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Date: Saturday 29 January 2005
Duration: 15 minutes x 7
Venue: Tate Modern
Event: The Sound of Heaven and Earth
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Composer's Notes
Eight Clouds in the Shape of US Presidents by David Grubbs
"Camoufleur" is a term of derision coined by the abstract artist Ad Reinhardt. It was his name for an artist who gives a programmatic title to an abstract work. Barnett Newman, having entitled a series of paintings Stations of the Cross, was a camoufleur.
"Eight Clouds in the Shape of US Presidents" is a work of camouflage. That is, unless you sense its abstract composition and programmatic title to be glaring at one another, irreconcilable. A mis-titling that opens a chasm of meaning. The wrong caption.
Where do I get off calling it an abstract composition? For the audience, perhaps it is. But not for the six musicians who are listening to me whisper.
Performance Archive
Instrumentation included: Bass by John Edwards,
Bass Saxophone by Tony Bevan, Electronics by Andrew
Morgan, Electronics and Flutes by David Toop,
Harp by Rogeri Davis and Cello by Neil
Heyde.
Performance Recording:
| Eight Clouds in the Shape of US Presidents - performance 15 min Real Audio |
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Compositional Score
The scores could take any form, from verbal instruction, found sound and poetry, to other music, so long as it is delivered exclusively in audio, with no written text, conducting, physical cues or gestures.
Audio Score:
Download individual scores created by David for each instrument. Musicians listened to scores consisting of spoken word instructions via a cd player and headphones.
| Bass Sax - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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| Cello - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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| Electronics - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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| Flute / Electronics - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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| Double Bass - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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| Harp - 12 min 128kb mp3 |
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Composer's Biography
David Grubbs - Louisville, Kentucky-born recording artist and writer, David Grubbs's eighth full-length solo recording; A Guess at the Riddle was released in May 2004. Grubbs's other recent releases include Arborvitae, a duo with Loren Connors; the collection of songs Rickets & Scurvy; and Act Five, Scene One. Grubbs's upcoming projects include an album by the Wingdale Community Singers (a group with Rick Moody and Hannah Marcus) and a collaborative recording with the poet Susan Howe. Grubbs's work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou. He has also contributed music to films by Norman and Bruce Yonemoto, Braden King and Laura Moya, John Boskovich and Doug Aitken. David was guitarist and primary songwriter in the influential art-punk group Squirrel Bait and Bastro, which released two albums each.
David Grubbs was a founding member of the group Gastr del Sol. He has participated in the Red Krayola since 1993. He co-directed Dexter's Cigar, an acclaimed label (Arnold Dreyblatt, Henry Kaiser, Merzbow). At present Grubbs directs the Blue Chopsticks record label (Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noël Akchoté, Workshop, Van Oehlen, Mats Gustafsson).
From 1997-99, Grubbs tught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His criticism has appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Purple, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. He currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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