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David Grubbs
Associate 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 12 full-length solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially released recordings. His most recent releases are The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City, 2013) and Frolic Architecture (Blue Chopsticks, 2011), a collaboration with the poet Susan Howe. 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 as well as with writers Susan Howe and Rick Moody. Grubbs's music can be heard in films by, among others, Doug Aitken and Thierry Jousse, and he is featured in Augusto Contento's documentary film Parallax Sounds. Grubbs was a 2005-06 grant recipient in music/sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Chicago - 2005 (English)
M.A., University of Chicago - 1991 (English)
B.A., Georgetown University - 1989 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
Sound art and experimental music, critical theory, popular music and technology, contemporary art, poetry.
Books and Publications
"Diese seltsame Präsenz." Trans. Harriet Fricke. Die Tageszeitung, Sept. 1-2: 23. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"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
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
David Grubbs, "I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." MoMA, New York City, April 20. (Talk presented as part of the event "Transform the World! Poetry Must Be Made by All!") (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Brooklyn College faculty representative for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
"Berlin" panel moderator. Pop Conference. New York University. New York, March 24. 2012
"'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives." American Music Review XL. 2, Spring: 1, 3, 12-14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"Gently Electrocuted." Liner notes for Various Artists, Sonig Box Set Thing (Sonig 83 2xCD + DVD boxed set). 2-4. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"Teardrop." The Book of Guilty Pleasures. Eds Song-Ming Ang and Kim Cascone. Singapore: Circadian Songs. 82-3. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"All Together Now (Zeros and Ones)." The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 7.1, Summer: 33-35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 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: Other Article) 2010
"I Am a Recording. I Don't Age." Black Clock 11, Fall 2009-Winter 2010: 97-100. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"Looking Back: Music." Frieze 128, January-February: 22. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 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: Other Article) 2009
"Review: Ashley's Operas." American Music Review XXXVIII.2, Spring: 11, 15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Review: The Last Performance [dot org]." TDR 53.3, Fall: 172-74. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations." Chicago Review 55.1, Winter: 186-90. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Trocken und hart," translated by Julian Weber. Die Tageszeitung, May 2-3: 21. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Uncoole Leidenschaften: Ein Maximum an Beweglichkeit." Vernetzt. Trans. and ed. Krystian Woznicki. Berlin: Verbrecher: 138-51. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009
"Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers." Afterall 20, Spring: 114-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Epiphanies." The Wire 296, October: 114. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Uncoole Leidenschaften: Ein Maximum an Beweglichkeit," translated byKrystian Woznicki. Berliner Gazette, Aug. 27. Online at www.berlinergazette.de. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Der Gesamtwerker," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 26: 14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Der komische Heilige der letzten Tage," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 11: 12. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Disciplinarity and Audience." Positionen 71, May: 35. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Do It Yourself," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 28: 12. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Don't Look Back." Modern Painters, December 2006-January 2007): 68-70. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"Der Fluch des Perfekten," translated byKarl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feb. 22: 12. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Die Ästhetik des Unkomponierbaren," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 25: 14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 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: Other Article) 2006
"Lieder," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung 12, June 21. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Oscillating With Lucier." ISAM Newsletter XXXVI.1, Fall: 10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Salut Luc," translated by Carole Rieussec. Revue et Corrigée 67, March: 32. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Sirenenmusik," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 22: 14. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
"Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers." essay, commissioned by ICA Boston for on-site mediatheque. June. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 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: Edited Book) 2005
"Bilder von Adolf," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung 14, Sept. 21. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
"Die Glasgow-Schule," translated by Karl Bruckmaier. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oct. 17. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
Creative Work
"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
Andrea Belfi, David Grubbs, David Maranha and Pete Simonelli, Ten Intrusions CD (Bôłt Records) (DG: electric guitar). 2013
Codeine. What About the Lonely? CD/LP (Numero Group) (DG: electric guitar). 2013
David Grubbs, Miron Grzegorkiewicz, David Maranha, Małgorzata Penkalla, and Pete Simonelli, Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in American without a Trace CD (Bôłt Records) (DG: voice, electric guitar). 2013
David Grubbs. The Plain Where the Palace Stood CD/LP (Drag City). 2013
Grubbs, David, and Angela Bulloch. "The Wired Salutation" collaborative performance. Grande Salle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, March 23. 2013
Grubbs, David, and Susan Howe. "Frolic Architecture" collaborative performance. "Celestial Twins?" symposium. Gallatin School, New York University, Feb. 28. 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 Rhys Chatham's "Guitar Trio." Ecole Nationale Supériore d'Architecture Paris-Val de Seine. Paris, April 2. 2013
Solo performance, Blonde Art Books, Brooklyn, April 30 (DG: electric guitar). 2013
Solo performance, WFMU 91.1FM, Jersey City, NJ, April 24 (DG: electric guitar and voice). 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
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
Public conversation with John Corbett about Sun Ra and Ayé Aton, Blonde Art Books, Brooklyn, 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
Other Professional Activities
Artist-Advisor, 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
Art Advisory Board, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2008
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
