8PM
- 25th Anniversary Celebration
- Performance
$30 ADV / $35 DOS
21 & Over
- Lee Ranaldo — guitar
- Leila Bordreuil — cello, electronics
Ars Nova Workshop presents the duo of experimental cellist Leila Bordreuil and Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo at Solar Myth on Saturday, May 3.
Leila Bordreuil is a French-American cellist, composer and sound-artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She accesses concepts as diverse as noise, contemporary classical, free jazz, and experimental traditions but adheres to none of them. Her music mixes deep melancholia with harsh noise-walls at ear-bleeding levels, and was described by The New York Times as “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities.” Lee Ranaldo co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active for the past 35 years recording, performing, collaborating with numerous others, producing discs, exhibiting visual art and publishing volumes of poetry and journals. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its “Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list. Both artists share a compelling interest in transcending sonic boundaries, vividly reflected in their ongoing and ever-evolving collaboration.