 2015
The Unspeakable Practices, The Unspeakable Practices LP. Joyful Noise JNR181. David Grubbs: organ, guitar. 2015
Trio performance with Rob Mazurek and John McEntire (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago. October 6. 2015
"Jonah Bokaer x Anthony McCall," ECLIPSE (sound design by David Grubbs). Countercurrent Festival. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston. April 10-11. 2014
"Jonah Bokaer x Anthony McCall," ECLIPSE (sound design by David Grubbs). Hudson Basilica. Hudson, N.Y., April 25-26. 2014
"Jonah Bokaer x Anthony McCall," ECLIPSE (sound design by David Grubbs). Juniata College. Huntingdon, Pa., April 16. 2014
"One Poem" reading as part of Samuel Jablon's "Poet Sculpture" project. PULSE Art Fair. New York, May 11. 2014
"Open Tunings." Exhibition contains One and One Less, a collaborative installation with Eli Keszler. MIT List Visual Arts Center. Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 10, 2014 - Jan. 4, 2015. 2014
"Social Photography IV." Exhibition contains Untitled, photograph by David Grubbs. Emily Harvey Foundation. New York, Nov. 12-22. 2014
Parallax Sounds original soundtrack CD (Just Temptation JT 009) contains two songs by David Grubbs: "Photographed Laughing" and "Out with the Tide." 2014
Akchoté, Noël. Gesualdo: Madrigals for Five Guitars CD (Blue Chopsticks BC26). David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Arnolfini. Bristol, United Kingdom, June 5. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Cafe OTO. London, June 5. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Fuse Art Space. Bradford, United Kingdom, June 6. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia. Dust & Mirrors LP/CD (Blue Chopsticks BC25). David Grubbs: electric guitar, piano, organ, voice. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia. Onrushing Cloud CD (reissue). Blue Chopsticks BC21; originally released on LP in 2011. David Grubbs: electric guitar, piano, voice. 2014
Belfi, Grubbs and Pilia. The Wired Salutation. Three of three one-sided LP (AB CD LP 003). David Grubbs: organ, guitar. 2014
Grubbs, David and Eli Keszler. One and One Less collaborative performance. MIT List Visual Arts Center. Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 10. 2014
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER collaborative performance. Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago. Nov. 21. 2014
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER collaborative performance. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Dec. 4. 2014
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER collaborative performance. Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the series "ICA@50." Amado Recital Hall, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Sept. 10. 2014
Grubbs, David, Eli Keszler and C. Spencer Yeh. Trio performance. ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 11. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 21. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice), James Turrell's "Twilight Epiphany." Skyspace. Rice University. Houston, Sept. 27. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 14. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Kraak. Manchester, United Kingdom, June 10. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). The Tin. Coventry, United Kingdom, June 9. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar). Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery. Chicago, May 24. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar). Dreamland. Louisville, Ky., April 17. 2014
Solo performance (electric guitar). The Comet. Cincinnati, April 19. 2014
St. Werner, Jan. The Somewhere That Is Also Moving, KRTS Marfa / WDR3 (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Archived online at http://www.wdr3.de/musik/akustischekunstbeiwdr3/marfapublicradio100.html. 2014
Zuydervelt, Rutger. Stay Tuned CD. Baskaru. David Grubbs: acoustic guitar. 2014
"Borough of Broken Umbrellas." 10" EP (Blue Chopsticks). David Grubbs: electric and acoustic guitars. 2013
"Looking Back: The Seventh White Columns Annual," White Columns, New York, Jan. 10 - Feb. 23. Exhibition contains video of Frolic Architecture, collaborative performance with Susan Howe. 2013
"The Weird Salutation." I Never Meta Guitar Too: Solo Guitars for the XXI Century CD, by various artists (Clean Feed). David Grubbs: nylon-string guitar. 2013
Testimonium Songs LP (Polyvinyl). Joan of Arc and Every House Has a Door. David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2013
The Plain Where the Palace Stood CD/LP. Drag City. 2013
Belfi, Andrea, David Grubbs (electric guitar), David Maranha and Pete Simonelli. Ten Intrusions CD. Bôłt Records. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Cafe Oto. London, June 10. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Club Schocken. Stuttgart, Germany, June 7. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). L'espace B. Paris, June 9. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Landmark. Bergen, Norway, June 5. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Le Sonic. Lyon, France, June 8. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Oslo, June 4. 2013
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). West Germany. Berlin, June 6. 2013
Electric guitar, What About the Lonely? CD/LP, by Codeine. Numero Group. 2013
Grubbs, David (voice, electric guitar), Miron Grzegorkiewicz, David Maranha, Małgorzata Penkalla and Pete Simonelli. Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in America Without a Trace CD. Bôłt Records. 2013
Grubbs, David and Angela Bulloch. "The Wired Salutation" collaborative performance. Grande Salle, Centre Pompidou. Paris, March 23. 2013
Grubbs, David and Angela Bulloch. "The Wired Salutation" collaborative performance. Tanz im August festival. HAU1 Theatre. Berlin, Aug. 18. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. "Celestial Twins?" symposium. Gallatin School, New York University, Feb. 28. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. The Drawing Center. New York, Dec. 5. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER" collaborative performance, presented by the Gauss Seminars in Criticism. Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., Nov. 22. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER" collaborative performance. ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER" collaborative performance. Yale Union. Portland, Ore, Oct. 8. 2013
Nate Wooley, The Seven Storey Mountain III and IV 2xCD (Pleasure of the Text, 2013). David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on "Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigals for Five Guitars." Espace 1789. Saint-Ouen, France, April 5. Concert broadcast live on Radio France. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on "Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigals for Five Guitars." Festival MIMI, Les Iles de Frioul, Marseille, France, July 4. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on Elliott Sharp's "SyndaKit." The Stone. New York, Oct. 3. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on Pauline Oliveros, "Primordial/Lift." ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 14. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on Rhys Chatham's "Guitar Trio." Ecole Nationale Supériore d'Architecture Paris-Val de Seine. Paris, April 2. 2013
