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...
From here he moved - on one hand - to electro-acoustic improvisation and live solo performance on his own customized proto electronic drum kit...
and - on the other - into sound score design for dance and theater - producing dozens of works in this vein between the mid 80's & mid 90's. Notable among these - his scores for The Wooster Group & for choreographers Karole Armitage & Stephen Petronio.
By the early 1990's, somewhat bored and disillusioned with the conventions of the Improv, Indie Rock , and Post Modern Dance scenes to which he had contributed for years, David was drawn to embrace Techno and the emergent 'Immersive' movement in electronic music and digital media. This in turn led to a focus on venue/audience development & 'event design' in the course of advocating the new popular modes of realtime audio and visual performance demonstrated in catalytic events like SoundLab (host), Unitygain (organizer/curator), & Unitygain Television (producer/director).
Linton's most recent solo audio-visual performance work with "The Bicameral Research Sound and Projection System" brings things full circle drawing on his over 25 years of experience in the multi media arts to mark the reaffirmation of the pre-eminent organic values embodied in realtime analog processes in the worlds of sound and visual media.
