2006

December 2006

Saturday, December 2
anti-social music: the climax of the octopus

All-world-premiere performances, including works composed by: William Brittelle, David Durst, Joe Exley, Rima Fand, Andrea LaRose, Dan Lasaga, Pat Muchmore, Barry Seroff, Charles Waters, and John Wriggle.

Anti-Social Music is a non-profit collective of composers and performers created to present new music by emerging, primarily New York-based musicians. The group came together in November 2000 for what was originally intended as a one-time-only concert called “An Afternoon of Anti-Social Chamber Music.” Currently the group presents concerts of premieres, twice yearly, of new compositions written and performed by ASM members and associates.

www.antisocialmusic.com

8:00 p.m.; $10

Sunday, December 3
patrick mcginley + katherine liberovskaya &
margarida garcia + barry weisblat

Set One

w/
Patrick McGinley (aka, murmer); sound art
Katherine Liberovskaya; live video

Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an American born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in Europe since 1996.  In 2002 he founded framework, an organization which produces a weekly field-recording based radio show on London ’s Resonamce fm.  he has composed works for many theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live sound works for others. His work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and un-remarked, but which out of context become unrecognizable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in Montreal and New York . She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. Since 2003 she began exploring live video mixing, using MAX/MSP and Jitter, in improvisation with live new music/sound and has since performed in diverse contexts in North America and Europe with a number of music/sound artists.

Set Two

w/
Margarida Garcia; double bass
Barry Weisblat; home-made electronics

Margarida Garcia, doublebass player, collaborates regularly with Manuel Mota, Sei Miguel. More recently she has been collaborating with Barry Weisblat and Tim Barnes.  She founded the record label Thin Ice.

Barry Weisblat works extensive experiments with electro-magnetic devices, solar technology, homemade and modified circuits for application in sound generation/manipulation, audio engineering and photography.

Pencilinaist  Bradford Reed and posse take the IPR on another carefully orchestrated joy tour. There will be sights of unique
intra-galacticlandscapes with an aural backdrop of unusually beautiful music. A unique blend of sources and ideas is provided
to faithfully cover full range hearing. of a hi-fi combination of chamber, homemade and electric instruments. All this precisely
channeled from parts of the galaxy in real time by a seasoned human crew. Also, The space tanker provides
plenty of passenger leg room.

Bradford Reed never fails to entertain and inspire. This Brooklyn, NY based composer, performer and producer fights and tames the
idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction.  The pencilina is an electric ten stringed collision of the hammer
dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types.  It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide
sonic palette.

Attack/Adorn/Decay, one of New York's newest improvisational and new  music ensembles expands to play a concert of Colorado composer Conrad
Kehn's music.  The ensemble will be performing Conrad's radical  graphic notation score of "red wine and ash" and a new "color
notation" piece called "distractions" composed especially for the ensemble.  Conrad teaches composition and theory at the University of
Denver and is known in the underground scene there as the leader of the uber-improv collective "slow children".

8:00 p.m.; $10

SEPTEMBER 2006

sylvie courvoisier + jamie saft + ben perowsky

Sylvie Courvoisier, Jamie Saft and Ben Perowsky will present new music combining energetic improvisation, classical and groove all filtered through the lens of Downtown New York’s Lower East Side.

As a pianist and improviser, Sylvie Courvoisier has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her newest release, as a leader, ABATON with Mark Feldman and Erik Friedlander is on ECM Records.

Jamie Saft’s stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Bobby Previte, John Zorn, the B-52’s, Laurie Anderson, The Beastie Boys, Jerry Granelli, Dave Douglas, Holly Palmer, Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postisos, Elysian Fields, Boomish, Black Beatle, Pramrod Sexena, Liminal, Antony and the Johnsons, Chocolate Genius, JoJo Mayer’s Nerve, E-Z Pour Spout, Cuong Vu, Chris Speed Trio Iffy, Jane Ira Bloom, and the Groove Collective.

Ben Perowsky started playing professionally with big stars like jazz great James Moody, pop songstress Rickie Lee Jones and soul/jazz hit maker Roy Ayers. In recent years, Ben has played with Joan As Police Woman, Uri Caine, Steven Bernstein’s Millenial Territory Orchestra, Ed Pastorini’s 101 Crustaceans, Chris Speed’s Iffy, John Zorn, David Torn, Brice Goggin, Tom Macintosh, Lost Tribe, John Cale among others.

8:00 p.m., $10

audrey chen + kyle bruckmann + ernst karel + alessandro bosetti

Kyle Bruckmann; oboe Ernst Karel; trumpet/analog synthesizer Audrey Chen; cello/voice/electronics Alessandro Bosetti; soprano saxophone/electronics This performance is the premier of a combination of two duo projects: Bruckmann/Karel as EKG and Bosetti/Chen as themselves.

Oboist and electronic musician Kyle Bruckmann is a fixture in the underground experimental music scene. While teaching and freelancing extensively as a classical musician, he has collaborated regularly with creative improvisers and sound artists, including Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang, Guillermo Gregorio, Scott Rosenberg, Bob Marsh, and Olivia Block. Ongoing affiliations include EKG, an electro acoustic duo with Ernst Karel, and the experimental punk monstrosity Lozenge.

Ernst Karel plays trumpet and/or analog modular electronics and is recently relocated from Berlin to Boston. Since abandoning classical trumpet in early adulthood, he has explored ways of expanding the vocabulary of the trumpet both acoustically and electronically. In addition to his work as a performer and composer, he is also involved in creating sound installations and works for radio.

Audrey Chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. Her performance work incorporates sound, movement and simple visual/sculptural concepts. Chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. She is currently based in Baltimore where she is a member of the red room and high zero collective, an on-going series and festival devoted to experimental music.

Composer, saxophonist and sound artist, Alessandro Bosetti works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including relation, translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques, noises, and a strong influence from electronic music.

8:00 p.m., $10

annea lockwood +
frances white & elizabeth brown

first set
Composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White will present works for electronic sound and instruments, including flute, alto flute, violin, shakuhachi, and theremin. Three pieces will feature video: the first is a special screening of Watermusic, a video work by renowned artist Lothar Osterburg with music by Brown. Osterburg also contributes the video portion of excerpts from Brown’s highly-acclaimed chamber opera Rural Electrification, in which Brown will perform on the theremin. White’s work for violin, video, and electronic sound, The Old Rose Reader, with text and video by James Pritchett, will be played by virtuoso violinist/composer Mari Kimura. In addition, White will perform a special remix, designed for IPRs 16 channel hemispherical speaker system. White¹s installation piece Resonant Landscape, were featured in the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant’s award-winning film Elephant.

second set
Ground of Being, (2000). 25 mins.

“Successive waves of sound pour out from a core sound. I hear them as manifestations of being, enticingly alive and ultimately all interrelated. Many of these sounds were recorded while I was at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center on Lake Como, ranging from a Senegalese scholar telling a story in Wolof in a resonant crypt, to a small electrical meter I found in an alley and mistook, at first, for a bird, The work was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation and Engine 27. I am grateful to all three organisations for the opportunity to realise ‘Ground of Being’.”

During the 1960s, Annea Lockwood collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists, and created a number of works which she herself performed and later published in Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, and recorded on Tangent Records and later on What Next CDs. During the 1970s and ’80s she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives and performance works using low-tech devices. In the 1990s, she turned to writing for acoustic instruments and voices, sometimes incorporating electronics and visual elements and producing pieces for a variety of ensembles.

8:00 p.m., $10

rhys chatham guitar trio & growing

Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio

The Ensemble:

RHYS CHATHAM: Guitar
DAVID DANIELL: Guitar
ADAM WILLS: Guitar
BYRON WESTBROOK: Bass
JOE STICKNEY: Drums

Rhys Chatham’s concert at ISSUE Project Room will be unique among the shows of his US tour, as it will be the only date devoted to his work of the1970s. The highlight will be an extended performance of the notorious “Guitar Trio” (1977), featuring original projections designed by famed visual artist Robert Longo for the original 1977 premiere — and not seen since! The evening will provide a singular opportunity to revisit those glorious years in the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and the danceable merged, and a new era of rock was born.

Rhys Chatham altered the DNA of rock. The New York-born composer began as a classically-trained prodigy, but by 1975, Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones. It was an inspired amalgamation – the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock – and with it Chatham created a new type of urban music. Raucous and ecstatic, this sound energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, prefigured the No Wave movement and cast a huge influence over the subsequent work of Chatham’s many proteges, including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth.

Growing is Kevin Doria & Joe Denardo. Since 2003 they have performed at notable venues internationally including The University of Washington, LAMOCA, LA & apexart, NYC. Albums released are; The Sky’s Run Into The Sea, The Soul of The Rainbow and The Harmony of Light, and His Return.

Tickets are available at Other Music: 212-477-8150; 15 E 4th St. NYC

8:00 p.m., $13

ben owen + ny phonographers

The NY Phonographers Meetings are a series of annual concerts presenting un-processed or raw location and field recordings in a collaborative immersive listening environment.

The group of performers meets each year as a part of a growing worldwide interest in making field recordings of everyday sounds and unusual sonic events with inexpensive, high-fidelity portable recorders. The concerts focus is to present un-manipulated recordings in their true form, each participant mixing 10 minutes of sound, one into the next, creating a long duration immersive listening environment.

The program will begin with an opening sound installation from Ben Owen. Additional participants include: Tom Mulligan, Albert Casais, Seth Cluett, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Bruce Tovsky, Mike Rosenthal, Gill Arno, Stephan Moore, Ben Owen, Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Michael Farley, andMichelle Nagai.

8:00 p.m., $10

michael bisio & tomas ulrich
+ ddt

Cd release party for Michael Bisio and Tomas Ulrich’s latest album Pulling Strings.

Set 1
Mike Bisio; bass
Tomas Ulrich; cello

Set 2
DDT
w/
Dom Minasi; Guitar
Tomas Ulrich; Cello
Ken Filiano; Bass

Michael Bisio invariably astounds his audience with the beauty of his tone as well as the intensity of his very personal musical language. Bisio is one of the few musicians that has managed to meld the high-concept sense of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. “His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched. Having whirled the listener into a transportive state, he gently shows the way out…”

Tomas Ulrich fulfills the roles of bassist, guitarist, and additional horn player and is endlessly talented and creative. Tomas has written music for theater, film and instrumental performance and has concertized in Europe, Japan, South America, Canada and throughout the United States. Mr. Ulrich can be heard on over 60 Cds in a wide variety of musical styles and settings.

DDT is made up of three of the most versatile and exciting string players in New York City. Dom Minasi (guitar), Tomas Ulrich (cello), and Ken Filiano(bass) explore a wide range of musical vistas in their compositions and improvisations. Their 2003 Cd Time Will Tell, where the trio is joined by John Bollinger (drums) and Carol Mennie (voice) was released to great critical acclaim.

8:00 p.m., $10

ned rothenberg’s 50th birthday concert

Ned Rothenberg will be celebrating his 50th birthday at ISSUE Project Room. Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

There will be 2 sets of music with Ned performing on clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax & shakuhachi in combinations with:

John Zorn; sax
Sylvie Courvoisier; piano
Mark Feldman; violin
Shelley Hirsch; voice
Alex Waterman; cello
Robert Dick; flute
Marty Ehrlich; clarinet/sax
Peter Evans; trumpet
Jerome Harris; bass/guitar
Gerry Hemingway; drums
Ralph Samuelson; shakuhachi
Satoshi Takeishi; percussion
Stomu Takeishi; bass
Jon Backer; piano

This event is SOLD OUT

8:00 p.m., $20

game piece for string instruments

w/
Miya Masaoka; koto
Hans Tammen; guitar
Alex Waterman; cello
Jack Martin; guitar
Cornelius Dufallo; violin
Dan Joseph; dulcimer
Marco Cappelli; guitar
Tomas Ulrich; cello
Stephanie Griffin; viola
Bradford Reed; pencilina
Uncle Woody Sullender; banjo
Kato Hideki; bass
Andy Salcius; cello
Jane Scarpantoni; cello
Dylan Willemsa; viola
Marc Stewart; 2 x 4 kora
Julian Bennet Holmes; ukulele
Lucian Buscemi; bass

IPR’s Artistic Director, Suzanne Fiol, will conduct Game Piece For String Instruments. The work is an improvisational piece conducted through touch that will begin with each performer playing a solo which will seamlessly meld into the next. After the first set of solos, it will continue as duos, trios, quartets, etc. until all the musicians are playing together at the end. The performance will include notable musicians who perform regularly at IPR and aims to assemble artists from varying genres in an attempt to eradicate the boundaries of stylistic differences and make room for the possibility of new languages.

8:00 p.m., $10

nate wooley’s silo & alessandro bosetti

Silo
w/

Nate Wooley; trumpet
Audrey Chen; cello/voice/electronics
Leonel Kaplan; trumpet

Solo Performance
Alessandro Bosetti; laptop/voice

Silo is the product of three conscientious improvisers who had the rare opportunity of daily rehearsal and exploration for 20 days in upstate New York. The result is a special communication and a group sound that is organic, biological, mechanical, and very personal. The three players are making their first appearances on the international improvisation scene: Leonel Kaplan with his work with Wade Matthews and Axel Dorner, Nate Wooley with his solo work on Creative Sources Recordings, with his trio Blue Collar and many sideman projects in New York, and Audrey Chen with her stellar new album, LIMN with Tatsuya Nakatani and work with Gianni Gebbia. The trio has a new cd out on Utech Records.

Composer, saxophonist and sound artist, Alessandro Bosetti works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including relation, translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques, noises, and a strong influence from electronic music.

8:00 p.m., $10

psycohneedles & oliver ray

Equinoxium Autumnalis: Cross the line with Psycohneedles, Oliver Ray and the sun.

Psychoneedles was conceived and birthed by Dr. Yes and Mr. Hills, two semi-cleaned up post 90’s rock n’ roll hedonists who got jaded and got out of the Big City. The strangers met on the one tiny street in their new tiny town and turned an old farm house into their Psycho Lab, a sonic melting pot of 3 parts country living isolation angst, 1 part “horny hell”, a pinch of relief and resignation and a dash of internet ritual re-invention. Later, they mixed in Mr. O. Ray, an international rock star cast away, who was stranded on the Psycho Shores and happily never found a way out.

Poet and songwriter Oliver Ray wrote songs with and played in Patti Smith’s band between 1996-2005. He will read and play songs from his upcoming album, Bye Beautiful.

