Jules Rosskam & Madsen Minax: GHOST TRIP

Artist-In-Residence Jules Rosskam premieres a new collaboration with Madsen Minax, GHOST TRIP. A series of short videos features live musical accompaniment as both structured and improvisational responses to the visuals. Minax performs on a range of instruments, and facilitates the emergence of a makeshift chorus.

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Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri & Thomas Meadowcroft

Yarn/Wire/Currents, a new collaboration of ISSUE and the acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, is initiated with the premiere of newly commissioned works for the ensemble by Berlin-based composers Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri and Thomas Meadowcroft.

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Now in its ninth year, Darmstadt's annual birthday concert has become a time-honored tradition. Terry Riley's 1964 masterwork is performed by new music legends including Joan La Barbara, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, Joshua Rubin, Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris, and members of So Percussion and Iktus percussion.

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MATA Interval 7.1

MATA's Interval 7.1, co-curated by composer Ray Evanoff and pianist Mabel Kwan, presents a concert of adventurous solo works by six young composers exploring the keyboardist's tactile engagement with a wide range of instruments and compositions, negotiating the quirks, challenges, and limitations of each.

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James Hoff

James Hoff debuts two new compositions for tuba and French horn exploring the concept of involuntary musical imagery, or earworms. Manipulated disco and pop songs are pitched, cut, and re-arranged into new works reflecting the cinematic character of the earworm phenomena in the original songs.

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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.

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Elsewhere: An Evening of Escape

SPECIAL EVENT: ISSUE and the Van Alen Institute present an evening of performances and talks celebrating the launch of "Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape", exploring escape in the urban environment. With Richard Sennett, Keller Easterling, Joseph Keckler, Maria Chavez, Evan Calder Williams and more.

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ISSUE and The Drawing Center present works by artists William Engelen and Aki Onda. Celebrated percussion ensemble Talujon perform Engelen’s recent work "Falten", a hybrid of score and sculpture. Percussionist Eli Keszler and the Ashcan Orchestra’s Pat Spadine perform Aki Onda’s "Damaged".

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Sabisha Friedberg: In (the limbs) of letters, not the bellows

A series of texts written by artist serves as the sonic foundation of this live solo multi-channel voice, electronic and acoustic instrumental piece. The work is premiered in a live performance on Thursday evening, and continues as an installation on view 12-6pm on Friday and Saturday afternoon.

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In celebration of the publication of STUDY, a collection of “poems on art” written from the 1980s to the present, ISSUE hosts an evening of readings by Yuko Otomo. The author is joined by members of the Ugly Duckling Press collective, past and present, and those who partook in the making of the book.

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Hanna Hartman / Mats Lindström & Marina Rosenfeld / Mats Gustafsson + more

The third Swedish Energies festival closes with more of Sweden's most progressive performers. With debut collaborations by Mats Lindström & Marina Rosenfeld, and Henrik Rylander & MV Carbon, plus the hypnotic Hanna Hartman, saxaphonist Mats Gustafsson, audio-visual duo The Space in Between, & DJ Lary 7.

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Kim Gordon with Jutta Koether & I.U.D.

ISSUE’s benefit series honoring Kim Gordon closes in a night of two collaborative performances pairing Gordon with the acclaimed artist Jutta Koether and the fierce female industrial unit I.U.D., a power duo of Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) and Sadie Laska (Growing, Extreme Violence).

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SOLD OUT! Body/Head & Ikue Mori / J Mascis / Kim Gordon & Tim Barnes

ISSUE’s benefit series opens with a VIP reception at 7:30pm, including food, drink and an intimate performance by Gordon with drummer Tim Barnes. The 9:00pm concert is headlined by Gordon’s most recent project, the epic free-noise guitar duo Body/Head joined by Ikue Mori on drums. Guitar legend J Mascis plays solo.

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Tony Martin: Proximity

Tony Martin’s sturdy roots in light media go back to his compositions of the 60’s, with arrays of projection equipment as his instruments. Tonight ISSUE presents three works concentrating on Martin's signature real-time interactive conditions spanning 1966–present, featuring Lea Bertucci, Tom Artin, and Steve Cohn.

