American Alan Licht (New Jersey, 1968) is not only a guitarist, musicologist and composer, but also a music critic and specialist in minimalism. A regular contributor since 1999 to Wire (Adventures in Sound and Music), Licht is also the author of the book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007) – republished in 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic under the title Sound Art – Revisited. It is, precisely, his dimension as a musicologist and composer that makes his texts something that goes far beyond the informative. And that is why the recent publication of Common Tones: Selected Interviews With Artists And Musicians 1995- 2020 (Blank Forms Editions) should be considered an event that will satisfy both the interested amateur and the professional researcher.