8:00 p.m., $10

elliott sharp + orchestra carbon

Elliott Sharp/Orchestra Carbon performs QUARKS SWIM FREE

Quarks Swim Free is E#’s latest algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 or more musicians and based on prime numbers, Quarks Swim Free creates a dense primordial soup filled with high-energy collisions, gnashing grooves, and warped melodies. Quarks Swim Free premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2003. This performance will be captured by noted documentarian Bert Shapiro for his film on E#’s work.

For this concert the ensemble includes Kinan Azmeh, Curtis Fowlkes, Rachel Golub, Brad Jones, Ron Lawrence, Jenny Lin, Chris McIntyre, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kevin Ray, Danny Tunick, Alex Waterman and more

8:00 p.m., $10

an evening of poetry w/ kathy engel + gale jackson + marc zegans

Kathy Engel has been a full-time advocate/organizer/consultant/producer/writer engaged in building social justice, human rights and peace organizations and campaigns. She has worked extensively as a bridge between organizations and individuals who may not ordinarily work together or engage in dialogue with the purpose of building multi-racial/cross-class progressive institutions and projects, and maximizing the effectiveness and creativity of progressive efforts. Her work is based on a commitment to breaking boundaries, and infusing the imagination and thinking of the artist and the intellectual into the strategic planning for grassroots, community, national and international media and organizing efforts.

Gale Jackson will be reading from the brand new books MeDea (Glad Day Press) and Suite for Mozambique (Ikon). She is a poet, writer, librarian and cultural historian. She is the author of MeDea, Suite for Mozambique, Bridge Suite: Narrative Poems, A Khoisan Tale of Beginnings and Ends, and We Stand Our Ground with Kimiko Hahn and Susan Sherman. She currently serves on the faculty of Goddard College, as poet in residence at The Secondary School for Journalism and as storyteller in residence at The Hayground School.

Marc Zegans is a poet, playwright and author. His current work explores waking dreams and the experience of human fragility in the post-industrial landscape. He is now completing a book that explores these themes, entitled, Poems of Danger and Abandon. He is also developing a spoken work album for Philistine Records. As a non-fiction writer Marc has written extensively about innovation in the public sector, and philanthropic practice. He is currently completing a book entitled, The Essential Work of Public Management, which is a non-foundationalist theory of the role of administration in democracy.

8:00 p.m., $10

taylor ho bynum + rachel bernsen + the boyer brothers

Composer and cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum and his Sextet Plus performs music for seven musicians in a round room. The piece incorporates the unusual geography and acoustics of ISSUE Project Room as added creative elements in the ongoing struggle to balance individual and ensemble, composition and improvisation, and simplicity and complexity. With Matt Bauder (reeds); Jessica Pavone (viola); Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello); Mary Halvorson (guitar); Evan O¹Reilly (guitar); and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).

Choreographer Rachel Bernsen presents a new trio: Three bodies explore the tension between the presentational and the personal. In the hyper-reality of the performative context, superficiality is undermined by the real and vice-versa, and both are laid bare in stark and even sinister terms. Complete with real artifice. With Danielle Goldman and Nancy Forshaw-Clapp.

Nathan and Gabriel Boyer debut their animated short film series “The Further Adventures of Sweathunter,” a surreal mystery whose main character is a crazed guru who lives in a trailer. Within a noir-ish urban setting, cabbage-patch kids seek wisdom from Sweathunter, a police team of bird brothers share a single brain while they either solve or commit crimes, and a newspaper editor tries to get to the bottom of it all. Meanwhile, our hero explores his sexual obsession with a giant eyeball.

8:00 p.m., $10

maria chavez

This performance marks the beginning of Chavez’s fall residency at ISSUE Project Room. Subsequent performances will be held on October 18th, November 19th and December 21st.

Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken (”Pencils of Sound”) and a collection of records in various conditions (”The Palette”). “As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground”. She has collaborated with improvisers from across the country and around the world, notably guitarist Christina Carter of well-known bands Scorses and Charlambides. Their duo, Weird Cookie, toured the East Coast in 2003 to much acclaim. In 2004, Chavez and London-based laptop improviser Kaffe Matthews won a DLI grant to record in Kingston, New York. Chavez has also performed with free jazz great Jack Wright, Tatsuya Nakamura, Ricardo Arias, fellow turntablist Motoko Shimizu, visual artist/musician Donna Huanca, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her debut performance in New York City.

8:00 p.m., $10

erik sanko + guests

Erik Sanko (vocals/guitar)
Andy Green (guitar/vocals/omnichord)
Garo Yellin (cello)
Bruce Tovsky (loops/processing/cracklebox)

Erik Sanko is the leading light in the much admired Skeleton Key and was a member of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards for over 15 years. He also helps out such luminaries as Yoko Ono, Jim Carroll and John Cale from time to time. Rumour has it that he has also been seen playing with the newly reformed Contortions. Sounding like the journals of an alchemist set to the music of your grandmother’s broken pump organ, Sanko fashions oddly compelling songs from mangled melody and ragged scraps of rhyme.

http://www.skeletonkey.org

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, August 4

habitats: collaborative environments

Presented by EIDOLON CULTURE

Live electronics by David Linton, DJ Olive, Amoeba Technology

Enhanced environment installations by: Zarah Cabañas, Lu(x)z, Amoeba Technology, Marianna Ellenberg, Hans Steiner.

“Habitats” is a cultural evening organized to initiate an exchange between art, technology & environment. Artists participate in creating an intermediate space of co-existence which is fundamentally collaborative, contextual and interdisciplinary in its orientation.

Habitats description + Habitats@Brooklyn Lyceum in November @ www.eidolon.org.

8:00 p.m., $10

little dreamO in slumberland
by bradley eros

“Even sleepers & dreamers are collaborators on what goes on in the universe.”
-Heraclitus

A 12-HOUR marathon organized by Bradley Eros and co-curated in single-hour slots by various artists, this event will include artists, filmmakers, videomakers, musicians, dancers, poets and performers.

Events will take place AROUND the circular room (Issue Project Room is located in a silo)- moving hour-by-hour around the perimeter of the silo interior – rotating like a big clock, or cylinder, that we are all within. Some events – installations & environments – will happen outdoors.

8:00 p.m. – 8:00 a.m., $10

ipr’s
interns perform

w/
Carrie Fucile
Ben Bontempo
Colin Sanderson
Noah Modie

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Carrie Fucile is a recent graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program and is a Brooklyn-based video and installation artist. In her work she uses her body to investigate impermanence.

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Walt Whitman Death Mask is Ben Bontempo, a student based in Western Massachusetts, who imbues his rhythmic noise with the improvisatory energy and language of clown and mask play.

“Ben plays stuff, wears ski masks, speaks in tongues”.

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Colin Sanderson is a student at Marymount Manhattan College. He has played in numerous bands, most notably AS IS, a group that dabbles in an eclectic mix of post-punk, ska, progressive rock, free improv and even the classic rock of Led Zeppelin. In his own music, Colin is interested in exploring the intersection between the post-psychedelic sonic exploration that emerged in the late 1960s and early 70s (as exemplified by Terry Riley, Can, Miles Davis, Fripp and Eno, and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis) and the more recent experiments of Naked City, Mr. Bungle, the Boredoms, the Ruins, and Tortoise. For this performance, Colin will perform a short Mississippi John Hurt-inspired piece for electric guitar, as well as a longer solo improvisation with guitar, sampler and drum machine.

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Noah Modie is a self taught guitarist and experiment conductor currently studying experimental music at Simon¹s Rock College of Bard. He will be accompanied by drummer John Snyder, and fellow weirdo Cy Gengras. They will be performing a veritable extravaganza of musical delights, ranging from more sparse noise oriented sections, introspective solo guitar, and finally, some straight up heavy shit.

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8:00 p.m., $10

michael evans’ fulminate trio

With these gentlemen on the edge of their improvisational seats, allowing their future musings to connect and disconnect, Michael Evans’ Fulminate Triofeatures Ken Filiano (double bass), Anders Nilsson (electric guitar) and Michael Evans (acoustic and electronic percussion). As much influenced by slow moving Japanese folk songs, Sonny Sharrock’s `Black Woman` period and ordered forms of chaos, their audio < > poltergeists hoover, dart, collide, transmute and fly unison in and out of auditory focus.

Raised in southern Sweden, electric guitarist Anders Nilsson has worked together with many artists on the experimental scene in NY such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Ken Filiano, Raoul Björkenheim, Matt Heyner, Kermit Driscoll, Michael Evans, Evan Gallagher, Tom Bruno, Ras Moshe & Jeff Arnal.

Embracing classical, jazz, the world of spontaneous improvisation and inter-disciplinary performances with dance and the spoken word, Ken Fillianofuses the rich traditions available to the double bass, bringing out the many voice inherent within this instrument. Ken tours widely, playing across the United States, Canada, Europe and South America.

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/ multi- instrumentalist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. As well as being a drumset player, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics.

8:00 p.m., $10

an evening with bill etra
+ brandon emerick + benton-c bainbridge

Legendary video artist and tool designer Bill Etra will show works and discuss his thirty eight years of experimental video in a live performance featuring his latest digital tool designs. Bill will be joined by several friends including Brandon Emerick and Benton-C Bainbridge for a live video/audio jam.

8:00 p.m., $10

lambic
& city dreams inc.: a multimedia performance

CITY DREAMS INC.

a multimedia performance

JESSICA LURIE; saxophones / accordion / voice

ANDREW DRURY; drums / percussion

DANIJEL ZEZELJ; acrylic paint / brushes / rollers

With a special guest BRANDON SEABROOK; banjo / guitar

Jessica Lurie, Andrew Drury and Brandon Seabrook join forces with Danijel Zezelj in City Dreams Inc.,an oddly captivating multimedia performance that evolves into a storytelling ritual in sound and paint. The combination of painting and music highlights much overlooked dimensions of temporality and sensuality in painting and adds a visual frame to music. Audience members inevitably construct private, inner narratives and generate meaning.

An exuberant spirit animates the music, nearly all of which is improvised and rooted in high energy free jazz with influences from the Balkans, Brazil, Cuba, klezmer, the blues, and funk. The painting (black and white acrylic on a board, canvas, wall, or any available surface) combines the expressionism of graffiti and murals with the atmosphere of silent movies. It grows from the abstract towards the figurative, following a precise narrative line. Brushes and rollers create sounds and become musical elements themselves, merging with the rhythms and melodies of the horns and drums. Audiences have described the City Dreams as “slow motion animation” and “eavesdropping on a collective dream.”

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LAMBIC

Lambic is a style of Belgian ale that is spontaneously fermented from wild yeasts. Lambic is also a band featuring Paul Sullivan on guitars and effects, and Stephen Moses (alice donut) on drums, trombone, and effects. Lambic is spontaneously fermented music, free improvisation with a groove.

“I first played with Steve when we were in Dock Ellis, a psychedelic rock band. We had each been doing solo performances for years using effects and loops. When we joined forces, Lambic was spontaneously created. It’s joyful music that can and does go everywhere. Like it’s namesake, Lambic is always changing and evolving, sometimes messy, but always exciting. We never know where it’s going to go, and that is the point.”

8:00 p.m., $10

the dimestore dance band

THE DIMESTORE DANCE BAND… “an ongoing conversation around guitarist Jack Martin’s succinct, affecting melodies, with group-composing and improvising from bassist Jude Webre and drummer Scott Jarvis. Lovely, intimate, melancholy, and boisterous…a spirited blend of 1940s small-combo sounds, post-bop stumbling struts and Ivesian ethereal flights.”

8:00 p.m., $10

jeremiah cymerman, erik hinds, & matthew welch

Ending a weeklong tour of the north-east, Jeremiah Cymerman, Matthew Welch, and Erik Hinds, three young musicians whose singular voices absolutely demand attention, present an evening of solo and trio music. Each musician will perform a brief solo set and then reconvene for a trio set. Music for Bagpipes, H’arpeggione, and Modified Electroacoustic Clarinet doesn¹t get any better than this.

Matthew Welch’s compositions range from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra. A recording of his most recent compositions, Dream Tigers, was released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records’ Composer Series in March of 2005.

Erik Hinds plays quartertone electric guitar and the H’arpeggione, an upright acoustic instrument with 12 sympathetic strings built by Fred Carlson. Equally influenced by improvisational music and “composed” sounds, Erik’s style blends primitive folk, heavy metal, and sacred musics from around the world into a distinct voice.

Jeremiah Cymerman is known for an admirable DIY aesthetic and an unorthodox approach to the Bb clarinet. Cymerman has performed with many of music¹s most daring luminaries including Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Walter Thompson, & Otomo Yoshihide.

8:00 p.m., $10

meetings III
w/ matt davignon, david linton, ben owen, richard garet, sawako & bruce tovsky
+ video artists shimpei takeda and chika

Bay-area improviser Matt Davignon pays a rare visit to New York City, and this setting pairs him with a diverse group of local improvisers. Know for his prowess with drum machines and processing, coaxing curtains of sound from his boxes, Davignon also co-curates one of the Bay Areas’ most adventurous music series’ in one of its most inviting spaces – The Luggage Store Gallery. Joined by David Linton, Ben Owen, Richard Garet, Sawakoand Bruce Tovsky, the group will be augmented by video artists Shimpei Takeda and Chika, who will provide two screens of improvisational video. Sound designer Stephan Moore will sculpt the resulting soundscape with his innovative 16-channel hemispheric speaker installation.

8:00 p.m., $10

aki onda/alan licht
+ the volt collective

set 1
Aki Onda & Alan Licht have been performing as a duo since 2001 in the U.S. and Europe. The combination of real-time improvisation with cassettes imbued with traces of personal history and post-modern electric guitar, each played through tube amps to arrive at a mutually gritty sound, is unique both to the experimental scene and to each man’s body of work.

set 2
audio visual project The Volt Collective

Gregory Boland
Nick Lesley
Roberto Osorio
Stanley Ruiz
Chris Blackburn
Aidan Collins
Raoul Thomas
Melissa Bolger
Paul Rothman
Nathaniel Weiner
Scott Pittinsky

8:00 p.m., $10

martin baumgartner, ikue mori and dj olive

Ikue Mori (lptp), Dj Olive (tt and lptp) Martin Baumgartner (lptp)

Three Musicians who have all met in different combinations but never as a trio will team up for an evening of improvised electronic music. Ikue Mori’s brilliant and clear sounds, Martin Baumgartner’s rich textures and Dj Olive’s twisted squeaks in combination with their astonishing ability of fast reaction will infuse and build unique and engaging soundsculptures.

