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Sabisha Friedberg: The Hant Variance

Artists Space Books & Talks: 55 Walker St., NYC 10013

Sabisha Friedberg presents a live mix of the third and final movement of "The Hant Variance" as a multichannel/quadraphonic piece. This finale, the most symphonic in it construction and melancholic in its tonality, is the resolution to the first two movements, released as a 2xLP on ISSUE's Distributed Objects imprint.

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"The Hant Variance" in the New York Times

Ben Ratliff for The New York Times

"The composer Sabisha Friedberg writes acoustic or electronic pieces specifically for places of performance and recording, transmitting an awareness of the physical space where the music is happening, and a fascination with the low frequencies. “The Hant Variance” is the second release on Distributed Objects, the new publishing and recording imprint created at Brooklyn’s performance space Issue Project Room, where Ms. Friedberg was artist in residence in 2013.

It’s a four-movement piece she wrote and realized with Peter Edwards. Both musicians work with oscillators, analog synthesizers, field recordings and some kind of subwoofer setup that helps the sound shift directions. It’s a slow, quiet listen, with long crescendos and shifting ambient backdrops — sounds suggesting, say, a choppy wind as heard behind a thin wall, or a continuous cello note played in an airplane hangar."

"The Hant Variance" in the WIRE

Clive Bell for the WIRE, March 2015 #373

"These are the first releases from Brooklyn's experimental performance centre Issue Project Room, which occupies an extraordinary vaulted theatre space on Boerum Place, originally built as HQ for the Elks Lodge fraternal order. The recordings are made by IPR artists in residence. [...]

Aural disorientation is the name of the game for South African artist Sabisha Friedberg, who is interested in a possible relationship between low end sound and apparitions. There's a link with the late Vic Tandy and his paranormal research in 1980s Coventry. Friedberg sets up flickering drones above unstable low frequencies - perhaps a spinning subwoofer is involved - and sits back to let the unpredictable in. It is certainly an eerie experience, and when distant bells or voices creep into audibility, you might prefer not to be home alone. More haunting than hauntological, Friedberg is patiently conducting an audio seance of subtle low end phantasmagoria."

Announcing Distributed Objects

ISSUE is pleased to announce the launch of Distributed Objects, a new publishing imprint featuring recorded and written documents focused on emerging artistic practices. The February 17, 2015, release of double LPs by former Artists-in-Residence Sabisha Friedberg and Sergei Tcherepnin inaugurates the imprint.

Sabisha Friedberg: In (the limbs) of letters, not the bellows

A series of texts written by artist serves as the sonic foundation of this live solo multi-channel voice, electronic and acoustic instrumental piece. The work is premiered in a live performance on Thursday evening, and continues as an installation on view 12-6pm on Friday and Saturday afternoon.

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Sabisha Friedberg: "Hoffe-Axiom" Installation

EXTENDED! Saturday from 12-5pm, the subsonic artifacts of Sabisha Friedberg's "Hoffe Axiom" are installed in ISSUE's theater as a quadrophonic installation. Four subwoofers project a series of cyclical sonic traces or phantom sounds in patterns of low-end frequencies.

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Sabisha Friedberg: Hoffe - Axiom

Sabisha Friedberg presents Hoffe - Axiom, a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice. The work draws on extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones.

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Artists-in-Residence 2013

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce our Artists in Residence for 2013: James Hoff, Ben Vida, devynn emory, Jules Rosskam, and Sabisha Friedberg.