Darmstadt “Institute” in June @ ISSUE Project Room
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents:
A Month-Long Festival of Concerts, Workshops, Film Screenings, Conversations and World Premieres at ISSUE Project Room Featuring:
Susie Ibarra, Elliot Sharp, Tony Oursler, Anthony Coleman, Tony Conrad, David Grubbs, Joan La Barbara, Luke Dubois, Tom Hamilton, Ha-Yang Kim, Branden W. Joseph, Stephan Moore, John King, Dan Joseph, Ne(x)tworks, Matthew Welch, Elodie Lauten, Bing and Ruth, TILT, Either/Or, Climax Golden Twins, Connie Beckley, Ensemble Pamplemousse and much more!
Darmstadt ”Classics of the Avant-Garde” music series is proud to announce its first ever Institute, a month-long festival at ISSUE Project Room dedicated to exploring the connection between live performance and pedagogical practice. This month of interdisciplinary programming includes concerts, lectures, workshops, film screenings, and talkbacks which celebrate and critically examine the continuum of the experimental tradition in music and related media. It is the hope ofDarmstadt’s curators that its Institute will deepen the understanding and appreciation of experimental work, both within the New York music community and the general public.
This month of dynamic programming involves both established composers and performers, alongside emerging artists. In addition to countless concerts of premieres and cherished repertoire, highlights of the festival include workshops led by Joan LaBarbara and Susie Ibarra, conversations between David Grubbs and Branden W. Joseph and Tony Conrad and Luke Dubois, a lecture-performance by Merce Cunningham Dance Company musicians Stephan Moore and John King featuring a live rendering of John Cage’s “Fontana Mix,” film presentations by Tony Oursler and Bradley Eros, in addition to “sectional” events—a program of guitar music with Dan Joseph and Elliot Sharp and an evening connecting the voice to visual art, with Connie Beckley and Lesley Flanigan. There will also be post-performance talkbacks with performers and composers.
The Institute kicks off Monday, June 1 with a FREE artist-in-attendance screening of Tony Oursler’s video project, Synesthesia, an oral history of New York’s downtown music and art scenes, and concludes on Saturday, June 27th with performances by Tom Hamilton and David Linton
Darmstadt is describing the artists participating in its June Institute as a “faculty” of sorts, enabling a non-institutional, publicly accessible forum. In the spirit of its namesake’s “holiday course,” Darmstadt aims to provide a vital resource, a venue to connect artists, performers, writers, and educators with each other and, in turn, with audiences…all towards the enrichment of New York’s vibrant new music scene.
Darmstadt ”Classics of the Avant Garde” is the Brooklyn-based contemporary music series led by composer-musicians Zach Layton and Nick Hallett, which presents the best of New York City’s live experimental music, and relevant media. Darmstadt will celebrate its fifth anniversary this November with an annual performance of Terry Riley’s In C, which Alan Kozinn described in the New York TImes as “the most vital, audacious and energizing performance of the score I’ve ever heard.” Darmstadt regularly hosts its concerts and DJ sets at ISSUE Project Room while its founders both create and curate work for such institutions as PS1 and The Kitchen. Darmstadt began as a “listening party” of avant-garde recordings at Galapagos Art Space before quickly evolving into a live performance series, and in 2007 was included in The New York Times ’Best of New Music’ rundown. As DJ’s, Layton and Hallett have delivered memorable sets at Steve Reich 70th birthday celebration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
Darmstadt Institute is sponsored in part by funding from Meet the Composer Creative Connections, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Experimental Television Center (supported by the New York State Council on the Arts)
NOTE: Sunday, 28th with Christy and Emily and Pterodactyl CANCELLED
WFMU Free Music Archive and ISSUE Project Room
We’re pretty excited to be working with WFMU on their new and fantastic Free Music Archive to put up some selected excerpts of performances going on here.
The Free Music Archive is a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio. Fellow curators include radio stations like KEXP (Seattle) and KBOO (Portland OR), webcasters like DUBLAB (Los Angeles) and Halas Radio (Israel), netlabels (Comfort Stand), and amazing online collectives like CASH Music.
check it out here:
Lethem, Auster and Borough President Markowitz support ISSUE Project Room and Brooklyn Culture
paul auster reading at "grocery"
On Saturday, Feb 7, Authors and ISSUE Project Room Art Advisory Board Members Jonathan Lethem and Paul Auster, provided a rare treat for St. Ann’s parents: intimate readings from “The Collector” and “Brooklyn Follies” at Grocery on Smith Street. Marty Markowitz said a few words at the start of the event and we couldn’t have been more pleased to have him join us.
alex waterman performing at 110 Livingston
The lunch was followed by the first public tour of ISSUE’s future home at 110 Livingston with a special performance by Alex Waterman and talk on the unique acoustic characteristics of the room by Raj Patel of one of the world’s leading engineering firms, ARUP.
Interested in seeing the new space? Contact us, we’d love to share it with you!
Eighteen Linear Constructions - Installation by Tristan Perich
Tristan Perich: Eighteen Linear Constructions
For the month of February, Eighteen Linear Constructions, Tristan Perich’s installation for 18-channel 1-bit video is on view in the Chapel in The (OA) Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Individual video-generating circuits (designed and programmed by the artist), are wired into each television, and synthesize rapidly panning low-resolution images. Working with 1-bit data creates a direct connection between logic in code and electrons streaming in a cathode ray tube, making the digital physical.
Tristan Perich: Eighteen Linear Constructions
February 1 to February 28, 2009
On view during performance evenings, 7-10pm (or by appointment)
The Chapel next to Issue Project Room in The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd St (at 3rd Ave), Brooklyn (map)
232 3rd St (at 3rd Ave), Brooklyn (map)
celebrity t-shirt endorsements
Check out Jonathan Kane sporting the new limited edition ISSUE Project Room T-Shirt designed by Rogues Gallery!
ISSUE Project Room T-Shirts!
This is a very special limited edition Rogues Gallery t-shirt designed specifically for ISSUE Project Room. Rogues Gallery generously designed these one of a kind t-shirts to help us raise money to move into our new space at 110 Livingston. Sizes variable.
available through etsy.com
Welcome to our new website
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