Sound in Multidisciplinary Collaboration

David Grubbs explores the challenges and demands that composers and musicians encounter when working collaboratively in hybrid practices. Drawing upon his experience of collaborating with figures such as poet Susan Howe and artists Anthony McCall and Angela Bulloch, Grubbs looks back to the electronic music alliance of John Cage, David Tudor, Maryanne Amacher, and other artists of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. As music composition today finds itself operating within a matrix of multidisciplinary performance, video installation, and interactive media, it is compelled to facilitate novel inquiries into co-authorship, improvisation, genre, and distributed creativity.

After the talk, David Grubbs will be in discussion with artist, electronic music composer, and co-founder of the music group Mouse on Mars, Jan St. Werner.