Performer (electric guitar) on Rhys Chatham's "Guitar Trio." The Kitchen. New York, Oct. 12. 2013
Reading of "I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." DUMBO Arts Festival. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 28. 2013
Reading of "I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." Transform the World! Poetry Must Be Made by All! Museum of Modern Art. New York, April 20. 2013
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). Kennedy Theatre. Raleigh, N.C., Sept. 7. 2013
Solo performance (electric guitar and voice). WFMU 91.1 FM. Jersey City, N.J., April 24. 2013
Solo performance (electric guitar). Blonde Art Books. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 30. 2013
Solo performance (electric guitar). ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25. (Recording archived online at http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/david-grubbs-live-at-issue-project-room.) 2013
Solo performance. Ecole Nationale Supériore d'Architecture Paris-Val de Seine. Paris, April 2. 2013
The Wingdale Community Singers, Night, Sleep, Death LP (Blue Chopsticks). David Grubbs: electric guitar, bass, piano, voice. 2013
Anthony McCall, "Circulation Figures," Art Unlimited/Art 43. Basel, Switzerland, June 14-17. Sound mix by David Grubbs. 2012
Anthony McCall, "Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture," Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, April 20 - Aug. 12. Exhibition contains "Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence)," soundtrack produced in collaboration with David Grubbs. 2012
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Hebbel am Ufer 1. Berlin, April 20. 2012
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). La Scuderia. Bologna, Italy, Nov. 7. 2012
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Teatro Angelo Mai. Rome, Nov. 8. 2012
Boris Hegenbart, Instrumentarium CD, 2xLP (Monotype/Staubgold). David Grubbs: tenor banjo. 2012
Codeine, When I See the Sun 6xLP + 3xCD (Numero Group). David Grubbs: electric guitar, piano, organ, voice. 2012
Composer and performer on three nights of concerts, Playback Play Festival, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 2-4. David Grubbs: electric guitar, piano, voice. 2012
Created sound design for ECLIPSE, a collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and visual artist Anthony McCall. BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 5-9. (This commissioned work inaugurated the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAM Fisher Building on Sept. 5.) 2012
Ensemble performance of works by Pauline Oliveros, International Electroacoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 26. David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice. 2012
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. The New School. New York, March 6. 2012
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. University of Chicago. Feb. 26. 2012
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. Yale University. New Haven, Conn., April 5. 2012
Organized and performed in concert of Christian Wolff's "Stones," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, March 10. 2012
Pauline Oliveros, Primordial/Lift 2xLP (Taiga). David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2012
Performance of "Leaving (With Four Half-Turns)," collaboration with Anthony McCall (solid-light installation with 32' solo electric guitar piece), Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin, April 18. 2012
Performance of "Leaving (With Four Half-Turns)," collaboration with Anthony McCall (solid-light installation with 32' solo electric guitar piece). Light Industry. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 10. 2012
Performance of John Cage's "Solo for Voice 21." Sound American no. 3 (http://soundamerican.org/solo-for-voice-21). 2012
Performer (electric guitar) on Nate Wooley's "Seven-Storey Mountain." ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 13. 2012
"To Know a Veil," on various artists, Strade Trasparenti CD/DL (Staubgold digital 9). (David Grubbs: electric guitar.) 2011
"You Could Look It Up," on various artists 10 DL (Room 40). (David Grubbs: electric guitar.) 2011
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Cave 12. Geneva, July 5. 2011
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Les Voûtes. Paris, July 8. 2011
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Studio 672. Cologne, Germany, July 7. 2011
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Treibhaus. Luzern, Switzerland, July 6. 2011
Duo performance with Andrea Belfi (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Zebulon. Brooklyn, N.Y., March 13. 2011
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. Brooklyn College. May 11. 2011
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 1. 2011
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" and "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 24. 2011
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" and "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. University of Buffalo. Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 17. 2011
Organized and performed in concert of Christian Wolff's "Stones." The Artist's Institute. New York, Nov. 13. 2011
Participant, Darmstadt ensemble performance of Terry Riley's "In C." ISSUE Project Room. Dec. 10. David Grubbs: electric guitar. 2011
Solo performance of "Frolic Mix." International Festival of Electroacoustic Music. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 8. 2011
Solo performance. Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery. Chicago, Nov. 4. 2011
Solo performance. Fructose. Dunkerque, France, July 2. 2011
Solo performance. Le Temps Machine. Tours, France, July 1. 2011
Solo performance. Le Violon Dingue. Nantes, France, July 3. 2011
Solo performance. Sonic. Lyon, France, July 4. 2011
Sound mix for Anthony McCall's video "Circulation Figures." (First exhibition: Off the Wall/Fora da Parede, Fundacão Serralves, Porto, Portugal, May 21-Oct. 2.) 2011
Steve Roden, David Watson and David Grubbs trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar). Beacon Arts. Los Angeles, Feb. 26. 2011
elles@centrepompidou. Centre Pompidou. Paris, May 27, 2009-Feb. 21, 2011. (This group exhbition contains Angela Bulloch's "Hybrid Song Box.4," with a soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2010
MUTE: The Politics of 'No Sound. CCA. Tel Aviv, Israel, July 8-Aug. 12. (This group exhibition contains David Grubbs's wall drawing "Untitled [I just want to say]" [2010].) 2010
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Interzona. Verona, Italy, Nov. 13. 2010
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Mattatoio. Carpi, Italy, Nov. 11. 2010
