David Linton - Composer, Lareigne(1995)

Originally a percussionist, David Linton has created dance, theater, and performance events and is equally well-known for his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances and his soundscore productions. His solo LP Orchesography (1986) was an influential collusion of early sampling tek with street beats and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's, began to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities that this new compressed format suggested. Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and 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 the live television Manhattan cable/webcast project Unitygain Television (UGTV), for which he is producer/director and an occasional performer.