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Text of Light was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music during screenings of films by Stan Brakhage and other American avant-garde filmmakers from the 1950s and ’60s. Text of Light does not create soundtracks for Brakhage’s works, which are intended to be screened silently. Rather, the group uses the films as an element to stimulate improvisa- tion, like an additional player, juxtaposing film and music in a real-time performance mixed-media collage. The conscious- ness of earlier free improv experiments by the likes of AMM and Derek Bailey are brought into an intermedia environment where records and turntablism are especially crucial. By changing playback speed, using effects processing, scratch- ing, skipping, and looping, the turntablist bridges the gap between the predetermination of film and the spontaneous composition of instrumentalists. The result is a new chapter in free improv and mixed media.

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released June 7, 2004

Mixed at Echo Canyon, NYC by Alan Licht and Lee Ranaldo with Aaron Mullan 2003-04.
Film still from Seasons... (2002) by Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage, courtesy of Phil Solomon

Released on CD by Starlight Furniture Co., 2004

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The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the New American Cinema avant garde of the 1950s-60s. Members include Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht (gtrs/devices), Ulrich Krieger (sax/electronics), Christian Marclay and DJ Olive (turntables), William Hooker and Tim Barnes (drums/perc). ... more

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