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    Lee Ranaldo + Leah Singer – Drift

    February 21st, 2009

    Lee Ranaldo + Leah Singer - Drift.

    Since 1991, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and moviemaker Leah Singer have been collaborating on a series of live performances that combine sound and film. Appropriately called Drift, it’s comprised of poignant, itinerant poetry that glances through decades of Lee’s life supported by dark, meandering electric guitar clouds that blend with blurry 16 mm movie images shot on the road by an apparent errant cinematographer.

    Like some sort of vintage 1960s double feature flickering simultaneously on twin screens, Leah’s projector clicks and clacks as her imagery unfurls: Flowering trees accompany neon signs. A huge electric arrow points toward GIRLS. Blurred city lights, truck tires, abandoned fire trucks and shoes support an x-ray hand that attempts to “reach out and touch someone,” anyone on a floating rotary phone. These photos combine in myriad, random ways to inspire different stories in each viewer.

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    Sonic Youth at the Wiltern

    February 3rd, 2009

    Los Angeles, California
    September 28, 2006

    The main thing I remember about this show is that Wolf Eyes opened with an hour-long cloud of Throbbing Gristle + Merzbow-style noise and some of the audience actually booed. Yep, you heard that right, people booed for noise at a Sonic Youth show. What a bunch of sissies!

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