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3 unusual facts about Bruce Gilbert


Bruce Gilbert

2006 saw him contribute to Susan Stenger’s Soundtrack for an Exhibition within the eponymous project curated by Mathieu Coupland that brought together artists from the realms of music, fine art, and film at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon.

was published in the anthology Murmurations by Nicholas Royle (Two Ravens Press, ISBN 978-1-906120-59-7).

In 2002, 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.


Ash International

Artists who have released their work on Ash International include Carl Michael von Hausswolff, S.E.T.I., Bruce Gilbert, Disinformation, Scanner, Paul Williams, freq out, Hazard and most recently Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere).


see also

The Ideal Copy

The phrase "the ideal copy" is repeated throughout the song "Ambitious." Graham Lewis, in a Creem interview, stated "the ideal copy" ultimately refers to DNA, "but Bruce Gilbert had a dream about it and decided we had to take that out of the song".