Friday, May 3rd at 8pm, ISSUE is pleased to present Thorn 6, the first commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Kwami Winfield. Exploring multiple selves signified in sound, traveling forward, Winfield asks:
when you turn around what do you see of where you were before?
and the choices becoming spectral?
what’s happening? that’s what happened…
Featuring a proprietary brass-based, air-vibratory recursion matrix–filtering pillars of wind–the artist will experiment with live computer processing of trumpet performance at ISSUE over the course of her residency. This Spring, between phases of renovation, ISSUE returns to our 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a series of limited capacity Artist-In-Residence, Fellowship, and community events. Winfield’s residency is supported by Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program (TIP) and is part of an ongoing program collaboration between ISSUE and Harvestworks, two organizations that are committed to supporting the creation and presentation of experimental performance practices while sharing resources.
Kwami Winfield is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, composer, and improviser born in Jersey City and based in Brooklyn. Winfield works with trumpet, electronics, percussion, trash, rocks, and other objects and collaborators, and is led by a fascination with the sticky, noisy, and often grotesque circuitry of everyday accumulation, consumption, and waste. In bands: Turnip King, Next Bus Pls, Many Many Girls, Camp Rock, Mom + Anon, Piss, Under the Hands of Eachother, and duo with C. Spencer Yeh. She plays cornet and electronics mainly - recordings online. Winfield has developed her interdisciplinary collaborations as a former Pioneer Works Music Resident (2023), former Chaos Computer Artist-in-Residence (2023), and in ongoing compositional contributions to the works of choreographers Arien Wilkerson, Kyle Marshall. Alongside Cal Fish, Kwami co-runs Call Waitn, DIY music label and toll free hotline featuring underground sounds at 917-426-4260.
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