Subway F Line, Subway G Line
to CARROLL ST-SMITH ST stop
Walk East down Third St over Gowanus Canal to Third Av
Subway F Line, Subway M Line, Subway R Line
to NINTH ST-FOURTH AVE stop
Walk North on Fourth Av. West on Third St to Third Av
Bus B37, Bus B71
to THIRD AVE-THIRD ST (Westbound) or THIRD AVE-UNION ST (Eastbound)
From Union St, walk South on Third Ave to Third St
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September
8pm $10 Wednesday August 6th
Dean Bowman and Gary Lucas perform contemporary and traditional spirituals and the blues. Long time colleagues on the downtown music scene perform together for the first time, including the music of Rev. Gary Davis, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey, as well as original music. An amalgamation of saxophones, trombone, trumpet, guitar, bass and drums, fight the big Bull is a spontaneous display of emotion filled with far-reaching significance and baptized in the traditions of music. Bob Miller trumpet Friday August 8th, 9:00pm
Eric Chenaux plays guitars, ballads, electronics, tunes and improvisations. He is currently a member of The Reveries, The Draperies, Drumheller, The Guayaveras and The Allison Cameron Band. These groups share affiliation with the Toronto-based record label, Rat-drifting -- a home for sweet-psychedelic experimental polyphony and fried pop. Chenaux had also released his hacks of ballads on two solo records (Dull Lights and more currently Sloppy Ground) on the Montréal- based record label, Constellation. Eric will be performing solo renditions of these ballads with voice, electric guitar and whammy Echo harps. http://www.rat-drifting.com
Greg Davis plays everything from guitar to khaen to gongs to synthesizer to pine cones to laptop and more. He primarily works as a solo musician but has worked in a variety of musical situations with Jeph Jerman, Zach Wallace (as Sun Circle), Keith Fullerton Whitman, Sebastien Roux, Steven Hess, Joseph Grimm and Akron/Family. Davis has released many records on labels such as Carpark, Kranky, Important, Tompkins Square, Tonschacht, Room40, Ghostly and more. He has toured and travelled around the world sharing his openness to all sounds and musical experiences. Davis makes his home in Burlington, Vermont where he works on music, audio mastering and has been active in developing a new scene for different music. Greg's recent live sets have focused on a shared meditative drone based music which creates a sound environment conducive for the practice of deep listening in the present moment with a clear mind and without prejudice. http://www.autumnrecords.net 9pm $10 (note time change) Wednesday August 13th
Nate Wooley *grew up in a finnish-american fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the leap between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father. Nate's music deals more with a cobweb of sound then with pure melody and meter. He is sought out for his work in the free jazz idiom, but finds more meaning in a well prepared sound or silence or burst of feedback. He currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey and has performed or recorded with Anthony Braxton, John Butcher, Alessandro Bosetti, Chris Forsyth, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tony Buck, Joe Morris, Jack Wright, Fritz Welch, Jason Roebke, Scott Rosenberg, Herb Robertson, Randy Peterson, and Tim Barnes. www.natewooley.com Audrey Chen is a chinese-american musician and performance artist born outside of chicago in 1976. using the cello, voice and analog electronics, chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. a large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. her performance work incorporates sound, movement and visual/sculptural concepts. chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. Among musicians, she has worked with many great improvisers, including phil minton, elliott sharp, aki onda, phill niblock, frederic blondy, jim pugliese, alessandro bosetti, mike cooper, mats gustafsson, mazen kerbaj, michael zerang, tatsuya nakatani, le quan ninh, joe mcphee, susan alcorn, michele doneda, paolo angeli, and gianni gebbia. some current projects include duos with phil minton, frederic blondy, katt hernandez, and nate wooley. the SILO trio with nate wooley and leonel kaplan. and Trockeneis with andy hayleck, dan breen, catherine pancake and paul neidhardt. chen has performed in europe, russia, australia, new zealand, china, japan, taiwan and the USA. She is currently based in Baltimore, MD USA where she is member of the red room and high zero collective, an on-going series and international festival devoted to experimental improvised music. www.myspace.com/audreychen CLARENCE "HERB" ROBERTSON is internationally renowned as an innovative instrumentalist, composer and arranger in both traditional and avant-garde jazz idioms and new music. In 1981, Robertson became one of the original members of Tim Berne's ensemble and shortly after joined Mark Helias's band. It is with these two artists that Robertson first began receiving enormous critical acclaim on tour throughout the United States and Europe and on subsequent recordings documenting his original brass concept incorporating extended mute technique. HAHN ROWE Git plucking, violin sawing, knob twiddling, wax handling, wave channeling man about town... Composer, producer, engineer, dj and multi-instrumentalist (violin, guitar, electronics) HAHN ROWE has migrated freely between the rock, electronic music, improvisation and new music scenes for over 20 years. As a member of composer GLENN BRANCA's ensemble in the mid 80s, he was introduced to NYC's cross pollinating music and art scenes. It was during this time that he joined atmospheric chamber rock quartet HUGO LARGO, who released two acclaimed records on BRIAN ENO's Opal/Land