The Chris Brokaw Guitar Trio with AlanLicht/Greg Kelley/Sean Meehan The Knitting Factory October 8, 2009 The new Knitting Factory is a transplant from the old downtown Tribeca location to this new space in Brooklyn's Williamsburg district. It might seem superficially out-of-the-way, but it's only two stops on the subway out of Manhattan, followed by a five-minute stroll...
... and Zach Layton . For the piece they've recruited "a battery of avant-guitar gods (David Grubbs, AlanLicht among them), veteran composer-performer Jon Gibson (who played in the very first performance of In C), singers, instrumentalists across a wide span of tones and timbres, electronic musicians....all keeping to the beat of drummer Ryan Sawyer." All that and visuals by Joshua Light...
There's a surprising revelation contained within the Invisible Jukebox interview with Lou Reed in The Wire 's October issue. The interviewer, AlanLicht , plays Miles Davis' "He Loved Him Madly," and Reed, seemingly hearing the 32-minute threnody for Duke Ellington for the first time, nearly has a heart attack over how fantastic it is, comparing the lead-off track from Miles'...
The great composer and installation artist died yesterday October 22. "A sound artist with a reputation for overwhelming volume, precise speaker placement, and site-specific environmental and architectural installations" wrote AlanLicht in his interview with her in March 1999. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Curran...