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Ben Vida: Damaged Particulates

Ben Vida performs the East Coast Premiere of Damages Particulates, an eleven movement solo composition for fixed and live electronics presented in four channel expanded stereo. The program also includes his recent work "Extraction", accompanied by a micro-lecture on the theme of "Extraction" by curator Anthony Elms.

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SOLD OUT- Barbara Sukowa & The X-Patsys / Rhys Chatham

The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St, NYC

ISSUE collaborates with the Kitchen to present the X-Patsy's founding members: actress Barbara Sukowa and artists Robert Longo and Jon Kessler, joined by the extraordinary musicians Anthony Coleman, Knox Chandler, Jonathan Kane, and Ernie Brooks. Rhys Chatham opens with a performance of his legendary "Guitar Trio".

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Ann Liv Young / Jen Rosenblit & C. Spencer Yeh

Wanton performance artist Ann Liv Young’s most recent alter ego, the homespun psychologist Sherry, confronts extremes of personality– tonight Sherry, who shares, is paired with her opposing (though not opposed) character, Mary, who marries. Dancer Jen Rosenblit and C. Spencer Yeh come together for a collaborative set.

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Francesco Tristano / Byron Westbrook

Francesco Tristano had already established a formidable reputation as a classical pianist when he broke new ground with his piano arrangements of Detroit techno classics. Tonight he plays a program crossing Buxtehude, Berio, and his own work, and electronic composer Byron Westbrook presents a new multi-channel work.

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Charles Curtis

An internationally acclaimed cellist Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. He has worked extensively with pioneers of new music including Christian Wolff, Alison Knowles, and Éliane Radigue, whose works— among others— he plays tonight.

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On Nature and Our Supplements: In poems and in pictures

Sunrise and shadows falling across the forest floor, waves upon the shore beach walks and park prowling our pockets filled with pills; tote bags carrying vials, syringes or bottles... Where's the awe? With Gregg Bordowitz, Ari Banias, Corrine Fitzpatrick Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, and Lynne Tillman.

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Elliott Sharp / Noura Mint Seymali & Jeiche Ould Chighaly / Eli Keszler

Elliott Sharp plays a set of his signature solo guitar improvisations, an evening that includes sets by the arresting percussionist Eli Keszler, and the Mauritanian duo Noura Mint Seymali & Jeiche Ould Chighaly, whose songs address the political cultural spectrum of contemporary urban Africa.

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Jonathan Kane’s February / Dan Joseph Ensemble / Jason Bartell

One of the hardest-hitting drummers around, Jonathan Kane's February, summons elements from this diverse resume of expermimental and minimalist rock into a distinctive take on American roots music. This free show features a solo set by Fang Island's Jason Bartell, and the Dan Joseph Ensemble.

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Jason Lescalleet & Graham Lambkin / Seth Cluett

Two unique presences of underground culture, Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet began their collaboration in 2008, pushing their respective aesthetics to extremes. Tonight they give their third duo concert at ISSUE, celebrating the release of Photographs, joined by composer and performer Seth Cluett.

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Pitreleh / Tashi Wada & Charles Curtis

Pitreleh— a new collaboration of Duane Pitre & Eleh— make their live debut tonight. The duo come together to excavate shrouded nuances of sound, using precision tunings to uncover the depths of the harmonic series. Composer Tashi Wada presents a new piece written for and performed by cellist Charles Curtis.

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Tony Conrad / Amen Dunes & Tom Thayer / Lee Noble

A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad’s performances are droning, mesmerizing explorations of new worlds of sound. This evening Conrad plays solo, joined by multi-instrumentalist Lee Noble, and a collaborative performance by Amen Dunes and visual artist Tom Thayer.

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Pauline Oliveros: “Primordial Lift” / Olivia Block

Pauline Oliveros has left a profound imprint American music through her decades of work in improvisation, electronic music, teaching, and meditation. Tonight Oliveros returns to ISSUE with the large ensemble work "Primordial Lift". Olivia Block premieres "Dissolution", a solo meditation on communicative disruption.

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David Grubbs & Susan Howe

ISSUE presents the east coast premiere of WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER, a sound-work that germinates from new, unpublished Susan Howe text collages, and the fourth collaboration in a decade from poet Susan Howe and musician/composer David Grubbs. The night opens with a solo guitar set by Grubbs.

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Yasunao Tone / Talibam!