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia trio performance (David Grubbs: electric guitar, voice). Teatro Fondamenta Nuove. Venice, Italy, Nov. 12. 2010
Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia. Onrushing Cloud LP/DL. Blue Chopsticks BC21. (David Grubbs: electric guitar, piano, voice). 2010
Grubbs, David and F.S. Blumm. "Back to the Plants" 7" (Ahornfelder AH17). (David Grubbs: electric guitar) 2010
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" collaborative performance. Edge Concert Hall, Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia. Athens, Ga., Feb. 25. 2010
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" collaborative performance. McGuire Theater, Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, April 29. 2010
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" collaborative performance. CFA Theater, Wesleyan University. Middletown, Conn., Dec. 1. 2010
Grubbs, David, with Ensemble Pamplemousse. Performance of compositions by Luc Ferrari. Issue Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 18. 2010
Grubbs, David, with Musica Nova. Performance of compositions by Amnon Wolman and Cornelius Cardew. Levontin 7. Tel Aviv, Israel, July 2. 2010
Grubbs, David, with Musica Nova. Performance of compositions by Amnon Wolman and Cornelius Cardew. Ma'abada. Jerusalem, Israel, July 3. 2010
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest 2010. Exhibition contains Anthony McCall, Leaving [With Two-Minute Silence], soundtrack produced in collaboration with David Grubbs. Kassel, Germany, Nov. 9-14. 2010
Led group performance of compositions by Luc Ferrari. Kanbai-Kan Hardy Hall. Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 13. 2010
No Customs. Group exhibition contains David Grubbs's wall drawing Untitled [I just want to say] [2010]. SAMA Tower, Abu Dhabi, Nov. 4-27. 2010
Participant, Darmstadt ensemble performance of Terry Riley's "In C." (Le) Poisson Rouge. New York, Nov. 30. 2010
Performance by the Wingdale Community Singers. Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nov. 6. 2010
Performer (electric guitar) on Pauline Oliveros' "Primordial/Drift." ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 25. 2010
Phonophani, Kreken CD/10" (Rune Grammophon RCD 201). (David Grubbs: electric guitar) 2010
Solo performance. Les Instants Chavirés. Montreuil, France, July 10. 2010
Solo performance. Levontin 7. Tel Aviv, Israel, July 2. 2010
Solo performance. Ma'abada. Jerusalem, Israel, July 3. 2010
Solo performance. Pit Inn. Tokyo, Jan. 16. 2010
Solo performance. SuperDeluxe. Tokyo, Jan. 15. 2010
Solo performance. Tokuzo. Nagoya, Japan, Jan. 14. 2010
Solo performance. Yamaha Ave. 101 Field. Sapporo, Japan, Jan. 17. 2010
The Wingdale Community Singers, in-studio performance and interview for "Soundcheck," WNYC. 2010
"Blessed Are the Taskmasters," on various artists, Fabrique CD (Room 40 EDRM420). 2009
"Fool Summons Train," on various artists, Send + Receive: 10 Years of Sound 2xDVD. 2009
"The Library of Alexandria," for Bayerische Rundfunk's radio play version of Alexander Kluge's Chronik der Gefüehle, which will be broadcast in 14 weekly hourlong installments beginning in September. The complete 14-hour version has been published as an audio book: Alexander Kluge, Chronik der Gefüehle 14xCD (Kunstmann). 2009
"Thirty-Minute Raven" used in the film FILM IST. a girl and a gun, directed by Gustav Deutsch. 2009
Hybrid Song Box.4 CD (Blue Chopsticks BC20). 2009
Boredoms. 77BOADRUM DVD/2xCD/book (Avex). (David Grubbs: drum kit). 2009
Bulloch, Angela. Riley Optimism. Air de Paris. Paris, Jan. 17-March 9. (This art exhibition contains "Hybrid Song Box.4," with a soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2009
Grubbs, David and Angela Bulloch. "Hybrid Song Box.24" collaborative performance. 24-Hour Program on the Concept of Time. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, Jan. 6-7. 2009
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract," collaborative performance. Beinecke Library, Yale University. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 10. 2009
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract," collaborative performance. Judith E. Wilson Theatre, Cambridge University. Oct. 9. 2009
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract," collaborative performance. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre. London, Oct. 8. 2009
Grubbs, David, Andrea Belfi and Stefano Pilia. Trio performance. Issue Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 4. 2009
McCall, Anthony. Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence). Galerie Thomas Zander. Cologne, Germany, Nov. 21, 2009-Feb. 10, 2010. (This light installation contains a 32-minute electroacoustic soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2009
McCall, Anthony. Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence). Sean Kelly Gallery. New York, Dec. 12, 2009-Jan. 30, 2010. (This light installation contains a 32-minute electroacoustic soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2009
McCall, Anthony. Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence). Art Unlimited/Art 40. Basel, Switzerland, June 10-14. (This light installation contains a 32-minute electroacoustic soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2009
Niobe. Blackbird's Echo CD/LP (Tomlab 125). (David Grubbs: voice, lyrics, organ, piano.) 2009
Participant, Darmstadt ensemble performance of Terry Riley's "In C." Galapagos Arts Space. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 30. 2009
Solo performance. Cafe Oto. London, May 22. 2009
Solo performance. De Kreun. Kortrijk, Belgium, Jan. 17. 2009
Solo performance. Hebbel am Ufer. Berlin, Jan. 16. 2009
Solo performance. Les Instants Chavirés. Montreuil, France, Jan. 18. 2009
Solo performance. Luminaire. London, Jan. 22. 2009
Solo performance. Mono. Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 21. 2009
Solo performance. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain, July 23. 2009
Solo performance. Prince Albert. Brighton, United Kingdom, Jan. 19. 2009
Solo performance. The Croft. Bristol, United Kingdom, Jan. 23. 2009
Solo performance. The Horse Hospital. London, May 23. 2009
Solo performance. The Musician. Leicester, United Kingdom, Jan. 20. 2009
Solo performance. Whelans. Dublin, Jan. 24. 2009
Wingdale Community Singers. Spirit Duplicator CD (Scarlet Shame SSR-014). (David Grubbs: guitar, electric bass, piano, organ, voice.) 2009
Wooley, Nate, Paul Lytton and David Grubbs. The Seven Storey Mountain CD (Important IMPREC238). (David Grubbs: harmonium.) 2009
"A Dream to Help Me Sleep" used in BBC One television documentary The Man With 20 Kids. 2008
"Banana Cabbage," solo piano composition, used in the BBC Radio 3 documentary Raymond Williams: Keywords. March 16. 2008
"Boots Brown: All Day Everyday," a 13-minute radio documentary about musicians' preparations for a concert, for "All Day Everyday" series. Resonance 104.4fm. London. First broadcast in May. 2008
"Horizontal Technicolour" used in the film Chew the Fat, directed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. 2008
