Sonic Youth

Anne DeMarinis was in the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, for a very brief period from 1981-1982 as a keyboardist. She contributed vocals, along with Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

, and Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

, on three (known) Sonic Youth songs performed once, and only live on June 18, 1981. The songs are entitled "Noisefest #1", "Noisefest #2", and "Noisefest #3". She also played guitar at that same show on the song entitled "Noisefest #4". She left the band before their self-titled debut EP was recorded.

Other works

DeMarinis has also designed album covers.

In 1981, she appeared on the Just Another Asshole

Just Another Asshole

Just Another Asshole was a short-lived no wave art/music/sound art magazine publication project launched from the Lower East Side Manhattan in the early 1980s. It was edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca.- Just Another Asshole: The Book:...

compilation. Many of her other band mates from Sonic Youth appear on that album as well.

Anne also appears on Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...

's instrumental album Symphony No. 1. She is credited for keyboards

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

, and percussion and as a co-producer. Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...

, and Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

 also appear on this album.

In 1981 she founded the band Inteference with David Linton

David Linton

David Linton was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. He made a career as a lawyer in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, and finally Linn County, Kansas where he was a probate judge . Also, a State Senator for Ohio before he...

 and Michael Brown

Michael Brown

-Politics:*Michael Brown , current mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota*Michael Brown , former British Conservative MP, now a political journalist...

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She also appears on Ten Roir Years, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo appear on this album as well.

She also works with Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...

 on her album's United States Live

United States Live

United States Live was the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. Released as a 5-record boxed set , the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983.United States was Anderson's magnum opus performance-art piece featuring...

, and Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology

Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology

Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology is a retrospective of the seven albums recorded by American experimental music composer Laurie Anderson for Warner Bros...

.

She appears on the cover compilation album Live at the Knitting Factory: Downtown Does the Beatles, she plays the accordion on this album.

In 1993, she plays accordion Kurt Hoffman's Band of Weeds.

She plays accordion on the album Dot by Geogre Cartwright.

In 1994, she is credited for playing accordion on the album To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places is a 1994 album by Dave Van Ronk, the theme of which was to perform versions of songs written by people he knew, to demonstrate the power of the "cover song".-Reception:...

by Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

.

She is credited on two of Robert Een

Robert Een

-Career:Known for his use of extended vocal and cello techniques, Een has recorded eight albums of his compositions, as well as composing scores for seven films. His music for dance and theater can be heard in the repertories of Liz Lerman, David Dorfman, Jennifer Muller, and Yin Mei among others....

's albums Big Joe (1995), and Mr.Jealousy (1998).

Anne is credited as the "Art Director" on Michael Davis

Michael Davis (trombonist)

Michael Davis is a jazz trombonist from San Jose, California.He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.Davis has worked with famous singers and bands, for example The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson. Nowadays he gives music clinics all over the world and writes...

' album Trumpets Eleven, and on his album Brass Nation.

She plays the accordion, and is also the art director on the album Smoke and Mirrors by Steven Elson.

In 2007, she appears on Dave Solider's Chamber Music CD.