Yasunao Tone’s expansive practice eschews standard notions of media and embraces contradiction. His most recent sets harsh, scrupulous digital noise, are generated by his own modifications to the MP3 encoding system. Tone performs solo, joined by his recent collaborators Talibam!, a duo of Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea.

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SOLD OUT! William Basinski / Aki Onda & Raha Raissnia

Active for over 30 years, composer William Basinski's haunting and melancholic soundscapes have made him an icon of contemporary ambient music. Tonight he performs solo. Aki Onda and Raha Raissnia return to ISSUE for their second duo, performing with oil paintings, film/slide projectors, tape recorders, and tube amps.

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Oren Ambarchi / Okkyung Lee & Michelle Boulé

Multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi's compositions are hailed for their intricate harmonic patterns, carefully tended arrangements, and surrender to the physicality of sound. Tonight Ambarchi plays solo, sharing the bill with a duo of two highly individualistic improvisers: dancer Michelle Boulé and Okkyung Lee.

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Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley / Jacques Demierre & Vincent Barras

ISSUE presents the first duo performance by Chicago Saxophonist/composer Ken Vandermark and New York trumpet stalwart Nate Wooley, as well as two works by Geneva-based collaborators Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras, whose vocal performances are inspired by the fundamental building blocks of human speech.

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Yarn/Wire perform Tristan Perich’s “Chalk” / Ashley Paul

ISSUE presents work from 3 former Artists-In-Residence: Yarn/Wire, Tristan Perich, and Ashley Paul. Yarn/Wire perform Perich’s “Chalk”– a hypnotic chamber piece for pianos, xylophones, and 1-bit electronics. Ashley Paul’s song-based solo work is a psychologically intense combination of melody and raw textures.

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Bill Orcutt / Jon Mueller

Bill Orcutt performs his hiccup-stuttered, blues-inspired guitar in a solo acoustic set, a shared bill with avant percussionist Jon Mueller. Active since the mid-80s, Mueller’s contemplative, dense minimalism is truly singular.

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Cooper Moore / Henry Grimes + Hprizm/High Priest

A catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30 years, Cooper-Moore presents a selection of song cycles with words and lyrics by Langston Hughes, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois and more. Poet and master jazz basist / violinist Henry Grimes premieres a new project with MC, composer and producer HPrizm.

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Marc Ribot / Matana Roberts / Cian Nugent

Guitarist Marc Ribot, who helped organize and performed in the first ever ISSUE Project Room concert, returns tonight for an evening featuring the dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser Matana Roberts, and the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, whose striking instrumental folk draws on acoustic Americana traditions.

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Charlemagne Palestine / Joe McPhee / Steve Dalachinsky

Charlemagne Palestine, best known for intensely performed piano with unique physical "symbols of identification", performs solo joined by composer and improvisor Joe McPhee– a watershed player of the creative jazz scene– and the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who has long occupied a unique role in the jazz firmament.

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Richard Youngs / Anthony Coleman

Tonight, as part of Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, ISSUE brings Glasgow-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs to Brooklyn for his first US performance in decades. Renowned composer and improvising keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs two recent works for solo piano.

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Omar Souleyman / Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders / 75 Dollar Bill / Steve Gunn

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain opens with Syrian musical legend Omar Souleyman in Red Hook. The all day event includes from cult psychedelic rock band Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Rick Brown and Che Chen's duo 75 Dollar Bill, and discursive blues from Steve Gunn with John Truscinski and Jason Meagher.

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Deceh (US Debut) / Total Life

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

The US debut of Deceh features members of Eleh and Srines. Deceh use analog modular synthesizers to reveal and utilize the harmonic content in acoustic instruments. Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria, founding member of the dronegaze band Growing.

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Toshiya Tsunoda

Yokohama based artist and composer Toshiya Tsunoda has produced innovative works of field recording and collage for 15 years, carefully concentrating the lyrical power of the world we inhabit. Tonight he plays two live sets with field recordings, vibration-plates, and sine waves, and premieres two new short videos.

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Wolf Eyes / The Men / Amen Dunes / PC Worship / KHF

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

ISSUE and Pioneer Works' collaboration continues with an all-day indoor/outdoor party of frenzied electronics, post-punk noise, and lo-fi experimental rock in Red Hook. Michigan noise legends Wolf Eyes headline, joined by The Men, Amen Dunes, PC Worship, and KHF.

