Composer and cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum and his Sextet Plus performs music for seven musicians in a round room. The piece incorporates the unusual geography and acoustics of ISSUE Project Room as added creative elements in the ongoing struggle to balance individual and ensemble, composition and improvisation, and simplicity and complexity. With Matt Bauder (reeds); Jessica Pavone (viola); Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello); Mary Halvorson (guitar); Evan O’Reilly (guitar); and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).
Choreographer Rachel Bernsen presents a new trio: Three bodies explore the tension between the presentational and the personal. In the hyper-reality of the performative context, superficiality is undermined by the real and vice-versa, and both are laid bare in stark and even sinister terms. Complete with real artifice. With Danielle Goldman and Nancy Forshaw-Clapp.
Nathan and Gabriel Boyer debut their animated short film series “The Further Adventures of Sweathunter,” a surreal mystery whose main character is a crazed guru who lives in a trailer. Within a noir-ish urban setting, cabbage-patch kids seek wisdom from Sweathunter, a police team of bird brothers share a single brain while they either solve or commit crimes, and a newspaper editor tries to get to the bottom of it all. Meanwhile, our hero explores his sexual obsession with a giant eyeball.