CANCELLED! March 19th 2020: Alan Licht! Live in Toronto with Brodie West & Mani Mazinani
This concert event has been cancelled for all the obvious reasons. Thanks and best!
Thursday March 19th 2020, 8pm
Alan Licht
solo electric guitar
http://www.alanlicht.com
preceded by
Brodie West & Mani Mazinani
alto saxophone & analog synthesizer
https://west-mazinani.bandcamp.com/
Array Space (155 Walnut Ave.)
Doors @ 7:30pm
$20 or PWYC
Alan Licht is a New York-based guitarist, composer, and author whose work merges minimalism, rock, free jazz, noise and improv. Over the past 30 years he has recorded and performed with a diverse array of musicians, including Yoko Ono, Tom Verlaine, Arthur Lee, Phill Niblock, and Peter Brotzmann. He’s also collaborated with visual artists such as Cory Arcangel, Christian Marclay, Gary Panter, Michael Snow, and Charles Atlas. He and Lee Ranaldo co-founded Text of Light, a group that improvises alongside classics of experimental cinema. A recent solo electric guitar release, Four Years Older (Editions Mego), was named one of the twenty best "avant-noise-jazz-etc. albums of 2013" by Spin magazine. A frequent contributor to Artforum and other publications, Licht is the author of Sound Art: Beyond Music Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007) and the editor of Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy (Faber & Faber/W.W. Norton, 2012). He also works in sound installation and has curated exhibitions of sound art. He will discuss his newest book, Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2019) at York University’s Dispersion Lab on March 20 with Doug Van Nort and Leslie Korrick. www.alanlicht.com www.alanlicht.tumblr.com
Alto saxophonist Brodie West's fascination in sound has taken him from Alexandra Park to Addis Ababa. As a bandleader and collaborator he is a key member of Toronto's vibrant creative music scene. Leader of avant-calypso unit Eucalyptus as well as his eponymous quintet, West also regularly performs with the The Ryan Driver Sextet, the Lina Allemano 4, a duo called Ways and an ongoing collaboration with Andrew Zukerman/Fleshtone Aura. Brodie's music has been released by some of Toronto's most celebrated labels, including Healing Power, Pleasence, Blocks Recording Club and Rat-Drifting, while his European connections have put him in the company of legendary art-punks The Ex as well as the late Getatchew Mekuria, the revered veteran of the Ethiopian saxophone. www.brodiewest.com
Mani Mazinani is an artist making installation, video, film, photographs, multiples, sound and music. Born in Tehran in 1984, he lives and works in Toronto. His practice evolved from early interests in sound recording and music. His visual work thinks about scale and perception, often combining subject matter and medium. Mazinani is currently researching origins of ancient philosophical thought, perceptual limitations of humans and Hiphop culture. He is simultaneously active as an artist, musician/composer and record producer. He has also collaborated with CCMC, Udo Kasemets, Nobuo Kubota and is a member of Gravitons. Recent exhibitions/performances include Tate Modern (2019), The Bentway, Toronto (2018), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (2017), SIP Culture Centre, Suzhou (2016), Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2015), CAB Art Centre, Brussels (2013). www.manimazinani.net
