ISSUE is pleased to present new works from cellist, composer and sound-artist Leila Bordreuil and DC/NYC-based musician and organizer Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses—in addition to their instruments—to explore graphic scores, sound, noise, and improvisation. Centering techniques of sonic feedback generation within instrumental practice, the notated compositions will emerge through a radically collaborative process, in which performers co-create the works.
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Leila Bordreuil & Luke Stewart: New Works for Feedback Ensemble - Chris Corsano, Julia Santoli, Nina Garcia, Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh
Under the “K” Bridge Park
New works from Leila Bordreuil & Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses.
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Tashi Dorji & Alex Zhang Hungtai / C. Spencer Yeh & Kwami Winfield / Ka Baird
First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE opens its 2023 season with an expansive gathering of improvising musicians with idiomatic approaches traversing guitar, percussion, voice, violin, trumpet, electronics, and more.
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Isolated Field Recording Series: C. Spencer Yeh - The Big Share
ISSUE is pleased to stream THE BIG SHARE, a new piece from artist, improviser, and composer C. Spencer Yeh. “Perhaps the best way I’ve been able to describe THE BIG SHARE is as a series of rough draft chapters from an unfinished novel that probably will never, nor should really, get finished."
Littoral: Kennet Goldsmitch with Alan Licht + C. Spencer Yeh
Old American Can Factory
Kenneth Goldsmith will be singing the classics of theory, accompanied live by Tianna Kennedy, Alan Licht and friends.
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Tony Conrad and C. Spencer Yeh + Emeralds and Carlos Giffoni + Sam Goldberg
Old American Can Factory
Tonight’s line up includes a collaborations between C. Spencer Yeh and minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad, Cincinnati-based trio Emeralds and Carlos Giffoni. Plus a performance by Sam Goldberg.
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Floating Points 2008: Gibby Haynes (Cancelled) + Zeroboy + C. Spencer Yeh
Old American Can Factory
The third year of Floating Points Festival (formerly Points in a Circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s innovative house speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.
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C. Spencer Yeh + Michael Johnsen
Old American Can Factory
C. Spencer Yeh and Michael Johnson perform solo at ISSUE Project Room.
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Nate Wooley + C. Spencer Yeh + Chris Corsano
Old American Can Factory
ISSUE Project Room presents a performance by Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh, and Chris Corsano working as an improvising unit, as well as the premiere and recording of Wooley’s new work with tape which extends the work recently released on Important Records (Seven Storey Mountain with David Grubbs and Paul Lytton).
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2015: The Year In Video
Following the start of construction on our Downtown Brooklyn theater in February, ISSUE took its programs on the road, presenting hundreds of artists in more than 20 venues across the city. We celebrate the close of the season with a look back at video some of our favorite performances.
2015: The Year In Photos
2015 has been a momentous year for ISSUE Project Room. Following the start of renovations on our theater in February 2015, ISSUE undertook nomadic programming, presenting more than 60 events at 20 venues. We commemorate the season with photos of some of our favorite moments.
C. Spencer Yeh presents two new moving image works showcasing his unique perspective as an artist, organizer, and audience member. A travelogue captured via smartphone in Egypt explores surveillance, chance composition, tourism, and politics. Shot over the year 2002, a "concert film" documents approximately 40 bands.