BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... New York/ *USA 1967 David Grubbs is an artist and writer. In February 2002, Blue Chopsticks released his fifth full-length solo recording, "Act Five, Scene One", a sixty-minute composition featuring Tony Conrad and Dan Brown. Grubbs created "Rickets & Scurvy", a collection of songs featuring the contributions of John McEntire, Noël Akchoté, and Matmos; the album also includes two songs co-written with the novelist Rick Moody. In 2000, Grubbs' "The Spectrum Between" was named "Album of the Year" in the London Sunday Times. David Grubbs was a founding member of Gastr del Sol. He has participated in the Red Krayola since 1993, and appears on their recent album, "Blues, Hollers, and Hellos". Grubbs co-directed Dexter's Cigar, an acclaimed reissue label that released records by, among others, Derek Bailey, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Folke Rabe. He directed the Blue Chopsticks record label, with releases from Luc Ferrari, Workshop, Van Oehlen, and Mats Gustafsson. Grubbs contributed music to the Red Krayola's original soundtrack to Norman and Bruce Yonemoto's film "Japan in Paris in L.A." as well as to the soundtrack of Braden King and Laura Moya's film "Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back" and, most recently, to John Boskovich's film "North". Music by Gastr del Sol appears in the P.B.S. television series "The United States of Poetry" and Doug Aitken's film "The Diamond Sea", which premiered at the 1997 Whitney Biennial of American Art. David Grubbs' sound installation "Between a Raven and a Writing Desk" was included in the group exhibition "Elysian Fields" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In previous lives, David was guitarist and primary songwriter in the widely influential mid-'80s punk group Squirrel Bait whose two records have recently been reissued; he was reincarnated into the same position in Bastro which released two albums and toured Europe at the time of the '80s/'90s cusp. From 1997-99, David Grubbs was a part-time instructor in the Liberal Arts and Sound departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a guest curator in the 1999 Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria and artist-in-residence during the 1999 Mappe Festival in Catania, Sicily. His criticism has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, Purple, and Bookforum, and he regularly contributes music criticism to the Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. |
