IV7: Alan Licht, Mhm Mhm & Lucie Nezri
tuesday 9 may 2023
IV7: Alan Licht, Mhm Mhm
Lucie Nezri
Alan Licht
Over the past two decades, guitarist Alan Licht has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends (Rashied Ali, Derek Bailey) and electronic wizards (Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke) to turntable masters (DJ Spooky, Christian Marclay) and veteran Downtown New York composers (John Zorn, Rhys Chatham). Licht is also renown in the indie rock scene as a bandleader (Run On, Love Child) and supporting player to cult legends like Tom Verlaine, Arthur Lee, Arto Lindsay, and Jandek. With Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, he founded Text of Light, an ongoing ensemble which performs freely improvised concerts alongside screenings of classic avant garde cinema. Licht was also the curator at the famed experimental music venue Tonic from 2000 until its closing in 2007, and has written extensively about the arts for the Wire, Modern Painters, Premiere, Village Voice, New York Sun, and other publications. He has also written two books: Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media, the first extensive survey of the genre, published by Rizzoli in 2007 and Common Tones, a selection of interviews with artists and musicians, published by Blank Forms in 2021.
More recent activities include recording and touring with Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, an improv trio with Aki Onda and artist/filmmaker Michael Snow, a duo with drummer Brian Chase and a two-day residency at Cafe OTO with renowned guitarist and collaborator Loren Connors.
“Be it in indie rock groups, improv ensembles, or his solo compositions, guitarist and writer Alan Licht has spent his career smuggling ideas across the obscured bridge between harmony and noise.” — The Wire.
https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/may-99
https://alanlicht.bandcamp.com/album/hoffman-estates
https://alanlicht.bandcamp.com/album/a-symphony-strikes-the-moment-you-arrive
Mhm, Mhm
Mhm, Mhm is a maker of blues you can only see once your eyes and ears get adjusted. The multidisciplinary artist is currently based between Amsterdam and New York and has recently released his debut EP “CALLING FOR A PEOPLE TO COME” (2022) on Parkwuud Enterprises. At the moment, he’s working on his second musical project, while presenting his new music live in different kinds of museums and concerthalls. His most recent endeavours include performances at Haus Wien (AUS), JUF (ES) and Tempel (NL).
https://mhmmhm.bandcamp.com/album/calling-for-a-people-to-come
Lucie Nezri
lucie nezri is a composer, artist, and performer born in Hyères (FR) and currently based between Den Haag (NL) and Berlin (DE). Nezri is drawn toward abstraction and simplicity. Her work bridges different contexts and disciplines pertaining to musical composition, tuning theory, computer science, and at times, choreography. Circulating between mathematical concepts, musical ideas, and percepts, her pieces combine algorithmic techniques of composition based on probabilities, and a care for harmony and the sensory presence of sounds. She holds a Master's from the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatory of the Hague NL).
Her works have been performed in a diversity of venues such as OCCII (Amsterdam), GRM (Paris), Orgelpark (Amsterdam), Abbaye de Royaumont (Paris), GMEA (Albi), Studio Loos (Den Haag) and PAS (Berlin). Following her long-standing practice of making experimental mixtapes (Fascia Lata), Nezri launched the first release of her small independent label dedicated to experimental music Dis Ce Que in February 2022.
https://lucienezri.bandcamp.com/album/for-blandine-maciej-2021-2