Ted Milton

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Ted Milton
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Art rock
Occupation(s)	Poet, Musician, Puppeteer
Instrument(s)	saxophones
Years active	1962–present

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 Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain. 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 National in Paris as well as in the British Library. 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.