Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the

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band

Sonic Youth Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the b ...

(guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''

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'' ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, '' Spin'' published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moo ...

together at number 1.

Biography

Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove,

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, studied art and graduated from

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. He has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married twice, first with Amanda Linn in 1981 but later divorced, and now with experimental artist

Leah Singer Leah Singer is a photographer and multimedia artist. She is the long-time artistic collaborator and wife of Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Singer performs with multiple modified film projectors that allow her to improvise and manipulate the film pr ...

. Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands, including The Flucts, and by playing guitar in ''Guitar Trio'' with

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before joining the electric guitar orchestra of

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. In Branca's orchestra he played mainly electric guitar, but he also played some of the harmonic guitars Branca designed and built. In 1981, Ranaldo and David Linton briefly joined the band Plus Instruments that had been formed by Truus de Groot. With this line-up they recorded the album ''February - April 1981'', released on the Dutch Kremlin label. After the release of the album, Ranaldo left the band and started

with Thurston Moore and

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Solo records during Sonic Youth

In 1987, Ranaldo released his first solo album, '' From Here to Infinity'', compositions which ended in

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s. The second side of the album also featured an unplayable engraving by

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. Among Ranaldo's solo records are ''Dirty Windows'', a collection of spoken texts with music, ''

Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson) ''Amarillo Ramp (For Robert Smithson)'' is a studio album by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. The album was for Robert Smithson, whose work as an artist was influential on Lee's artwork. "Isolation" is a cover of the John Lennon song. Track listing ...

'', pieces for the guitar, and '' Scriptures of the Golden Eternity''. His books include several with art or photography by Leah Singer, including ''Drift'', ''Bookstore'', ''Road Movies'', and ''Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt'' (from a full-length book of writings on Moroccan travels and music). Ranaldo has also published ''Jrnls80s'' (published by

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), as well as a book of

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s, ''Lengths & Breaths'', with photography by

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. His most recent book of poetry, ''Against Refusing'', was published by Water Row Press in April 2010 with cover artwork by Leah Singer. His visual and sound works have been shown at galleries and museums in Paris, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, Vienna, and elsewhere.

After Sonic Youth

After Sonic Youth went on hiatus in 2011, Ranaldo released '' Between the Times and the Tides'' in early 2012 on

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. The record was the first under his own name to feature comparatively straightforward, vocal

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songs. Contributors to the record include Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth drummer

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, former Sonic Youth drummer

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Wilco Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently d ...

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Alan Licht Alan Licht (born June 6, 1968) is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist. Biography Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968. His earliest mus ...

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, and bassist Irwin Menken. Preceded by a 2012 event at

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, on October 21, 2011,

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and the

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presented the North American premiere of Ranaldo's ''Contre Jour'', a performance piece for swinging guitar, with visuals by longtime partner and collaborator Leah Singer. This performance was also done in Paris, Rotterdam, during

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, and Madrid. In 2012, he performed a solo concert at Parisian music club La Maroquinerie where he was photographed by Jean-Pierre Domingue. To tour for the album, Ranaldo organized The Dust as his formal group, featuring Licht, Shelley, and bassist Tim Lüntzel. In 2013, his follow-up album '' Last Night on Earth'' was released, credited to Lee Ranaldo and the Dust. In 2014 Ranaldo and the Dust spent one week in Barcelona with producer

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and cut a full-band, all-acoustic album, Acoustic Dust, consisting of songs from ''Between The Times and the Tides'' and ''Last Night On Earth'', plus cover songs including

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's ''Revolution Blues'',

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's '' Bushes and Briars'', and Mike Nesmith (The Monkee)'s ''You Just May Be The One''. In September 2017, Ranaldo released '' Electric Trim'', his third proper solo album, made in collaboration with Barcelona Musician/Producer

, on Mute records. The album featured 9 songs, many of the lyrics co-written with American author

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. Musical contributors included

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, Alan Licht, Tim Luntzel, Kid Millions and Steve Shelley. A film about the making of the album ''HELLO HELLO HELLO : LEE RANALDO : ELECTRIC TRIM'' was directed by Fred Riedel. Besides working as a guitarist, Ranaldo has frequently produced sound, performance and visual art independently of Sonic Youth. He has released over fifty solo, band and collaborative recordings, and a dozen books; including travel journals, poetry and artists' books. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the

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in London, the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art,

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in Halifax, the

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in Toronto, and Printed Matter, Inc.,

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and

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in New York. In 2017 there was a large overview exhibition in

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, Belgium about his visual art. In 2019 he was the curator for a concert series in Fondation Feltrinelli in Milan, Italy, under the umbrella name of ''Natural Disruptors''.