"The Battlefield Forecast" 5.1 audio composition included in the sound-art exhibition "Noise Room." Cubitt Gallery. London, Aug. 29-Sept. 28. 2008
"The Battlefield Forecast," on various artists, Noise Room CD (Sonig 66CD). 2008
"The Not-So-Distant (Excerpt)" on various artists, Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic 2008 CD. 2008
"Theanyspacewhatever." Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, Oct. 24, 2008-Jan. 7, 2009. (This group exhbition contains "Hybrid Song Box.4," a sculptural installation by Angela Bulloch with a soundtrack by David Grubbs.) 2008
"Time-Depth 1" and "Time-Depth 2" on various artists, Moriyama Zoo No. 1: Tribute to Daido Moriyama book, CD, 2x picture-disc LPs (PowerShovel Books). 2008
An Optimist Notes the Dusk CD/LP (Drag City DC373/P-Vine). 2008
Bulloch, Angela. The Space That Time Forgot Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau. Munich, Feb. 16-May 18. (This art exhbition contains the film installation Z Point, with a soundtrack by David Grubbs). 2008
Contributed solo electric guitar soundfile for Orchestras, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media installation by Otomo Yoshihide and Tadasu Takamine. Yamaguchi, Japan, Aug. 23-Oct. 13. 2008
Curator, "Nights Errant," a two-night festival of music. The Kitchen. New York, April 11-12. 2008
Grubbs, David and F.S. Blumm. Duo performance as part of the "Music for Plants" series inside Peter Coffin's sculpture "untitled (Greenhouse)" (2002). Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. Seville, Spain, July 2. 2008
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract" collaborative performance. The Kitchen. New York, April 12. 2008
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract," collaborative performance. International House. Philadelphia, Nov. 9. 2008
Grubbs, David, Nate Wooley and Michael Evans. Trio performance. Le Poisson Rouge. New York, Oct. 7. 2008
Original music composed for the feature film Strade Trasparenti, directed by Augusto Contento (Cineparallax). 2008
Solo electric-guitar improvisation beneath and in response to Peter Coffin's sculpture Colorwheel (2008) as part of the "Constraction" group exhibition. Deitch Projects. New York, Aug. 2. 2008
Solo performance of "An Optimist Notes the Dusk." CUNY Convergence Concert. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May 16. 2008
Solo performance, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal, July 5. 2008
Solo performance, Nocturama at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, July 2. 2008
Solo performance. Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal. Barcelos, Portugal, June 28. 2008
Solo performance. BBMix Festival. Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Oct. 25. 2008
Solo performance. Bunker. Bielefeld, Germany, April 25. 2008
Solo performance. Grnd Zero. Lyon, France, Oct. 22. 2008
Solo performance. L'Epicentre. Cherbourg, France, Oct. 24. 2008
Solo performance. Lieu-Commun. Toulouse, France, Oct. 23. 2008
Solo performance. Manufaktur. Schorndorf, Germany, April 23. 2008
Solo performance. Montevideo. Marseille, France, Oct. 21. 2008
Solo performance. Passos Manuel. Porto, Portugal, June 27. 2008
Solo performance. Studentski Centar u Zagrebu. Zagreb, Croatia, April 27. 2008
Solo performance. The Stone. New York, Sept. 13. 2008
The Red Krayola. Fingerpointing CD (Drag City DC369CD). 2008
"Gloriette." You Are Hear: Sessions 2002-6 (Hearing Aid YAH002 CD). 2007
"Morning and Evening Ragas," a 50-minute music program for Radio Danièle, a monthlong series organized by Christopher Williams and John Kelsey in conjunction with Christopher Williams' art exhibition. Galleria d'arte moderna. Bologna, Italy, January. 2007
"The Chimney Swifts." Airport Symphony (Room 40 EDRM417 2xCD). 2007
Composed and produced musical score for Bayerische Rundfunk's radio play version of Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, which will be broadcast in weekly hour-long installaments, January-April. The complete 12-hour version will be broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk on May 6. 2007
Contributed music to the documentary film Onibus (directed by Augusto Contento). 2007
Grubbs, David and Kenneth Goldsmith. "Traffic," a collaborative performance. Issue Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 8. 2007
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract (Excerpt)." Moving Momentarily: Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Ensemble CD. 2007
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. "Souls of the Labadie Tract." Bond Chapel, University of Chicago. Nov. 15. 2007
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. Souls of the Labadie Tract (Blue Chopsticks BC17 CD). 2007
Guest performer with Ensemble Noamnesia at concert of Luc Ferrari's music. Slought Foundation. Philadelphia, Oct. 18. 2007
Niv, Yoni, Josh Sinton and David Grubbs. Performance at Monkeytown. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 13. 2007
Performer on Boredoms' "77BOADRUM." Empire-Fulton Ferry Park. Brooklyn, N.Y., July 7. 2007
Peter Weiss. Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (Hörverlag 12xCD, 2007). (CD release of Radio Bavaria radio play contains an original score by David Grubbs.) 2007
Solo performance. "E se . . ." Festival. Epistrophy Cafe. New York, Dec. 16. 2007
Solo performance. International Electro-acoustic Music Festival. Jan Hus Church. New York, Nov. 8. 2007
Wooley, Nate, Paul Lytton and David Grubbs. Performance at Festival of New Trumpet Music. Abrons Art Center. New York, Sept. 30. 2007
"Jochen Gerz: Anthologie der Kunst" (as respondent/contributor). Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bonn, Germany, Jan. 27-Feb. 26. 2006
"Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne." Art exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art. Philadelphia, April 21-Aug. 3. ("Listening room" section of exhibition contains numerous CDs and LPs by David Grubbs.) 2006
"Precipice," "Yellow Gardien" and "Heroic Afternoons" (with Matmos) on various Artists, Les Invisibles: Band Originale (Universal Jazz France CD). 2006
"The Battlefield Forecast (Excerpt)" on various artists, Halfway Between: Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic CD. 2006
"Thiefth," a collaborative performance with Susan Howe. St. Louis University, Oct. 26. 2006
"Weinen!! (After 'Ach! Ach!')" on various artists, STRP1: Reactions to the Music of Dick Raaijmakers (Basta CD). 2006
Ateleia. "Formal Sleep" (Xeric XER-CD-110, 2006). (David Grubbs: harmonium on "Formal Barrier.") 2006
Oliveros, Pauline. Primordial/Lift: Full Version (Deep Listening DL-CD-33). 2006
Performer as member of The Red Krayola at International House, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Aug. 3. (Performance presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia ICA exhibition "Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne.") 2006
Performer for "Pianoless Vexations," an eight-hour realization of Erik Satie's Vexations. The Sculpture Center. Long Island City, N.Y., June 11. 2006