label. Hahn Rowe has worked on a diverse assortment of recordings by people such as DAVID BYRNE, FOETUS, IKUE MORI, ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, MIMI, MOBY, R.E.M., THAT PETROL EMOTION, SYD STRAW, SWANS, ZAHAR, FIREWATER and MICHAEL BROOK. Rowe's work with Brussels/Berlin based choreographer MEG STUART (DAMAGED GOODS) has resulted in the creation of 5 major evening length dance/theater works - DISFIGURE STUDY, NO LONGER READYMADE, REPLACEMENT, BLESSED, and FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS. CAROLE KIM is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on live video performance and performance-based video installation. She brings a very tactile approach to digital technologies, pushing video's capacity as a responsive medium in the moment. She has exhibited and performed widely in the US and abroad. Recent venues include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty Center, Springwave Festival/LIG Performing Arts Hall (Seoul, Korea), Trampoline: Platform for New Media Art (Nottingham, England), the Stanford Jazz Festival, Engine 27 (New York), Arizona State University-West Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance Program (Phoenix, AZ), the Knitting Factory (LA), ArtSonje Center (Seoul, Korea) plus numerous festivals and performance series. She is a featured artist in the August 2008 issue of ABITARE/China. Eyebeam Atelier in New York commissioned a piece on the web and the performance/installation REVERSE HOUSE KIT was featured in the DVD publication ASPECT vol2: New Media Artists of the West Coast.
8pm $10 Thursday August 14th The extra sensory pedestrians + evidence CD release party The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians (Jennifer Schmermund and Kimberly Young) present the first installation of "Boxed Dances" - a year-long series of site-specific dance installations. The E-SPs join Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) to celebrate the release of their new CD "Receiver" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035), with a re-imagined performance of their original installation at Wave Farm. Bring an FM radio with batteries! A limited number will be provided. Kimberly Young, artistic director of the Extra-Sensory Pedestrians, is a dancer/choreographer based in Brooklyn. She has danced with Jen Schmermund/FreshBlood Productions, Todd Williams of WilliamsWorks, The Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy and in her own work. Earlier this year, Young danced for Tere O'Connor in a restaging of his 2001 piece Winterbelly. In 2006, Young started her own dance company, The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians, through which she has an ongoing collaboration with composer/sound artist Stephan Moore. The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians have presented Young's work at venues including Movement Research at the Judson Church, SUNY Stony Brook's Staller Center, and Roulette Intermedium. Young recently received a 2008 Choreographers' Project Fellowship from Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. In February 2009 The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians will present an evening of work at the Joyce Soho. Young's most recent work for The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians, Plenitude, was reviewed as "intriguing and ambitious" by Roslyn Sulcas of The New York Times. Jennifer Schmermund is a certified yoga teacher through OM Yoga and holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As director of FRESH BLOOD, her work has been commissioned by Bucknell University where she was an adjunct professor. She has danced for KC Chun-Manning, Valerie Green and is now working on a project for Shannon Hummel. Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his Hemisphere speakers. He performs regularly with Scott Smallwood in the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught extensively in sound art and electronic music. He is currently the Sound Engineer and Music Coordinator of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Scott Smallwood was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up at 10,000 feet in elevation in the Colorado Rockies. When Smallwood was 10 years old, his father gave him a cassette tape recorder, and ever since he has been fascinated by the possibilities of recorded sound. His work deals with real and abstracted soundscapes based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. Ranging from sonic photographs, studio compositions, instrumental pieces, and improvisations, the resulting pieces are often textural, always mindful of space and subtlety. 8pm $10 Sunday August 17th andy graydon auf wieder sehen konzert andy graydon + kenneth kirschner sawako + bradley eros zach layton + richard garet + bruce tovsky tom mulligan + ben owen + sandra gibson + luis recoder 7pm free Monday August 18th @ 9pm hair stylistics/masaya nakahara
He is on a very brief US tour, doing dates in LA (with Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy) and New York only.. 9pm $10 Thursday August 21stmagda mayas + andy moor Magda Mayas is a pianist and curator currently based in Berlin, Germany. Mayas studied jazz and improvisation at Universität der Künste, Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2001 under Misha Mengelberg and completed a diploma at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler under Georg Graewe in 2005. During this time she began developing a specific set of techniques for inside-piano performance. Mayas has concentrated her musical investigations on the piano and its sonic possibilities, utilizing extended techniques, amplification and preparations as a process of abstraction, whilst focusing on the physicality of both internal and external parts of the piano.
