Lee Ranaldo is a composer, visual artist, writer, and founding member of the New York City group Sonic Youth, who continue to record new music and tour the world on a regular basis. Their most recent record, The Eternal, was relased in June 2009 on Matador Records. His visual and sound works have been shown at galleries and museums around the world.
His most recent solo recording is We'll Know Where When We Get There, in collaboration with partner Leah Singer. Against Refusing, a book of poems based on internet spam, will be published by Waterrow Press in 2010. His visual work will be on view in the show Sonic Youth, etc.: Sensational Fix, which opens at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid on January 28, 2010, and at Hogar Collection in Williamsburg, opening January 15/16, 2010.
Lee Ranaldo appears in the following:
Lee Ranaldo: In Studio
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lee Ranaldo has written songs and played guitar in the veteran alternative rock group Sonic Youth for three decades. With the group facing an uncertain future after the breakup of members Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Ranaldo has released a solo record titled "Between the Times and the Tides." Ranaldo and his band join us in studio to play some songs off the new album.
Eight Days of Steve: Lee Ranaldo
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Steve Reich’s music first came to my attention during my university years in the mid '70s. I was beginning to find my own way into a life in music and art, and the power and innovation in his early works—the amplified Pendulum Music (perhaps the first formal use of amplified feedback in a composition), tape pieces such as Come Out and It’s Gonna Rain, the encyclopedic Drumming, and the mind-blowing Four Organs provided huge inspiration.
Lee Ranaldo
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Why Music is Universal
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The Summer of Daydream Nation
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sonic Youth will be performing ...
