David Weinstein (musician)

David Weinstein is an American musician, composer, electronic keyboardist, sound designer, audio engineer, curator, producer, and archivist. In 1978, with Jim Staley, Dan Senn, and Laurie Szujewska, Weinstein cofounded the avant-garde music series Roulette Intermedium. Weinstein was MoMA/PS1 Director of Public Programs and Managing Director of its radio station, Art Radio WPS1.org, from 2004–2008. He was a Board member and Program Director of the Manhattan alternative space, Clocktower Gallery, and its radio station, Art International Radio, from 2009–15. Since 2016, he has hosted several radio programs and a podcast exploring historic and emerging trends in experimental music. In 2019, he became the archivist and Director of Special Projects for Roulette. As a composer, performer, and collaborator, Weinstein has worked with his own group, Impossible Music, as well as Doris Vila, Butch Morris, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Shelley Hirsch, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher, Rhys Chatham, and many others from New York’s downtown experimental music scene. He is known for his traveling installation Illuminated Man (1981) and the albums Haiku Lingo (Review Records/No Man’s Land, 1990) and Perfume (Avant, 1998). In 1992, Weinstein and Shelley Hirsch were awarded the Prix Futura for their collaboration on Hirsch’s “docu-musical” O Little Town of East New York. In 2002, he and Doris Vila won the Jury Prix Ars Electronica for the interactive multimedia installation, The Story Machine, in Bonn, Germany.