Alan Licht

Alan Licht is a musician, writer, and curator based in New York City. Appearing on nearly one hundred recordings, he is known for his guitar work in the underground rock bands Run On and Love Child and with such legendary figures as Yoko Ono, Arthur Lee, and Tom Verlaine. A frequent contributor to Artforum , The Wire , and other publications, Licht is the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020 (Blank Forms, 2021) and Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury...See more

Alan Licht is a musician, writer, and curator based in New York City. Appearing on nearly one hundred recordings, he is known for his guitar work in the underground rock bands Run On and Love Child and with such legendary figures as Yoko Ono, Arthur Lee, and Tom Verlaine. A frequent contributor to Artforum , The Wire , and other publications, Licht is the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020 (Blank Forms, 2021) and Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), the revised edition of Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007), the first full-length study of sound installations and sound sculpture to appear in English, and he edited Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton, 2012). See less