Lee Ranaldo: Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions
Lee Ranaldo, musician, visual artist, and writer, co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981 and has been active in the New York and International music world for the past 40+ years as a composer, performer, and producer; exhibiting visual art and publishing several books of journals, poetry, and writings on music.
His most recent album In Virus Times, an instrumental acoustic piece in four parts, was released in November 2021 on Mute Records, A new collaborative quartet album with Jim Jarmusch, Churning of the Ocean, was released by Trost Records in May 2021. Recent live performances with partner Leah Singer, Contre Jour, have been large-scale, multi-projection sound & light events with suspended electric guitar phenomena that challenge the usual performer/audience relationship.
Hurricane Sandy Transcriptions attempts to interpret strange wind sounds recorded during the
epic 2013 storm as it hit New York City. Originally written for German string orchestra
Kaleidoskop, and more recently performed with Brooklyn’s Dither Electric Guitar Quartet and
percussionist Brian Chase (YYYs), Lee presents at Big Ears a solo performance distillation of a
piece for Fender Rhodes electric piano and Yuri Landman instruments.
