Gladstone Deluxe

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, he develops systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic.

Gladstone has recently released music with Fixed Rhythms, Subsonic Ebonics, Black Techno Matters, and is/was. Films that Gladstone scored have been shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival and more. Gladstone has recently appeared in galleries like The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Fridman Gallery, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs all over the country. The past couple years have held collaborations with Moog Synthesizers, Sō Percussion, Attacca Quartet, Marcos Balter, Maria Chávez, Ikue Mori and more. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone. Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Columbia University, and is a Ph.D candidate at Princeton University.

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