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David Grubbs (born September 21, 1967), composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in Codeine, The Red Krayola, Bitch Magnet and The Wingdale Community Singers. Grubbs' first band was a brief-lived punk/new wave group called The Happy Cadavers that released the 4-song 7" record ''With Illustrations'' in 1982. Grubbs then formed a hardcore punk band called Squirrelbait Youth that later evolved into the influential Louisville, Kentucky group Squirrel Bait, releasing a 12" EP and an album on Homestead Records. Grubbs's next group was the post-punk power trio Bastro, which released and EP and two albums on Homestead.〔Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 522-3〕 In 1991 Bastro morphed into the more avant-garde Gastr del Sol.〔 This project soon became essentially a partnership between Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke after the band's first album.〔 The albums released by the duo include ''Crookt, Crackt, or Fly'', ''Upgrade & Afterlife'', and ''Camoufleur''. In this period, Grubbs also contributed to other projects, including guitar for two tracks on Codeine's 1994 album The White Birch,〔(The White Birch LP )〕 and guitar, piano, and harmonium on recordings by Palace Music, Will Oldham, Royal Trux, Dirty Three, Matmos, Richard Buckner, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Arnold Dreyblatt, and many others. Since the breakup of Gastr del Sol in 1997, Grubbs has released numerous solo and collaborative records, mostly on the Drag City label, for which he co-directed the Dexter's Cigar sub-label.〔Proefrock, Stacia "(David Grubbs Biography )", Allmusic, retrieved 2010-01-23〕 In 2000, his album ''The Spectrum Between'' was named "Album of the Year" in the ''Sunday Times''. He operates his own label, Blue Chopsticks, which has released new and archival recordings from Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noël Akchoté, Workshop, Van Oehlen, and Mats Gustafsson. Grubbs is also known for his collaborations with writers Susan Howe, Rick Moody, and Kenneth Goldsmith, and with visual artists including Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Stephen Prina, and Cosima von Bonin. He has composed the soundtracks for Angela Bulloch's installations ''Z Point'', ''Horizontal Technicolour'', and ''Hybrid Song Box.4'', and his music appears in two installations by Doug Aitken. Grubbs's sound installation "Between a Raven and a Writing Desk" was included in the 1999 group exhibition "Elysian Fields" at the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs's soundtrack work includes music with Matmos for Thierry Jousse's feature film ''Les Invisibles''. Grubbs has also contributed music to the Red Krayola's soundtrack to Norman and Bruce Yonemoto's film ''Japan in Paris in LA'' and to three films by Augusto Contento (''Parallax Sounds'', ''Strade Trasparenti'', and ''Onibus''), to Braden King and Laura Moya's film ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back'', and to John Boskovich's film ''North''. Music by Gastr del Sol appears in the PBS television series ''The United States of Poetry'', Hal Hartley's film ''The Book of Life'', and Doug Aitken's film ''The Diamond Sea''. Grubbs composed the score for Karl Bruckmaier's radio adaptation of Peter Weiss's ''Die Ästhetik des Widerstands'' (Hessischer Rundfunk Hörbuch des Jahres 2007) and contributed music to Bruckmaier's adaptation of Alexander Kluge's ''Chronik der Gefühle'' (Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2010, "Best Fiction"). 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 is an Associate Professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He teaches in Brooklyn College's MFA program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Brooklyn College's MFA program in Creative Writing, and is a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM). Grubbs received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. His criticism has appeared in ''Texte zur Kunst, Chicago Review, TDR, Conjunctions, Bookforum'', and ''Purple'', and from 1999-2007 he regularly contributed music criticism to the Munich newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''. Grubbs received a 2005-2006 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. He is one of five musicians (with Steve Albini, Ken Vandermark, Damon Locks, and Ian Williams) profiled in Augusto Contento's 2012 documentary film ''Parallax Sounds''. Grubbs lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Cathy Bowman, and their son Emmett Bowman-Grubbs. ==Selected solo discography== *''The Plain Where The Palace Stood'' LP/CD (Drag City/P-Vine, 2013) *''Hybrid Song Box.4'' CD (Blue Chopsticks, 2009) *''An Optimist Notes the Dusk'' CD/LP (Drag City, P-Vine, 2008) *''Two Soundtracks for Angela Bulloch'' CD (Semishigure 2005) *"Yellow Sky" split 12" picture disc with Åke Hodell (Kning Disk/Håll Tjäften, 2005) *''A Guess at the Riddle'' CD/LP (Drag City/Fat Cat/P-Vine 2004) *''Comic Structure'' LP with artist's edition by David Shrigley (En/Of, 2003) *''Crumbling Land'' split 12" with Avey Tare (Fat Cat Records, 2003) *''Rickets & Scurvy'' LP/CD (Drag City/Fat Cat/P-Vine, 2002) *''Act Five, Scene One'' (Blue Chopsticks/P-Vine, 2002) *''Thirty-Minute Raven'' CD (Rectangle/P-Vine, 2000) *''The Spectrum Between'' CD/LP (Drag City/P-Vine, 2000) *"Aux Noctambules" 3" CD (Rectangle, 2000) *''The Coxcomb'' LP/picture disc (Rectangle, 1999) *''The Thicket'' CD/LP (Drag City, 1998) *''Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange'' CD (Table of the Elements, 1997) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Grubbs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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