Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer: Water Days
 

I'm not doing a "Sonic 2010" thread but here is something new for 2010.

http://www.artbook.com/9782914563529.html

Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer: Water Days

Dis Voir


A book and audio CD, Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. During their 2007 and 2008 residencies at the Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprimé (CNEAI) in Chatou, near Paris, Singer and Ranaldo created a body of printworks in the museum's etching atelier, as well as field recordings made in the studio, on their houseboat and in the community at large. Water Days began as two texts inspired by the conflict between wanderlust and the desire for home. When invited to do a radio piece for Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France Culture, the sound recordings made in Chatou were combined with recordings of electric guitar, as well as pre-recorded voices including those of artist Robert Smithson and writer Carson McCullers. The current volume attempts to create a filmic sequence of photographs to augment and accompany the recording.

 

Lee told me about this when we spoke at ATP. It sounded very desirable then, and seeing more about it only adds to the desirability.

Thank you, Moshe.



PS - You tease, it's not available for another four months!

I think you can find some videos of it on you tube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ix7ad4tCGQ
(with brigitte fontaine)

I knew this will be released from Radio France homepage, when they broadcasted Waterdays couple months ago. totally forgot about it. we know what's the music like, now I wonder what's the book like.

cheers for info Moshe.

cool, thanks Moshe.

i think it's out now

here's link where you can order it:
http://www.disvoir.com/fr/fo/a/196.html

review in this month WIRE issue (I've definitelly enjoyed this music piece, which comes toghether with book, much more than guy who wrote this review, but yeah...):