8:00 p.m., $10

“Points in a Circle:
Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue Project Room”

A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR’s 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System

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thomas ankersmit
+ benton-c bainbridge
+ bobby previte

Thomas Ankersmit

“A more or less improvised solo concert of music for analogue synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone”

Thomas Ankersmit plays saxophone, makes electronic music and creates installation pieces with sound, infrasound and modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces. Influenced more by experimental and electroacoustic practices than (free) jazz, Ankersmit focusses on exploring the timbral extremes of the saxophone. He has performed solo as well as with artists such as Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Keith Rowe, Giuseppe Ielasi, Borbetomagus and others.

Bobby Previte & Benton-C Bainbridge

Electronic drums and live video. This showdown between two mad scientists brings you a live previsualization of their upcoming DVD, “Dialed In.”http://www.bobbyprevite.com/dialedin.html

Benton-C Bainbridge is a Bronx-based artist working with video as a painterly and performable medium. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to capture music’s human abstraction in moving images. Currently, he is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV with FUEVOZ, a company he cofounded with Owen Bush.

Drummer Bobby Previte has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria’s Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods, to Carnegie Hall, and has presented his music at major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.

8:00 p.m., $10

cornelius dufallo’s realeyes
+ dafna naphtali’s travels
w/ alex waterman

Cornelius Dufallo: “Realeyes”

Scored for violin, electronics, and hemispheric speaker system, Realeyes is a thirty minute meditation on peace. Exploring concepts of destruction and transcendence, Realeyes juxtaposes hypnotic “sound-breath” with moments of harsh dissonance, improvisations, and extended techniques.

Cornelius Dufallo (a.k.a. Neil) is currently one of the violinists in ETHEL. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music,” he has received worldwide acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and composer. Neil was a member of the Flux Quartet from 1997-2002, then he join the band NurseKaya which he performed in from 2002-2004. Other recent affiliations include Ornette Colemanís Harmelodic Chamber Players, and Butch Morrisís New York Skyscraper and Phantomstation. Neil is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP.

Dafna Naphtali: “Travels”

A set of 16-channel sound pieces, abstractions and reminiscences of years of itinerant travel in unusual circumstances — created using sound movement and spatialization concepts she honed in her 2 years as a resident programmer at Engine 27, and performed live — with special guest musicians and live video.

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/improviser-composer from an eclectic background of music-making. A singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her custom Max/MSP/Jitter programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments that she has been writing since 1992. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (www.whatbat.org), recorde on Tzadik (4 Stars, All Music Guide). Dafna can also be heard on Mechanique(s) with Hans Tammen in a forthcoming release on In-situ and was featured vocalist on Jose Halac’s CD ‘Dance of 1000 Heads’ (Tellus).

Guest Alex Waterman will perform cello & electronics

8:00 p.m., $10

marina rosenfeld & john king

Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and turntablist based in New York City. Her work straddles the worlds of music composition and improvisation, visual and sound art, photography, video and performance, and has taken many forms since she formed her first “orchestra” at the California Institute of the Arts in 1994. Marina’s work has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Biennial (2002), the Tate Modern Museum, Artists Space, Creative Time, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & Mills College.

John King (guitar/electronics) has performed interactive computer music with the electronic music collectives unitygain and share at Galapagos and open air in NYC over the past four years. His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Bang On A Can All-Stars; the new string quartet ETHEL; Red Orchestra; Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire; and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently on the Music Committee at MCDC. He’ll be performing with a new interface which combines composition, improvisation and randomization.

8:00 p.m., $10

david linton
+ anthony jay ptak & cyrus pireh’s “the end of music”

First hitting his stride as a downtown drummer in the early 1980’s David Linton then moved to solo performing, live electronics, computer assisted composition, and sound design for dance and theater. Throughout the 90s he became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and production of event/ environments. Linton¹s fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic musicians and visualists assumed the form of a live television Manhattan cable/webcast project – UGTV – Unitygain Television 1 AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org.

Anthony Jay Ptak is an artist and composer who studied under Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Lydia Kavina, and Herbert Brun, and had technical consultations with Robert Moog. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival, and has been a guest theremin artist at the historic Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000, where he was appointed visiting researcher in 2001. He has given presentations on the theremin and electro-acoustics at Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), School of the Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, St. Louis Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, FFMUP Princeton University, and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is a member of the New York Theremin Society. http://axoxnxs.com

Cyrus Pireh http://4gre.tripod.com/

8:00 p.m., $10

off the bimah on the waterfront
a benefit for the music fund of kolot chayeinu/voices of our lives

Please join us for an evening of jazz on the waterfront as Music Director and Hazzan for Kolot Chayeinu Lisa B. Segal steps off the bimah to perform with preeminent jazz musicians Marty Ehrlich and Roy Nathanson.

8:00 p.m., $45; doors open at 7:30 pm

this event is SOLD OUT

maria chavez + michael j. schumacher

Avant Turntablist Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken (”Pencils of Sound”) and a collection of records in various conditions (”The Palette”). “As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground”(www.804noise.org).

Michael J. Schumacher is a composer/performer, curator and teacher. As Director of the sound and intermedia galleries, Studio 5 Beekman and Diapason, he has produced exhibitions by David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Stephen Vitiello, La Monte Young and other pioneer sound experimenters. He composes electronic sound installations using 2 – 25 speakers, computer-controlled random structures, taped and live music and acoustic works for piano, chamber ensemble, voice, and orchestra, and has presented his sound installations at major art institutions in the United States and Europe. His discography includes five solo CDs, including a double CD set on the XI label “Room Pieces” (2002), and he appears as pianist on the new Stephen Vitiello/David Tronzo CD on New Albion.

8:00 p.m., $10

andrew neumann + joe morris
& thomas buckner + bruce arnold

Andrew Neumann live electronics Joe Morris electric guitar

“duets for electric guitar and real time sampling”

Andrew Neumann is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, electronic/interactive music, and film and video installation. Neumann’s work deals with issues concerning the uses of technology, language, and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. These works, what he calls “Constructures”, re-contextualize the technologically derived icons and place them in a new environment that allows one to question their original use and see the possibilities of organizing these icons/objects, into a new language with a completely re-defined hierarchy.

Joe Morris has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe as a solo and as a leader of a trio and a quartet. Since 1993 he has recorded and/or performed with among others; Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Joe and Mat Maneri. He began playing acoustic bass in 2000 and has since performed with cellist Daniel Levin, Whit Dickey and recorded with pianist Steve Lantner. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the US and Europe. He is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department. He was nominated as Best Guitarist of the year 1998 and 2002 at the New York Jazz Awards.

Thomas Buckner, voice with Bruce Arnold, guitar

will perform
Matthias Kaul, Silence Is My Voice

Robert Ashley, Tract

Noah Creshevsky, Jubilate

Phill Niblock, A.Y.U.

“[Thomas] Buckner has made a name for himself working in the cracks where new music (Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier) meets creatively improvised jazz (Roscoe Mitchell). His rich baritone is a marvel …” — Time Out January 1998
Recent performances include a duo concert with renowned pianist Cecil Taylor at the Festival of Music of Extended Duration in Prague (Czech Republic) and the world premiere of Roscoe Mitchell’s ‘Fallen Heroes’ (performed with the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble at Lincoln Center, New York City).

The Los Angeles Times has written “Bruce Arnold deserves credit for his effort to expand the potential of the jazz palette.” His unique Signature sound stems from his combination of jazz and classical methods, and he is one of the only guitarists currently working with SuperCollider (a computer program for live sound processing).

8:00 p.m., $10

miguel frasconi + jane scarpantoni

Miguel Frasconi will be presenting “An Orchestra of Orchestras: The Rite Project #3.” Frasconi continues his series of re-imagining Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, this time with 16 different recordings of the 20th century masterpiece played simultaneously through Stephan Moore’s 16 speaker system.

Miguel Frasconi is a composer, improvisor and sound artist who uses glass objects, electronics, keyboards, and devolved instruments to create music that sounds from a uniquely imagined tradition. His recent collaborations include new works with choreographer Alonzo King, electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and the new music ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion. His background includes work with John Cage, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and James Tenney, and studies ranging from the music of South India and Indonesia to the Dada and Fluxus movements.

Jane Scarpantoni, will explore the interactive capabilities between themselves and the Issue Project Room’s amazing 16 point-in-the-round sound system, brainchild of Stephan Moore, who will aid and abet them in drawing sonic circles around YOU. Come, be immersed…

Jane Scarpantoni has transformed the Cello into a new instrument. Her work with the Lounge Lizards, Patti Smith, Lou Reed and many others is enjoyed the universe over.

8:00 p.m., $10

francisco lopez + stephan moore + todd merrell

Over the last twenty-five Years, Francisco Lopez has developed an astonishing sonic universe that is absolutely personal and iconoclastic, and based on a profound listening of the world. His work destroys boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifts with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, and proposes a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

“Between what we can hear and what we can see are frequencies that surround us every day. They come from electrical systems in ships, the sun, cars, weather patterns, the subway, radio, and countless other sources. Every day, every hour, and everywhere, they change.” Using a single sideband shortwave receiver and electronics, Todd Merrell will search the airwaves for the electrical fingerprints of Issue Project Room on July 18, and transform these electromagnetic waves into an immersive, musical soundscape, an impression of what Issue Project Room sounds and feels like electrically and musically, on that day, in that hour.

Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of the large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers at IPR. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers.

8:00 p.m., $10

shelley burgon + douglas henderson

Shelley Burgon will perform an electro-acoustic set with harp and computer.Her solo work often incorporates spatialization as she is truly inspired by the movement of sound through many channels. She has a duo with bassist Trevor Dunn, plays in the band Stars Like Fleas and can often be heard improvising under the conduction baton of Butch Morris.

Sound artist/composer Douglas Henderson’s primary focus is on multi-channel electroacoustic compositions and installations, with a growing body of sound-producing sculptures and the occasional musical score. His work can be seen in the Whitney Museum in New York to Muu Gallery in Helsinki to SICMF in Seoul South Korea.

8:00 p.m., $10

pamela z

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and ‘The BodySynth” gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Captipal Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.

8:00 p.m., $10

chris tignor + slow six

Multi-media collective Slow Six has been delivering its own brand of electronic chamber music since 1998. Instrumentation includes amplified strings, electric guitars, keyboards, homegrown software instruments, and video projections mixed live throughout the space. Born of that natural space between classical and popular music, Slow Six mixes the instrumental prowess and compositional focus of classical music with real-time digital signal processing and lush visual landscapes. http://www.slowsix.com

Sara Baird is the artistic director, choreographer and dancer with Anemone Dance Theater, which she cofounded in 2001. Based in New York City for over twelve years, she has performed on tour across the United States, to the south of France, and to the lunar landscape of Bolivia’s altiplano.

As a digital media artist, Lee Whittier employs video to tell stories seen through the eyes of people dabbling in space travel, implanting wireless networks, overcoming compatibility issues, & quietly building utopias.

8:00 p.m., $10

jim staley

Composer/trombonist Jim Staley is renown for his groundbreaking solo performances and collaborations with advanced music creators including Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Morgan Powell, David Weinstein, Takehisa Kosugi, Ikue Mori, Robin Holcomb, and many others. He has worked with many choreographers (Suzie Brown, Pooh Kaye, Debra Loewen, Sally Silvers and others), and been a member of several creative music ensembles including Psychological Operations, Elliott Sharp’s Carbon, The Tone Road Ramblers, groups headed by Lenny Pickett and John Zorn, the Slide Hampton Jazz Ensemble, and the New York Composer’s Orchestra.

8:00 p.m., $10

scanner + evidence w/ diana slattery

Sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood began performing as the duo Evidence in 2001. Focusing on the universe of real-world sound, Evidence pours field recordings like water into their compositional and improvisational process, resulting in music that balances between tight organization and unregulated flow. Using recording equipment, laptops, and other electronic devices, Evidence creates music that deals with gradual change, improvised over time, sometimes atmospheric, sometimes pulsating, always texturally striking and unique.

Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson,The Royal Ballet, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe.

8:00 p.m., $10

ikue mori + hans tammen

Ikue Mori has forged her own highly sensitive signature style as an improvising musician, using drum machines in the 80s and the laptop computer since 2000. Current working groups include “Mephista” with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O¹Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton. She has worked with Dave Douglas’s “Witness” “Freakin” ensemble and John Zorn’s Electric Masada.

Hans Tammen works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his “endangered” guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. In a mix of formal awareness and improvisation he produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions and quiet atmospheres.

8:00 p.m., $10

sundown by yoshiko chuma

Sundown is a new dance performance conceived and choreographed by the School of Hard Knocks Artistic Director,Yoshiko Chuma. The new work will take place over a period of 7 hours, and will include 7 dancers, 7 musicians and 7-foot cubes designed by Ralph Lee. Sundown builds on the performance works that Chuma and company have been developing over the last few years using the 7-foot cubes framing a variety of locations around the world.

Sundown will be performed by 7 dancers from School of Hard Knocks, Ursula Eagly, Steven Reker, Saori Tsukuda, Christopher Williams, Ryuji Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Chuma, and guest artist, Jean Butler; with the 7×7 Trombone Band performing live.

Music
Christopher McIntyre for the 7×7 Trombone Band
w/ Joe Fiedler, Jacob Garchik, Curtis Hasselbring, Richard Marriott, Chris McIntyre, Steve Swell, and Peter Zummo.

Soundscape
by Jacob Burckhardt and Yoshiko Chuma in collaboration with Stephan Moore, for his Hemispherical Speaker System.

3- 10:00 p.m., $15; $10 students & seniors

*reservations*: http://www.yoshikochuma.org/newsletter/ticketing.htm

stephen flinn, michael evans & bruce tovsky

Percussionists Stephen Flinn and Michael Evans join forces with sound artist Bruce Tovsky for an evening of improvisations, exploring the territory between acoustic instrumentation and electronic manipulation. Flinn’s extended technique mastery of the elements of a drum kit and Evans’ journeyman creation of sounds are acoustically generated and combined with lo-tech electronics, processed sustainer guitar and cracklebox.

Stephen Flinn is a drummer and percussionist who also works with unusual sound sources including self-made insturments and found objects. He lives in San Francisco and spends his time teaching, performing, and writing.

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/ multi- instrumentalist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. His work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics. He has performed with Jeff Arnal, Claire Barratt, Jac Berrocal, Lol Coxhill, EasSide Percussion, Fast Forward, God is my Co-Pilot, Susan Hefner, Skip LaPlante’s Music for Homemade Instruments and others.

Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist. For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations with artists such as John Hudak, David Linton and Kim Cascone at spaces such as Diapason, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, and his own installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. www.skeletonhome.com

8:00 p.m., $10

elliott sharp/orchestra carbon

Quarks Swim Free is E#’s latest algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 musicians and based on prime numbers, Quarks Swim Free creates a dense primordial soup filled with high-energy collisions, gnashing grooves, and warped melodies. Quarks Swim Free premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2003. http://www.elliottsharp.com

8:00 p.m., $10

ne(x)tworks collaborates

Ne(x)tworks and a number of stellar guests delve into the disparate world of open, graphic, and modular scores created after the innovations of Earle Brown and the New York School of the 1950’s.

