Lee Ranaldo
Encyclopedia
Lee M. Ranaldo is an American
singer, guitar
ist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock
band Sonic Youth
. In 2004, Rolling Stone
ranked Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore
the 33rd and 34th Greatest Guitarists of All Time, respectively.
, Long Island
, and graduated from Binghamton University
. He has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer
.
Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands and joining the electric guitar orchestra of Glenn Branca
. Among Ranaldo's solo records are Dirty Windows, a collection of spoken texts
with music, Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)
, pieces for the guitar, and Scriptures of the Golden Eternity
. His books include several with art or photography by Leah Singer, including Drift, Bookstore, Road Movies, and Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt (from a full-length book of writings on Moroccan
travels and music). Ranaldo has also published Jrnls80s (published by Soft Skull Press
), as well as a book of poems, Lengths & Breaths, with photography by Cynthia Connolly
. His most recent book of poetry, Against Refusing, was published by Water Row Press in April 2010 with cover artwork by Leah Singer
. His visual+sound works have been shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vienna, and elsewhere.
Ranaldo has produced albums for artists including Babes in Toyland
, You Am I
, Magik Markers
, Deity Guns, and Dutch
art rock
-ensemble Kleg. He has edited a volume of tour journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza
Tour written by himself, Thurston Moore
, Beck
, Stephen Malkmus
, Courtney Love
, and others.
Glacial is a band consisting of Ranaldo, guitarist David Watson
and drummer Tony Buck
.
In 2010 Ranaldo released the solo album Maelstrom From Drift on Three Lobed Recordings with guest appearances of Tony Buck and David Watson.
drummer William Hooker on improvised music, and reading and improvising poetry.
His main side projects are Drift
and Text of Light.
Drift is a duo with his wife Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music. This collaboration, utilizing live manipulated 16mm film projections, electric guitar and recited texts, occupied the duo from the early 90s until late 2005, when they re-created the performance as an art installation at Gigantic Art Space, a gallery in New York City. Since then the pair have been performing a new piece entitled "iloveyouihateyou", a combination installation and performance work that has been presented in the US and Europe.
Text of Light was founded in 2001 by Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht
, Ulrich Krieger
, Christian Marclay
and William Hooker. The core group is Ranaldo, Licht and Krieger with changing DJs (Marclay, DJ Olive
, Marina Rosenfeld
) and drummers (Hooker, Tim Barnes, Steve Shelley
). The music is free improvised and mostly played along with, but not really referencing, films by Stan Brakhage
. The name for the band comes from Brakhage's film The Text of Light.
In 2007 Ranaldo collaborated with British rock band The Cribs
on their third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
. Ranaldo performs a spoken word piece against the track "Be Safe".
Ranaldo made an appearance in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan about Brion Gysin
and the Dreamachine
entitled FLicKeR.
Ranaldo usually uses Fender Jazzmaster
, Telecaster Deluxe
electric guitar
s and sometimes Gibson Les Paul
s, with radically alternative tunings
, and modifications
. One of his Jazzmasters has a single coil pickup installed between the bridge and the tailpiece to exploit the resonating chiming sounds on that area of string at these so called tailed bridge guitar
s.
In 2007 Yuri Landman
built for Ranaldo the Moonlander, a biheaded electric guitar
with 18 strings: 6 normal strings and 12 sympathetic strings.
Since Ranaldo and Moore, together with Elvis Costello
and J. Mascis, are known for being key figures in the popularisation and resurrection of the Fender Jazzmaster
, Fender
introduced in 2009 a special Lee Ranaldo signature edition of a transparent blue version, together with a transparent green one for Thurston.
Singles & EP's:
Compilations:
Collaborations with William Hooker:
Collaborations with others:
Live Recordings
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of 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...
. In 2004, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
ranked Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate 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...
the 33rd and 34th Greatest Guitarists of All Time, respectively.
Biography
Ranaldo was born in Glen CoveGlen Cove, New York
Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the city population was 26,964....
, Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
, and graduated from Binghamton University
Binghamton University
Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...
. He has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer
Leah Singer
Leah Singer is a photographer and multimedia artist. She is the long-time artistic collaborator and wife of Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Singer performs with multiple modified film projectors that allow her to improvise and manipulate the film projections by adjusting the frame rate...