www.myspace.com/antheacaddyandmagdamayas andy moor
In 1990 he moved to the Netherlands after an invitation to join Dutch band The Ex and continues to be a full time member of this band....the openess and versatility of the musicians in this group has brought them into contact with many musicians from different scenes and backgrounds including Tom Cora(cello), Han Bennink(drums), Wolter Wierbos(trombone), Djibril Diabate (kora) John Butcher (sax) and Anne james Chaton (sound poet) In 95 he performed his first series of completely improvised concerts as a duet with Terrie Ex, and later released a video of the best performances. In 1996 he began another group with Tony Buck (Necks), Joe Williamson and Leonid Soybelman (Ne Zhdali) called Kletka Red...fusing traditional Klezmer, Greek and Russian songs with their own frantic styles of playing. In more recent years Andy has involved himself more with the Amsterdam improvisation scene and has worked alongside electronic musicians as well as composing soundtracks for films and he performing regularily with dancers such as Magpie music and Dance Company with Katie Duck. 8pm $10 Saturday August 23rdasher thal-nir + brendan murray + richard garet This event will consist of a collaborative aural and visual live performance between Boston artists' Asher Thal-Nir and Brendan Murray, and NYC artist Richard Garet. The show will range from combinations of solo, pair, and trio groups exploring the interconnected dialogue of improvised live sound and video performance. The sound presence will focus on exploring different parameters affecting the listening experience by ranging from quadraphonic to the full spectrum of the ISSUE Project Room's 15 channel speaker system. The sound can be expected to range from computer processing, micro-tonal, minimal drone, phonography, phenomena found by live-room-sampling, and self-generated sounds. The live moving image will vary from an optical-sensory-overload color field exploring light phenomena, to static and minimal recorded footage. Asher Thal-Nir is an artist living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts. His sound work is composed using recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, location recordings and found recordings which are combined and processed in various ways. His work has been published online and on disk by Con-V, Leerraum [ ], Mystery Sea, The Land Of, Laboratoire Moderne, Winds Measure, Transparent Radiation, Term. And Homophoni, with upcoming solo and collaborative releases on Einzeleinheit, Leerraum [ ], and/OAR, Gears of Sand, Room40, and Sourdine. For additional info visit: www.myspace.com/asherthalnir Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. He has actively recorded and performed with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. He has recorded four full-length CDs, four cdrs and two cassettes for various record labels in the United States and Europe. Murray has also toured extensively throughout the United States as a solo performer and as a member of various improvising ensembles. He is actively involved with long distance collaborations with musicians and sound artists such as Seth Nehil, Richard Garet and Chuck Bettis. He is also a founding member of the group Ouest, with longtime friends and collaborators Jay Sullivan and Howard Stelzer. Other activities include playing drums and guitar in the rock band Paper Summer, composing music for film and occasionally presenting a concert series in the Boston area; “Uppercase Sound”, which features upcoming and established electronic musicians from New England. Published Works (solo): Not Now CD, create-transmit records (US), 2001--“Garden” 3 inch CDR, Kissy (US) 2002--Animation CDR, naninani recordings (FR), 2002--Resting Places CD, Sedimental Recordings (US) 2005--Everybody Wants ?e Tide CDR, Audiobot (Belgium) 2005--Ocean Of Dirt, Mountain Of Steam CDR, Gameboy (US/JP) 2006--Wonders Never Cease CD, Intransitive Recordings (US) 2006--Due Locations CS, Long Long Chaney (IT) 2007--Scared In My Heart CS, Twonicorn (US) 2007--Commonwealth CD, 23Five Recordings (US) 2008. Forthcoming works: The Cold Piano, Students Of Decay CDR 2008--Fondness CD, Students of Decay 2008--N175 (Music for Mixed Instruments and Electronics) CD. Collaborative Recordings: “The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces” with Howard Stelzer on VARIIOUS compilation, Intransitive Recordings, 2000--The Please “Breakfast” 3 inch CDR , Chewtoy/Chloe Recordings 2004, The Please is: Mike Bullock, Linda Aubry Bullock and Brendan Murray--Sillage with Seth Nehil CD Sedimental Recordings 2007--Of Distance CD with Richard Garet, 2008. Soundtracks: HUMAN HEART EXPLODES d. Matt Orefice, 2006. Color NTSC video, 90 minutes. With Katt Hernandez (violin), Mike Bullock (contrabass) and Vic Rawlings (cello). For additional info visit: www.brendanmurray.com Richard Garet is a sound and video artist. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings' relationship with both artificial and natural environments. Garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. Additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, and form. