Now That the Audience Is Assembled by Grubbs, David

Now That the Audience Is Assembled (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822371472)

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Format: Paperback
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Now That the Audience Is Assembled by Grubbs, David

Now That the Audience Is Assembled

$22.95
Now That the Audience Is Assembled by Grubbs, David

Now That the Audience Is Assembled

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. Over the course of this phantasmagorical all-night concert, repeated interruptions take the form of in-depth discussions and musical demonstrations. Both a work of literature and a study of music, Now that the audience is assembled explores the categories of improvised music, solo performance, text scores, instrument building, aesthetic deskilling and reskilling, and the odd fate of the composer in experimental music.

Author: David Grubbs
ISBN-10: 0822371472
ISBN-13: 9780822371472
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2018
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By David Grubbs
By David Grubbs
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David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording, also published by Duke University Press. As a musician, he has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 180 commercially released recordings. Grubbs is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Angela Bulloch and Anthony McCall, and his work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, and Matmos, among other artists. Grubbs has written for The Wire, BOMB, Bookforum, and the S?deutsche Zeitung.

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