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Liturgy / John Wiese / Victoria Shen

First Unitarian Congregational Society

ISSUE closes it’s summer season with an expansive program of liberated sound featuring new work from Liturgy—the “transcendental black metal” project of composer/philosopher Hunter Hunt-Hendrix—as well as new solo work by artist/composer John Wiese, and musician, visual artist, and instrument builder Victoria Shen.

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Liturgy / Wreck and Reference / White Suns / Kyle Eyre Clyd

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn 11231

This all-day indoor/outdoor show crosses metal, noise and experimental electronics, headlined by Liturgy— their first reunited show as a quartet— alongside Californian post-metal duo Wreck and Reference, extreme-noise group White Suns, and noise/electronic artist Kyle Eyre Clyd, alias Penny Royale.

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ISSUE Radio: Liturgy

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix kicks off his residency in a duo performance as Liturgy with Bernhard Gann. Eruptions of distorted guitar and industrial-like discharges of noise that accelerate, decelerate and explode in and out of sync with the back beat. Apocalyptic and ethereal.

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix with Juliet Forshaw

Musicologist Juliet Forshaw interviews 2012 Artist-in-Residence Hunter Hunt-Hendrix in anticipation of the final performance of his residency. Following his controversial chapbook Transcendental Black Metal, he presents selections from his ever-in-progress libretto for the opera “OIOION” November 13, 2012.

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix: OIOION

Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, NYC

For his final performance of the 2012 AIR series, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix will present selections from the ever-in-progress libretto for the opera "OIOION", including the poem "Stations of the Arkwork", which follows in the wake of his controversial 2009 essay "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism".

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Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and Bernhard Gann - Liturgy

Aritst-in-Residence Hunter Hunt Hendrix performs with Bernhard Gann as Liturgy, a self-christened “Transcendental Black Metal” band committed to developing and enhancing resonances between black metal and various domains of avant-garde culture: serious music, contemporary art and contemporary philosophy.

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