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INTERVIEWS
LR Interview – Magenta Magazine Oct 2011
Here’s a recent conversation between Toronto artist/curator Dave Dyment and myself while Leah and I were up in Toronto presenting Contre Jour. http://www.magentamagazine.com/8/features/lee-ranaldo New York Noise: Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo creates art that strikes a chord 10/27/2011 Fans of alternative rock and experimental music probably need no introduction to Lee Ranaldo, who, as co-founder of [...]
I-View: The Gilt Man Interview 2010
THE GILT MAN Q&A: LEE RANALDO OF SONIC YOUTH The experimentalist guitar god on the first axe he ever owned, the records that changed his life, and the vintage guitar sale he curated for Gilt MAN. -By Andy Comer, Friday April 22nd, 2011 at 11:39 am RANALDO ONSTAGE IN THE LATE-’90S. For those of us [...]
I-View: Review & Corregie 2000
LEE RANALDO Interview Review & Corregie (France) 11/12/1999—1/2000 – APART FROM SONIC YOUTH, WHO PROBABLY DON’T HAVE TO BE INTRODUCED ANYMORE, WHAT WERE YOUR FRIST MUSICAL EXPERIENCES ? YOUR FIRST MUSICAL MEMORIES ? I grew up in a musical environment, my mother a pianist, and so there was always music and singing in my house [...]
I-View: Sean Casey Interview 1998
Questions fr Sean_Casey@Brown.edu – First off, an update: what’s been keeping you busy of recent? 1. AMARILLO RAMP (for Robert Smithson). solo guitar, etc. Released by Starlight Furniture, USA. Jan 1998. 2. CLOUDS–VICTORIAVILLE CONCERT, MAY 1997. CD. Victo, Dec 1997. Live Victoriaville festival concert also featuring William Hooker, Jim O’Rourke and Gianni Gebbia. 3. SYR3. [...]
I-View: Geoffrey Sparks Interview 1998
I-view w Geoffrey Sparks 4/98 sparks@ac.grin.edu the Creature–Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. 1. With the new album coming out, why did you guys decide to release four instrumental ep’s? Are they more along the lines of session out takes, or was their any sort of goal in mind when you guys where playing? Not session outtakes, [...]
I-View: Beat Generation Questions 1998
Beat Generation Questions from Steve Appleford August 4 1998 What influence have the Beats had on you and/or Sonic Youth? Ever since reading On The Road in 74, just out of college and on my first road trip, NY–>California, at the time, the ‘Beat’ writers have had a strong influence on me. I just loved [...]
I-View: Expressiveness: Cryptic Swedish 1996
Subj: Expressiveness Date: Tue, Mar 12, 1996 7:08 AM EST From: sangild@dorit.ihi.ku.dk X-From: (Torben Sangild) To: (Lee Ranaldo) This is the Danish thesis guy again, puzzling with some questions about expressiveness and subjectivity. You are generally quite expressive, energetic, ecstatic in much of your music. Anger, fear, frustration goes through a lot of it, mainly [...]
I-View: Sounds of Suburbia Magazine 1995
Questions from Johan Jacobsson Sounds of Suburbia. 19 March 1995 First I’ll ask you about some of your projects. Could you tell me about the shows you did with Michael Morley? How did that come about? Will you do more shows together or realese a record? The shows with Michael Morley came about throught the [...]