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TEN YEARS ALIVE: Preview night with Tony Conrad & Yasunao Tone

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and supporter Robert Bielecki present a special preview night for Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain with performances by pioneering artists Tony Conrad and Yasunao Tone. This event is open exclusively to supporters of our Ten Years Alive Campaign. To receive your invitation, join or renew your membership now.

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Terrence Dixon / Sensational & Koyxen / DJ Call Super / DJ Richard

285 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, 11249

Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.

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NY Premiere: Friend of Essex

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE hosts the NY premiere of Friend of Essex—a film homage to the prolific Black gay author Essex Hemphill. Written and Directed by Amir Dixon, the film mixes one-on-one interviews, group interviews, narrative pieces and poetry inspired by Hemphill’s writing and the 1989 film Tongues Untied.

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This solo vocal performance by Catherine Christer Hennix marks the close of her installation Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis. On view in ISSUE's 22 Boerum hall June 15-19, this event is the last opportunity to see the installation, which is the composer's first 4-channel computer assisted work since 1969.

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Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt: “The Illuminatory Sound Environment”

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 19TH: Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new, four-channel work by Catherine Christer Hennix. An expanded realization of the "Illuminatory Sound Environment", a concept developed in 1978 by Henry Flynt, this work is on view daily as a sound installation from 12-10pm.

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GOETHE TALKS: Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk with composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix in conversation with Henry Flynt. A new, expanded realization of “The Illuminatory Sound Environment” including works by both artists, is installed at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater June 15-19.

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Rene Hell / Kevin Drumm / Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.

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Jutta Koether / New Humans / rESPetc2.rSonel / C Spencer Yeh

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.

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GOETHE TALKS: James Hoff & Mathew Dryhurst

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.

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Ben Vida / Helm / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson

Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.

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GOETHE TALKS: Joseph Hammer / Jutta Koether / Heatsick + more

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.

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Joseph Hammer / Jar Moff / Thomas Brinkmann

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe present solo sets by two abstract sound artists who work with aural collage techniques, Joseph Hammer and Jar Moff, and by renowned German minimal techno producer Thomas Brinkmann.

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Eli Keszler: Archway

Archway under Manhattan Bridge between Anchorage Pl. and Adams St., DUMBO

"Archway" is a massive outdoor installation by Eli Keszler, presented as part of Make Music New York. Tuned and extended piano wires up to 380 feet long will be stretched around a massive space, overlapping to form sculptural shapes and a mechanically driven, intense harmonic resonance.

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An evening with electronic music visionaries Rashad Becker and Valerio Tricoli, and a short film by Mark Fell. Becker creates precise, phantasmic sound designs encouraging audiences to focus their hearing. Tricoli explores music's ability to hover between the "here and now" of the event and the shady domain of memory.

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ISSUE presents a duo performance by celebrated singer-songwriter Josephine Foster with her husband and collaborator, guitarist Victor Herrero. Esteemed for her timeless and arresting voice, Foster’s rock and folk veiled work has reimagined a disparate spectrum of references in a distinctive body of songwriting.

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Joseph Kubera

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Recognized among contemporary music’s most gifted interpreters, new-music pianist Joseph Kubera is hailed for the unrelenting stamina, precision, and grace of his performances. In this intimate piano concert, Kubera performs works by Julius Eastman, Michael Byron, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Stuart Saunders Smith.

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Sabisha Friedberg: "Hoffe-Axiom" Installation

EXTENDED! Saturday from 12-5pm, the subsonic artifacts of Sabisha Friedberg's "Hoffe Axiom" are installed in ISSUE's theater as a quadrophonic installation. Four subwoofers project a series of cyclical sonic traces or phantom sounds in patterns of low-end frequencies.

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Bojan Vuletic: L'Écume des jours’

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A series of compositions by Bojan Vuletic, L'Écume des jours’ (The foam of the days) is inspired by and dedicated to French polymath Boris Vian's novel of the same title. With an unusual chamber ensemble including Nate Wooley (trumpet), Dan Peck (tuba), Jacqueline Kerrod (harp), and the Mivos Quartet.

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Nate Wooley: "Seven Storey Mountain"

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE presents Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain IV, a 7 part song cycle for ecstatic instruments and tape. Bringing together all sections of the work for the first time, the concert features an all-star cast of Chris Corsano, Ryan Sawyer, C. Spencer Yeh, Matt Moran, Chris Dingman, and TILT Brass sextet.

