David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College, he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. Grubbs holds a BA in English from Georgetown University, and an MA and a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours (2022), The Voice in the Headphones (2020), Now that the audience is assembled (2018), and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (2014), all published by Duke University Press. He has also co-authored the artists’ books Projectile (with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City, 2021) and Simultaneous Soloists (with Anthony McCall, Pioneer Works, 2019). His criticism has appeared in numerous publications, including Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, The Wire, Bookforum, Tin House, and Conjunctions. A founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, Grubbs has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 commercially released recordings. His installation and performance work has been presented at, among others, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou. Grubbs is a grant recipient in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit curatorial platform and publisher Blank Forms.