Performer on work by Amnon Wolman. Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May 12. 2006
Playback concert of "The Battlefield Forecast," a work in 5.1 audio, presented as part of STEIM-curated concerts. De Melkweg. Amsterdam, July 12-16. 2006
Solo performance, International Electro-acoustic Music Festival. New York, Nov. 15. 2006
Solo performance, Tanned Tin Festival. Castellón, Spain, Nov. 11. 2006
Solo performance. International Electro-acoustic Music Festival. Brooklyn College. March 16. 2006
Solo performance. STEIM. Amsterdam, March 25. 2006
Solo performance. STRP Festival. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 24. 2006
Subject of three-hour musical retrospective on WXYC. Chapel Hill, N.C., June 29. 2006
"Angela Bulloch" (contains Z Point, film installation with soundtrack by David Grubbs). Modern Art Oxford. United Kingdom, Oct. 11-Dec. 18. 2005
"Comic Structure (Act One, Scene One)" on Various Artists, EN/OF 001 - 030 (Revolver 3xCD + exhibition catalogue, 2005). 2005
"Leopard Island," on Various Artists, Music for Plants (PerfectIfOn 2xCD). 2005
"Thiefth," a collaborative performance with Susan Howe. Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago. Nov. 8. 2005
"Thiefth," a collaborative performance with Susan Howe. The Kitchen. New York, Nov. 15. 2005
"Thiefth," with Susan Howe, Blue Chopsticks BC15 CD. 2005
Playback concert of "The Battlefield Forecast," a work in 5.1 audio commissioned for "Noise Room" series. STEIM. Amsterdam, Dec. 28. 2005
Two Soundtracks for Angela Bulloch, Semishigure semi 007 CD. 2005
Wingdale Community Singers, Wingdale Community Singers (Plain Recordings/Agenda/P-Vine CD). 2005
Wingdale Community Singers. "Give It a Kiss" b/w "My Les Paul" (Agenda 7" single). 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Nominee, Alpert Award in the Arts in Music. (Awards and Honors) 2014
Artist residence as part of "Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigals for Five Guitars." Abbaye de Royaumont. Val d'Oise, France, March 31-April 4. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Brooklyn College Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement. (Awards and Honors) 2010
Experimental Television Center Presentation Funds for concert at Issue Project Room. June. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Karl Bruckmaier's and Alexander Kluge's Chronik der Gefühle (with an original musical composition by David Grubbs) receives the Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2010 in the category "Best Fiction." (Awards and Honors) 2010
Meet the Composer grant, for new composition to be performed at Issue Project Room. June. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (with original music by David Grubbs) named "Hoerbuch des Jahres" (Audio Book of the Year) in Germany by Hessischer Rundfunk. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Onibus (with original music by David Grubbs), a documentary film directed by Augusto Contento, receives Best Documentary Award at the Ischia Film Location Festival. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Onibus (with original music by David Grubbs), a documentary film directed by Augusto Contento, receives Best Film Award (and Best Director Award) at the Sulmona International Film Festival. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Onibus (with original music by David Grubbs), a documentary film directed by Augusto Contento, receives First Prize at the Bellaria Film Festival Anteprimadoc. (Awards and Honors) 2007
PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award, for summer salary and travel to Chicago for archival research. $3,750; begins July 1. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Grant in Music/Sound, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. $20,000; 2005-06. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Stewart Travel Award, CUNY, for travel to present paper at Pop Conference, Seattle. $300; April. (Awards and Honors) 2006
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Three Experiments in Music Writing." Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, Jan. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Collaborative Experimentation in Sound workshop with Jan St. Werner. HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Guest speaker (remote) in Prof. Miki Kaneda's "Writing About Music" seminar. Boston University, Nov. 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Public discussion with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana. Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan. 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
"Three Experiments in Music Writing" online presentation. CUNY Graduate Center Department of Music, New York City, Oct. 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Guest speaker (remote) in Prof. Jan St. Werner's seminar. Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany, May 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Guest speaker (remote) in Prof. Wayne Koestenbaum's "Vibration" seminar. CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, March 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Organizer and moderator, "Unnamed Sensibilities: The Experimental Sound and Media Art of Maryanne Amacher" (remote). Art Science Connect, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, April 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Panel moderator, "Responses in Music to Climate Change" online conference. CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, Oct. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"Records Ruin the Landscape." Centro d'Arte, University of Padua. Padua, Italy, Jan. 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Two Experiments in Music Writing" online presentation. TUSK Festival. Newcastle, UK, Sept. 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Two Experiments in Music Writing." Department of Music, Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT, Feb. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Artist's talk (remote). School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies. University of Leeds. Leeds, UK, Oct. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Guest speaker (remote) in Prof. Benjamin Tausig's "Theory in Sound Studies" seminar. Stony Brook University, Sept. 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