.
Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands and joining the electric guitar orchestra of 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...
. Among Ranaldo's solo records are Dirty Windows, a collection of spoken texts
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
with music, Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)
Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)
Amarillo Ramp is a studio album by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. This album was for Robert Smithson, who was an artist and a big influence to Lee's artwork. The album kicks off with a 32 minute song, with the same name as the album...
, pieces for the guitar, and Scriptures of the Golden Eternity
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity
Scriptures of the Golden Eternity is a solo album by guitarist Lee Ranaldo, who also performs in rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on vinyl by the Father Yod label, and later reissued on CD by the Drunken Fish label. The cover design is by visual artist Savage Pencil...
. His books include several with art or photography by Leah Singer, including Drift, Bookstore, Road Movies, and Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt (from a full-length book of writings on Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
travels and music). Ranaldo has also published Jrnls80s (published by Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to function as a division of the press...
), as well as a book of poems, Lengths & Breaths, with photography by Cynthia Connolly
Cynthia Connolly
Cynthia Connolly is an American photographer, graphic designer, and artist. She graduated from Corcoran College of Art and Design and worked for Dischord Records and d.c. space. In 1988 she published Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground through her small press Sun Dog...
. His most recent book of poetry, Against Refusing, was published by Water Row Press in April 2010 with cover artwork by Leah Singer
Leah Singer
Leah Singer is a photographer and multimedia artist. She is the long-time artistic collaborator and wife of Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Singer performs with multiple modified film projectors that allow her to improvise and manipulate the film projections by adjusting the frame rate...
. His visual+sound works have been shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vienna, and elsewhere.
Ranaldo has produced albums for artists including Babes in Toyland
Babes in Toyland (band)
Babes in Toyland was an American alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. The band was formed by Oregon native Kat Bjelland , with Lori Barbero and Michelle Leon , who was later replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992...
, You Am I
You Am I
You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
, Magik Markers
Magik Markers
The Magik Markers are a noise rock band from Hartford, Connecticut. The members, Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan and Leah Quimby started the band in their basement in 2001. After opening for Sonic Youth on their American tour in 2004, the band gained notoriety...
, Deity Guns, and Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
-ensemble Kleg. He has edited a volume of tour journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
Tour written by himself, 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...
, Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
, Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an indie rock musician and icon, and a member of the band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.-Early years:...
, Courtney Love
Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...
, and others.
Glacial is a band consisting of Ranaldo, guitarist David Watson
David Watson (musician)
David Watson is a musician originally from New Zealand. Watson has lived and worked in New York City since 1987.Originally known as a guitarist, since 1991 Watson's work has also featured new music for the Highland Bagpipes....
and drummer Tony Buck
Tony Buck
Tony Buck is a drummer and percussionist. He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music , becoming involved in the Australian jazz scene....
.
In 2010 Ranaldo released the solo album Maelstrom From Drift on Three Lobed Recordings with guest appearances of Tony Buck and David Watson.
Collaborations
Ranaldo has also worked with jazzJazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
drummer William Hooker on improvised music, and reading and improvising poetry.
His main side projects are Drift
Drift
- Film and literature :* Drift , a 2002 Doctor Who novel* Drift , a series of Japanese films written and directed by Futoshi Jinno* Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler* Drift , a fictional character...
and Text of Light.
Drift is a duo with his wife Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music. This collaboration, utilizing live manipulated 16mm film projections, electric guitar and recited texts, occupied the duo from the early 90s until late 2005, when they re-created the performance as an art installation at Gigantic Art Space, a gallery in New York City. Since then the pair have been performing a new piece entitled "iloveyouihateyou", a combination installation and performance work that has been presented in the US and Europe.
Text of Light was founded in 2001 by Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht
Alan Licht
Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...
, Ulrich Krieger
Ulrich Krieger
Ulrich Krieger is a German contemporary composer, performer, improviser and experimental rock musician based in Los Angeles....
, Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
and William Hooker. The core group is Ranaldo, Licht and Krieger with changing DJs (Marclay, DJ Olive
DJ Olive
DJ Olive is an American disc jockey and turntablist active in free improvisation, jazz and illbient music. He is often credited with coining the latter term....
