Gladstone Deluxe

Gladstone Butler is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. His work takes form in recorded music, installations and performances.

Gladstone has performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center, released multiple tracks charted in the Beatport Top 10, works in fields of research as a technical audio engineer and software engineer, and is an installation artist addressing concepts linking rhythm, geometry, the black body and technology.

While percussion is often only tied to the act of striking an object, Gladstone sees percussion as an expressive manifestation of time architectures that bind humans, framed by the larger rhythmical walls of sun-rise and set. In Gladstone's work, musical rhythm becomes a unique tool for celebrating nonlinearity, asymmetry and difference in society.

Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is an MFA candidate at Columbia University.