In вЂWOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTERвЂ™ HoweвЂ™s texts are blended with the resonant sounds of GrubbsвЂ™s composition for piano and field recordings made in the near silence of off-hours in BostonвЂ™s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Veering away from the stuttering, profoundly fragmented sГ©ance of вЂFrolic ArchitectureвЂ™ (2011), Howe and Grubbs present a sound-work that germinates from new Susan Howe text collages and prose poems (referencing вЂTom Tit TotвЂ™, вЂChilde RolandвЂ™, Paul Thek, W.B. 'вЂWOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTERвЂ™ is the fourth collaboration in a decade from poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs. Liner notes by composer and kindred spirit Michael Pisaro.' He is Associate Professor Of Music at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, where he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance & Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. Grubbs was a member of Gastr del Sol, Bastro and Squirrel Bait and he has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros and Loren Connors, among many others. David Grubbs has released twelve solo albums and is the author of вЂRecords Ruin The Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, And Sound RecordingвЂ™ (Duke University Press). In 2014 Christine Burgin and New Directions published HoweвЂ™s вЂSpontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy Of ArchivesвЂ™. Capen Chair in Poetry & The Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo until her retirement in 2007. Her earlier critical study, вЂMy Emily DickinsonвЂ™, was re-issued in 2007 with an introduction by Eliot Weinberger. Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and two of literary criticism, Susan HoweвЂ™s recent collection of poems вЂThat ThisвЂ™, published by New Directions, won the Bollingen Prize in 2011.

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