Damon Krukowski

Damon Krukowski (born September 6, 1963) is an American musician, poet and writer. He was a member of the dreampop band Galaxie 500 and the psychedelic rock band Magic Hour, and is half of the psychedelic folk duo Damon and Naomi. He is also a published poet and writer.

Music
Krukowski was the drummer with the dreampop band Galaxie 500 on all their recordings from 1987 until their split in 1991. He has also recorded three albums and toured with the psychedelic rock band Magic Hour. Since Galaxie 500's split he has worked as duo with his partner Naomi Yang as Damon and Naomi.

Publishing
In 1989 Krukowski and his partner set up the independent book publisher Exact Change, which specialises in publishing 19th and 20th century avant-garde literature.

Writing and journalism
Krukowski has written poetry and prose works as well as writing extensively on music, sound and the music industry for Pitchfork and has had books on the subject published.


 * 5000 Musical Terms (1995, Burning Deck Press ISBN 1886224048)
 * The Memory Theater Burned (2005, Turtle Point Press ISBN 1885586957)
 * Afterimage (2011, Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN 1933254882)
 * The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World (US: 2017, The New Press ISBN 1620971976)
 * The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World (UK: 2017, MIT Press ISBN 0262037912)
 * The New Analog: Como escuchar y reconectarnos con el mundo digita (Spain: 2017, Ediciones Alpha Decay ISBN 8494742302)
 * Ways of Hearing (2019, MIT Press ISBN 0262039648)
 * Ascoltare il rumore. La riscoperta dell'analogico nell'era della musica digitale (Italy: 2019, BigSur ISBN 886998172X)

In 2017 he wrote and presented the six part Radiotopia podcast Ways of Hearing.

Personal life
Krukowski was educated at Harvard where he studied social theory as an undergraduate and earned an M.A. in English and American literature. He has taught writing, sound, and writing about sound in Harvard's Writing Program, and studio art department.

Krukowski is married to fellow musician Naomi Yang and they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.