Career
He has recently appeared in poetry festivals in Germany, France, and Venezuela, and at music festivals in Canada, the Netherlands, and Argentina. Dutton has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including fellow oral sound artists Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Philosophy Minton, and David Moss in the group Five Men Singing, John Butcher, Bob Ostertag, Philosophy Durrant, John Russell, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Christmann, Thomas Charmetant, Xavier Charles, and Jacques Di Donato. His soundsinging has been called "fascinating, inventive, grippingly obsessive" (The Wire).
"(Five Men Singing) exposes every note, tone, timbre and texture that can be vibrated by the uvula, dredged from the throat and buzzed from the cheeks and lips."
More recently, he formed Quintet à Bras in company with two French poets and two French instrumentalists, and in 2009, Mr.
Dutton performed at The Scream In High Park, which is an annual literary festival in Toronto. Framing the words "gong" and "going" with the use of vowel-generated overtones, Dutton crystallizes form and content in a perfectly balanced musical and literary mantra."
"Whether reading or gurgling, solo Dutton remains compelling."
Best Canadian Essays 1990.
(Fifth House Publishers, 1990). Hard Times: A New Fiction Anthology.
(Mercury Press, 1990).
Carnival. (Insomniac Press, 1996). The Echoing Years: Contemporary Canadian & Irish Verse (School of Humanities Publications, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2007)
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, 2005)
Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu: Stimmen und Klänge der Lautpoesie (Book-Civil Defense), (Scholzverlag, 2002).
