Text of Light at White Box
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 8pm
Text of Light
Alan Licht, DJ Olive, Lee Ranaldo & Marina Rosenfeld
performing with the film I Take These Truths
The Text of Light group was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of 1950-60s American Cinema avant-garde (Brakhage’s film Text of Light was the premiere performance and namesake of the group). The original premise was to improvise (not illustrate) to the 1950-60s American Avant-Garde Films, an under-known period of American filmic poetics. Members of the group include Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht (gtrs/devices), Christian Marclay and DJ Olive (turntables), William Hooker (drums/perc), Ulrich Krieger (sax/electronics), and most recently Tim Barnes (drums/perc). Various combinations of these players attend Text of Light gigs thereby presenting various group permutations while other times all members participate.
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