Ne(x)tworks
Joan La Barbara – voice
Yves Dharamraj – cello
Cornelius Dufallo – violin
Ariana Kim – violin
Chris McIntyre – trombone

Special Guest Performers:
Shelly Burgon harp/electronics, Anthony Coleman – piano, Miguel Frasconi glass instruments/electronics, Stephanie Griffin – viola, Sycil Mathaitrumpet, Jane Rigler flute/electronics

Ne(x)tworks Collaborates

6:30PM Pre-Concert Discussion
Open Scores Beyond the New York School

Panelists
Joan La Barbara, Anthony Coleman, Cornelius Dufallo, Wadada Leo Smith

Moderator
Chris McIntyre

8:00PM Performance:

Christian Wolff
For 1,2, or 3 People
for any sound producing means (1964)
Dufallo, Burgon, Frasconi

Leo Smith
In The Diaspora (2005)
Kim, Dufallo, Griffin, Dharamraj

Cornelius Cardew
Octet ‘61 for Jasper Johns (1962)
full ensemble

Brian McWhorter
Earle Brown Breaks (2002)
tape piece

INTERMISSION

John Zorn
Hockey
Coleman, Dufallo, McIntyre

James Tenney
Swell Piece No. 2 (1971)
full ensemble

Julius Eastman
Stay On It
full ensemble

+ Post-Performance Reception

$10

emil de waal plus +
guests

featuring Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren, Soren Kjergaard on key instruments and Emil de Waal on drums, percussion and laptop.

w/ Erik Sanko, Andy Green & Bruce Tovsky

Freeform music by Emil de Waal will be presented from his work at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory on Holmen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Accompanying artists will work with Emil’s recorded material, adding solos and backing on the preliminary live recordings.

Emil de Waal is one of the most heavily engaged drummers in Danish rhythmic music, and has toured internationally and appeared on 150 releases since 1986. De Waal is also known as a band-leader, programmer, composer and arranger for artists such as the Blue Note recording jazz vocalist Caecilie Norby and Grammy Award laureate vocalist Randi Laubek, and has performed with Robert Palmer, Kele Le Roc, Jocelyn Brown, Jon Cleary and others.

Multi-instrumentalist Erik Sanko has worked with Skeleton Key, Lounge Lizards, Yoko Ono, John Cale and many others.

Guitarist and technician Andy Green is known for his work with John Cale & The Velvet Underground, among others

8:00 p.m., $10

songs of rebellion

a night of music, poetry and film, to keep the fires of rebellion and action lit and burning, featuring…

Patrick Walsh
Chris Rael
Bethany Spiers
Faith Schwartz
Oliver Ray
Wanda Phipps
Bradley Eros
Joel Schlemowitz
Nora from Tribal Soundz
Professor Louie and Fast Eddie
Stephan Smith
Hanifa Walidah
Sarah Ibrahim

8:00 p.m., $10

bradford reed + guests

An Evening of New Music from New Instruments

On June 10th Issue Project Room will be transformed from an oil tank into a nimble and comfortable UFO captained by Bradford Reed. Those inside will get pleasantly abducted. An experienced flight crew will generate the sonic backdrop on new and unusual instruments including the Pencilina, Appologetica, Guitaint, cello and Clacker-Sticks. The event will also feature exciting visuals both projected and voluntary.

The Crew:

John Berndt is the founder of The Red Room, High Zero Festival, Second Nature, Sound/Shift, Geodesic Gnome, Multiphonic Choir, and many other extremely varied & strange endeavors including some of the instruments of his own design he will be bringing.

Sound Mechanic Neil Feather’s instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting.
www.neilfeather.org

Scott Moore, a musical force and performance artist was the front-man for Sink Manhattan and RAMUMBUS, two of the most visionary and cathartic rock bands to ever come out of NYC as well as a founding member of the Hungry March Band.

Bradford Reed is a composer, member and producer of bands including King Missile and NOMAH, instrumentalist and inventor of the Pencilina. http://www.pencilina.com

Jane Scarpantoni has transformed the Cello into a new instrument. Her work with the Lounge Lizards, Patti Smith, Lou Reed and many others is enjoyed the universe over.

8:00 p.m., $10

kristin prevallet

WORDS MOVING IMAGES
An evening of film and poetry collaborations

a showing of films by
David Gatten
Pooh Kaye
Carolyn Monastra

and a reading of words by
Kristin Prevallet
Brenda Coultas
David Gatten
Betsy Andrews

Kristin Prevallet’s conceptual poetics bridge image and text, lyric and analysis. Poet, translator, essayist, she is the author of Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-text Projects, and SHADOW EVIDENCE INTELLIGENCE, recently published from Factory School. Her cultural work has included editing small presses and magazines, interventions of poetic actions into public spaces, and starting a school: Study Abroad on the Bowery: A Program in Applied Poetics at the Bowery Poetry Club.

8:00 p.m., $10

ned rothenberg, gerry hemingway & alex waterman

The trio of Hemingway, Rothenberg and Waterman weaves in and out of rhythmical harmonicities filling out a range of dynamics and fast flying multiphonics and overtones. This instrumentation of strings, reeds and percussion, sounds at times like one instrument and at other times orchestral.

Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Intervals, a double-cd of solo work, and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Yuji Takahashi and Evan Parker.

Composer and performer Gerry Hemingway has led numerous groups, most recently his quartet with Ellery Eskelin, Ray Anderson and Mark Dresser as well collaborative groups with Mark Helias & Ray Anderson (BassDrumBone), Reggie Workman & Miya Masaoka (Brew), Georg Graewe & Ernst Reijseger (GRH trio), Marilyn Crispell & Barry Guy (CGH trio), duo w/Thomas Lehn, duo w/John Butcher and many others. He recently completed a two year recording project for the the German label, between the lines, entitled “Songs”.

Alex Waterman is a classically trained experimental musician and improviser. Founding member of Plus Minus Ensemble (London and Brussels), he has also premiered numerous solo cello works. Alex has worked with musicians such as Richard Barrett, Keith Rowe, Axel Dorner, Mark Helias, Steve Heather, Cor Fuhler, Gert Jan Prins, Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides, Mary Oliver, Michael Moore, Robert Ashley and Michael Finnissy.

8:00 p.m., $10

dan joseph ensemble
cd release party

In celebration of The Dan Joseph Ensemble’s “Archaea”, now available on Mutable Music

Dan Joseph is a free-lance composer based in New York City. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as an occasional soloist.

Violinist Tom Chiu is particularly noted for his endeavors in new music and has worked closely with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Virko Baley, Dean Drummond, Olive Lake, Alvin Lucier, Ushio Torikai, and Zhou Long, John Zorn among others.

Michael Lowenstern is a bass clarinetist, clarinetist, and composer. He has performed and recorded with musicians and groups as diverse as The Klezmatics, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Steve Reich and Musicians and John Zorn.

Percussionist Danny Tunick is active in the classical, rock, and jazz scenes in and around New York City. He performs with the violinist Lydia Forbes in the violin/percussion duo Entropy, the Princeton Composers Ensemble, the Common Sense Composers Ensemble, and the Bang On A Can Festival. He is a member of the Laura Andel creative orchestra, rock bands Barbez and Rebecca Moore’s Prevention of Blindness, and the Digital-Chamber-Punk trio What Is It Like to Be a Bat.

Keyboardist Marija Ilic is an active performer of the traditional repertoire and new music in New York City and has worked with composers such as Martin Bresnick, George Crumb, Oliver Knussen, Joan Tower, Vykintas Baltakas, and collaborated with choreographers Christopher Caines, Ariane Anthony, Rajika Puri and with the National Theater of the United States of America.

Cellist Loren Kiyoshi Dempster can be found playing music with New York Minaturist Ensemble, Bushwick String Quartet, Jessica Pavone Ensemble, Matt Bauder Ensemble, XYZ composer collective, and Taylor Ho Bynum Quintet. He has created or performed music for many choreographers including Catherine Kerr, Lenora Lee, Elke Rindfleisch, Ted Thomas, and Jeremy Wade.

8:00 p.m., $10

solstice sinema

“The outer sun hungers for the inner one.”
-alchemist Jacob Boehme

An enchanted evening of outdoor films & videos where dreaming faeries bring out the sun, moon & stars…night blooming flowers, luminous monsters and a constellation of chimeras on a dappled screen.

Drink in the first day of summer as the Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema (Bradley Eros & Joel Schlemowitz) throws a magic lantern show for this heliographic celebration!

at dusky 8:00 p.m., $10

polly cotton

The first time merging of music composed by Simon Ho and Shelley Hirsch, based on their kooky autobiographical stories. Music for voice, keyboards, strings and percussion.

Polly Cotton will perform a suite of songs that are filled with sonic pictures, little stories, grooves and improvisation
with-

Shelley Hirsch……………………….voice
Simon Ho……………………….keyboards
David Hofstra………………………. bass, tuba
Stephanie Griffin……………………….viola
David Simons……………………….percussion, theremin
Tomas Ulrich……………………….cello

8:00 p.m., $10

sonic architectures
w/ jim pugliese and grady gerbracht

Jim Pugliese and Grady Gerbracht will perform an improvised set with the intention of discovering and dialoging with the inner rhythms and frequencies of the architecture itself. Contact microphones will be fixed to the structures at strategic points where the interaction of the performers and the architecture will be amplified.

Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist and composer. In his most recent work he combines years of experience improvising, playing new and experimental music and world music. For the last fifteen years, while living in the east village of New York City, Jim has been improvising and recording with many of downtowns most prominent composer/improvisers including John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, David Shea and Anthony Coleman.

Grady Gerbracht is an artist whose work focuses on the ordering systems of everyday life. Inspired by personal observations and life experiences; Gerbracht’s projects employ art, architecture, sound and social dynamics to render these systems temporarily visible. Currently he is forming a collaborative group with other artists who are interested in improvising the post-industrial built environment.

8:00 p.m., $10

seth tobocman + rebecca moore & prevention of blindness
a night of music and visuals

Seth Tobocman
radical comic book artist, will show slides of his work, performing the text, accompanied by musicians: Eric Blitz, Zef Noise and Steve Wishnia

Rebecca Moore and Prevention of Blindness, The Band -

which is: Dan Kaufman, Danny Tunick , Christy Davis, Pinky Weitzman, Ursula Wiskoski and RM Accompanied by the video works of John Jesurun.

Seth Tobocman’s recent works deal with Global Warming, Rebuilding New Orleans, Iraq, 9/11 and the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the one of the founders of the magazine World War Three Illustrated, he is the author of 3 graphic books: You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, War in the Neighborhood, Portraits of Israelies and Palestinians

Rebecca Moore is a musician, singer/songwriter and activist who has two CD’s out (Admiral Charcoals Song and Home Wreckordings 1997-1999 – both originally issued by Knitting Factory Records, now self-released.) She is currently (still) at work on her third CD for Tzadik records. She has founded several activist/organizing hubs including www.takeittothebridge.com and L.O.C.O. (the Ludlow-Orchard Community Online Org. www.theloco.org), as well as being a founding member of the Lower East Side Alliance. She is also grateful to have worked with experimental theater and performance legends such as Richard Foreman, John Jesurun, Jo Andres, Ridge Theater and many others – and has done her own experimental-style musical theater works at spaces such as Cooper Union, La Mama and Performance Space 122. For more info: www.bluviolin.com or the sites mentioned above. She asks that anyone who knows the famous dance in the film “Band of Outsiders” (Godard), come to this gig.

8:00 p.m., $10

art union humanscape with tim barnes

Art Union Humanscape, the duo of Ayako Kato (dance) and Jason Roebke (double bass), join forces with Tim Barnes (percussion) for a evening of beautiful absence. Their performance is a ongoing study in the beauty of being as it is. Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer originally from Yokohama, Japan. Her work as an improviser has been presented in Amsterdam, Paris, and at Joyce Soho in New York City. Her choreography was hailed by the New York Times as “remarkable for it’s expressive lack of movement” and “compelling to behold”. Jason Roebke is one Chicago’s most active improvisers, working with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Rob Mazurek, and countless international collaborators. Percussionist Tim Barnes can be heard on record and on stage with the world’s foremost musical innovators, Text of Light, Jim O’Rourke, Silver Jews, Beth Orton, and Jon Butcher.

8:00 p.m., $10

ursula scherrer & brian moran
+ sarah ibrahim & dj olive

Circuit-Bent Toys and Noise Pedal (whrrrrrr-klik-klik-ssssss). Free sound fragments for a blowing-up world (kerr-chunkkk). and then sssssshhhh be quiet real quiet.

Dancer-musician-sound artist Brian Moran has been working in New York since 1981, beginning with experi-mental dance and expanding out to performance art, live video/sound, improvisation, DJing, punk, and con-temporary theater. He currently uses numerous analog synthesizers, circuit-bent toys, effects pedals, and field recordings in his music and sound design, which has been influenced by artists, writers, and musicians such as John Cage, J. G Ballard, William Vollmann, AMM, and Henry Darger.

Ursula Scherrer is a video artist and photographer. She has worked with composers/musicians such as Michael J. Schumacher and Tetsu Inoue and collaborated with the choreographer Liz Gerring.Scherrer is part of the international artist group Biwak which meets annually in isolated locations to focus on art. Her work has been shown at the New York Video Festival 2004, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Roulette, MIT List Visual Arts Center, among other places.

+ Sarah Ibrahim & Dj Olive

8:00 p.m., $10

see hear please! – new investigations in audiovisual performance
curated by aki onda

Kanta Horio is one of a new generation of unique performing artists in Japan. He builds various junk gadgets and contraptions with and without electronic devices and presents sound/visual performances with a laptop computer. www.media.t-kougei.ac.jp/~horio/

Zachary Lieberman’s work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response. Lieberman is one half of the creative group Tmema.

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) performs her new piece ‘Suds Dreams’. It is a composition with 4 cycles of development spun through multi-channel sound system, inspired by an ‘open 24 hrs laundromat’ in Bushwick, Brooklyn. ‘Suds Dreams’ is a study of space, functionality, life, and the act of cleansing, through audible & inaudible sound. Visual elements may accompany this piece.

8:00 p.m., $10

newton armstrong, cor fuhler & nate wooley

Newton Armstrong is a composer and improviser working with electronic media. His work has encompassed performance, installation, instrument building and interaction design, and he has collaborated in various capacities with other musicians, writers, dancers, choreographers, and sound, film, video and installation artists. His main instrument is a self-built embedded Linux synthesizer named Mr. Feely.

