Lee Ranaldo, musician, visual artist, and writer, co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active in the New York and International music world for the past 40+ years as composer, performer and producer; exhibiting visual art and publishing several books of journals, poetry and writings on music. Most recent album In Virus Times, an instrumental acoustic piece in four parts, was released in November 2021 on Mute Records, A new collaborative quartet album with Jim Jarmusch, Churning of the Ocean, was released by Trost Records in May 2021. Recent live performances with partner Leah Singer, Contre Jour, have been large scale, multi-projection sound & light events with suspended electric guitar phenomena that challenge the usual performer/audience relationship.