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of these modes are additional ways in which Garet’s work exposes the audience to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception. Richard Garet has collaborated in the past with artists Andy Graydon, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, Gil Sanson, and Andre Goncalves through the EA collective. He has also collaborated with Brendan Murray, Shimpei Takeda, Sawako, Chica Ijima, Bruce Tovsky, Bruce Mcclure, Adam Kendall, Jeremy Slater, Peter Eudenbach, Wolfgang Von Stürmer, Zimoun, Zach Layton, and Aaron Kadoch. His discography include works such as • L’avenir" (solo), and the compiler • V-P V-F is V-N 7" compilation series, 7001, have been released in 4/2008 by the NYC, based label WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS. Also the Austrian label NON VISUAL OBJECTS released in 07/2007 • Extract: Portraits of Sound Artists--22 various artists: Book and Double CD cat# nvo_11, in 12/2006 • Intrinsic Motion--CD (Solo) cat# nvo _008, and in 10/2005 • TERRITORIUM--CD (Compiler) cat# nvo_004. In 2008 Richard Garet has lined up a series of forthcoming releases such as • Four (solo) / Double CD -- AND/OAR - Seattle, Washington, USA, • Antonioni: Trilogy & Epilogue (compilation) -- AND/OAR - Seattle, Washington, USA, • Winter (Solo) / DVD Audio Surround 4.0 -- Leerraum, Switzerland, and a collaborative release • Of Distance, Richard Garet and Brendan Murray, UNFRAMED RECORDINGS, NYC, USA. Richard Garet's collaborative past releases include • Balancing Act with Controlled Dynamics / EA (collective) 2006 -- WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS - NYC, USA, and the 03/2008 online release • Balancing Act with Controlled Dynamics: Take Two / EA (collective) CON-V, Madrid, Spain. For additional info visit: www.richardgaret.com 8pm $10 Wednesday August 27th (CANCELLED)
SILVER HAUNCHES (a band with dance) was formed to serve as bridge between the parallel cultures of DIY "contemporary" dance and "independent" music. Being from both these worlds Steven Reker is trying to see how they might take cues from one another to inform workand sustainability. In this project Tei Blow, Marilyn Maywald and he are experimenting with music as a circumstantial element in the environment of unrelated dancing through prepared guitars. The guitars and sounds they produce will act as a kind barometer for the atmosphere established by the dancers. There will also be a set of songs that were generated through the lens of music as gesture/movement. STEVEN REKER has worked with the likes of Yoshiko Chuma, Miguel Gutierrez, John Jesurun, Jeff McMahon, and has been making his own music and dance since his arrival to New York in 2006. You can also find him at Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn where he hosts a monthly mix tape party and sells records. stevereker@gmail.com MARILYN MAYWALD is a dance artist in NYC. Recently she has been engaged in research-in-movement experiments with dance group Cheap Cake, co founded with Steven Reker, Megan Byrne, Maggie Bennett and Jacob Kovner. She is also in an ongoing solo process of how to embody. This is linked to her study of biomechanics, somatics and functional anatomy as a Pilates certification candidate at the Kane School of Core Integration. Marilyn has been creating collaborative dance duets with Steven Reker since 2004, starting at Arizona State University (BFA 05) where they both went to dance school. She has also been a member of Yin Mei Dance since 2004. marilyn.maywald@gmail.com TEI BLOW'S recent projects include creating video sets for the band Steve Burns and the Struggle, a book of music reviews conducted by plants, and an all-gold musical entitled *everything one in the disc of the sun*. He also plays under the monikers Frustrator! and Perfect Shapes. He can be found at the Science Company, 8pm $10 Thursday August 28th Woody Sullender/Katt Hernandez duoJOZEF VAN WISSUM CANCELLED Woody Sullender (banjo/electronics) Most recently, with technical advising from STEIM, Sullender has been developing an electro-acoustic banjo with various parameters of computer synthesis and processing algorithms being controlled by sensors on the instrument. Previously, he has worked with pioneering electronic composers such as Pauline Oliveros and Maryanne Amacher (incorporating his banjo recordings into Amacher's "TEO! A sonic sculpture" which won the Golden Nica prize at the 2005 Ars Electronica festival). Katt Hernandez (violin) 8pm $10
Friday August 29th
A duo set by longtime multimedia collaborators Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King. Using video, guitars, voice, zither, and electronics, K/DdL will perform their dense, percussive, and hyper-composed audiovisual style, as well as more recent approaches incorporating improvisation and live video. Jay King (b. 1978) and Mario Diaz de León (b.1979) began working on music together in 1995; multidisciplinary work in 2000. Their collaborative practice has included video, game environments, participatory experimentation, and multimedia performance. Solo exhibition at Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis. Group exhibitions include Greater New York 2005, PS1/MoMA, New York; Trial Balloons, MUSAC, León, Spain; The Space Between the Spokes, KS Art, New York; musica-video-musica, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Artist residency at Brooklyn Fireproof, New York. Performances at venues including Roulette, The Stone, The Juilliard School, New York; Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio; Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. Both live and work in New York City. Mario Diaz de León : Born 1979 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grew up playing guitar in punk and metal bands. Attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition and music technology. Since 2004, he lives in New York City, and is currently pursing his doctorate in composition at Columbia University, studying with George Lewis and Fabien Lévy. Since 2002 he has focused on acoustic + electronic hybrids in chamber music, expressed as hypnotic walls and gestures of shimmering sound. He helps run the Shinkoyo music label. A multi-instrumentalist on guitar, zither, voice, and electronics, he performs solo, and with the multimedia group Symbol (with Doron Sadja and Zeljko McMullen). He has collaborated with Jay King on multimedia works since 2000. Performed and exhibited work internationally, with ensembles including International Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Hyperion Ensemble (Romania), iO Quartet and Allsar Quartet. His discography includes 3 releases on the Shinkoyo label, as well as