Lickis the first work that I wrote for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. There’s an insistence, a feeling of pushing things to the edge, and there is a groove. The body energy of pop music definitely came into my music inLick. Motown, funk, rock. This is the music I grew up on—listening, dancing to it. The wordLickhas a lot of meanings. I took a fragment, a lick, and magnified it. The beat is split up among the players.Lickis about attacks,but there is a moresensual side.It’s saucy and aggressive. It’s impatient; although it stays with things for a long time, it hammers at them.I wanted to see the All-Stars lock in to this intense energy, to go over the top.
