From the archives, with Edwin Torres, Sean Meehan, Cornelius Dufallo, Alan Licht, Ron Anderson, Anthony Coleman, Gary Lucas, Marco Cappelli, Gregory Tardy and more.

From the archives, with Michael Attias, Rebecca Moore, Raz Mesinai, Shelley Hirsch, Trevor Dunn and more.

From the archives, with Raz Mesinai, Eyvind Kang, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Eugene Chadbourne, Marc Ribot and more.

From the archives, with Trio S, Ted Reichman, Marco Cappelli, Jim Pugliese, Ikue Mori, Marina Rosenfeld, Black Mountain Trio and more.

From the archives, with Morgan Craft, DJ Mutamassik, Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Jonathan Bepler, Michiyo Yagi, Elliott Sharp, Toshi Makihara Quartet, Ellery Eskelin Trio, sTUNgUN and more.

From the archives, with Tarantula, Charlotte Hug, Chantale Laplante, EJ Rodriguez, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Rebecca Moore, Fred Rogers tribute, and Carl Maguire.

From the archives, with Jeph Jerman, Tim Barnes, David Daniell, and Sean Meehan.

From the archives, with The Festival of New Trumpet Music, 2nd annual Howl Festival, Cornelius Cardew's Great Learning, and performances by nmperign, Nabate Isles, The Ingrid Jensen Four, Stephen Haynes and Bugaboo, Taylor Ho Bynum, Russ Johnson and Save Big, Brian McWhorter, Jonathan Finlayson, Mark Gould, and more.

From the archives, Rattapallax poetry reading plus performances by Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Dion Workman, Tim Barnes, Jason Lescalleet, Greg Kelley, Sean Meehan, David Daniell, Keith Rowe, and Tim Barnes.

From the archives, a benefit with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Barbara Barg and Billionaires for Bush Fonda Sterling and DJ Olive.

From the archives, with The Artist Project for Insight, Action & Change, Nicedisc, David Daniell, Ateleia, Tim Barnes, Margarida Garcia, Carol Mirakove, Jack Martin, Shelley Hirsch, Joel Schlemowitz, and Zeroboy.

From the archives, with Elliott Sharp, CJMJS, Lotet and Aki Onda.

After an extensive tour in Japan, Australia, and Europe, The Project Room is extremely pleased to welcome back composer Aki Onda, who will preform his highly personal work dealing with his own memories, or rather, a trace of memories captured with a handheld tape recorder.

Trombonist and composer, Christopher McIntyre (CJM) introduces two newly-formed projects of comprovisative electro-acoustic music.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Elliott Sharp is not usually associated with the world of jazz even though it was an important influence for him. His decades-long love of the music of Thelonious Monk is here manifest for the first time in an evening of Monk classics.

A surprise of single set performances

An evening of percussion and double bass

Antiopic Records Presents Nicedisc, David Daniell, Ateleia

“You are cordially invited to step up and speak up”

We're back in our original space at 619 East 6th Street (between Ave. B & C)!

ErstQuake 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of collaborative events between Erstwhile Records and Quakebasket, both based in and around NYC.

A poetry reading on the RNC, President Bush and the crisis in Iraq

For the 2004 HOWL Festival, ISSUE Project Room will be presenting an interpretation of seminal British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew’s 1969 experimental music piece The Great Learning from Paragraph Two.

KENNY WOLLESEN MARCHING BAND live in Tompkins Square Park

Duos

participation = wordification = anticipation = musification = actification = beautification = whoification = youification.

THE FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC was founded in 2003 by Roy Campbell, Jr. and Dave Douglas. The amazing diversity of new compositions for trumpet inspired Mr. Campbell and Mr. Douglas to create FONT. Jon Nelson has joined FONT for 2004 to curate post-classical and other related repertoire.

This tour marks a rare East Coast visit for Arizona based sound-artist and improviser Jeph Jerman, here joined by guitarist David Daniell and percussionists Tim Barnes and Sean Meehan. Each show will feature revolving duos.

Tonight will be Floriculture’s first performance of 2004. Inspired by Muhammad Ali and sexuality, they will perform several new compositions.