Amsterdam-based Cor Fuhler works in the field of electronic and improvised music. Using the piano, Fuhler specializes in sustained sounds with use of various string stimulators: 12 ebows, rotating threads, spinning disks. Fuhler also manipulates sounds from turntables, linguaphones, springs etc and filters them through an analogue synth: the EMS Synthi AKS, his main electronic instrument. He often builds his own instruments/installations/modifications such as the Keyolin: a violin with keys.

Nate Wooley grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. Nate performs solo trumpet improvisations and with his trio Blue Collar, with Steve Swell and Tatsuya Nakatani. He has also performed regularly with Anthony Braxton, Bhob Rainey, Alessandro Bosetti, Okkyung Lee and other improvisation luminaries.

8:00 p.m., $10

shoko nagai’s “ephemeral”

Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi, clarinet, bass clarinet)
Jennifer Choi(violin)
Shoko Nagai (piano, prepared piano, antique organ, sho)
John Lindberg (bass)
Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics)

“Ephemeral” is Shoko Nagai’s new grant-commissioned work. The project explores the elastic sense of space and time influenced by Japanese Noh theater and Gakaku musical form. This piece combines 21st century music and free improvisation to create a wide range of sound texture. This is the NY concert premiere.

8:00 p.m., $10

joan la barbara: selections from woolfsong, an opera in progress
performed by ne(x)tworks & special guests

Joan La Barbara’s WoolfSong, an opera-in-progress, explores the creative process as it is revealed by a solitary figure, the writer Virginia Woolf, and the characters she brings forth from her mind. As they materialize, she sketches and redefines them, with each stroke delving deeper into the labyrinth of their psyches.

WoolfSong is performed by Ne(x)tworks, artists-in-residence at IPR for Spring 2006. Ne(x)tworks (formerly Open Aspects Ensemble) is a collaborative ensemble of performing composers based in New York City. Formed in June 2002, the group continues the maverick tradition in American music of creating and interpreting work that blurs distinctions between composition and improvisation. Ne(x)tworks’ repertoire encompasses an extraordinary range of aesthetics, including works by composers of the New York School and idiosyncratic new works from artists within the ensemble.

special guests:

Grethe Barrett Holby – Director
Mimi Lien – Set/Design
Jane Comfort – Choreographer/Performer
Jessica Anthony – Dancer/Singer
Leslie Cuyjet – Dancer/Singer
Lisa Niedermeyer – Dancer/Singer
Ansel Elgort – Singer
Leighanne Saltsman – Soprano
Sycil Mathai – trumpet

Ne(x)tworks:

Joan La Barbara voice/electronics Kenji Bunch viola Yves Dharamraj cello Cornelius Dufallo violin Stephen Gosling piano Ariana Kim violin Chris McIntyre trombone/electronics

8:00 p.m., $10

david dove, chris cogburn, juan garcia & maria chavez

David Dove is one of Houston’s most prominent artists in the fields of contemporary music and music improvisation. A trombone player, composer, and educator, Dove has given performances and workshops all over North America (US, Mexico, and Canada) and in Europe (Scotland). Dove was named “Best Jazz Artist” by the Houston Press in 2003.

Percussionist Chris Cogburn has performed with musicians from across North America, Europe and Japan, including Jaap Blonk, Sean Meehan, Liz Tonne, Joe McPhee and avant-rock outsider Jandek. His interest in movement and embodied experience inspires his work with NYC dancer/choreographers Jennifer Monson and Margit Galanter. Other projects include work with poet Joshua Beckman.

Juan Garcia is active in both the classical and contemporary worlds of music, playing in symphonic orchestras, solo, and in many ensembles of improvised and contemporary music. He is interested in the creation of soundscapes, and sounds created in real or artificial environments, while leaving behind forms, styles, and techniques.

Avant Turntablist Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken (”Pencils of Sound”) and a collection of records in various conditions (”The Palette”). “As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground”(www.804noise.org).

8:00 p.m., $10

anthony coleman

“The more precisely
the POSITION is determined,
the less precisely
the MOMENTUM is known”

The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, said Heisenberg. Anthony Coleman has taken his (Heisenberg’s) Uncertainty Principle to heart, and thus he continues his quixotic quest for some sort of essence of the music of Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton. Only this time on the beautiful vintage rosewood Steinway upright. That should give it some kind of Storyville whorehouse circa -1917 vibe. Or not. Not a revival, not scholarship, not a free interpretation… maybe more like a (Harold) Bloom-esque “misreading”, though AC’s really too old for that kind of thing. It’s sui generis, dont’cha know, and if you haven’t checked it out – you should. And if you have…well, this time it’s gonna be different.

8:00 p.m., $10

emerald portal benefit

A benefit to fund the 12:12 Emerald Portal for Burning Man 2006- it is a large inhabitable structure that is a key to the vibrational dimension shift, based on research of the Earth’s energy body and three-dimensional sacred geometry. http://harlanemil.com/emeraldportal.html

Lu(x)z (of Amoeba Technology)- Outdoor Projections and Ambient Sounds http://amoebatechnology.com

Anakin Koenig Airways- Custom inflatable structures, on the threshold between art and entertainment- http://www.akairways.com

Daniel Pinchbeck – author of “Breaking Open the Head- a Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism² and the just released “2012: The Return of the Quetzalcoatl” as well as editor of the new magazine Evolver.

David Linton-realtime audio-visual improvisations on his “Bicameral Research Integrated Sound and Projection System” – utilizing multiple hand modulated analog audio sources driving RGB video to transverse the recursive cultural landfill inhabited by the ghosts of Brion Gysin and Pokemon in search of lost vibrational treasures. (2 screen version)

Harlan Emil Gruber- New Mexican red and green Chile vegetarian stews Quasar Wave Transducer-subsonic non-linear dynamic analog feedback Catalyst Agent – sound catalyst for transformation of consciousness Sneak preview – “Circle of Burning Fuel” sound and video performance Bundles- sculpture installation

Amoeba Technology-Transcendence and alteration of ordinary reality and consciousness through the manipulation of sound and light waves http://amoebatechnology.com

Lloop- Incomparable Live Laptop Grooves http://www.theagriculture.com/lloop.html

Seej- Visualist http://seej.net

Schedule
All night-
Lu(x)z-Outdoor Projections and Ambient Sounds
Anakin Koenig Airways-Inflatable
Harlan Emil Gruber- Quasar Wave Transducer

7-8-New Mexican Chile, Sunset Beer & Wine
8-9- Daniel Pinchbeck
9-10-David Linton
10-10:30- Harlan Emil
10:30-11:30- Amoeba Technology
11:30-12:30- Lloop, seej
12:30-2- Jam Session

$20 suggested donation
Please be more generous if possible as this project will cost over $10,000 Larger donations to this project can be tax-deductible through our sponsor, Eidolon Culture. More at info@eidolon.org”

7p.m.-2a.m.

angie eng, jason kao hwang & yuko fujiyama

Jason Kao Hwang’s opera Immigrant of the Womb recently premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City and featured soprano and baritone singers with ten musicians playing Western, Chinese and newly invented instruments. Victo Records has just released the 2nd CD of his quartet, The Far East Side Band Urban Archaeology. In the past months Mr. Hwang performed with the percussionist Vladamir Tarasov Trio(w/Mark Dresser) at BAM, String Leaders(w/Leroy Jenkins, Diedre Murray, Calvin Hill and Newman Baker) at the Brooklyn Museum and toured Europe with the Anthony Braxton’s Septet, the Reggie Workman Ensemble and the Henry Threadgill Society Situation Dance Band.

Keyboardist Yuko Fujiyama has performed as a leader with musicians such as William Parker, Mark Dresser, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra, Billy Bang, Mark Feldman and Roy Campbell, among many others. In the words of the Village Voice, “she’s created her own pass.”

Angie Eng’s video performance and new media work explores perception of movement in physical and mental space. Her latest projects, Transhumance and Memobile address nomadic lifestyles. Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen and New Museum of Contemporary Art. She recently received a sponsorship to research and assist with a medical program for the Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads in Niger for a new video project, Radial Routes.

8:00 p.m., $10

joda clement & koen holtkamp
curated by ben owen

Joda Clement’s work currently incorporates analog and acoustic instruments, the human voice, found objects and sounds recorded from the natural and urban environment. Joda integrates these materials into compositions, improvisations, performances and installations, as well as contributing sound materials for film and dance. He now lives in Montreal.

Koen Holtkamp has released two solo albums as Aero and two albums as Mountains, a duo project with Brendon Anderegg. Holtkamp has performed with the likes of Alan Licht, Aki Onda, Fennesz, Tony Conrad, Greg Davis, Minamo & Tape. He is currently at work on a new solo album focusing on extending the inherent characteristics of the acoustic guitar via electronics and computers.

8:00 p.m., $10

unlikely couplings
a new series

Unlikely Couplings brings together artists from different branches of new music to create new languages and new inspiration. In April we presented Steve Reid and Kieran Hebden, a perfect example of the power behind this idea.

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unlikely couplings:
shelley hirsch & armen ra
audrey chen & jim pugliese

Shelley Hirsch is “an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist ” (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents. Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen & Tony Buck.

Armen Ra is an Armenian performer born in Tehran, Iran. Raised by a concert pianist mother and aunt, a renowned opera singer and Ikebana master, it was no surprise that Armen flourished, not only as one of New York’s leading aesthetes, but also as a self-taught master of the theremin. By combining both the visual and aural aspects of his craft, Armen has developed a unique art form that fuses Armenian folk music with modern instrumentation, melodic lounge standards and classical arias, resulting in inimitable, elegant recitals that transport the listener to a time and place of beauty, emotional healing, and sacred glamour.

Audrey Chen performs solo and with a wide variety of ensemble incarnations, which include traditional and invented instruments. Chen’s approach to improvisation and performance is extremely visceral. She utilizes traditional and extreme extended technique in order to create a hybrid language that pushes the boundaries of both instruments. These two combined with an unusually strong sense of movement, sound and space, contribute to the constantly fresh depth of her experimentation.

Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist and composer. In his most recent work he combines years of experience improvising, playing new and experimental music and world music. For the last fifteen years, while living in the east village of New York City, Jim has been improvising and recording with many of downtowns most prominent composer/improvisers including John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, David Shea and Anthony Coleman.

8:00 p.m., $10

unlikely couplings:
miya masaoka & anthony coleman
margarida garcia & elliott sharp

Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, sound artist ‹ has created works for koto, laser interfaces, field recordings, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological response of plants, the human brain and her own body. Within these varied contexts her performance work investigates the interactive, collaborative aspects of sound, improvisation, nature and society.

Composer-keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs, records, and inspires throughout the world. Whether as a bandleader, a sideman, or solo pianist, the work of Anthony Coleman forms an important contribution and has helped to shape and influence the course of New York’s Downtown Music scene over the last two decades. He is noted among the key luminaries of Free Improvisation, and his interest in Eastern European musical traditions helped to create what is now known as Radical Jewish Culture.

Margarida Garcia explores a language based on the use of the bow and finger in an accidental and erractic music. She has collaborated with musicians like Eddie Prevost, Carlos Giffoni, Barry Weisblat, Manuel Mota, Rhodri Davies and Mattin and the Tower Recordings.

Composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Elliott Sharp leads the groups Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane. His collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, playwright Dael Orlandersmith, cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti, sci-fi writers Jack Womack and Lucius Shepard; blues legend Hubert Sumlin; turntablists DJ Soulslinger and Christian Marclay; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjoukah.

8:00 p.m., $10

solo.swf & franziska baumann

SOLO.SWF is an audiovisual live performance featuring computer-controlled “microuniverses” generated by sound and vector graphics. The result is a deconstructed computer universe that expands with improvised time.

Maikko is a musician and audiovisual performer whose practice addresses ideas of minimal approach, improvisation and visual aesthetics in electronic music. He is the co-founder and member of Otolab, an audiovisual collective laboratory in Milan, Italy. Otolab was founded in 2001 and has since been active in Italy and abroad with interactive audiovisual installations, dj/vj shows, live media performances and seminars and panels.

Composer, vocalist and flautist Franziska Baumann has made a name for herself as a performer, improviser and specialist in live electronics, and for her sound installations and theatre music. Baumann uses electronically processed sound to develop a form of acoustic scenery into which she integrates her singing and vocal actions aurally and theatrically. As “artist in residence” at the STEIM “Studio for ElectroInstrumental Music”, Amsterdam, she developed an interactive SensorLab based cyberglove to enable her to control articulations of voice, sounds and space in real time via gesture and movement.

8:00 p.m., $10

APRIL 2006

an afternoon of children’s performance

“Paddington Bear Goes to the Laundromat”
Directed by: Clara McHale Ribot
starring:
Natalie Raskin
Fiona Socolow
Bea Mandel
Ana Gross
Emily Shari

And music by:
Dakota Martin drums
Sophia piano & voice solo
Julia Harris voice and Kane Balser guitar duo
Lucian Buscemi percussion
Jesse Goldberg guitar solo

1pm – 4pm; $5

ipr & domino records present the cd release of kieran hebden & steve reid’s exchange sessions volume 1

Kieran Hebden of Four Tet tours with legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid in support of two-part series on Domino Records

Kieran Hebden is known for his groundbreaking work as Four Tet and as a member of post-rock collective Fridge.

Steve Reid is a legendary drummer who has played with Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Fats Domino, Sun Ra, Peggy Lee, Chaka Khan, Dexter Gordon and Dionne Warwick.

Wholly improvised, unedited and without overdubs, ‘The Exchange Session Vol. 1′ is the real-time first result of this fecund union, due to be released soon on Domino Records.

“I consider us to be pioneers, doing the electricity and the drums live. In the future this is going to be considered really important, but for now there¹s just this.” – Steve Reid

Doors open at 4:30, set starts at 5:00

Tickets are available through Other Music

nick fells

phonocollusion – uk & global soundscapes re-rendered in electroacoustic improvisation

For fifteen years Nick Fells has been making electroacoustic work in the UK, mixing environmental and artificial soundscapes with instrumental and computer-based improvisation. As a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and a shakuhachi player he has worked under the auspices of such instrumental luminaries as Barry Guy, Evan Parker, Fred Frith and Keith Rowe.