, Marina Rosenfeld
Marina Rosenfeld
Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York.- External links :*http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/art/26736/marina-rosenfeld*http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_rosenfeld...
) and drummers (Hooker, Tim Barnes, Steve Shelley
Steve Shelley
Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...
). The music is free improvised and mostly played along with, but not really referencing, films by Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage , better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film....
. The name for the band comes from Brakhage's film The Text of Light.
In 2007 Ranaldo collaborated with British rock band The Cribs
The Cribs
The Cribs are an English three-piece indie rock band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr who was made a formal member of the group...
on their third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever is The Cribs' third album, released on 21 May 2007. It reached 13 on the UK Album Charts. Critically acclaimed, it was voted #9 in the annual 'Albums Of The Year' in influential UK music magazine NME, amongst various other end-of-year lists...
. Ranaldo performs a spoken word piece against the track "Be Safe".
Ranaldo made an appearance in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan about Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs...
and the Dreamachine
Dreamachine
The dreamachine is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain.-History:In the dreamachine's original form, a...
entitled FLicKeR.
Equipment
Fender Jazzmaster
The Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar designed as an upmarket sibling to the Fender Stratocaster. First introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show, it was initially marketed at jazz guitarists, but found favor among surf rock guitarists in the early 1960s...
, Telecaster Deluxe
Fender Telecaster Deluxe
The Fender Telecaster Deluxe is a solid-body electric guitar originally produced from 1972 to 1981, and since re-issued by Fender in 2004 as the '72 Telecaster Deluxe.-History:...
electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
s and sometimes Gibson Les Paul
Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and the late jazz guitarist and electronics inventor Les Paul. In 1950, with the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze. In reaction, Gibson...
s, with radically alternative tunings
Scordatura
A scordatura , also called cross-tuning, is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument, in which the notes indicated in the score would represent the finger position as if played in regular tuning, while the actual pitch is altered...
, and modifications
Prepared guitar
A prepared guitar is a guitar that has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques...
. One of his Jazzmasters has a single coil pickup installed between the bridge and the tailpiece to exploit the resonating chiming sounds on that area of string at these so called tailed bridge guitar
Tailed bridge guitar
Some electric guitars have an extended bridge for their tremolo system, named a tailed bridge guitar because of its shape. Most of these tailed bridge guitars were designed in the sixties and used in surf music....
s.
In 2007 Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...
built for Ranaldo the Moonlander, a biheaded electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
with 18 strings: 6 normal strings and 12 sympathetic strings.
Since Ranaldo and Moore, together with Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
and J. Mascis, are known for being key figures in the popularisation and resurrection of the Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Jazzmaster
The Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar designed as an upmarket sibling to the Fender Stratocaster. First introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show, it was initially marketed at jazz guitarists, but found favor among surf rock guitarists in the early 1960s...
, Fender
Fender
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, commonly referred to as simply Fender, of Scottsdale, Arizona is a manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers, such as solid-body electric guitars, including the Stratocaster and the Telecaster...
introduced in 2009 a special Lee Ranaldo signature edition of a transparent blue version, together with a transparent green one for Thurston.
Printed works
- Bookstore and Others (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Hozomeen Press (April 1995), ISBN 978-1885175069
- Drift (box set with DVD) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Gigantic ArtSpace (2005), ISBN 978-1933045344
- Ground Zero: New Yorkers Respond (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, David Amram, Frank Messina, Wasteland Press (August 15, 2002), ISBN 978-0971581173
- Hello from the American Desert (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Curt Kirkwood, Silver Wonder Press (November 2007)
- JRNLS80s (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Soft Skull Press (1998), ISBN 978-1887128315
- Lengths & Breaths (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Cynthia Connolly, Water Row Press (August 2004), ISBN 978-0934953795
- Moroccan Journal (Hardcover) - Lee Ranaldo, Fringecore (1999), ISBN 978-9076207520
- Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt (Unknown Binding) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Ring Tarigh for the Literary Renaissance (1997), ASIN: B0006RJF80
- Online Diaries : the Lollapalooza '95 tour journals (Paperback) - Beck, Courtney Love, Stephen Malkmus, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Mike Watt, David Yow, Soft Skull Press (1996), ISBN 978-1887128209
- Road Movies (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Soft Skull Press (Nov 30, 2004), ISBN 978-1932360738
- Against Refusing (Hardcover) - Lee Ranaldo, Water Row Press (April 2010), ISBN 978-0-934953-84-9
Discography
Solo albums:- From Here to InfinityFrom Here to InfinityFrom Here to Infinity is the first solo album by Sonic Youth guitarist/songwriter Lee Ranaldo...
