Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth – Dry Bones Live at the Harry Smith Project

Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth – Dry Bones Live at the Harry Smith Project

Sunday / Hoarfrost @ TVE Spain 1998

Sunday / Hoarfrost @ TVE, Spain, 1998

Lee Ranaldo – Angles – Solo Acoustic in Athens, Greece

From the album ‘Last Night On Earth‘

GHOST BITCH – LIVE IN 1985

Live from Staches in Columbus, OH on 8/1/85

SONIC YOUTH 1991 – LIVE – ROTTERDAM

SONIC YOUTH LIVE IN 1991 AT THE EIN ABEND IN WIEN FESTIVAL.

LEE RANALDO – OFF THE WALL

My new video for Off The Wall, the first video from my forthcoming LP ‘Between the Tides and the Times’.

Live footage shot by Patrick Suddath/Pantophobia at Glasslands, Brooklyn.

Other footage shot by me:
Battery Park trees, Holland tunnel, Frey in Walt Whitman’s woods,
girl fr Calgary, MP3 experiment in Hudson River Park,
David Linton installation at the Clocktower.

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LEE RANALDO – WAITING ON A DREAM

single camera. single take. handheld video.
live edit by chris habib. live audio by nyctaper.com

lee ranaldo band’s second NYC show.
glasslands brooklyn. 12/16/11

Diamond Sea, Part II-Rockpalast

I WOULD MAKE THE DANCES.

I’m supposed to edit some live footage I’ve recorded of Sonic Youth as content for sonicyouth.com and am interpreting the task relatively freely.

I WOULD MAKE THE DANCES. JOHN WOULD WRITE THE MUSIC. is comprised of treated footage from SY’s 2010 Prospect Park show in NYC. I’ve pulled every clip documenting the musicians’ feet (mostly re-zoomed and therefore, degraded, footage) to choreograph the sort of dance discussed in the overdubbed dialogue. I imagined the physical movement inherent to live rock performance as a pure, contemporary extension of the classical Indian Sangita discussed by John Cage–Sangitas being visualizations of melody as people.

The attached dialogue was captured from a streamed-special on Merce Cunningham that aired around the time of his passing. A Minneapolis reference suggests it might be from the Walker Art Center, but I’m uncertain. This segment of audio features Merce and John Cage in conversation about motion, sound and chance versus correlative approaches to meshing them.

–chris habib

LEE RANALDO + SARAH LIPSTATE / NYC

an edit of a recent improvised guitar collaboration lee performed with sarah lipstate of noveller in nyc. it was one of the final shows at storied manhattan avant garde performance space, roulette, before they packed-up shop to cross the river and set new roots in downtown brooklyn. filmed and edited by chris habib.