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Text Of Light

Text Of Light has been played on NTS in shows including Space Afrika , featured first on 17 October 2020. Songs played include 091502 Anthology Film Archives.

The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage's film 'Text of Light' was the premiere performance and namesake of the group).

The original premise was to improvise (not 'illustrate') to films from the American Avante-Garde (50s-60s etc), an under-known period of American filmic poetics. Members of the group include Lee Ranaldo and…

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091502 Anthology Film Archives
Text Of Light
Starlight Furniture Co.2004
091502 Anthology Film Archives
Text Of LightStarlight Furniture Co.2004
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