Collaborations and side projects

Ranaldo has produced albums for artists including Babes in Toyland,

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, Deity Guns, and

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-ensemble Kleg. He has edited a volume of tour journals from the 1995

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tour written by himself,

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, and others. Ranaldo has worked with

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drummer William Hooker on improvised music, and reading and improvising poetry and released several records together. His main side projects are Drift and Text of Light. Drift is a duo with his wife Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music. The collaboration, utilizing live manipulated 16mm film projections, electric guitar and recited texts, occupied the duo from the early 1990s until late 2005, when they re-created the performance as an art installation at Gigantic Art Space, a gallery in New York City. Since then the pair have been performing a new piece entitled "iloveyouihateyou", a combination installation and performance work that has been presented in the US and Europe. In 2005 Drift released a box set with a DVD and a book. Text of Light was founded in 2001 by Ranaldo,

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and William Hooker. The core group is Ranaldo, Licht and Krieger with changing DJs (Marclay,

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). The music is free improvised and mostly played along with, but not really referencing, films by

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. The name for the band comes from Brakhage's film ''The Text of Light''. In 2007 Ranaldo collaborated with British rock band

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on their third album ''

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''. Ranaldo performs a spoken word piece against the track "Be Safe". Ranaldo made an appearance in the 2008 feature documentary by Nik Sheehan about Brion Gysin and the

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entitled ''FLicKer''. Glacial Trio is a band consisting of Ranaldo, Bagpiper David Watson and drummer Tony Buck. In 2010 Ranaldo released the solo album ''Maelstrom From Drift'' on Three Lobed Recordings with guest appearances of Buck and Watson. The band released ''On Jones Beach'' in 2012.

Art projects

Visual works

Ranaldo also has had some exhibitions with his visual arts and video works in combination with Sonic Youth-related art (posters, flyers, album covers, etc.). This took place as gallery and museum shows in Porto, Halifax, Miami, Tampa, Vienna, Prague, Gent, Bratislava, Auckland, Salt Lake City and in Brooklyn and at the

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in Manhattan in 2015. Artist-in-Residence: CNEAI, Paris (2007, 2008); NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2013); Villa Arson, Nice, France (2014). In October 2017 his first European solo exhibition 'Lost Ideas' by Curator Jan Van Woensel takes place in Cultuurcentrum De Steiger in

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together with a music festival curated by Ranaldo. The festival also features his

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piece 'Shibuya Displacement'.

Sound art

In the late 2000s Ranaldo started giving many

performances in the US and Europe with his installation 'Suspended Guitar', which involved a guitar hanging on a rope from the ceiling feedbacking and being played with a bow, or hitting against the body or the strings. In 2006 he made the sound art piece 'Shibuya Displacement (a Soundwalk)' for the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art.

Equipment

Ranaldo usually uses

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, Telecaster Deluxe

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s and sometimes

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s, with radically

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, and modifications. One of his Jazzmasters has a single coil pickup installed between the bridge and the tailpiece to exploit the resonating chiming sounds on that area of string at these so-called

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s. Ranaldo is one of the few popular artists to use the Ovation Viper solid body electric. In 2007

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built for Ranaldo the Moonlander, a biheaded

with 18 strings: 6 normal strings and 12

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. Since Ranaldo and Moore, together with

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and The Cure's Robert Smith, are known for being key figures in the popularisation and resurrection of the

(although

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preceded them), Fender introduced in 2009 a special Lee Ranaldo signature edition of a transparent blue version, together with a transparent green one for Thurston. In 2013, Ranaldo played a Watcher guitar from the French company Custom77 during his last Lee Ranaldo & The Dust tour throughout Europe.

