Alan Licht & Aki Onda
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 electronica 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. He has released five albums of compositions for tape and solo guitar, and his sound and video installations have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. 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. He has written extensively about the arts in many magazines and his second book, Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media,was published in fall 2007.
Aki Onda is a self-taught electronic musician, composer, photographer and multi-media artist. Onda was born in Japan and currently lives in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories, for which he plays field-recording sounds he recorded himself as a diary for nearly two decades. He is also engaged in another project Cinemage, which is composed of slide projections of still photo images and guitar improvisation. Onda regularly performs with artists such as Michael Snow, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noel Akchote, Jac Berrocal and Shelley Hirsch.