David Grubbs on why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
by Peter Margasak
David Grubbs teaches classes in creative writing, performance, music, and technology at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, and before he arrived in New York 15 years ago, he lived and played in bands in Chicago. A Louisville native, he'd moved here in 1990 to attend grad school at the University of Chicago, but if you knew about him then, you probably knew him as a musician.…[ Read more ]