biography
Adam Linson, double bassist, improvisor, composer, born in Los Angeles, currently based in Berlin. Also develops real-time interactive music software for live performance as heard on his solo album for double bass and electronics "Cut and Continuum" (psi, 2006).
Linson studied music with George Lewis and Bertram Turetzky at the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy. He has appeared as a guest performer with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, with one performance documented on "The Eleventh Hour" (ECM, 2005) and another broadcast on the German radio station WDR. His quartet performance with Evan Parker, Phil Wachsmann, and Paul Lytton was called "a model of integrated flesh and metal" by the Sunday Herald. He was also a guest performer with the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio (Schlippenbach/Parker/Lovens).
Recently, Linson recorded a duet album with Lawrence Casserley, and a quartet album with Systems Quartet in which Linson is joined by Axel Dörner, Paul Lytton, and Rudi Mahall. He has performed on both sides of the Atlantic and in numerous European festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK and the Cologne Triennial in Germany. In 2004 and 2008, he was a resident at STEIM, the studio for electro-instrumental music in Amsterdam, where he developed custom electronic controllers for his GNU/Linux-based music software.
He continues to perform and collaborate internationally in various constellations, including a quartet with Evan Parker, Richard Barrett, and Peter Evans, an octet led by John Butcher, and a trio with Nate Wooley and Harris Eisenstadt.
"Adam Linson has arrived at a propitious moment; the 20th Century has dropped behind the horizon, but the 21st has yet to be given permanent shape. He has the expanded skill set and the big ears necessary to make music that stands up to the severest scrutiny now and in the coming decades. His work will undoubtedly be closely monitored by discerning listeners around the world for many years to come." Bill Shoemaker (May 2008)