This set re-combines and re-presents materials collected and composed during this time. The work is a transient reflection on sound experiences of the distant and recent past. Fellow-colluders include friends from the contemporary music and improvisation scenes in the cities of Glasgow and Munich; members of various Scottish orchestras; Ghanaian sculptor Kofi Setordji; the Glasgow public; pilgrims at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya in India; wildlife recorded around various Scottish and English rivers and lake Starnberg south of Munich; plus a host of others. The existing works built from these sources are interrogated and re-configured live in a spatial remix specially for the Project Room.

‘wildly imaginative’ – The Scotsman ’sensationally exhausting the ambiguity between sound and silence… interactive music-making full of desire’ – Sueddeutsche Zeitung

8:00 p.m., $10

sonar + good for cows

first set: Sonar

Sonar is a duo based in Brooklyn, New York. The story goes that Sonar’s Lucian Buscemi and Julian Bennett Holmes had seen lots of experimental acts at Issue. They decided, “Hey wouldn¹t it be great to do a noise gig at Issue?” Thus Sonar was born. The duo sets up a drum machine, 2 guitars, a drumset, a bass and of course a bowl of earplugs. Their influences include Big Black, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, Black Flag, Throbbing Gristle, WhiteHouse, Wolf Eyes, Arab on Radar, Archaeoptryx, Miles Davis, Fantomas, that compilation “Pioneers of Electronic Music”, Suicide, Sigur Ros, and basically anything loud that nobody else likes, experimental or good industrial.

second set: Good for Cows

Born in San Diego, CA, Ches Smith studied percussion, improvisation, and composition with Winant, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Curran, and has since co-founded two bands: Theory of Ruin (with Fudgetunnel/Nailbomb frontman Alex Newport), and Good for Cows. He currently performs and records with Good for Cows and Theory of Ruin, and with Carla Bozulich, Secret Chiefs 3, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Ben Goldberg, Annie Gosfield, and 7 Year Rabbit Cycle. In January 2006 he will release a collection of solo percussion material called “Congs for Brums.”

Bassist Devin Hoff grew up in Ft Collins Colorado. He has played with jazz elders Hal Stein and E.W. Wainright, new jazz players Vijay Iyer and Ben Goldberg, and composer Graham Connah, all while doing country music gigs and playing and writing for his own rock bands. He currently is a member of the Nels Cline Singers and Scott Amendola’s Plays Monk, and has performed with John Tchicai, Bobby Bradford, Stephen Bernstein, John Ellis, and Amira Baraka. He also leads his own bands Redressers and the Devin Hoff Platform.

8:00 p.m., $10

theremin society: an evening of theremin III.

with:
Armen Ra
Anthony Ptak
David Simons
Rob Schwimmer
Michael Evans
Dorit Chrysler

and introducing:
Elizabeth Brown (http://home.earthlink.net/~elibrooklyn/)
Jon Bernhardt (www.wobblymusic.com)
Jen Hammaker (http://www.myspace.com/hammyhome)

8:00 p.m., $10

panel discussion with the theremin society

with:
Armen Ra
Anthony Ptak
David Simons
Rob Schwimmer
Michael Evans
Dorit Chrysler
Elizabeth Brown
Jon Bernhardt
Jen Hammaker

1:00 p.m., $10

jazzhandzz with david grubbs

Jazzhandzz is a young trio based in New York. They perform a style of free-improvisation that is rooted in American forms of jazz and hard-rock, yet steers clear of the standard ideas of ‘fusion’. The three members perform frequently with other improvising musicians in what sometimes take forms similar to Derek Bailey’s workshops. Stand-up bassist, David Moss, is a pupil of William Parker and often performs with him around town. David performs consistently in varying line-ups, playing a range of styles from jazz standards to free-improvisation to new compositions. Guitarist, Andres Marino, has performed in jazz festivals in Berkeley, California and recently joined the math-rock group Stay Fucked. Drummer, Nick Lesley, also performs in the tribal, free-rock band Necking and the hardware-hacking noise group Gunung Sari. With a youthful influence coming from aggresive rock and noise music, Jazzhandzz discovers a close relationship between these forms, American jazz, and European free-improvisation.

David Grubbs will be performing songs on guitar and piano from “A Guess at the Riddle” (Drag City) and a new album in the making.” Grubbs recently received a grant in Music-Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and teaches Radio and Sound Art at Brooklyn College. A feature article on his work is at the following website: http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060310-davidgrubbs.html

8:00 p.m., $10

john hudak, bruce tovsky & shimpei takeda
+ hans tammen & john j.a. jannone

first set
Sound artists John Hudak and Bruce Tovsky join forces with video artist Shimpei Takeda to create an immersive multimedia installation at IPR using Stephan Moore’s hemispherical speakers.

second set
Hans Tammen plays “Endangered Guitar” using IPR’s multi-channel sound system + John Jannone performs video with live camera and a still image mix.

Process: Visuals are recorded by ten miniature cameras mounted on and around Hans’ guitar & projected simultaneously with a variety of texts on weaving. Weaving diagrams are visual metaphor of the piece, linking mathematics, hand craft, the strings of the guitar, and images which suggest musical notation.

The audio consists of two independent voices simultaneously drawn from Hans Tammen’s “Endangererd Guitar” – one is a single voice in front of the audience pinned against the other, a micropolyphonic pattern on the multichannel sound system mounted on the ceiling. With a wide array of mechanical preparations for guitar (including brushes, small stones, electric fans, cigarette lighters, Ebows and chopsticks) he produces sounds that seem chaotic on the surface, with a forest of apparently separate details, interlinked underneath, woven together as a maze of infinite complexity.

HANS TAMMEN – www.tammen.org
All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.” (Francois Couture)

JOHN JANNONE – www.john.ballibay.com

8:00 p.m., $10

ne(x)tworks

Selections from Kenji Bunch’s opera Woman in the Dunes

Ne(x)tworks are artists-in-residence at IPR for Spring 2006. Ne(x)tworks (formerly Open Aspects Ensemble) is a collaborative ensemble of performing composers based in New York City. Formed in June 2002, the group continues the maverick tradition in American music of creating and interpreting work that blurs distinctions between composition and improvisation. Ne(x)tworks’ repertoire encompasses an extraordinary range of aesthetics, including works by composers of the New York School and idiosyncratic new works from artists within the ensemble (including experimental operas by renowned composer/vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer/violist Kenji Bunch).

8:00 p.m., $10

sten hostfalt

Microtonal Solo Concert Performance by Sten Hostfalt – w/ compositions and improvisations, microtonal and prepared guitars and live electronics.

Introduced on the mid-90’s NYC scene through studies with avantgarde pioneers Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre & microtonalist Joe Maneri, Swedish-born NYC guitarist/composer/live electronica performer Sten Hostfalt is currently acknowledged as one of the foremost and most prolific microtonal improvisers of his time. http://www.stenhostfalt.com

8:00 p.m., $10

melomane

CD release party for GLACIERS, the long-awaited third Melomane album

Melomane will perform around the perimeter of the space and envelope the audience, almost like a live version of Flaming Lips’ Zaireka. Guest musicians on trumpet, violin, saw, clarinet and live video manipulation by Kevin Campbell. This is the Melomane show not to miss.

MELOMANE is a Brooklyn based collective whose uncompromised love for baroque pop, punk, and orchestral music fuels its distinct, cinematic sound. Infectious vocal harmonies, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, cello, trumpet, violin, and sonic exploration are adventurously blended in a song experience rooted equally in emotion and craft.

“These tracks combine garage accessibility and boho poetry with an ingenuity that will win over intelligent listeners and show musicians just how far a band can travel when nested between self-imposed limitations.” – All Music Guide

“Fans of pop served with a heavy skewering of experimental quirk should line up for this one.” – Chuck Eddy, Village Voice

8:00 p.m., $10

todd reynolds:
still life with microphone, V. 3.1

Todd curates an evening of music that features members of the Still Life with Microphone Team in solo sets and installations.

Featuring Bass Clarinetist/Composer Michael Lowenstern, Sound Artist Jody Elff, and Video Artist Luke DuBois, with guest composer/performerChristopher Tignor of Slow Six

Michael Lowenstern’s critically acclaimed “Ten Children” is the very definition of organic, authentic compostion and self-production, infused with jazz and pop sensibilities to go alongside of the pinnacle of classical chops. In a moment of inspiration, Pierre Boulez said… “Mr. Lowenstern, you play with too much character”. No… Seriously. Sound Artist Jody Elff regularly plays sound designer for artists like Laurie Anderson, Bang On A Can, Ethel, TR and Still Life, but it is his sound art and some live performance which take center stage on this night. Video Artist Luke DuBois, a founder of the Freight Elevator Quartet and a ’soloist’ in both real-time audio and video improvisation has been boing-boinged for his piece, Billboard. He was recently featured in Harpers Weekly and is quickly becoming known for his practice of “time-lapse phonography”, with a record out soon on Cantaloupe Music. Not only will you see his live interactive video art driven by the sound of a violin , but you’ll see Casablanca in 10 minutes as well… Christopher Tignor of Slow Six rounds out the evening with a spatially tripped out tune for Todd and Tignor, maybe more, using his signature brand of data-cushioning Max/MSP programming.

Reynolds, a fixture of the New York’s music scene and one of the driving forces behind the string quartet known as Ethel, has played and collaborated with artists as diverse as Betty Buckley, Steve Reich, Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Steve Coleman, Yo-Yo Ma, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Reynolds recently received critical acclaim for his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in the premiere of Neil Rolnick’s Concerto for iFiddle with the American Composers Orchestra.

8:00 p.m., $10

teraa dyna mahtima enffuro zio lunar soooor

RUMINATIONS by Dana Maisel

Yes there are eternal things to fight for
And too, there are worlds
that make rain for worlds
already drowned

An evening of poetry, elantos & sound –

Dana Maisel is one of the co-founders of ISSUE Project Room and currently spends her time writing poetry in Brooklyn.

8:00 p.m., $5

andrew neumann
+ the ny film premiere of “i’ll be there with you”
+ DJ Olive

“DoublePsycho”(April Mix) by Andrew Neumann

“Double Psycho” is a video projection which fuses the original Hitchcock film and the Van Sant remake. By cutting between every few frames the two meld into one, erasing the 40 years that have elapsed between the two films. Usually performed live, this piece and others (”Split:Riddle”, “FaceOff”), are realized using a laptop which controls video switcher, allowing for precise control over transition rate and other parameters. This piece is not as much about narrative as it is about the iconic nature of “Marion Crane”. Her face essentially defines this work; the fact that forty years later Anne Heche replaces Janet Leigh almost identically within the frame gives this new version cause to reflect, as she now appears almost as her doppleganger. For this evening, Neumann will be showing a recently realized version which runs approx. 25min.

“I’ll Be There With You”
Feature Film, 92min
NY PREMIERE

Writer/Director: Akihiro Kitamura
Producers:Constantine Kaldis, Adarsha Benjamin, Chris Mirosevic, Spike Van Briesen
Cast: Daniel Baldwin
Akihiro Kitamura
Adarsha Benjamin
Michelle Lawrence
Chris Estes
Elisabeth Donaldson
Yabuuchi Daisuke
Chris Mirosevic
Dotan Baer

Offical web site – www.illbetherewithyou.com

the synopsis
‘I’ll be there with you’ explores the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners as an unusual group of characters face tragic consequences.

This screening includes a Q & A session with Director Akihiro Kitamura & leading lady Adarsha Benjamin

+ after party with special guest DJ Olive

8:00 p.m., $10

yoga w/ instructor liz kresch

From the bottom up & the inside out, renew & rejuvenate with Iyengar-based Vinyasa. All levels welcome. Find balance & contentment. Fine tune a pose you’ve been taking for granted. Learn one you’ve never seen. Bring no expectations and surpass the ones you’ve had. Please bring a mat if you have one- email if not so I know how many to bring. Please don’t eat for at least and hour before class. (You’ll be glad you didn’t!) Please join us for a fun and informative mid-morning and recharge in the process!

Liz has maintained a dedicated yoga practice since 1996 having studied with David Life and Sharon Gannon at Jivamukti and then with Dharma Mittra and as often as possible, Sri Patthabi Jois. In March 2004, she completed her teacher training and certification at Atmananda Yoga currently Centerpoint Studios. She works with Dunya McPherson to further explore and refine the techniques of fluid bellydance and movement as it relates to all physical practices. Liz holds a BA (1993) from Sarah Lawrence College in art and Philosophy of Religion and is certified through the Swedish Institute to practice Thai Massage. Liz is presently a student of the Shambhala School of Buddhist Studies.

Liz is Yoga Alliance Certified at the 500 hour level and adheres to their ethical guidelines. CPR certified.

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM; Suggested Donation, $15. Pay what you can

drunken poets’ night
+ dj olive, qpe + lloop trio

Sixpoint Craft Ales & Issue Project Room host a beer tasting as New York poets and writers read from the work of poet drunkards

David Lefkowitz
Matthew D’Abate
Marc Zegans
Judith Malina and Hannen Resinikov
Betsy Andrews
Gail Ward
Rodrigo Toscano
Carol Mirakove
Kristin Prevallet
Dana Maisel
& others
will read:

charles bukowski, dylan thomas, raymond carver, dorothy parker, edna st. vincent millay, arthur rimbaud, paul verlaine, and oh so many others

with hors d’oeuvres inspired by 18th century tavern food, catered by Anila Groft

* * * menu * * *

caramelized onion & goat cheese tarts
vegetable crudite
variety of pickles
vermont cheddar cheese
home baked poppyseed & rosepetal bread
grilled apricots with chocolate & almond

+ as an evening finale, dj olive, qpe + lloop trio will perform

$20. includes tastings

8:00 p.m., $20

Workshops

Saturday March 4th
Saturday March 18th

Billy Martin (MMW, illyB) will be conducting classes that focus on creative rhythmic interplay and collective improvising. Reading material will be provided based on his Stridulations (miniature percussion compositions for bamboo and woodblocks).

No previous musical reading experience required. ANYONE can read this simple notation. Great for all musicians, bands, dancers, and anyone else that may be interested in rhythm.

All classes run from 3-4:15 p.m.

REGISTER NOW
* Email us the class date and time you want to attend *

info@issueprojectroom.org

$20.00 per class; Ages 12-and-up. All materials will be provided. (75 mins.)

Performances

ISSUE Project Room hosts Solo Duo Month during March 2006. The program is a perfect marriage between the acoustics of the space and the excellence of these particular performers. The sets alternate acoustic musicianship with the artist’s use of our existing sound installation of Stephan Moore’s 16 Channel Hemipherical Speakers, creating a foundation for interaction between the musicians, their instruments, new technology and the audience.