The Voice in the Headphones online reading and conversation with Mónica de la Torre. Popular Music Books in Process Series. IASPM-US and The Pop Conference, July 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"Records Ruin the Landscape." Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Trinity College. Hartford, CT, October 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Records Ruin the Landscape." Mills College. Oakland, CA, March 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"The Scented Parabola: Occasions of Cecil Taylor's Poetry." "Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor" conference. CUNY Graduate Center. New York City, October 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"To Tautologize." Stereo Spasms festival. Café OTO. London, Feb. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Two Experiments in Music Writing." Penn Music Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Department of Music. Philadelphia, PA, October 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Now that the audience is assembled reading. The Lab. San Francisco, CA, March 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Public discussion with Brunhild Ferrari. Stereo Spasms festival. Café OTO. London, Feb. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Public discussion with Catherine Marcangeli, "Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms" concert series, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Public discussion with John Corbett. PowerHouse Arena. Brooklyn, April 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Simultaneous Soloists public discussion with Anthony McCall. New York Art Book Fair. MoMA PS1. Long Island City, NY, Sept. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Twin Cities Book Festival. Minneapolis, MN, October 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and public discussion with Mónica de la Torre. Printed Matter. New York City, April 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. Café OTO. London, UK, August 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. Corbett vs. Dempsey. Chicago, April 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. Rhizome DC. Takoma Park, MD, April 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Chicago, April 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. The Red Room. Baltimore, April 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. KMAC Museum. Louisville, KY, June 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. McNally Jackson. New York City, May 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading and solo guitar performance. The New School. New York City, Feb. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading, "Improvisation in the Age Beyond Mechanical Reproduction" conference. Spectrum. Brooklyn, NY, April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Brown University. Providence, RI, October 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Christine König Galerie. Vienna, Austria, September 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Gewölbe. Cologne, Germany, September 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Pro qm. Berlin, Germany, September 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Westwerk. Hamburg, Germany, September 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Panel discussion, "Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research." Center for the Humanities. New York University, October 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Records Ruin the Landscape lecture. VerdensKulturCentret. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Art Sonje Center. Seoul, Korea, March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Purchase College, SUNY. March 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Respondent, "After Experimental Music" conference. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, Feb. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
The Voice in the Headphones reading. Aeon Bookstore. New York City, Dec. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"The Black Room" (recorded presentation), PRES: The Conference, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, October 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
Artist's talk. Berklee College of Music. Boston, March 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Guest Scholar, Museum Research Consortium, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Guest speaker in Prof. Josiah McElheny's "Imaginary Modernisms" graduate seminar. University of Pennsylvania. December 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Creative Writing MFA Intergenre Series. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, NY, March 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Now that the audience is assembled reading. PIMA Culture symposium. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Now that the audience is assembled reading. Turnstyle Reading Series. The CUNY Graduate Center. New York City, Feb. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Panel discussion, "The Art of Sound." The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, March 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Public discussion with John Corbett. McNally Jackson Books, New York City, July 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Extrapool. Nijmegen, Holland, June 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Musical Ecologies. The Old Stone House. Brooklyn, NY, March 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"You really know how to handle a crowd" (monologue delivered as part of the Institute of Failure's Broken Red Balloon Dog NY Edition), Prelude Festival, Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, October 5, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
In-gallery lecture, Anri Sala: Answer Me. The New Museum. New York City, March 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape lecture and artist's talk. Seika University. Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape public discussion with Hiromichi Hosoma. Kichimu. Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Filmwerkstatt. Düsseldorf, Germany, October 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. LOFT. Cologne, Germany, October 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Pro qm. Berlin, Germany, October 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Westwerk. Hamburg, Germany, October 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"John Cage, Recording Artist." Visiting artist colloquium. Sound Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Local Histories: Louisville's Music Scene" panel. IASPM-US Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Records Ruin the Landscape" reading. Bergen Kunsthall. Bergen, Norway, Jan. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Records Ruin the Landscape" reading. Rönnells. Stockholm, Jan. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Records Ruin the Landscape." Poiesis Conference. Zagreb, Croatia, June 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Grubbs, David, Maja S.K. Ratkje and Camille Norment. "Records Ruin the Landscape" reading and public discussion. Off the Page Festival. Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo, Jan. 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Moderator, "Repurposing Culture" panel. Brooklyn College Faculty Day. May 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Public discussion with Peter Margasak. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago. October 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Turnstyle Reading Series. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Feb. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Visiting artist conversation with Susan Howe and Tom Healy. The Home School. Hudson, N.Y., Aug. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"John Cage, Recording Artist" and "One Poem" as visiting artist. M.F.A. program, Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., July 1 - 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John Cage, Recording Artist." Arnolfini. Bristol, United Kingdom, June 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John Cage, Recording Artist." Department of Music, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John Cage, Recording Artist." Wesleyan University. Middletown, Conn., Oct. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Lecture presented by Liquid Architecture / Discipline. Gertrude Contemporary. Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Artist's talk, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Artist's talk, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Artist's talk. Gallatin School, New York University. New York, Oct. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Grubbs, David, Cary Wolfe and Ian Balfour. "Records Ruin the Landscape" public discussion. Rice Media Center, Rice University. Houston, Sept. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Grubbs, David, Reto Geiser and John Sparagana. "A Common Language: Three Artists in Conversation" public discussion. The Menil Collection. Houston, Sept. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Public conversation with Fred Armisen, Lance Bangs and David Pajo. Nitehawk Cinema. Brooklyn, N.Y., March 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. Artist's talk and public discussion, presented by the Gauss Seminars in Criticism. Princeton University. Princeton, N.J., Nov. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Public conversation with John Corbett about Sun Ra and Ayé Aton. Blonde Art Books. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives." Problems in Contemporary Art: Sound Graduate Seminar. Columbia University. New York, March 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Abracadabrant: Three Collaborations." SUNY Purchase. Purchase, N.Y., March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Abracadabrant: Two Collaborations." HISAM Music in Polycultural America Lecture Series. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Henry Flynt on the Air." Muzeum Sztuki. Lodz, Poland, Sept. 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"John Cage, Recording Artist." National Academy Museum. New York, Sept. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"John Cage, Recording Artist." The Future of Cage: Credo Conference. University of Toronto. Oct. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"The Status of Sound: Writing Histories of Sonic Art" keynote roundtable. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Artist's presentation on collaboration with Anthony McCall. Faculty Day Conference. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, N.Y., May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"'Remove the Records From Texas': Parsing Online Archives." Pop Conference. UCLA. Feb. 26.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives." Sound Art Theory Symposium. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nov. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"'Remove the Records From Texas': Parsing Online Archives." Wolfe Institute's Music in Polycultural America lecture series. Brooklyn College. March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Abracadabrant: Three Collaborations." Performance Studies lecture series. New York University. April 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Abracadabrant: Three Collaborations." SUNY Purchase. April 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"John Cage, Recording Artist." The Performer as Subject: Interpreting American Experimental Music Symposium. University of California - San Diego. Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties and Sound Recording." Research in Progress lecture series. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties and Sound Recording." The University of Chicago Center in Paris. July 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Guest speaker in Professor Anthony Huberman's "Artist's Institute Seminar." Hunter College (CUNY). New York, Nov. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Guest speaker in Professor Jeffrey Taylor's seminar "The U.S. in the 1960s: Music and Culture." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Public discussion with composer Nate Wooley. ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., March 11.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Making Collaboration Happen: Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College" moderator. Faculty Day Symposium. Brooklyn College. May 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Non-Cochlear Sound" panel discussion. Goethe-Institut. New York, Oct. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Artist's talk. Levinsky College. Tel Aviv, Israel, July 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Grubbs, David and Branden W. Joseph, co-curators; David Grubbs, panel moderator, "Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983"). ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 3-5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. Public discussion. Department of English, University of Georgia. Athens, Ga., Feb. 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. Public discussion. Wesleyan University. Dec. 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." Pop Conference. Experience Music Project. Seattle, April 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations with Susan Howe," Textmusictextmusic Symposium. Birkbeck College, University of London. May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations with Susan Howe." Now Conference. Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"We Like the Good," panel moderator. Live With Animals Gallery. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Artist's talk. Centre for Material Digital Culture. University of Sussex. Brighton, United Kingdom, Jan. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Artist's talk. Eastern Michigan University. Yspilanti, Mich., March 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Artist's talk. Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College. March 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Grubbs, David and Helen R. Richardson. Presentation on interdisciplinary teaching. Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College. March 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Grubbs, David and Susan Howe. Public seminar. Birkbeck College, University of London. Oct. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Master class on music composition. Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisbon, Portugal, June 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