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ErstAEU Showcase

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Launched in March 2013, ErstAEU is a new imprint from Erstwhile documenting young American post-electroacoustic musicians. This special one-time showcase night features all six artists from the first three releases: Anne Guthrie/Richard Kamerman, Graham Stephenson/Aaron Zarzutzki, and Joe Panzner/Greg Stuart.

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Girma Yifrashewa

ISSUE and Unseen Worlds present a rare North American performance by Ethiopia's most famous living pianist and composer, Girma Yifrashewa. A highly accomplished performer, Yifrashewa performs works by Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Mozart, as well as a set of his own compositions informed by Ethiopian harmonies.

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Keiji Haino and Tamio Shiraishi

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

SOLD OUT! A rare performance by this original, unrecorded Fushitsusha lineup from the 1970s with founding member, New York-based saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi. Known for its torrential walls of sound, Fushitsusha was formed by Haino in '78— initially with Haino on guitar and vocals, and Shiraishi on synthesizer.

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Keiji Haino Solo

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

SOLD OUT! Opening a three night festival, Keiji Haino gives his first ever solo vocal concert in NYC. Known for intensely cathartic sound explorations, Haino’s unaccompanied wordless screamed vocal performances mark the influence of Artaud’s obsession, with voice violently severed from the body.

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John Cage & Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD

Eyebeam: 540 W 21st St., NYC 10011

HPSCHD, John Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. Its very nature is inextricable from the tumult of the year it premiered, 1969. With Joel Chadabe, keyboardist Neely Bruce and video directed by Braley Eros.

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Renata Adler

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

To celebrate her recently back in print novels "Speedboat" and "Pitch Dark", author Renata Adler reads from both works followed by a conversation with NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank. Adler is well known for her tenure at the New Yorker, who recently called the novels "fundamentally probing, even discomfiting, books".

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ZS + Mivos

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ZS and Mivos Quartet come together for an evening of new chamber music and collaboration. Mivos performs works by Mario Diaz de Leon, Tristan Perich, and J.S. Bach arranged by ZS' Patrick Higgins. ZS perform selections from their recent output, including their ferocious 'Xe' in a new arrangement featuring Mivos.

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James Hoff

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

Paralleling his recent series devoted to the overlap between idea-based art, culture bound illnesses, and conceptual poetics, James Hoff is devoting his residency to exploring the concept of involuntary musical imagery, or earworms. Here he gives a performative lecture on his research and compositional strategies.

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David Grubbs + 75 Dollar Bill

A performance of electric guitar and voice by David Grubbs to celebrate the release of The Plain Where the Palace Stood, his first collection of songs since 2008. This concert draws material from the new album as well as from the trio Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia. 75 Dollar Bill (Rick Brown / Che Chen) open.

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Yarn/Wire + Peter Evans + Tyondai Braxton

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Yarn/Wire plays premieres two new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two of NYC's most exciting musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. Evans gives solo performance of his signature trumpet improvisations, and Tyondai Braxton + LAAND play a duo set.

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Ben Vida

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

For the opening performance of his residency, electronic composer Ben Vida premieres a new solo composition for digital and analog synthesis, followed by a talk with artist Michael Bell-Smith, and a new work for trio with Tyondai Braxton of Battles and Sara Magenheimer.

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Sabisha Friedberg: Hoffe - Axiom

Sabisha Friedberg presents Hoffe - Axiom, a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice. The work draws on extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones.

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For Electronics and Instrument: Phill Niblock and Al Margolis

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

In this evening of live electronics and instrumentalists, Al Margolis premieres a new quartet of bassoonist Leslie Ross, trombonist Monique Buzzarté, live video by Katherine Liberovskaya, and Margolis on laptop. Phill Niblock presents his now-classic "seth-work", a duo for laptop and guitar featuring David Watson.

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R. Andrew Lee: Dennis Johnson’s "November"

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Dennis Johnson's "November" (1959), one of the most significant pieces of the minimalist repertoire, was virtually unknown until recently. Renowned pianist R. Andrew Lee gives the first performance of this epic work since its premiere, working from a score reconstructed by composer and musicologist Kyle Gann.