an upcoming CD on John Zorn's Tzadik label. "a solo performance utilizing live guitar and piano feedback as well as binaural recordings of many spaces collapsed together - presented through Issue Project Room's multi-channel sound system." Zeljko McMullen : Primarily deals with walls of acoustic and electronic sound as architecture and moveable spaces. Active experimenter with both binaural perceptive beating and binaural spacial recordings. Participates regularly in improvised musical and visual art Has exhibited work and/or performed at the Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai, China), Tarantula Hill (Baltimore, MD) Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH), Sovereign Gallery (Boulder, CO), the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (Detroit, MI), Here-Here Gallery (Cleveland, OH) Placard Headphone Festival (Ny, NY), The Black Lodge (Philadelphia, PA), the Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL), Stairwell Gallery (Providence, RI), Music Gallery (Toronto, ONT), Marvelli Gallery (Ny, NY), The Bridge PAI (Charlottesville, VA), Lemp Arts (St. Louis, MO), Butchershop Gallery (Vancouver, BC), il Corral (Los Angeles, CA), Roulette Intermedium (NY, NY), Norwegian Wood Festival (Oslo, Norway), Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfred, Sweden), Isle of Wight Festival (Isle of Wight, UK), Villa Marina (Isle of Man, UK), The Sage (Gateshead, UK), Primavera Festival (Barcelona,Spain), Palacio de Congresso (Madrid, Spain), The Kitchen Benefit 2006 (NY, NY) Has received commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Neumann/Sennheiser. Has numerous solo and collaborative releases on Shinkoyo records. Has recently collaborated with musicians Lou Reed, Doron Sadja, MV Carbon, Mario Diaz de Leon, Justin Craun, and Brooke Gillespie. Currently working with Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Nautical Almanac, Severiano Martinez + more on a video project based on the fool's journey through the tarot (completion fall 2008). Also a surround sound installation in Beijing, China summer 2008." 8pm $10 Saturday August 30th, 9pm Power 2 Sponsored by Colt 45 Featuring Contributions by:
Curated by Lisa Baldini
The approach remains true to the Richard Wagner definition of a Gesamtkunstwerk: Whereas the public, that representation of daily life, forgets the confines of the auditorium, and lives and breathes now only in the artwork which seems to it as Life itself, and on the stage which seems the wide expanse of the whole World. As such, the work’s goal is intended to create a multimedia environment that In the age of social media, the viewer is accustomed to simultaneously consuming information, content, media and interpersonal interactions. The threshold for attention spans continues to decrease, while saturation with the visual world increases. Power 2 combats this phenomenon by making the viewer the 4th wall of the piece. An exercise in control, it blurs the lines between performer, art and audience by constantly moving the viewer between passive observer, participant and static object. Power 2 is a one night only event, beginning at 9pm. There is a ten dollar suggested donation for entry. Complimentary Colt 45 will be available for all guests who are 21 and over. All guests are asked to wear white to participate. Please contact Lisa Baldini at lisa@golden-gallery.org for more information regarding Power 2 or the Power Series. Avarus In 2001 Avarus formed in Tampere, Finland, by members of the Anaksimandros and Pylon. The group continues to expand, collaborating with members of Kiila, http://www.secreteye.org/se/avarus.html Kristina Donello Kristina Donello was raised in sunny south Florida where she pranced around barefoot all day. After graduating from the dance program at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Kristina moved to New York to continue her dance education at the SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She danced as a part of the Purchase Dance Corps and toured in Spain performing contemporary works under the direction of Kazuko Hirabayashi. Ms. Donello studied dance composition with Rosalind Newman and Neil Greenberg. Since graduation Kristina has performed works by Pele Bauch, Yael Shtainer, and is currently a dance administrative assistant for Chris Elam/Misnomer Dance Theater. Kristina often choreographs work in conjunction with other multimedia. Nick Lesley Nick Lesley is a multimedia artist and musician. Much of his work focuses on physical relationships to sound and art experience. He regularly performs improvised music, primarily playing percussion and electronics. Nick has also created interactive sound and video installations as well as music for a number of dance pieces. He expects to complete his MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College in the Spring of 2008. He holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego (2001) in Film and Video, Media Arts with a minor in Music Technology. Nick hopes to develop in his work a better fusion of interactive video and music in performance. http://www.neckandtongue.com/ 9pm - $10 suggested donation
SEPTEMBER
Thursday September 4th Agathe Max is a french musician based in Lyon. She mostly performs as a solo violin act, enhanced with various loops, distortions and other effects. She has been a member of Brown Recluse, Clara Clara and is a current member of Promise is yours. Her album to come will be released by the infamous TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS label. She has been very much on tour in the last few years sharing gigs with important international acts such as Carla Bozulich, Jonathan Kane, David Daniell, Melt Banana... Her music is either composed or improvised, depending of the shape of the project. In addition to her musical carreer, Agathe Max is also a visual artist, a jeweller and an activist in the musical and artistic community in Lyon.
