{"product_id":"now-that-the-audience-is-assembled-9780822371472","title":"Now That the Audience Is Assembled","description":"Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in \u003ci\u003eRecords Ruin the Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. \u003ci\u003eNow that the audience is assembled\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length prose poem that describes a fictional musical performance during which an unnamed musician improvises the construction of a series of invented instruments before an audience that is alternately contemplative, participatory, disputatious, and asleep. Over the course of this phantasmagorical all-night concert, repeated interruptions take the form of in-depth discussions and musical demonstrations. Both a work of literature and a study of music, \u003ci\u003eNow that the audience is assembled\u003c\/i\u003e explores the categories of improvised music, solo performance, text scores, instrument building, aesthetic deskilling and reskilling, and the odd fate of the composer in experimental music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Grubbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822371472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of \u003ci\u003eRecords Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press. As a musician, he has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 180 commercially released recordings. Grubbs is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Angela Bulloch and Anthony McCall, and his work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, and Matmos, among other artists. Grubbs has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSüddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45371908849779,"sku":"9780822371472","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d124bcd8-52de-486b-8131-8ef14dd3a3dc.jpg?v=1787052544","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/now-that-the-audience-is-assembled-9780822371472","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}