ISSUE Project Room’s Swedish Energies Festival returns to NY for the 5th-annual edition. Presented by ISSUE in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, over two free evenings at Greenpoint's Saint Vitus, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians spanning genres of sound and visual art.
Saturday, December 5th - 8pm (Free)
Asplind, AlmgrenRecén, Koch with Mats Lindström
Hild Sofie Tafjord
Tommi Keränen
Ragnhild May
Lukasz Szlankiewicz
DJ Ryan Martin
Swedish dancers/choreographers Anna Asplind, Daniel AlmgrenRecén, and Anna Koch are a new constellation that began collaborating this year. Insisting on is the first part of a longer choreography with music by Mats Lindström that will be presented in the spring of 2016. The work relates to the music between bodies within iconic choreography by Merce Cunningham from the early 90s. By insisting on practicing the specific movement material another body appears. A body that jumps itself through repetitive rhythms. We neither deconstruct or reconstruct. We insist.
Armed with French horn and electronics, Norway’s Hild Sofie Tafjord makes intense, dynamic noise drone. Together with Maja Ratjke, she has played in the brave improv quartet SPUNK with Lene Grenager and Kristin Andersen, in the duo Fe-mail, and in the trio Agrare with dancer Lotta Melin. She has worked with black metal group Mayhem and is actively collaborating with artists Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, and Matmos.
Noise maker Tommi Keränen has blessed the world with heavy sound attacks since the late 90's. He works as a solo artist and in bands Testicle Hazard (with Lasse Marhaug), Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit, and Gentle Evil and The Truckfuckers. Keränen has also collaborated with artists Phill Niblick, The Incapacitants, and Florian Hecker.
Ragnhild May's art investigates the relationship between the human body, tools and cyborgs. Her art begins with acoustic music instruments that are being used as extensions of the human body or in their own power. May works within performance, installation, and sound art disciplines.
Electro-acoustic music composer Lukasz Szalankiewicz (also working under the ZENIAL moniker) is one of Poland's most important activists, organizing festivals, performing worldwide, and running the Audiotong label. He focuses on musical exploration (from noise to ambient), audiovisual performances, and interactive installations.
Ryan Martin (DJ) is a electronic music composer who performs solo and with bands On A Clear Day and York Factory Complaint. He runs DAIS Records and underground art imprint Robert & Leopold.