Max will mostly present pieces of the new album « this silver string » released on Table of The Elements in September. This album has been recorded in Lyon, France, last february. She will also present a new piece, just worked on, which is based on an Indian raga mixed with distortions and loop effects, and mostly improvised. Tony Conrad is a video/sound artist, musician/composer, filmmaker, teacher and writer. His collaboration Outside the Dream Syndicate (1972) with the German Krautrock group Faust is a classic of minimal music, and his film The Flicker (1966) is a key work of the structural film movement. Conrad was a founding member of the Theater of Eternal Music, nicknamed The Dream Syndicate, which included John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marion Zazeela. Conrad has composed more than a dozen audio works for strings with solo amplified violin. He began to work in video and performance in the 1970s as a professor at Antioch College in Ohio and at the Department of Media Study in the University at Buffalo, where he continues to teach. His work has been shown in many museums and galleries in Europe and North America. Tony Conrad will perform on violin with recorded accompaniment.
Friday September 5th ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS featuring: Dan Bodah, host of Airborn Event The Pyramid Scheme Trio and Bing & Ruth bring an evening of delicate sounds and hopeful ambiances to IPR, presented by WFMU DJ Dan Bodah, who will also share his work with manipulated field recordings. All three come from different directions to a similar end -- the creation of habitable sound environments, from the post-jazz explorations of the Pyramid Scheme Trio, to the monumental minimalist melodicism of
Bing & Ruth, to the dream chamber of Bodah's drones.
Saturday September 6th ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS featuring: Irene Trudel with David Garland, Pete Galub, Greta Gertler & Friends + Noa Babayof http://www.3garlands.com/davidgarland/about.html Garland's first album, 1987's "Control Songs," on the German label Review Records, included musicians John Zorn and Christian Marclay. In 1985 and '86 Garland was one of five improvising vocalists, with Arto Lindsay, Shelley Hirsch, David Moss, and Sussan Deihim, in "Dead Stories" and "Tower of Babel"—concert and theater projects by turntable pioneer Christian Marclay. Garland formed The Worlds of Love with banjo and synthesizer player Cinnie Cole and percussionist Ikue Mori (of DNA), releasing an album and touring Europe in 1989. With The Worlds of Love, Garland recorded an album of songs by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, "I Guess I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," released in Japan in 1993. Garland's 2007 album "Noise In You" (Family Vineyard) is his most heartfelt and imaginative, and his first to be widely distributed. In "Noise In You" Garland has created a sumptuous experimental song cycle in which his voice is joined by the voices of some of the most creative of a younger generation of song-inventors: Sufjan Stevens, Diane Cluck, and others. David's voice can also be heard on WNYC as the host of Evening Music, Fridays through Sundays, and as host of "Spinning On Air." Pete Galub cites a diverse range of musical influences from the likes of Thelonius Monk to 60's and 80's melodic guitar pop music a la the Byrds, Big Star, and the Chills, as well as folk/country tunesmiths like the Louvin Brothers and Michael Hurley, and raw punk groups like Wire and the Undertones. Pete has had the pleasure of sharing stages with the likes of Gillian Welch and Liz Phair and his music has received radio-play in the United States and Ireland, where he also lived for a year in 1999. A strange cast of characters graces "Boy Gone Wrong", the debut record by Brooklyn-based songwriter Pete Galub. Between members of Pete’s band, the Annuals, and producer Chris Cunningham the musicians on this record have been around and played with the likes of Marianne Faithful, hardcore band Negative Approach, no-waver James Chance and power popper Marshall Crenshaw. And the results are still not at all what you’d expect; a very refreshing dose of heartfelt, well-crafted and meticulously arranged indie pop/folk songs a la Big Star, Robyn Hitchcock, Will Oldham, and East River Pipe. With "Boy Gone Wrong", Pete Galub establishes himself as one of the most interesting new songwriters to come around in a while. Greta Gertler grew up near the beach in Sydney, Australia and currently lives amongst construction sites in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her debut album "THE BABY THAT BROUGHT BAD WEATHER" (2003) brought her into the light as "a hot commodity on the New York music scene" (WNYC, Soundcheck), with a "spacious voice and a welcome weakness of lushly orchestrated 70s-style pop" (The New Yorker). In the move from Australia to New York City, and with the encouragement of a recording deal from Jarvis Studios, she was inspired to write and co-produce her first solo album with Noah Simon over a three-year period, featuring an astounding group of musicians that she met in the streets and subways of New York. The young Israeli singer/songwriter Noa Babayof is rapidly establishing a presence on the new international folk scene. Her debut album From A Window To A Wall was recently recorded and mixed by renowned Greg Weeks (The Espers) at his studio in Philadelphia. The album is set for a US/European release in spring 2008 on Weeks' new analog recording label Language of Stone (distributed by Drag City). From A Window To A Wall features lush string arrangements backing up Noa's arresting singing and writing style. Noa is influenced by the likes of Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, along with such contemporary icons as Diane Cluck, Smog and the Espers. Anova Music, Noa's Israeli management and label, released From A Window To A Wall locally in fall 2007. 8pm $10
