Bruce Clifford Gilbert was born on 18 May 1946 and is an English musician.
16 Facts About Bruce Gilbert
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Bruce Gilbert left Wire in 2004, and has since been focusing on solo work and collaborations with visual artists and fellow experimental musicians.
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Borrowing oscillators from the Science department, Bruce Gilbert started experimenting with tape loops and delays at the recording studio set up by his predecessor.
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Together with Colin Newman and Angela Conway, who were students at Watford at the time, Bruce Gilbert formed a short-lived group called Overload.
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Newman and Bruce Gilbert were joined by Graham Lewis and Robert Gotobed in the summer of 1976, and started practising and performing as Wire.
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The MZUI album, released by Cherry Red in May 1982, contains two untitled pieces based on recordings from the venue, finishing with the looped and distorted voice of Marcel Duchamp, whom Bruce Gilbert considers a key influence.
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Between 1984 and 1991, Bruce Gilbert was commissioned to create music for a variety of film and modern dance projects, by, among others, Michael Clark, Aletta Collins, and Ashley Page, with excerpts appearing on his albums This Way, The Shivering Man, Insiding and Music for Fruit.
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Wire re-entered the public arena on 7 June 1985 with a performance at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and Bruce Gilbert contributed sounds, lyrics, and occasional vocals to the various albums, EPs, and singles released by the band between November 1986 and February 1993.
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Since the 1990s, Bruce Gilbert has appeared at London techno clubs under the name DJ Beekeeper, often deejaying inside a garden shed above the dancefloor.
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In January 2000, Bruce Gilbert teamed up once more with Graham Lewis, and the duo contributed the sound installation Alarm to the Audible Light exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
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In 2002, Bruce Gilbert wrote and recorded the soundtrack for "London Orbital", a film by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair based on Sinclair's psychogeographical exploration of the M25 motorway.
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Bruce Gilbert left Wire in 2004, after the release of the Send album, pursuing solo projects and collaborations with visual and sound artists ever since.
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Bruce Gilbert's 2004 album Ordier is a collection of excerpts from a 1996 live performance.
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In 2009, Bruce Gilbert released Oblivio Agitatum, which he recorded entirely at home.
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Revisiting his collaboration with Pan Sonic as IBM in 2001, Bruce Gilbert paired up with Mika Vainio in May 2011 at the Netaudio London festival for an exclusively commissioned live performance.
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Bruce Gilbert's 2011 recording, "Monad", was published by Touch as a vinyl-only 7-inch single on 8 August.