Poet/Theorist Fred Moten & Bassist Brandon Lopez to Release New Album “Revision” on April 11th, 2025 | LISTEN!
Poet/Theorist Fred Moten & Bassist Brandon Lopez Share “#2”
Revision Is Due April 11 on CD/LP/Digital Via TAO Forms
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Fred Moten is a professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and Black study. He has written a number of books of poetry and criticism, including In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2009); B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010); The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the winner of the California Book Award; The Little Edges, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (Wesleyan University Press, 2015); The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions, 2016); Black and Blur: consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017); All That Beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019); and Perennial Fashion Presence Falling (Wave Books, 2023).
Black and Blur, the first volume of consent not to be a single being, was awarded honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The second volume of the series, Stolen Life: consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2018), was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
With Stefano Harney, Moten is coauthor of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013), A Poetics of the Undercommons (Sputnik & Fizzle, 2016), and All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021). With Wu Tsang, he is coauthor of Who touched me? (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016).
Moten has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the African American Literature and Culture Society, a Macarthur Fellowship, and the inaugural Roy Lichtenstein Award of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Moten is a member of Wu Tsang’s performance/cinema troupe Moved By the Motion, whose work been shown or performed at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam; the Tate Modern, London; and the New Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among other venues. Reading Group Records released the album Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver in 2022. Moten and Laura Harris live in New York City with their children, Lorenzo and Julian.
Brandon Lopez is a bassist and composer living in New York City. His work deals with improvisation, finding new sonic possibilities on the double bass.
Collaborations with the likes Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, John Zorn, The Mat Maneri Quartet, Nate Wooley’s “knknighgh”, Satoko Fuji, Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, Standing On The Corner, Cecilia Lopez, Ash Fure, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others.
Playing with the New York Philharmonic 2019 season as a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in the premier of Ashley Fure’s “Filament” under the baton of Jaap Van Zweden. His solo work has been featured at the Met Museum in a live collaboration with silent films by directors Stan Brakhage and Germaine Dulac. His collaborative work with Fred Moten and Gerald Cleaver was critically acclaimed by publications of note and won Best of Jazz 2022 in the NYTimes. His most recent solo recording won best of 2023 in the NYC Jazz record. He’s been awarded the Van Lier Fellowship (2018) and Jerome Artist in Residence (2020) at Roulette Intermedium, The Artist in Residence at Issue Project Room (2018), commissions from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation for the recording of SUN BURNS OUT YOUR EYES (2022), 2023 NYSCA grant for the multimedia piece NADA SAGRADA premiered at the Vision Festival, and an award in 2020 from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust.
He is currently a instructor of improvisation and double bass at the New School for Jazz.
Photo Credit: Pat Cray
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