Hosted by artist and composer Byron Westbrook, Chromatic Fields explores threads of overlap between ideas in contemporary art practice and music making. The program features new and historical avant-garde music ranging from minimalism to maximalism, including intermedia works, sound sculpture, electro-acoustic music, deep listening and sound artists operating in a conceptual field.

This month’s episode of Chromatic Fields features musician, writer and curator Alan Licht, who has just released a new solo double-LP Havens on VDSQ. The first hour features tracks from the supplementary CD included with the 2007 edition of Licht’s book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories. The second hour was curated by Alan Licht and features rare tracks from his catalog.

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, Tom Verlaine, and Michael Snow, in addition to many albums of composed and improvised experimental music. He co-founded the intermedia improvisation group Text of Light with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo in 2000. His newest release is Havens, a double album of solo electric and acoustic guitar tracks, released by VDSQ in September. Licht is also the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995­–2020 (Blank Forms, 2021); Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2019) Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007), and the editor of Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2012, Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton).