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.

Don't miss the launch of Stephan Moore's sixteen-channel hemispherical speaker system. ISSUE Project Room will host Moore's unit as a long-term installation designed to allow interested composers the opportunity to experiment, present and create new works specifically for these components.

Join us on for an amazing ensemble of sound and performance with various artists including Rebecca Moore, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Stephan Moore, Anthony Coleman performing Jelly Roll Morton, Jim Pugliese’s Phase 3 plus special guests, some big surprises and more…

Presented by the King Collision Collective.

F is always in speaker 5, A is always speaker 9, T is always 3… 42 phonemes, 16 speakers, one voice. the performance space as larynx.

Percussionist Billy Martin will perform his “Black Elk Speaks” compositions and other spontaneous pieces for bass drums, gongs, drum set, balaphones, mbiras and more. . .

JUB-KAT is a collaborative trio inspired by many musical traditions. Each player contributes a personal sound and influence that navigates the collision of melodic lines and crashing events.

Sean Meehan on snare drum with James Fei performing microphone feedback & live electronics

Tonight’s writers include Frederic Tuten, Sharon Wexler, Peter Wortsman, Quentin Rowanand and David Lefkowitz.

Featuring solos and various combinations performed by a wide-range of today’s skilled thereminists, including: Dorit Chrysler, Armin Ra, David Simons, Anthony Ptak and Rob Schwimmer...

Mark Stewart and David Cossin, two members of Bang on a Can All Stars, will grace our “circle” in an evening of music with rare & neglected instruments and their dulcet, surprising and powerful sounds.

Composers and multi-instrumentalists Miguel Frasconi & Gina Leishman join forces to explore the unique and varied qualities of glass. They will perform compositions and improvisations on found & home-made instruments involving rubbing, striking, and breaking all forms of glass objects.

This event celebrates both the participating musicians of the Relay - NYC and local improvising musicians, by offering them and the public an opportunity to meet, play music, eat and drink in the beautiful ISSUE Project Room.

The Aura Electric, Opus Three will be performed by the Mat Maneri / Randy Petersen Duo, two of the most innovative and distinctive artists on the downtown improvised scene; The Project One Ensemble performing works for electric string quartet (George Crumb’s Black Angels and a world premiere by Michael Spassov).

Tony Buck’s return to our shores offers a rare opportunity to reconvene and ISSUE’s wonderful room offers the place…

Pianist Jenny Lin, violinist Cornelius Dufallo and cellist Loren Dempster, acclaimed stalwarts of new music in New York, will present chamber works by two of today's most celebrated composers.

Video work YAMATO-TAKERU (2005) is part of the in-progress trilogy work "Kojiki," an experimental video story on the spirit and consciousness of the present. The story's background is the earliest Japanese literature work, "Kojiki" (The Book of Ancient Matters), written in the 8th century.

Though the history and relationships amongst these three players goes back a long time and are quite intertwined, this performance is the first outing for this exact combination. Expect playful and unexpected strategies and a finely wrought exploration of sonic space.

The Life, Death, Rebirth Cycle in Individuals in Society

Audrey Chen & Nate Wooley Duo + Trockeneis

Projections of sublime horror, via films, videos, & magic lantern slides..by the Vampirate (Bradley) Eros, including Witchcraft Through the Ages, with appearances from Faust, Dracula, Vampyr and the Raven plus special guests Lary 7, DJ Maria Chavez and Dorit Chrysler (theremin) among other mystery guests...

Active since 1998 the Unitygain platform for live AV electro-media performance was among the first of the NYC 'immersive' events coming out of the 'Illbient' period to concentrate on a balanced architectural integration of live (and only live) electronic music and real time video performance.

Join percussionist/composer Fritz Hauser as he gives a talk about his recent release, Deep Time, and about various compositional approaches. In addition, Hauser will discuss his own work and his collaborations with Pauline Oliveros of Deep Listening.

Celebrating the launch of Deep Time, a new 2 CD set from Deep Listening with Fritz Hauser on percussion, David Gamper on keyboard/electronics, and Pauline Oliveros on accordion.

Join us for a three-course dinner of Portuguese stew over wild rice, baked savory apples and cheese plate, homemade breads and pumpkin ice cream.

A very special evening featuring actors Steve Buscemi with Aida Turturro & John Ventimiglia, dynamic performer/directors working in independent theater and film today.

Inspired by the resonant sound of arched spaces and bridges, UNDERPASS combines field recordings and video, found footage, theremin, feedback guitar and live computer processing into a concerto of sound and vision in three movements.

Steve Berson and Sean McCaul will perform in duos together and with cameos by a number of special guests; including prepared guitarist Ben Miller (known for his work with Destroy All Monsters, Dirty Old Man River, M3, Third Border, etc.)

Charlotte Hug (viola & electronics) and Jane Rigler (flute & electronics) join forces for the first time in New York City.

Decoupage is a chamber quartet led by trombonist and composer Curtis Hasselbring. The group has been performing ever since September of 2004, when Curtis taped some pictures of Brittany Spears and some monkey-shaped cocktail stirrers to music staff paper for the band to play at CBGBs Gallery.

The performers enter the stage empty and build an evening length work from the first moments and gestures. Terman and Koga play in a highly physical realm that includes sound/music and language to explore an often surreal and dreamlike, yet utterly immediate world together.

Brian Wilson, Yuko Fujiyama and Dominic Duval celebrate the release of their CD "things heard unheard" on the Deep Listening Label.

A performance of Dutch/American electro-acoustic improvisation.

An evening of collaborative, improvisational video and music. Joining Kendall are musicians he's worked with in the past -- Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai), o.blatt (Keiko Ueinishi) and Bradford Reed & Bill Bronson -- plus pianist Anthony Coleman and his Hellbender Film Projekt video-partner Al Griffin.

A performance of improvised music conducted with the use of graphic scores. The scores are maps containing cells with written word directions/suggestions taken from my glossary of terms that I use to describe subtle, and not-so-subtle approaches to sound, rhythm, dynamics, form, groupings and thematic material.

Longtime collaborators Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone, laptop) and Wayne Horvitz (keyboards, electronics) team up with mutual coconspirator Jim Black (drums, laptop) for a golden evening of spectacular noise and audio sweetness.

ISSUE presents pianist, composer and improviser Walter Frank.

My new record "solo-solo bass" is the ultimate challenge for bassplayers, the one-track/one bass challenge, trying to stay interesting for the course of one CD's length of music or a whole evening of a live-concert. Having realised, that I cannot do that all alone, I have asked fellow bassplayers to write pieces for me

Spati0silo will consist of a single long duration performance/installation utilizing a 16 channel sound system designed and built by Stephan Moore.

ISSUE Project Room inaugurates our 2005-2006 literary season with "New Language" -- a series of multidisciplinary events that include readings, multi-media performances, small press bookfairs, literary exhibitions and more.

Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney have created a unique and inclusive body of work involving the poetic setting of sacred/historical texts, within a framework of syncretic tunings and sounds. They will share a selection of these pieces and other gems!

In his site-specific performances, installations, and sculptures, Robert uses site-specific materials to dissolve the tension between structural development and pre-existing environments.

Jim Pugliese's Phase III will team up with guitarist extraordinaire Marc Ribot in a rare night of musical camaraderie. The evening will start off with a solo set by Marc Ribot followed by Phase III.

Laughter is on sale. Reduced price for the evening, pay what you can: $5, 10, 20, 100, 1000, 10,000.........

Only on this special occassion will psi/pee-ess-eye bends pitchforks and fold time while applying stoppages to underwater incoherance. For further evidence of the hoe dug deep, absorb the brutal silences of Sean Meehan and semi-delinquent spazzcore of Talibam!

"Back in 1978 Jandek's first album, Ready for the House introduced the kind of blasted interior landscapes that dominate his recordings, with an expiring guitar, apparently tuned to the movements of the stars, coiled like barbed wire around a distressed, semi-articulate vocal that conflated eschatological blues..."

Composer-keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs, records and inspires throughout the world. Whether as a bandleader, a sideman, or solo pianist, the work of Anthony Coleman forms an important contribution and has helped to shape and influence the course of New York's Downtown Music scene over the last two decades.

Music is essentially invisible. But could it be visible as well? Aki Onda's Invisible Ensemble takes you on a journey through imaginary landscapes like Marco Polo describes imaginary cities to Kubla Khan in Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities.

This presentation is an inaugural event for ISSUE: Deep Listening - a new adventurous educational program of creative music making co-sponsored by Deep Listening Institute and ISSUE Project Room.

The inscrutable J.G. Thirwell was dropped on this planet some time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth. This evening he will do so as deejay.

Kato Hideki and Marco Cappelli perform their own materials as well as rediscovered songs from Europe and Asia.

Join the filmmakers for a Sneak Peek of indie feature film, LoSERS LoUNGE.

The group JMPS was conceived by George Javori in his rehearsal space in the lower east side of NYC where he brings in different players of all types to pursue his vision of improvisational music.

"from the unconscious to the uncanny, outdoors from dusk to starlight........... dream sequences, dance fantasy, erotic mystery, surrealism, silent films, animation, avant-garde, trance, nightmare, reverie, hallucination, desire..."

Raz Mesinai aka Badawi performs his series of haunting compositions drawing from ancient nomadic music and free improvisations for zarb and framedrum Resurrections for goatskin.

The evening explores the timbral and textural possibilities within the Project Room's silo acoustic chamber.

ISSUE Project Room and Essential Kettle are pleased to present Cassavetes & Spaghetti, an event that brings together community, artisanal food and our favorite independent filmmaker, John Cassavetes.

Neil Burke was a founding member of the seminal spastic noise group Men's Recovery Project. Kites & Nautical Almanac both use homemade electronics to give gripping and engaging performances. Dan Friel plays in the NY group Parts and Labor and performs electronic noise-pop solo. Necking is new in the NY noise scene.

In a rare debut, Texan Maria Chavez (turntables) joins improvisor Ricardo Arias (balloonist) for the first time, and Jack Wright (saxophone).

ISSUE Project Room presents a site-specific, multi-video projection installation of Shimpei Takeda.

KPMPBW is Kevin Park on trumpet, Michael Plunkett on drums, and Brendon Wood on guitars.

Nightwatch was formed in NYC in 2002 by Warren Holt and Andrew Hurst by experimenting with collisions between digital and analog manipulations, noise and beauty, improvisations and set structures.

A discussion of the annual Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert of Nevada as a visionary model for new forms of self-organizing communities, new ways of approaching art, as well as activism.

z-plane is a meeting of the minds of Ras Moshe, Jackson Krall, Hans Tammen, Dafina Naphtali and Giles Hendrix in a third dimension of their own creation. It is a collaboration between members of two unique ensembles plus video.

A tribute concert for Lester Bowie

Outdoor Screening: Fabulous Fantasy Films

Expedition to Gowanus, is an evening of solos and combinations from New Yorkers E Sharp & Z Parkins and guests Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato.

Brooklyn-based recording artist and writer, David Grubbs joins special quests with poet Kenneth Goldsmith, artist Michael Graeve, and sound sculptor Dominique Petitgand in an evening of sound art, poetry and visual art.

A collaboration between guitarist Alan Licht and poet Ken Goldsmith.

Sarah - Hadley Yakir violin, Grace Brahimi poetry, Sophia keyboard/vocals, Max Coburn piano, Stun Gun, Defibrillator, Feedback

After two years in the East Village, we are celebrating our move into a renovated silo located in an industrial park on the Gowanus Canal.

Ne(x)tworks performs works by Joan La Barbara, Cornelius Dufallo, Kenji Bunch, Chris McIntyre, and Earle Brown.

Tim Barnes and Mattin are both major components of the global improv scene. Not only do they constantly collaborate with musicians from all over, but they are also both activists of sorts, with their record labels making sure that the music of the peers is available to whomever seeks it out.

Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, as he discusses the life and work of Rudolf Steiner.

In a dark enclosed space using eight audio speakers, controlled by software clocks that are projected, are ever changing electronic sounds, measuring different timelines, meeting for an instant then drifting away. And a single automatic piano-preparation-unit is playing almost silently above a silent piano.

Dorit Chrysler performs on theremin, voice and laptop, with visuals by Lary 7.

"The Project Room presents a rare performance of Tenny's Postal Pieces (1965-71). Written during a brief tenure in the earliest days at CalArts, Postal Pieces is a remarkable series of eleven works printed on postcards.

New York based composer and hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph will lead his chamber ensemble in a program of his recent ensemble works.

Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002).

Proto-Homos: Male-Male Erotic Cultures in the U.S. before 1900

A rare sighting of composer Gina Leishman's one-of-a-kind glass armonica (a three-tiered construction of spinning goblets).

The Project Room presents compositions and sound-art installations of electronic composer Amnon Wolman.

Artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, poets, puppets, activists and many others gather inside the Project Room to fuel and inspire a ceremony of sounds, acts and visuals from sunset to sunrise.

Tim Barnes (percussion) + Manuel Mota (guitar) + Barry Weisblat (home made electronics) + Toshio Kajiwara (turntables) + Margarida Garcia (bass)

featuring John Zorn & Mike Pride’s A BIG SELLOUT

The final event of the CERF Festival 2005 centers on composers involved with sound as sound, sound as art and sound as social commentary.

Solos & duos.

Burgon and Dunn's repertoire consists of both strictly notated compositions as well as purely improvised music - a repertoire that walks the line between chamber music and extended technique.

Talking Stick is a truth based story telling series in which all forms of live performance are encouraged: Comedy, poetry, music, oral and text oriented storytelling.

These musicians (aka A-T-M) belong to a younger generation of live electronic performers Luc Ferrari recently described as "les nouveaux concretes" remaining true to the Schaefferian ideal of recontextualising magnetic sound.

The phOnOmena posse spends the night at ISSUE... again!

The phOnOmena posse spends the night at ISSUE.

A Tsunami Relief Benefit featuring performances, songs, poetry, dance, stand-up comedy, rock bands, and an art show all by New York City school kids. Proceeds from the event will go to MADRE, an International Women's Health Rights non-profit organization sending relief aid to tsunami devastated areas. www.madre.org

All levels welcome. Bring your own art supplies

Each session will include model(s) and musicians. Initiative for a creative community

Duo-plus video- featuring audio processing/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and pianist Shoko Nagai w/ live video manipulation by video artist Adam Kendall (Hellbender Film Projekt)

Erik Friedlander plus broken trio

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

Performance and readings: Ugly Duckling Presse celebrates the release of new issues of 6x6 magazine.

The Tarot Bar is the premiere of Venetian artist Anita Sieff's latest installation piece.

David Grubbs plus Presocratics & Ateleia

Words / Sounds / Serious Love & Resistance

Conduction workshops provide an excellent opportunity for students and professionals alike to get a glimpse into what has been described as curious, challenging, demanding, rewarding and fun: "something rare in real time - something new in pure sound."

Marco Cappelli, Federico Ughi, Daniel Carter

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Conduction

100 feet of track; HO Scale cars go around bends, up walls, loop at high speeds, and you drive....

Bringing many varied influences to the table, the group is extremely excited to make their debut at the Project Room.

An evening of original compositions presented by a new generation of young composers, featuring Kim Anderson, Steven Long, Ben Katz, Caleb Burhans, and Jonathan Shapiro.

"It feels time to explore my sense of solo playing, and The Project Room is a great place to do it. Some new works for solo woodwinds. And it is always time to continue my long love of playing in a duo with bass players. I'm honored to be joined by Greg Cohen for various and varied duets." - Marty Erlich

Amy Annelle & Dimestore Danceband, a New York trio plus wildcard melodicists, is an ongoing group-composing and improvising conversation based around guitarist Jack Martin's succinct, affecting melodies, complimented by bassist Jude Webre and drummer Scott Jarvis.

A rare meeting between two musicians who have created together in many situations over the years including the seminal 80's Downtown power trio Semantics (with Ned Rothenberg).

Robert Dick & Jane Rigler (flutes and electronics) plus the premiere of Plateaus

London-based Michael Rodgers returns to New York, joining together with David Daniell, Ateleia (James Elliott) and Tim Barnes in an evening of mixed duos, trios and quartets.