(1987) - Scriptures of the Golden EternityScriptures of the Golden EternityScriptures of the Golden Eternity is a solo album by guitarist Lee Ranaldo, who also performs in rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on vinyl by the Father Yod label, and later reissued on CD by the Drunken Fish label. The cover design is by visual artist Savage Pencil...
(1993) (Recorded 1988-1989) - Dirty Windows (1999) (Recorded 1991-95)
- Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)Amarillo Ramp is a studio album by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. This album was for Robert Smithson, who was an artist and a big influence to Lee's artwork. The album kicks off with a 32 minute song, with the same name as the album...
(2000) (Recorded 1990-95) - Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent - A Bestiary (2002) (Recorded 1991-95)
- Music For Stage And Screen (2004)
- Ambient Loop For Vancouver (2006)
- Maelstrom From Drift (2008)
Singles & EP's:
- A Perfect Day EPA Perfect Day EPA Perfect Day is a split EP by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and the German experimental rock band Something to Burn.- Track listing :#"Instrumental #2 " – 3:10#"Deva, Spain: Fragments" – 2:12#"A Perfect Day..." – 2:08...
(1992) - Broken Circle / Spiral Hill EPBroken Circle / Spiral Hill EPBroken Circle / Spiral Hill EP is the second EP by Lee Ranaldo. It was released in 1994, and is Lee's third official release. It was released on the Starlight Furniture Co. as a 7" single and as a five track CD-EP...
(1994) - Countless Centuries Fled Into The Distance Like So Many Storms [12] (2008)
Compilations:
- East JesusEast JesusEast Jesus is a collection of material Lee Ranaldo recorded between 1981 and 1991. It was released on Atavistic Records. Tracks 2, 5, 8 and 10 are pieces that appeared on the CD version of his first LP From Here to Infinity or slight re-edits of that material...
(1995)
Collaborations with William Hooker:
- Envisioning (1995)
- The Gift Of Tongues (also with Zeena ParkinsZeena ParkinsZeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion...
) (1995) - CloudsClouds (Lee Ranaldo album)Clouds is a studio album by Sonic Youth guitarist/vocalist, Lee Ranaldo. Clouds is the concert performed by Lee Ranaldo & William Hooker at the 1997 edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville.- Track listing :...
(1997) - Bouquet [also with Christian Marclay] (2000)
- Out Trios Volume One: Monsoon (also with Roger MillerRoger MillerRoger Dean Miller was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs...
) (2003) - Oasis Of Whispers (also with HallHallIn architecture, a hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers...
) (2005) - The Celestial Answer (2005)
Collaborations with others:
- MMMR (also with Loren Mazzacane ConnorsLoren Mazzacane ConnorsLoren MazzaCane Connors is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors...
, Jean-Marc Montera & Thurston Moore) (1997) - New York - Ystad (with Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley, Mats GustafssonMats GustafssonMats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
) (2000) - New Life After Fire (For Tom ThomsonTom ThomsonThomas John Thomson , also known as Tom Thomson, was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited...
) (With Dave Dyment) (2003) - Four Guitars Live (Ranaldo / Giffoni / Moore / ClineNels ClineNels Cline is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr of the New York Times describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."-Career:...
0 (2006)
Live Recordings
- Fuck Shit Up (with Thurston Moore & Christian MarclayChristian MarclayChristian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
) (2000) [Live] - Text Of Light (a band which included Alan LichtAlan LichtAlan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...
, Christian Marclay, Tim BarnesTim BarnesTimothy Kent "Tim" Barnes is a Democratic party politician in Tennessee, representing the 22nd District as State Senator since 2009. He is perhaps best known for his primary challenge of then-State Senator Rosalind Kurita in 2008.-External links:...
, Ulrich KriegerUlrich KriegerUlrich Krieger is a German contemporary composer, performer, improviser and experimental rock musician based in Los Angeles....
, William Hooker) (2004)