Tons of talent takes the ISSUE stage by storm in a night of two sets.
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matana roberts’ gens de couleur libre (chapter 1 of the coin coin continuum)
Old American Can Factory
Chicago bred A.A.C.M. saxophonist / composer Matana Roberts presents a new workshop of Gens De Couleur Libre, an in progress musical narrative which pays homage to her New Orleans, Cane River, Louisianan roots in a beautiful evening concert at Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room.
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A new bi-monthly series featuring an evening of recently commissioned chamber music, electronic sounds and abstract video with Zach Layton, Ray Sweeten and Jessica Pavone.
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jessica pavone: “…no way to say goodbye” + anti social music
Old American Can Factory
…No Way to Say Goodbye is a collection of songs for string quartet that substitutes a second violin for a double bass. The music is influenced by an interest in the simplistic beauty of folk songs and a belief that one’s ability to accompany oneself in song as one of the more natural expressions of music.
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Extra Life + Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone
Old American Can Factory
ISSUE Project Room presents: Extra Life and Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone Duo.
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Kenneth Goldsmith sings Roland Barthes with live String Quartet
Old American Can Factory
A live String Quartet (Mari Kimura, Dana Lyn, violins; Jessica Pavone, viola; Egil Rostad, cello) will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and improvisations in the style of Anton Webern while Kenneth Goldsmith sings text by Roland Barthes.
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Artist-In-Residence: Matana Roberts, post-concert talk with Nate Chinen
Old American Can Factory
ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Matana Roberts, will premiere the last of three new COIN COIN pieces which focus on spatial and environmental interplay while excavating themes relating to her familial heritage and own personal history.
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Jessica Pavone String Ensemble
Composer and performer Jessica Pavone presents new works with her string ensemble, consisting of Erica Dicker (violin), Angela Morris (violin), Joanna Mattrey (viola), and Pavone herself (viola). As both an instrumentalist and composer, Jessica Pavone has regularly and thematically explored tactile experience and the use of the body in her compositions and performances.
Paul de Jong, cellist and co-founder of celebrated experimental duo the Books, and composer and violist Jessica Pavone’s String Ensemble each present new work -- spanning de Jong’s distinctly hybrid and emotionally-driven cello music, to Pavone’s uniquely physical compositions for strings.
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Annea Lockwood: Bayou-Borne, For Pauline
FOR concludes with a performance of Annea Lockwood’s Bayou-Borne, for Pauline. The piece is dedicated to the late Pauline Oliveros (1932 - 2016) and follows a score based on a map of the six bayous converging near Houston, Texas. The work is performed by Christian Wolff (percussion), Ross Karre (percussion), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Michael Pisaro (electric guitar), Megan Schubert (soprano voice) and Jessica Pavone (viola).