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ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room (projected redux) with Joan La Barbara, Abigail Levine, James McNew and James Fei

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room, recorded for his 90th Birthday Celebration, presented by ISSUE in May 2021. The evening includes versions of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room from Joan La Barbara, Abigail Levine & James McNew all created during isolated stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Lucier himself recorded live at ISSUE’s Boerum theater in 2017. The evening will also feature a panel conversation with La Barbara, Levine and McNew focusing on their presentations and Lucier’s legacy, moderated by James Fei.

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Distant Pairs Series

Distant Pairs: James Fei & Yan Jun - 螺层 (Gyration)

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Oakland, California-based composer, synthesist, saxophonist and electronic musician James Fei and Chinese musician and poet Yan Jun, who is based in Beijing.

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James Fei: Sine of Merit III

James Fei performs Sine of Merit III, a solo electronics piece with transducers and feedback. Fei's setup consists of a mix of old modular equipment and homebrewed circuits. The system is driven by multiple feedback loops, often on the brink of instability with signals recursively routed through microphones, spring reverb, and converted between audio and control voltages.

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James Fei, Kato Hideki, Sean Meehan

Thursday, June 15th, ISSUE presents the debut trio performance between Fei, Kato and and veteran NYC percussionist Sean Meehan.. Their practice is described by The Wire as “no casual knob twiddling -- [with] Kato’s sense of timing as dramatic as it was with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith in their storied trio group Death Ambient, and Fei approaching the business of making music with deadly earnestness.”

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James Fei, Kato Hideki, Sean Meehan

Thursday, June 15th, ISSUE presents a rare evening with James Fei (analog electronics) and Kato Hideki (bass, electronics) in duo performance. The evening also sees the debut trio performance between Fei, Kato and and veteran NYC percussionist Sean Meehan.

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After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

After 9 Evenings: James Fei & Laetitia Sonami / Thomas Dexter

James Fei and Laetitia Sonami’s improvisational collaboration employs tactile interfaces and electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral responses. Thomas Dexter presents a site-specific performance using 16mm projectors as instruments.

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After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

Ongoing Series

From September 25 to October 1, 2016 ISSUE Project Room presents After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, a dynamic series of performances, talks, screenings, and workshops to mark the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering (1966).

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December Archives

From the archives, with Mark Stewart, David Cossin, Dorit Chrysler, Armin Ra, David Simons, Anthony Ptak, Rob Schwimmer, Sean Meehan, James Fei, Jeff Arnal, Briggan Krauss, Tomas Ulrich, Billy Martin, Chris Mann, Alessandro Bosetti, Nat Wooley, Ben Owen, MInoshima Osechi, Kenta Nagai, Phil Niblock and more.

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James Fei & Kato Hideki

Lower East Side

The duo of James Fei and Kato Hideki moves fluidly between instrumental improvisation (on saxophones and electric bass, respectively) and live electronics.

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