Thursday September 11th "In the Shadow of No Towers" w Eric Bogosian, Marco Capelli and Elliott Sharp Eric Bogosian will read from Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "In the Shadow of No Towers" with an all star musical ensemble featuring Marco Capelli and Elliott Sharp and several other surprise guests. 8pm $15 Friday September 12th ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS The Brother Lucy Show with Kurt Gottschalk Presents A Neil Peart With Brown Wing Overdrive and Sean Meehan / David Watson duo Brown Wing Overdrive is Chuck Bettis (electronics + vocals), Mikey IQ Jones (electronics + jaw harps + percussion + objects + vocals) and Derek Morton (electronics + banjo). They cite as influences pollution, angry shamans, burning circuitry, lonely poltergeists, sandpaper, dental work, alarm clocks, hallucinogenic banjo claw hammer, trash trucks, beat box'in, synthy modular meltdown and chaotic analog. Their CD "ESP Organism" will be released in October on Tzadik. http://www.myspace.com/brownwingoverdrive Sean Meehan has been active in improvised music in New York since the late 80s. He plays a single snare drum, sometimes augmented with cymbals or other objects, in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conception and function of the instrument. His concerts around the world are often staged in unobserved and unconsidered outdoor locations. He has recorded solo and with Sachiko M, Ellen Fullman, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura and others. His artistic output also includes the construction of "performance objects" that serve as "compositional things," such as "gift iii'" which musically activated a sink full of dishes, and a boxed set of four sculpted cassettes to be played in the mind. http://home.earthlink.net/~overturnedbowl/index_2.htm Guitarist and bagpiper David Watson hails from New Zealand, where he was a member of Primitive Arts Group and co-founded Braille Records. He released three LPs on Braille, and did much to create an improv/noise-music scene where previously there was none. In 1987 he moved to New York and has performed in clubs, new music and concert venues throughout New York, Europe, Australia, NZ and Japan. He has worked with Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Kato Hideki, Cecil Taylor, Andrea Parkins and others, and has curated music series at Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, St. Marks Church, Greenwich House, Bang-on-a-Can, PS 1, and PS 122. In 2007, he released "Fingering an Idea" (XI), a two-disc set for multiple guitars and bagpipes, and "Throats" (Ecstatic Peace) with Shelley Hirsch and Makagami Koichi. Kurt Gottschalk writes about, talks about, thinks about, listens to and plays (on the guitar, on the radio) music. He still likes every band he ever liked. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KU
Saturday September 13th ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS featuring: DJ TONY COULTER http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TC
Wednesday September 17 Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and Kevin Volans in Dublin. She graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a doctoral degree in composition in 2002. While at Northwestern, her chief teachers were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003-04 she was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and from 2004-05 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. From 2006 to 2008 she is the composer-in-residence for the In Context 3 project in South Dublin. In 2007 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. Her works have been performed throughout Europe, the US, and Canada by groups such as Alter Ego, Ensemble Récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, Ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, the Crash Ensemble, ensemble ascolta, Champ d’Action, the Rilke Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, the Bozzini Quartet, Concorde, Ensemble Musica Nova, Ensemble Chronophonie, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Quintet, the Hebrides Ensemble, Psappha, and Q-02 among others. She has received commissions from RTÉ, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Sudwest Rundfunk (SWR), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Musik der Jahrhundert, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Dresdener Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik, Wien Modern, the Dresden Semper Oper, ZKM (Karlsruhe), the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, the Project Arts Centre and the National Concert Hall, Ireland, as well as commission awards from the New Music Scheme of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Scottish Arts Council. From 2003-04, she was composer-in-residence at the National Sculpture Factory, Cork. In 2000 she won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and received first prize in the SCI/ASCAP 2002 Commission Competition. In July 2002 she returned to Darmstadt to lecture in composition at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Music. Her works moving in/love songs/city front garden with old men and been in a room and a room and a room and a room were shortlisted for the 2002 and 2003 Gaudeamus Foundation compositions respectively. In addition to her activities as a composer, Jennifer Walshe frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques. Many of her recent compositions were commissioned for her voice in conjunction with other instruments. She is also active as an improviser, performing regularly with musicians in Chicago and Europe. Forthcoming projects include a portrait concert in Parma, Italy, with Alter Ego, solo performances in Chicago, Belgium and Belgrade, and commissions for the 2006 ISCM World New Music Days and 2007 Maerzmusik festivals. She is currently living in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.
