Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results. — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials. — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
