The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us -… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials. — David Grubbs Copy Share
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
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
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
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
As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of… — David Grubbs Copy Share
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… — David Grubbs Copy Share
Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck… — David Grubbs Copy Share
