At Issue Project Room of course. 8 pm at the American Can Factory. 232 Third Street near Third Avenue.

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 'The
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.

Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht
(guitars/devices), Christian Marclay and DJ Olive (turntables), William
Hooker (drums/perc), Ulrich Krieger (sax/electronics), and most
recently Tim Barnes (drums/perc) are in the group.

The group has performed Brahkage's The Text of Light, Dog Star Man, Anticipation of the
Night, Songs; Harry Smith's
Mahagonny outtakes, Oz-The Approach to the Emerald City, and Late
Superimpositions.

On Wednesday February 11th they are performing with the group, Slouching Towards Gemorrah, with Matt Heyner o No Neck Blues Band, Malkuth and bassist for Thurston Moore teams up with Jim Thomson
drummer of Bio Ritmo, Gwar,