ISSUE & Harvestworks present acclaimed musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet + 2019 Harvestworks Resident artist Natacha Diels premiering Sad Music for Lonely People a series of works involving a step-by-step guide to using heavy machinery in healing rituals.
ISSUE Project Room Artist in Residence, Tristan Perich presents new compositions for soloist with 1-bit music + a performance by pianist David Broome.
The Loud Objects, that smoky trio of international live-action precision noise solderists, present a special gala col-la-bor-a-tion with fifteen of New York City’s finest top notch musicians.
Ensemble Pamplemousse open their decennary season with a program focused on works by composers Alvin Lucier and Klaus Lang, who each use fabrics of heightened minimalism to create musical tapestries that invite the listener to rediscover the acoustic mechanics taken for granted in everyday experience.
Uncanny Valley is a monodrama exploring the region where robotic human replicas begin to emulate humans too closely, causing revulsion in observers. Dominique Ahkong's text is inspired by the legend of Descartes' "daughter," Francine, and the story pursues the discovery and eventual destruction of the mechanical being.
ISSUE’s Emerging Artists Commission program focuses on transdisciplinary practices with an attention to contemporary political, aesthetic, social and technological concerns. 2011 recipients include Alex Chechile, Natacha Diels, Laura Vitale, Doron Sadja, Enda Bates, Ben Vida, Michelle Nagai, and Backbreakerneckbrace.