ISSUE Project Room is delighted to honor renowned artist and ISSUE Board member Robert Longo and ISSUE’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol . This year’s event celebrates two artists who envisioned ISSUE from its earliest years, bringing a unique perspective to New York’s avant-garde performance landscape.
Charmaine Lee presents her third and final work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Laminals III, the last of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. The evening concludes with a trio of improvised music featuring Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) and Ikue Mori (laptop).
Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals II,” the second of three movements for a new long-form piece for solo voice. With particular attention given to amplification, feedback, and physical technique, this movement further examines the possibilities of augmentation, distortion, and transformation of the human voice. The solo piece is followed by a duo with noise and visual artist Victoria Shen in a collaboration highlighting their individual practices of physicality (of voice, body, and technology) in relation to performance and sound.
2019 Artist-In-Residence Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals II”, the second movement for a new long-form piece for solo voice. The evening also features a duo with Victoria highlighting their individual practices of physicality (of voice, body, and technology) in relation to performance and sound.
For her inaugural residency performance, 2019 Artist-In-Residence Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals,” the first of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. Using the organic instrument as a vehicle for synthetic creation, this movement investigates the possibilities of both the grotesque and beautiful qualities that emerge from a mechanical treatment of the human voice.
Charmaine Lee presents an improvised trio performance featuring id m theft able (voice, objects) and Andrea Pensado (voice, electronics). Together, the trio demonstrates the dynamic nature of the voice, celebrating the human spirit in all its wonder and absurdity.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of musician Charmaine Lee, multimedia artist Ying Liu, interdisciplinary performer Rena Anakwe, and light and color improviser Lindsay Packer, as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2019 season.
For her inaugural residency performance, 2019 Artist-In-Residence Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals,” the first of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. The program is paired with an improvised trio performance featuring id m theft able (voice, objects) and Andrea Pensado (voice, electronics).
Improvising vocalist Charmaine Lee showcases her unique style that tensely balances piercing, rapid-fire free improvisation with the sober austerity of Japanese onkyo. Often heavily amplifying the guttural manipulations of her otherwise unaffected voice, Lee approaches elements of ASMR, drone, jazz, and noise all sewn together into a musical language simultaneously lucid and severe.
ISSUE's fall season opens with legendary experimental jazz artist Milford Graves, performing with renowned multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. The evening also features a performance by composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld, as well as improvising vocalist Charmaine Lee. Join as an ISSUE Member for a free ticket!