Ted Milton

Infobox Musical artist


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Name = Ted Milton
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Origin = London, England
Years_active = 1962–present
Instrument = saxophones
Genre = Art rock
Occupation = Poet, Musician, Puppeteer

Ted Milton (born 1943) grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like "Paris Review". In 1969 his poetry was published in the anthology "". In the mid-sixties he began performing as a puppeteer, participating in numerous international festivals and appearing on "So It Goes", the TV show hosted by Tony Wilson. He contributed a short scene for Terry Gilliam's film "Jabberwocky".

In the late seventies he began to play alto-saxophone and founded the group Blurt. The first single "My Mother Was A friend Of An Enemy Of The People" was soon followed by the live album "In Berlin" (1981). Since then Blurt released more than twenty records.While living in Brussels in the mid-nineties, Milton started making book-objects with found materials. These were shown on several exhibitions and have been taken up in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris as well as in the British Library.

Ted Milton also makes art-objects and installations, having had shows in "Nadine" in Brussels and bookstore "Tropisme" in Brussels,

In 2000 he published the CD "Sublime" with the Andreas Gerth (loopspool). In 2001 Ted Milton staged a hommage to the Russian author of the absurd Daniil Kharms: "In Kharm's Way", a mixture of music, puppeteering and spoken word, with the electronic musician Sam Britton.In 2007 he collaborates again with Sam Britton in the "ODES"-project; an overview of 25 years solo work outside of Blurt.

Milton now lives in Deptford, in the southeast of London.

External links

* [http://www.tedmilton.com Blurt home page]
* [http://www.posteverything.com/artists/artist.php?id=11935 posteverthing.com]
*MySpace-music|tedmiltonblurt
* [http://www.tedmilton.net Blurt information website]

Bibliography

Mungo (publ.: Jovane - 1963)

Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (publ.: Penguin 1969)

He Also Serves Who Only Incubates (self-published 1977)

Longes de Louanges (publ.: Tak Tak Tak - 1988)

Pagan Strings vol.1 (self-publ. 1990, Book-object with found materials)

Pagan Strings vol.2 (self-publ. 1990, Book-object with found materials)

Pagan Strings vol.3 (self-publ. 1991, Book-object with found materials)

Pagan Strings vol.4 (self-publ. 1991, Book-object with found materials)

Treize (Pagans Strings vol.13 (self-publ. 1993, Book-object with found materials)

Odes (publ. Nadine Brussels 2007, Book with CD and 7" vinyl)