donald breckenridge + matthew rohrer + musical artist david linton

Thu 18 Oct, 2007, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

Intranslation site, editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press ‘06) and was recently nominated for a PEN/Nora Magdin Award. He is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust’98) and the novel 6/2/95 (Spuyten Duyvil ‘02). His second novel Arabesques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia. His third novel, Many Parts is also forthcoming from Starcherone.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of Rise Up, published by Wave Books in 2007; A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize; and Satellite (Verse Press, 2001). He is also the co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “The Next Big Thing.” His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the undergraduate writing program at NYU.

David Linton entered the downtown NY experimental music scene through the art punk garage door at the tail end of the 1970’s. Initially on drums, he performed and recorded with Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, as well as his own collaborative band Interference, among others. He then moved on to electro-acoustic improvisation and live solo performances on his own customized proto electronic drum kit, while producing dozens of works in sound score design for dance and theater, among these scores were for The Wooster Group and for choreographers Karole Armitage and Stephen Petronio. Most recently, Linton has performed solo audio-visual work with “The Bicameral Research Sound and Projection System,” drawing on his over 25 years of experience in the multimedia arts to mark the reaffirmation of the pre-eminent organic values embodied in real-time analog processes in the worlds of sound and visual media.