Storybook readings and films by local artists and children.

Featuring Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Elliot Sharp, Rebecca Moore with Prevention of Blindness

A Multimedia Exhibition

Solo

The musical meeting of these two musicians suggests amazing ‘paysages sonores’ (soundscapes), sharp, intricate, at times tranquil, at others vigorous and spirited.

This evening, Tarantula takes a slight departure from their usual instrumental compositions, rearranging their signature pieces with new variations ripe with improvisation and song.

A collection of new composer’s music.

Hosted by Patricia Brody
Featuring Rafael Campo, Marie Ponsot, Grace Schulman, Brendan Costello, Helen Barnard, Michael Morical, Ellen Peckham, Elaine Schwager, Sam Friedman, Sina Quayras, Michele Rosenthal, Yerra Sugarman, Barry Wallenstein & Frances Richey.

Jonathan (Guitar & Lead Vocals), Kane (Lead Guitar), Julian (Drums), Lucian (Bass & Backup Vocals)
sTUNgUN, the NYC based band are four 13 year old musicians currently working on material for an upcoming demo tape.

Celebrating their 10 year anniversary

Tim Barnes brings an opportunity for you to experience the sounds and techniques of improvisation in an installation-like setting.

Solos and Duos

An exciting multichannel karaoke event, where the composer performs solo vocal improvisation to sounds prepared at other locations.

Featuring Charles Bernstein, Roger Bonair-Agard, Elena Alexander, Charles Martin, David Mills, Urayoan Noel, John Rodriguez, Henry Israeli, and Tom Savage.

Cassette Memories is a musical performance, or a ritual, which conjures up the general essence of memory by playing his own personal memories. It is a spectacle which is Music for the Eyes. Partly visible, but seen mostly in ones imagination.

Performance is free and open to public participation

Poetry reading and film screening honoring the centenary celebration of the Chilean poet

Rough Americana is wholly live & improvisational.

Combining elements of 18th century classical music, 1970′s fire music, and 20th century composition, the Black Mountain Trio is a new voice in creative music.

An evening of clicks and flickers

Italian Doc Remix is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco Cappelli (Napoli) and Jim Pugliese (NYC).

Accordionist Ted Reichman steps out on his own in this moody, hypnotic portrait of one of the 20th Century’s greatest photographers, Andre Kertesz.

From the “Art After Death” series

Doug Wieselman (clarinets and guitar), Jane Scarpantoni (cello) and Kenny Wollesen (drums)
Trio S, the latest project from composer/musician Doug Wieselman, will continue to explore Wieselman’s compositions, many of which are based on melodies drawn from various water sources.

The Squid’s Ear online music magazine in conjunction with ISSUE Project Room present two of new music’s most innovative guitarists, playing solo and in duet.

Electro accordionist/laptop musician Andrea Parkins revels in both high and lo-tech electronic disruption even as she explores a delicate lyricism, stasis, and oblique allusion to genre tradition.

Three sets including electroacoustic guitar, sound effects, theremin, voice, bass, and more.

All new and original compositions.

Performing music from their upcoming release on Undone Records

Debut performance

The Project Room invites you to an intimate evening of music and film curated by composer/musician Rebecca Moore. Joined by her all-star ensemble Prevention of Blindness, the band will play a mixture of new songs and instrumentals while Joel Schlemowitz’s films cover the surrounding walls.

This marks the first live performance from Mesinai’s cult classic recording on BSI “The Unspeakable”.

A re-interpretation of French poet Blaise Cendrars’ Les Paques a New York

Music of Battle is a new self-contained revisiting of the score to the acclaimed play Battle of Black and Dogs as it was performed at the Ohio Theatre in May 2003 as part of the Koltes NY 2003 Festival.

During the 2004 New York Guitar Festival, Issue Project Room proudly presents the premiere US performance of The Extreme Guitar Project featuring Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli.

The Squid’s Ear music magazine celebrates its first anniversary on January 29 with special performances by three of the musicians who have written articles for it during its inaugural year.

Reading and performance with musicians Sean G. Meehan (snare drum) and Cornelius Dufallo (violin)

A Video/Sound Installation by Alan Licht

Solo Piano