(r)ake

janene higgins (video) & aki onda (audio) duo
ursula scherrer (video) & david weinstein (audio) duo
angie eng (video) & brian moran (audio) duo
adam kendall (video) & bradford reed (audio) duo

8:00 p.m., $10

leroy jenkins

leroy jenkins solo violin

8:00 p.m., $10

dan joseph, john ingle, loren dempster & rebecca moore

dan joseph & john ingle duo
dan joseph & loren dempster duo
rebecca moore solo

8:00 p.m., $10

the new york society for acoustic ecology presents:
3.2_topographies

by ea:
gill arno
richard garet
andy graydon
adam kendall
jeremy slater

With an introduction by Andrea Williams of NYSAE

8:00 p.m., $10

evidence: stephan moore & scott smallwood,
& amnon wolman

stephan moore & scott smallwood duo
amnon wolman solo

8:00 p.m., $10

billy martin & cyro baptista

billy martin & cyro baptista duo

8:00 p.m., $10

barry weisblat & margarida garcia & other surprise guests TBA

barry weisblat & margarida garcia duo

8:00 p.m., $10

marc ribot & henry grimes

marc ribot solo
marc ribot & henry grimes duo

8:00 p.m., $10

shelley burgon & loren connors

shelley burgon solo
loren connors solo

8:00 p.m., $10

miya masaoka & anthony coleman

miya masaoka solo
anthony coleman solo

8:00 p.m., $10

ne(x)tworks

cornelius dufallo & chris mcintyre: new and recent works

Featuring: Joan La Barbara (voice); Kenji Bunch (viola); Yves Dharamraj (cello); Cornelius Dufallo (violin); Stephen Gosling (piano); Ariana Kim(violin); Chris McIntyre (trombone/electornics); and guest performer Peter Evans (trumpet)

Ne(x)tworks is a collaborative ensemble of performing composers based in New York City. Tonight inaugurates the Ne(x)tworks’ Spring 2006 Residency at ISSUE Project Room.

For more information, check out the Spring 2006 Performance Schedule (PDF).
Click here for details

8:00 p.m., $10 / Reception to follow after performance

chris mann, tom buckner & robert dick

chris mann solo
tom buckner & robert dick duo

8:00 p.m., $10

dorit chrysler, jim thirlwell, william basinski & dj olive

dorit chrysler & jim thirlwell duo
william basinski solo
dj olive solo

8:00 p.m., $10

tomas ulrich, ayman fanous, marco cappelli & jenny lin

tomas ulrich & ayman fanous duo
marco cappelli solo
jenny lin solo

8:00 p.m., $10

audrey chen & nate wooley

audrey chen & nate wooley solos & duos

8:00 p.m., $10

ned rothenberg & marty ehrlich

ned rothenberg & marty ehrlich solos & duos

8:00 p.m., $10

FEBRUARY 2006

part II: an evening of theremin

Saturday, February 4

With Dorit Chrysler, Michael Evans, Dalit Warshaw, Pamelia Kurstin, Anthony Ptak, Armen Ra, and Dave Simons.

Featuring solo & joint theremin performances extraordinare!

On December 2nd 2005 ISSUE Project Room and thereminist Dorit Chrysler presented the first in a series of performances of our newly annointed Theremin Summit, which focuses on the contribution of the theremin and the musicians who have devoted their careers to this instrument. The program emphasizes the varying approaches musicians bring to the theremin and the wide range of musical language it is capable of addressing.

Please join us for the 2nd performance of our Theremin Summit, where we bring in 2 new thereminists; Pamelia Kursten and Michael Evans, and sees the return of 4 of our original 5. The evening will feature solo sets duos, and collective improvisation.

8:00 p.m., $10

Saturday, February 11

Shahzad Ismaily and Andrew McGraw host an eclectic evening of prehistoric, classical and ultramodern love music and (Asian) dance in an intriguing Valentine¹s weekend concert. Bring your date! The evening will include performances of the obscure, nearly extinct and fantastically quiet and intimate Asian heart lute‹the pin pia‹a troubadour¹s instrument of the bygone Lanna (Northern Thai) kingdom, here accompanying traditional Lanna offering dances. Mr. McGraw will attempt to perform a rare, if not apocryphal, New Guinean serenade in which a live dragonfly is played as an instrument. (Note: the performance of this piece is dependent on our being able to actually obtain a dragonfly). Balinese master musician I Nyoman Saptanyana will lead members of the Indonesian consulate gamelan in performances of the classical Legong Kuntul courtesan¹s dance. (Dancers lead by Nezia Azmi of the Indonesian consulate dance ensemble). The gamelan ensemble will continue with the rarely heard repertoire of the delicate semar pegulingan, ³music of the love god,² traditionally performed to accompany the Balinese raja¹s evening escapades (often with legong dancers). The exuberant music from the love scene of the Balinese Ramayana shadow puppet drama will be followed by the languid, hushed music of the love scene from the Javanese Mahabharata shadow puppet play. Changing gears, fiddler and banjo-player Sam Amadon (Doveman) will join McGraw and Ismaily for some old timey American love music. Singer-songwriter Garret Devoe (pure horsehair, here accompanied by McGraw and Ismaily) will present a modern take on love in America. The show will be rounded off by the inevitable experimental work for marital aids (apologies to Judy Dunaway for the cop): vibrators on gongs and drums, dangerously over-inflated amplified condoms.

Free chocolate!

Andrew McGraw is an ethnomusicologist, performer, improviser, writer and educator who has lived, taught and composed throughout Southeast Asia for several years. He has collaborated and composed with several of Indonesia and Thailand¹s leading composers and performers. He teaches music at Emerson College in Boston. In New England and New York he regularly performs in several traditional ensembles and in various new music ensembles with the likes of Mr. Ismaily.

Shahzad Ismaily is a multi-instrumentalist who plays in an almost bewildering number of bands in New York and Los Angeles. Currently, he can be seen regularly performing in Marc Ribot¹s hard ensemble Ceramic Dog, Karla Kihlstedt¹s Tin Hat Trio, Carla Bozulich¹s Nightporter, Trey Spruance¹s Secret Chiefs 3, Doveman and Barbez. Mr. Ismaily was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and any suggestion that he is an authentic bearer of traditional Asian musical culture is wholly dubious.

8:00 p.m., $10

Tuesday, February 14

An evening of films, song and spoken word to celebrate Saint Valentine, Cupid, Aphrodite, Don Juan, Giacomo Casanova, you name them..

With Bradley Eros, Rebecca Moore, Maria Chavez, Gail Ward and Dorit Chrysler, with songs in the key of red

And our cuisine for the evening:

***Love Tapas Menu from Anila Groft***

Roasted beet hearts with Grilled goat cheese
Apple chips with ginger chutney

rose petal sandwiches with creme fraiche on walnut bread
roasted pear and gruyere on baguette

Lavendar and rose ice cream with lemon biscotti
dark chocolate truffles with candied orange peel

8:00 p.m., $15, includes eats

Thursday, February 16

1st half: solo pieces for alto saxophone performed by Michael Attias from composers Anthony Coleman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Russ Lossing.

2nd half: Trio music for Renku. John Hebert: bass, Satoshi Takeishi: percussion, Michael Attias: alto saxophone

New York City-based saxophonist/composer Michael Attias was born in Haifa, Israel in 1968. Concerts in clubs and festivals throughout the US, Europe, and the Middle East have brought him together with musicians such as Anthony Coleman, Ellery Eskelin, Marty Ehrlich, Mark Helias, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Jim Pugliese, Tom Rainey, Herb Robertson, Han Bennink, Jean-Jacques Avenel, and many others. Projects Attias is involved in include Clinamen with Tony Malaby, Matt Moran, Mark Taylor, and Tyshawn Sorey in addition to the members of renku, and A.C.T.ion! with Sean Conly and Take Toriyama.

Bassist and composer John Hebert was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied privately with Bill Huntington, and performed with Steve Masakowski, Tony Dagradi and Johnny Vidacovich. Since then, he has worked alongside jazz musicians Maria Schneider, Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Brian Blade, Gene Jackson, and Rick Margitza, as well as New York musicians Jeannie Bryson, Garry Dial, Uri Caine, Steve Cardenas, Tony Malaby, Matt Wilson, Tom Rainey, and Jeff Hirshfield. John has toured extensively in Europe and Iceland.

Drummer, percussionist and arranger Satoshi Takeishi is a native of Mito, Japan. Takeishi¹s projects include ³Macumbia,² with composer/ arranger Francisco Zumaque in Colombia, and study and performance in the Middle East with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. With Zumaque, he performed a program honoring popular Colombian composer Lucho Bermudes with the Bogota symphony orchestra. In New York, Takeishi has performed with Ray Barretto, Carlos ³Patato² Valdes, Eliane Elias, Dave Douglas, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton and others.

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, February 17

8pm:
sarround sound turntable skits and vinyl score jokes by phOnOmena’s whocares & nevermind (toshio kajiwara & dj olive)

10pm:
the Agriculture record release party. qpe (quiet personal electronics) celibrates the release of his new record “Gentrifried” on the Agriculture. in stores now! he’s ganna play it live!

plus akida & jolynn (little d, amsterdam) make a special ny trip to support qpe live and special qpe quest mike berk live

also visuals and instelations from: mpld, dan vatsky, multipolyomni & phOnOmena posse

escape the gravity
qpe home: www.qpe.info
record/mp3s: www.theagriculture.com/qpe.html

8:00 p.m., $10

Saturday, February 18

PHASE III includes: Jim Pugliese (percussions); Christine Bard (drums); Michael Attias (saxaphone); Kato Hideki (bass); Marco Cappelli (guitar)

The Kusun Ensemble is an extraordinary group of musicians and dancers from Ghana, West Africa. Founded by Nii Tettey Tetteh, the ensemble includes past and present members of The National Ballet and The Pan African Orchestra. Although rooted in traditional music, the group has developed a new brand of music and dance they have dubbed “Nokoko.” They have created innovative rhythms and dances by fusing bass and lead guitar with traditional Ghanaian instruments to produce an electrifying blend of jazz and African music. On a mission to share this new style of Ga music, the ensemble has been dazzling audiences in Ghana and around the world.

Nii Tettey Tetteh – band leader, composer, singer, percussion master,cultural educator
Samuel “Otu” Kodjo – youngest master drummer
Emmanuel A. Anang – master of the bell and shaker, drums
Robert “Obuobi” Ashong – guitar, drums, bell
Nelson Glover Yao – bell, light percussion
Addotei Bruice – percussion, merchandise
Enest Borketey – drummer
Odai Moses – drummer

8:00 p.m., $15

Monday, February 20

An evening of readings honoring Beat poets of the past, with actor Steve Buscemi and poets Anne Waldman and Bob Holman.

Acclaimed actor, writer and director Steve Buscemi recently won the Independent Spirit Award, the New York Film Critics Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff. He was also nominated for an Emmy and a DGA Award for directing the “Pine Barrens” episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos.” His resume includes Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train for which he received an IFP Spirit Award nomination, Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup, Martin Scorcese’s New York Stories, the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink, the Academy Award-winning Fargo and The Big Lebowski, Stanley Tucci’s The Imposters, Con Air, Armageddon, Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion, Escape From L.A., Desperado, Domestic Disturbance, Things To Do in Denver When You¹re Dead, Somebody to Love, Robert Altman’s Kansas City and his IFP Spirit Award-winning performance as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. Buscemi made his feature film directorial debut with Trees Lounge, in which he also performed and wrote the screenplay. The film made its debut in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Buscemi’s second directing effort, Animal Factory, starred Willem Dafoe and Edward Furlong. He is in the process of adapting William Burroughs’ book Queer into a feature film from a script by Oren Moverman.

Anne Waldman, poet, editor, performer, professor, curator, cultural activist, carries in her genetics the lineages of the New American Poetry, and is a considered an inheritor of the Beat (Allen Ginsberg called her his “spiritual wife”) and New York School (Frank O’Hara told her to “work for inspiration, not money”) mantles. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley prize for poetry, and has had residences at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, The Atlantic Center for the Arts and at the Christian Woman’s University in Tokyo. Directing the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Poetry Project over a decade, she co-founded the Jack Keroauc School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University in 1974. She currently is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Naropa’s celebrated Summer Writing Program and is working with the Study Abroad on the Bowery project in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Author and editor of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry, she has been working for over 25 years on the epic IOVIS project (two volumes published by Coffee House Press, 1993, 1997) and has many recently published other projects. She has been awarded a residency at the Rockefeller’s Bellagio center for April of 2006.

Bob Holman, recently dubbed a member of the “Poetry Pantheon” by the New York Times Magazine and featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. profile in The New Yorker, Bob Holman has previously been crowned “Ringmaster of the Spoken Word” (New York Daily News), “Poetry Czar” (Village Voice), “Dean of the Scene” (Seventeen). Holman¹s current activities continue to keep poetry headed straight for the heart¹s heart. Holman’s first CD, In With The Out Crowd, moves from rock to country to ballad, shot through with urgent humor and what can only be called, ³poetry.² Holman¹s latest collection of poems, The Collect Call of the Wild, is Holman’s fifth book. He is currently collaborating on Praise Poems, a book of poems and photos with Chuck Close. Bob fronts poetry into daily life by all means: he won three Emmys over six seasons producing Poetry Spots for WNYC-TV, received a Bessie Performance Award, has twice been Featured Artist at the Chicago Poetry Video Festival and won International Public Television Awards for USOP and Words in Your Face, a production of the PBS series “Alive TV.² He is currently Visiting Professor of Writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.

8:00 p.m., $20 minimum donation. This event is a benefit for IPR. We encourage you to learn about our organization and to become a member. Your support keeps our programming alive, and allows us to continue presenting cutting-edge new work.

Thursday, February 23

An initiative of dynamic silence conceived and conducted by Tres.

The blackout concerts focus on listening attentively to the existing continuous-flat sounds present in the chosen venues as they are gradually switched off based on their situation and intensity. Ultimately the maximum level of silence is reached.

By doing so, we experience the surgical dissection of the ambient sounds pervasive throughout our lives: the random mass of blows and hums that fill the rooms where machines are running at work and at home. During the process of gradually switching off these machines and lights, we experience the discovery of soundscapes more clear and defined, each time holding a greater presence of silence. The final destination of this audio voyage is darkness and the new resulting atmosphere of regression to silence in its natural threshold where the quality of listening becomes perfect.

Aproximate duration 30 minutes.
Punctuality is requested. Once the concert has started , it will not be possible to enter the venue.

Tres is an interdisciplinar artist that concentrates his work in the investigation and experimentation with silence. The silent cocktails and concerts, the public ³turn-offs² of noisy spots and lights, the musical and video pieces, the installations and the ceremonies so diverse which Tres has been producing for over a decade have a common denominator, that of experimenting with alternative ways in which the individual usually relates to himself and others and, by and large to its environment.

Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer living in Brooklyn and Troy, New York. He has graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Michigan University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his hand-built hemispherical speakers. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught courses in sound art and electronic music at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Simon’s Rock College of Bard. He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Diana Slattery’s artistic practice, The Glide Project, (http://www.academy.rpi.edu/glide) spirals around a central theme of the mutual evolution of language, game, and consciousness, describing and modeling one possibility for an evolutionary writing system. Originally a gestural language, the 27 Glide glyphs are inscribed both as static and dynamically morphing forms. LiveGlide is the three-dimensional form of Glide-writing which is performed improvisationally in real-time. *The Maze Game*, the novel from which the Glide language emerged, was published by Deep Listening Publications in February, 2003. Slattery is the Director of DomeWorks, an arts collaborative based in the Capital region creating works for domed spaces and the hardware and software tools and equipment for future technological and aesthetic experimentation in wraparound realities. DomeWorks is a project of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, February 24

1st set:
Bonnie B. Jones and Andy Hayleck

2nd set:
The Ensemble

Andy Hayleck is a Baltimore composer/musician and recordist. For the past few years he has concentrated on using unamplified bowed metal (cymbals and saw), although recently he has begun to improvise using a computer. Currently a member of Trockeneis, he recently made a solo tour of the west coast of the United States (playing the amplified gong/wire). Recordings include: “Gong/Wire” (earlids), “Various, Recordings Involving Ice” (HereSee), and “The Disappearing Floor” (Recorded).

Bonnie B. Jones was born in South Korea in 1977 and until recently her work has focused largely on text and performance. However, a recent trip back to Korea introduced her to the digital delay pedal and circuit bending. For the last year she has been collaborating with Korean musicians, such as the duo Astronoise, and expat Joe Foster. A very pleasant and brief trip to Japan gave her the chance to play with Toshi Makihara and saxophonist Kenichi Matsumoto.

The Ensemble is a NYC/Wesleyan University based collective of improvisers/composers interested in and actively pursuing the process of music improvisation as solo artists, collaborators, and occasionally in this larger configuration. Collectively, The Ensemble contains musical relationships dating back at least five years for some of the members involved and is the result of musical meetings and a shared vision that has taken place all across the US during that time. For this concert the group will feature Jonathon Zorn (synthesizer), Bryan Eubanks (electronics), Rachel Thompsen (violin), Andrew Lafkas (contrabass), Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano saxophone), Aaron Siegel (percussion), and for the first time in this larger configuration of playersMaria Chavez (turntables) will be participating. The Ensemble is an exciting project for all involved that brings together musicians with a rich and varied experience in improvised, experimental, and contemporary music from the Pacific NW, Texas, the Midwest, and the New England area.

8:00 p.m., $10

JANUARY 2006

peck allmond & kenny wollesen

Thursday, January 5

After having spent the last 22 years climbing eternity and traveling the metaphysical byways together, uber multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond & super drummer Kenny Wollesen land at the Project Room.

From 8pm to midnight !    Allmond and Wollesen plan to bring ALL of their sound producing vibrational devices down to the Project Room for an evening sonic pleasure….

* * * BE WARNED - this will be a quiet show! audience members will be requested to take off their shoes, enjoy fresh herbal teas and free vegan snacks while listening on pillows.

ALSO – there will be several moments throughout the night where audience members will be kindly asked to join in the performance.

Originally from San Francisco, multi-instrumentalist and composer Peck Allmond has lived in NYC for over a dozen years. Aside from leading and writing for his own jazz/world-music unit, Peck Allmond Kalimba Kollective, he is an in-demand sideman on an unlikely variety of instruments: trumpet, flute, saxophones, valve trombone, bass clarinet, and many other brass and woodwinds.
Peck also plays the kalimba, the African-derived thumb piano to which he brings an unusual amount of virtuosity; his most recent SoniCulture Records disc, “Kalimba Collage”, showcases his unique abilities on this beautiful harp-like instrument. This recording can be heard and purchased at www.peckallmond.com. The Kalimba Kollective is scheduled for a European tour in May 2006.

Raised in Santa Cruz under the tutelage of Ruth Muller, and now a New Yorker, Kenny Wollesen plays in marching bands, panda bands, rok bands, and country bands.

8:00 p.m. . . . , $10

Friday, January 6

Al Margolis was one of the prime movers in the legendary cassette underground scene of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label released over 300 cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, Amy Denio, John Hudak and Jim O’Rourke) and is the éminence grise behind twentyyears of music under the name If, Bwana. He is the man behind the Pogus label, as well as label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, Dave Prescott, Hal McGee, Sarah Weaver, Hudson Valley Soundpainting Ensemble, and Amoeba (Raft) Boy, among others.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in Montreal and New York. She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos and video installation works which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. She has performed live video mixing with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, David Watson, Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Hans Tammen, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castellò, Micheal Delia, Antonio Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Martine Crispo, TV Pow , Boris Hauf, Matt Pass, Richard Geret, Gil Sanson, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, André Gonçalves…

Monique Buzzarte trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles in addition to her own compositions. Ms. Buzzarté’s recordings include Zanana’s Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), John Cage’s Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19 – The Number Pieces 2), and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20); forthcoming from Townhall Records is Sorrel Hays’ Wake Up and Dream. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire. An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of women composers and received residencies in 2003 at Create@iEAR Studios and in 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for the development of an interactive performance system for the trombone. Her advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening.

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, January 13

A gamut of musicians and artists gather together to invoke songs and images of rebellion and make you want to get out and keep rising up. Participants include Lenny Kaye, Invert, Kenny Wollesen, Marc Ribot, Rebecca Moore, Bonfire Madigan, Hanifa Walidah, John Frazier, Jeff Lewis, Seth Tobocman (slides and music – with Eric Blitz, Steve Wishnia and Emilio (zef) China and filmmaker Jem Cohen, among others!

8:00 p.m., $10

Thursday, January 19

Theremin as spacial-controlled sample trigger. With jaw harp, percussion and homemade instruments.
featuring:
Lisa Karrer – Voice
Stephanie Griffin – Viola
Skip LaPlante, Carole Weber, Michael Evans, Sima Wolf – Homemades

Program

INFORMATION – from the CD “Prismatic Hearing”
FAIT/HURT/KOOL TANG – more samples triggered by theremin
DEAR OFFICER – an actual published suicide note & original poem by Lisa Karrer
GRANDMA – text by Mark Leyner from “My Cousin My Gastroenterologist”
VIRTUAL PERCUSSION TRIO – in which the viola,voice and theremin each midi-trigger percussion phrases
COLLECTIVE CHOK – for blown bottles and styrocello
CREMATION MUSIC – new arrangement of Balinese gamelan

David Simons is a composer and performer specializing in percussion, Theremin, digital electronics, and World Music. He has devised his own method of using the Theremin as a Midi controller. His unusual collection of sounds from self-built and non-European instruments combines with digital sampling technologies to create a unique pan-cultural music. His recordings include the CDs “Prismatic Hearing ” (Tzadik); an opera “The Birth of George ”  (Tellus) co-written with Lisa Karrer, commissioned by Harvestworks and supported by the Aaron Copland Recording Fund; “Kebyar Leyak ” and “Cool it Wayang ” for  Gamelan Son of Lion, compositions for Music for Homemade Instruments ensemble, and with many others. David¹s work in theater and dance has brought him to Zagreb and Tallinn, Seoul and Yogyakarta, Munich and Berlin, Guantanamo, Honolulu, and Bali. In 2003 he was resident composer at the Rockefeller Foundation¹s Bellagio center in Italy, writing for NEWBAND and the microtonal Harry Partch instruments. Other awards include NYFA Fellowships, Artslink and Arts International travel grants, Meet the Composer commissions, and international artist residencies. “Music for Theremin and Gamelan “, commissioned by the American Composers Forum was performed at Sacred Rhythm Percussion Festival in Bali 2000, and at The Kitchen in 2005. He recently premiered “Uncle Venus ” for Flux string quartet with Gamelan. Simons’ writings on music and sound are published in Radiotexte(Semiotexte#16), EAR magazine, and Soundings.

Lisa Karrer and Stephanie Griffin have appeared with David at the 2000 Brussels Theremin Convention, TUK Theater in Jakarta, Galapagos in Brooklyn, and at festivals in Estonia.

Music for Homemade Instruments have been composing new music for new instruments for decades and have performed and taught workshops in schools and museums thruout the US.

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, January 20

DJ Olive was raised in Boston, Nova Scotia, Trinidad, Rhode Island and Australia. He was an active member of the infamous Brooklyn Williamsburg scene(’90-’93). In ‘91 he co-founded Lalalandia Entertainment Research Corporation. Lalalandia made many of the most memorable Brooklyn warehouse after- hours environments of that period. In 1994, he started up Multipolyomni and We. We’s ‘97 release “as is” can be considered a classic. In 1995 he began to enjoy improvising with musicians. Here’s a sample of some of the folks he’s played with. In 1999, he and Toshio Kajiwara founded Phonomena Audio Arts & Multiples (www.phonomena.org), a weekly event as well as a record label. also In ‘99, he and James Healy started the Agriculture. In 2003, after many years of collaborating with musicians, live and on recordings, Olive finally released his debut solo CD, “Bodega,” an ass shaking continuous mix tape of rough down home dance party beats.In 2004, Room40, from Brisbane put out his “Buoy” composition. A 60-min voyage of beat-less warmth Olive call’s “a sleeping pill”. He has also been included in many exhibitions including: Treble, Brooklyn Sculpture Center 2004, City Sonics 2004, Mons, Venice Biennale 2003, Whitney Biennial 2002, Bit Streams and Whitney 2001.He continues to compose in his Brooklyn studio, Skin Tone Riddles when he’s not playing somewhere like ?Tasmania.

Ikue Mori moved to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA. In the mid 80¹s met John Zorn and was introduced new world of improvisation. Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. Throughout the 90¹s, she subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. In 2000 she was commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble to write and premiere the piece ³Aphorism.² In 2003 she was commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write music for silent film by Helen Levitt “In the Street”. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression and recently incorporating live visual manipulation. Current working groups include ³Mephista² with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, duo project with Zeena Parkins, and various projects with John Zorn.

8:00 p.m., $10

Saturday, January 21

First Set : SWAMI LATEPLATE
Bobby Previte (drums, electronics) / Jamie Saft (keyboards)
For the first time ever Swami will break out of the studio for a night in front of living, breathing people..

Second Set: THE JAMIE SAFT BLUES EXPLOSION
Jamie Saft (organ & guitar) / Bobby Previte (drums) / Stuart Popejoy (bass)

Bobby Previte, who “can break your heart with one cymbal crash,” fell in love with the drums at age thirteen. He moved to New York City in 1979, quickly settled in with the leading lights of the ³Downtown² scene, and never looked back. Widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning compositions. Previte has taken his music all over the world, and has received many grants and awards. He and Charlie Hunter are featured this month on the cover of Downbeat. Watch for “The Coalition of the Willing”, Previte’s new instrumental rock band, with Charlie Hunter, Jamie Saft, Steve Bernstein, Skerik, and Stanton Moore, coming this April on Ropeadope records.

Jamie Saft plays piano, organs, analog synthesizers, bass, guitar, and steel guitars. Saft’s stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with some of the leading lights of the New York music scene including John Zorn, the B-52’s, Laurie Anderson, Dave Douglas, and Bobby Previte. He has toured the US and Europe extensively, and has released “Breadcrumb Sins’” and “Sovlanut” on Tzadik.Saft was the score composer for the award winning documentary film “Murderball” and has a number of new film scores on the way in 2006.

8:00 p.m., $10

Thursday, January 26

Under the straightforward moniker of Contemporary Sound Track Orchestra New York, CSTONY debuts at ISSUE Project Room.

CSTONY is Swiss-born Italian music artist/producer Fa Ventilato, who currently resides in NYC. For this debut, Fa will play and perform live improvised electronic music for the classic silent film, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) by Dziga Vertov. The music Fa creates is made through real time CD manipulations with high quality samples of classical instruments and loops on a multichannel sound system. Compared to the composition of Michael Nyman, who wrote the much celebrated score in 2002, Fa’s version takes on a freestyle approach with real-time composing, incorporating the art of looping and sampling with simultaneous dj-mixing skills.

Originally a drummer, Fa Ventilato has evolved into a multi-tasking home studio music maker, creating music for international contemporary artists, film trailers for festivals, dance re-mixes, sound installations, theater music, and conceptual pop albums.

8:00 p.m., $10

Friday, January 27

Talibam performs with Uncle Woody Sullender on avant banjo blues and special guests guitarist Chris Forsyth (peeesseye), drummer Mike Pride(Dynamite Club, Fushitsusha, etc), and Michael Evans (one man percussion wonder)

Talibam:: Think Media Dream-vintage Sun Ra organ blow-outs locking in with saxophone feedback and a single Plunderphonic-ed Keith Moon drum fill for 40 minutes. Or, imagine Andy Kaufman sitting in on keyboards with Borbetomagus at next year¹s ABC No Rio benefit.

Whoa.

Talibam is three people. Matt Mottel’s visage should be familiar to anyone who¹s been going to shows in NYC in the past 8 years. He’s been hanging around NYC clubs since he was like 16, and dropping electric mind bombs with his synthesizer in those clubs nearly as long. Kevin Shea’s drumming and stage gymnastics have been gazed at with wide wonder through his membership in bands like Storm & Stress (Touch & Go), Coptic Light (No Quarter), and People (I and Ear). And Ed Bear plays the baritone saxophone like Ron Asheton, and lives in his girlfriend’s dorm room at Bard College.

Under the not-so-clever moniker of Uncle Woody Sullender, Woody Sullender performs improvised banjo music, playing with and against the cultural symbol of his chosen instrument. While alluding to the “traditional” musics of his home states of Virginia and North Carolina, he explores a diverse plane of plucked string music from around the world as well as incorporating punk, noise, free jazz, etc. In 2004, he collaborated with sound artist Maryanne Amacher, incorporating his banjo recordings into “TEO! A sonic sculpture” which won the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. Although heavily involved in Chicago’s free improvisation community, this is Sullender’s first solo performance in New York since recently relocating to Brooklyn.

8:00 p.m., $10

Saturday, January 28

With acoustic and electronic soundscapes, percussionists Ibarra and Rodriguez weave melodies and rhythms that evoke filipino folkloric trances in an excerpt of new pieces titled “7000 Mysteries”.

Roberto Rodriguez electronics, claypot, cajon la peru, drumset, percussion

Susie Ibarra acoustic and electric kulintang (philippine gongs), drumset, percussion, compositions

8:00 p.m., $10