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After a decade-long hiatus, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth has gotten back together with two of her Free Kitten band mates, Julie Cafritz and Yoshimi P-We. The product of their reunion is ''Inherit'' (Ecstatic Peace), a blurry, rowdy guitar fest that Ms. Gordon says was influenced by the freak folk movement in western Massachusetts. ''We made this album because we were bored,'' she said, ''and also because Julie has two kids and needed to get out of the house.'' ''Inherit'' was released last month, and though the band's in no rush to go on a formal tour, Ms. Gordon did allude to ''secret shows.'' In addition to recording, Ms. Gordon, 55, has been collaborating on ''Sensational Fix,'' a traveling exhibition of works by visual artists, filmmakers and others who have worked with Sonic Youth that opens on Tuesday in St. Nazaire, in western France. While in New York City this spring to attend an exhibition at KS Art organized by Thurston Moore, her husband and Sonic Youth band mate, Ms. Gordon spoke by phone with Winter Miller about what she's listening to now. M.I.A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]