Printed works

*''Bookstore and Others'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Hozomeen Press (April 1995), *''Drift'' (box set with DVD) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Gigantic ArtSpace (2005), *''Ground Zero: New Yorkers Respond'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, David Amram, Frank Messina, Wasteland Press (August 15, 2002), *''Hello from the American Desert'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Curt Kirkwood, Silver Wonder Press (November 2007) *''JRNLS80s'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Soft Skull Press (1998), (Portuguese edition 2017 by Terreno Estranho) *''Lengths & Breaths'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Cynthia Connolly, Water Row Press (August 2004), *''Moroccan Journal'' (Hardcover) - Lee Ranaldo, Fringecore (1999), *''Moroccan Journal: Jajouka excerpt'' (Unknown Binding) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Ring Tarigh for the Literary Renaissance (1997), ASIN: B0006RJF80 *''Online Diaries: the Lollapalooza '95 tour journals'' (Paperback) - Beck, Courtney Love, Stephen Malkmus, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Mike Watt, David Yow, Soft Skull Press (1996), *''Road Movies'' (Paperback) - Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Soft Skull Press (Nov 30, 2004), *''Against Refusing'' (Hardcover) - Lee Ranaldo, Water Row Press (April 2010), * Burglarproof Wheelbase * Water Days (w/ Leah Singer) (also in French published by Dis Voir under the title 'Jours D'eau') * IloveyouIhateyou (w/ Leah Singer), (Magasin3 catalog) * Some Writings on Music and Musicians, self-published, 2017 * How not to get played on the Radio, SoundBarn press December 2012, 22 poems

Discography

Solo albums *'' From Here to Infinity'' (1987) *'' Scriptures of the Golden Eternity'' (1993) (Recorded 1988-1989) *''

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'' (1998) (Recorded 1991-95) *''

'' (1998) (Recorded 1990-95) *''Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent - A Bestiary'' (2002) (Recorded 1991-95) *''Music For Stage And Screen'' (2004) *''Ambient Loop For Vancouver'' (2006) *''Maelstrom From Drift'' (2008) *'' Between the Times and the Tides'' (

, 2012) *'' Last Night on Earth'' (with the Dust) (2013) *'' Acoustic Dust'' (with the Dust) (2014) *'' Electric Trim'' (2017) *'' Names of North End Women '' (with Raul Refree) (2020) Singles and EPs *'' A Perfect Day EP'' (1992) *''

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'' (1994) *''

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'' (2008) Compilations *'' East Jesus'' (1995) Collaborations with William Hooker * Envisioning (1995) * The Gift Of Tongues (also with

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) (1995) *''

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'' (1997) * Bouquet lso with Christian Marclay(2000) * Out Trios Volume One: Monsoon (also with Roger Miller) (2003) * Oasis Of Whispers (also with Glen Hall) (2005) * The Celestial Answer (2005) Collaborations with others * cover of Pink Floyd's "Money" on

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's Creole Mass LP (1988) * MMMR (also with

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, Jean-Marc Montera & Thurston Moore) (1997) * New York - Ystad (with Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley,

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) (2000) * New Life After Fire (For

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) (With

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) (2003) * Four Guitars Live (Ranaldo / Giffoni / Moore /

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(2006) * Les Anges Du Péché ean-Marc Montera / Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo(2011) * Trouble and Desire (The Callas with Lee Ranaldo) (2018) * Ranaldo Jarmusch Urselli Pandi (Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi) (2019) * Churning of the Ocean (Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi) (2021) Live recordings * Fuck Shit Up (with Thurston Moore &

) (2000) ive* Text Of Light (a band which included

, Christian Marclay, Tim Barnes,

, William Hooker) (2004) As a band member :''See discography for Sonic Youth discography'' *

Glacial A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate betw ...

(Lee Ranaldo, David Watson & Tony Buck) - On Jones Beach, LP, (2012) Insound * Afternoon Saints *

Text of Light Text may refer to: Written word * Text (literary theory), any object that can be read, including: **Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred **Text, a verse or passage from scripture used in expository preachin ...

Plus Instruments Plus may refer to: Mathematics * Addition * +, the mathematical sign Music * ''+'' (Ed Sheeran album), (pronounced "plus"), 2011 * ''Plus'' (Cannonball Adderley Quintet album), 1961 * ''Plus'' (Matt Nathanson EP), 2003 * ''Plus'' (Martin G ...

- February - April 1981, Kremlin records, 1981

References

External links

*
Lee Ranaldo: The Bridge
published on the

Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Launched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the ''Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine'' utilized the audio cassette medium to distribute no wave downtown music and audio art and was in activity f ...

Ubuweb UbuWeb is a web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives. Philosop ...

Lee's interview for Slovak music magazine Novy Popular (in English), 2010Lee's interview for I Heart Noise
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