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Artist
David Linton
12+ albums
experimentalAvant-Gardenoise rockminimalismdark acoustic
about
Originally a percussionist David Linton has created sound for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since his arrival in downtown NYC at the end of the 1970's. By the later 80's - after a good deal of percussion work along side other musicians - Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Lee Ranaldo, & Elliot Sharp among others - he was equally known for his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6246142875902148406 - as well as his soundscore productions. His 1986 solo LP 'Orchesography' (on Glen Branca’s Neutral Label) was an influential collusion of 'early' sampling tek with street beats and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's he had retired from 'live' performing in the 'improvised' electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities that this new 'compressed' format suggested. Throughout the 90's Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and/or production of event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996) and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present). Since 2002 Linton's fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic musicians and visualists has assumed the form of a live television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television - for which he was pro
top songs
albums
Tellus #10: All Guitars!
Tellus #1
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Tellus #12
David Linton "The Narcissism of Minor Differences" Live @ the Kitchen 1984
State Of The Union
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Orchesography
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an ear for a leg
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TellusTools LP
Tellus #12 - Dance
"Escalator" soundscore by David Linton
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State Of The Union (Disc 2)
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Island Of Sanity: New Music From New York City