Music

Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo comes to Toronto for the X Avant New Music Festival

by Nicole Villeneuve

The X AVANT New Music Festival is taking place in Toronto at the Music Gallery from October 15 to 23, and one of the featured performances will be from Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and partner, visual artist Leah Singer.

The pair will present Contre Jour, aiming to conjure the memory of artist Brion Gysin and his Dream Machine, a “a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.”

Singer and Ranaldo previously had an installation in Toronto with sight unseen, a video and music performance at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2010.

Contre Jour will take place on Friday October 21 at 6 p.m. at the Polish Combatants Hall (206 Beverley St.). Tickets are $25 advance at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and Ticketweb.ca or $30 at the door ($15 for members).