Participated in performance and public discussion of music by the Wingdale Community Singers. Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination. New York Psychoanalytic Institute. May 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"A Multidisciplinary Classroom." Brooklyn College New Faculty Retreat. Skylight Conference Center, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Jan. 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007
"Sound Art Is an Argumen." Pop Conference. Experience Music Project. Seattle, April 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Moderator, residency talk with artist Fabiano Cueva. Apex Art. New York, Feb. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Visiting artist presentation with Susan Howe. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nov. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Bending Technologies In and Out of Academia," onstage interview with Morton Subotnick. Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"John Cage, Recording Artist." Pop Conference, Experience Music Project. Seattle, April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Obsession and Practice" panel discussion and performance with Susan Howe. Museum of Modern Art. New York, Feb. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Outsider Music," Outside In panel discussion. Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery. New York, Oct. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage and Sound Recording." Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College. March 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
Professional Leadership
Member, Advisory Board, Sound American, Brooklyn, NY. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
Member, Board of Directors, Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
Member, Working Group, Art and Science Connect, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
Panelist, Emergency Grants. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
Chairperson, Board of Directors, Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY (2016-2022). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Panelist, Emergency Grants. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Panelist, Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Chairperson, Board of Directors, Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY (2016 - present). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2021
Panelist, Emergency Grants. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Chairperson, Board of Directors, Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY (2016 - present). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2020
Panelist. Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund. Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
CUNY Baccalaureate Commencement Faculty Mentor Greeting. New York, June 3. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2014
Juror, Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in Music. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Member, Board of Directors, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY (2013-15). (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Brooklyn College faculty representative for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Art Advisory Board, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY (2008-13). (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Other Professional Activities
Instructor, "Collaborative Experimentation in Sound." Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry and Fundação Serralves summer school, Porto, Portugal, June 8-14. 2022
Visiting Scholar, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Nov. 7-10. 2022
Instructor, "Collaborative Experimentation in Sound." Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry and Fábrica Braço de Prata summer school, Lisbon, Portugal, July 12-17. 2021
"Sarah Hennies with David Grubbs." Yarn/Wire Feedback webseries, Nov. 12. 2020
Member, Working Group, Art and Science Connect, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. 2020
Music curator, "Luc Ferrari: Stereo Spasms" concert series. Pioneer Works. Brooklyn, Nov. 18-19. 2019
Organizing committee. "Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor" conference. The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY, Nov. 23-26. 2019
Co-organizer, "Legacies of Pauline Oliveros" symposium. Brooklyn College. Nov. 3-4. 2017
Master class on creative work with audio archives. Extrapool. Nijmegen, Holland, June 25. 2017
Visiting artist-in-residence. Sound Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. October 6-9. 2015
Records Ruin the Landscape radio interview, New Music Up Late, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Aug. 15. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape radio interview. ARTxFM. Louisville, Ky., April 17. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape radio interview. WAIF-FM. Cincinnati, April 19. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading and public discussion with Branden W. Joseph, Lisa Kahlden and Marina Rosenfeld. ISSUE Project Room. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 8. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading and public discussion with John Corbett. Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery. Chicago, May 24. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading and public discussion with Mark Harwood, Will Prentice and Jennifer Walshe. Cafe OTO. London, June 4. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading and public discussion with Tim Barnes. Dreamland. Louisville, Ky., April 17. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Kraak. Manchester, United Kingdom, June 10. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. Other Music. New York, April 21. 2014
Records Ruin the Landscape reading. The Comet. Cincinnati, April 19. 2014
Juror, PIARS Sonic Arts Award, Rome. 2014
Artist-adviser, Grants to Artists Selection Committee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 2013
"Berlin" panel moderator. Pop Conference. New York University. New York, March 24. 2012
Artist-adviser, Grants to Artists Selection Committee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 2012
Member, Search Committee for Dean of School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts, Brooklyn College. 2011
Faculty participant, "Deskilling: The Aesthetics of Amateurism." Seminar in the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010-11. 2010
Programming Committee, 2009 Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project, Seattle, April 16-19. 2009
Taught in four-week session of the Lisbon Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts (ITPS) program, a 10-week intensive course in performance, interdisciplinary collaboration and interactive media technology offered through the Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, June 16-July 11. This program is a condensed version of the first semester of study in Brooklyn College's M.F.A. program in performance and interactive media arts. 2008