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PEREC! QUENEAU! OuLiPo!

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

To celebrate the publication of Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure and the expanded edition of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, ISSUE Project Room, in conjunction with Melville House and New Directions, presents an evening of readings and responses to both texts.

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Jules Rosskam: No Place But Between Us

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Jules Rosskam invites you to an exploration of a no-good-place. A performative lecture of research on utopia— presented as an open rehearsal for Rosskam's ‘live film’ in July— "No Place But Between Us" investigates utopia not as a distant, ever unreachable, ideal world, but as a force that exists in and between us.

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Alex Waterman: Diagesis/Mimesis

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

Alex Waterman presents a set of new solo works for amplified cello, radios, found sounds, and assorted strings. A rare outing for this renowned performer, the event marks his first solo performance in two years. Cameron Keith Gainer's "Luna del Mar", a short film featuring a soundtrack by Waterman, opens the evening.

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SOLD OUT, Michelle Boulé: WONDER

Gallim Dance Studio, the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn 11238

SOLD OUT! A new solo commission by dancer Michelle Boulé, WONDER is an invitation to witness a body in a performance encounter where a shared space of curiosity and possibility is laid bare. In a continuous cycle of costumes and personas, Boulé explores archetypes and definitions of gender, identity, and virtuosity.

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devynn emory

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

devynn emory, known for structured, formal, and spatially detailed dances, presents a semi-collaborative text piece with vocalist Margot Bassett: a collision of emory's formal movement structure, pushing away from the body and through the mouth to create hyper composed sounds.

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Choi Joonyong + Hong Chulki

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki have been leading figures in the emerging experimental music community in Seoul for the last 15 years. Hong, known for his cartridgeless turntable, and Choi, who works with the mechanical sounds of playback devices, perform duo for our first concert at 155 Freeman.

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Aki Onda & Paul Clipson

155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)

Cassette musician Aki Onda collaborates with a San Fransisco based filmmaker Paul Clipson for his final performance of the 2012 Artist-in-Residence series. An investigation of personal, intuitive spaces, Onda and Clipson render images and sounds as if a fragmented journey of landscapes and memories.

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Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff

TEMP, 57 Walker Street, NYC

ISSUE and Erstwhile present legendary guitarist Keith Rowe in a two-night residency. Tonight he plays solo and in a duo with longtime collaborator and renowned composer and guitarist Christian Wolff. Trained as a painter, Rowe adopted the principles of the plastic arts, applying them directly to the electric guitar.

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Keith Rowe: Duos w/ Michael Pisaro & Graham Lambkin

TEMP, 57 Walker Street, NYC

ISSUE and Erstwhile present legendary guitarist Keith Rowe in a two-night residency hosted by TEMP. Rowe performs this opening night in duos with Michael Pisaro & Graham Lambkin. Originally trained as a painter, Rowe adopted the principles of the plastic arts, applying them directly to the electric guitar.

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'New Shorts' featuring Hotel Elefant

The Actor's Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Experiments in Opera has commissioned ten composers to each write a ten-minute opera to be premiered by the contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant. 'New Shorts' brings a diverse group of composers together to expand the boundaries of opera, including Robert Ashley, Jason Cady, Joe Diebes, Ruby Fulton, and many more.

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Lecture: Carol Robinson & Frances-Marie Uitti

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti give a free lecture with music examples, a demonstration of their pioneering techniques that have expanded the fields of their respective instruments. "Composing with Random Generators" is led by Robinson, and "Strips, Tubes and Code", by Uitti.

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Carol Robinson & Frances-Marie Uitti

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti have worked in parallel for years, originating from their work with Giacinto Scelsi. US Premieres by Robinson/Uitti, Eliane Radigue, Giacinto Scelsi, and Annie Gosfield open this two-night residency, plus a solo cello work by Jonathan Harvey.

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Art Lottery & Benefit Party: w. Prince Rama, Ben Vida, Joseph Keckler

Three-Legged Dog: 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street), NYC

A benefit Art Lottery & party for ISSUE features 75 artworks in all media-- each Art Lottery-ticket holder takes home the artwork of their choice, with order of selection determined in a lottery MC'd by Joseph Keckler. Prince Rama and Ben Vida perform, plus DJ's Marie Karlberg & Jamie Krasner.

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