Friday September 19th ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS featuring: Bethany Ryker, host of Stochastic Hit Parade (www.wfmu.org/playlists/HP)
NORMAL LOVE Saturday September 20rd ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS featuring: WFMU music director/DJ: Brian Turner Cooper-Moore Solo / Music: Old and New Paths Ryan Jewell & Greg Kelley Duo Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan at numerous festivals {No Fun/NYC, Musique Action/France, Superfici Sonore/Italy}, in clubs {Bowery Ballroom/NYC, Choppin Block/Boston, Instantes Chavires/Paris}, outdoors {Baltimore, Big Sur, Mhere}, in living rooms & basements, in a bank {Argentina}, and at least once on a vibrating floor {MIT}. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe {Keiji Haino, Kevin Drumm, Jandek} performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process {RRR, Twisted Village, Freedom From}. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'. He is the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. http://www.geocities.com/greyelkgel/ Heathen Shame
Tuesday September 23rd LABYRINTHITIS
Jacob Kirkegaard is an artist with an interest in the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time and hearing. His performances, audio/visual installations and compositions deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain inaccessible to sense perception. With the use of unorthodox recording tools such as accelerometers, hydrophones or home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard manages to capture and explore "secret sounds" - distortions, interferences, vibrations, ambiences - from within a variety of environments: volcanic earth, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, crystals, ice... and the human inner ear itself. A graduate of the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, Kirkegaard has given workshops and lectures in academic institutions such as the Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen and the Art Institute of Chicago. During the last ten years, he has been presenting exhibitions and touring festivals and conferences throughout the world. He has released five albums (mostly on the British label "Touch"). Among his numerous collaborators are JG Thirlwell, Ann Lislegaard, CM von Hausswolff, Philip Jeck and Lydia Lunch. Kyle Bobby Dunn is a young, New York-based minimalist composer and sound artist who draws his material from outdoor locations, classical instrumentation and generates sounds from site-specific environments and processes them using analog setups and a laptop. He was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1986 and has been an active performer since 2000. He's had releases on Kning Disk, Housing (his own imprint), This Generation Tapes and his latest full-length release, Fragments & Compositions, is out now on Sedimental. This exclusive appearance at Issue Project Room will find Dunn utilizing newly built and arranged compositional systems for violin performers and brand new "love songs." 8pm $10 Wednesday September 24Jason Kahn-percussion, electronics (Zurich) First time meeting of this trio for two sets of improvisations. Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich. His work includes sound installation, performance and composition. He was born in New York, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late 1990's, and has had solo and group exhibitions internationally, including museums, galleries and arts spaces in the USA, Canada, France, Croatia, Germany, Argentina, Egypt, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Spain. He has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics into his playing. He currently performs with different combinations of percussion, analogue synthesizer or computer. As a composer, Kahn's work draws on electronic and acoustic sound sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness. His work addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness. Kahn's sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space. Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977) is a musician who focuses on collaborative improvisation and solo musical projects, working in live electronic settings with an instrument of his own design that integrates open-circuits and samplers, as well as in acoustic settings with the Soprano Saxophone. His work with sound installation is exploring sound as a function of architecture, cognition, and temporality. He became musically active in Portland, Oregon, and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean Paul Jenkins, Doug Theriault, and Leif Sundstrom (eventually in the duo GOD). Since relocating to New York he primarily collaborates with Andrew Lafkas and Vic Rawlings. He has released recordings on EMR, Jyrk, Little Enjoyer, and Gameboy and has performed music across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. 8pm $10 Thursday September 25th Mattin is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing. Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ''freedom''and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre. Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship. Collaborations
He has performed in many international festivals including: ad libitum (Warsaw 2007), Argos (Brussels 2007), Sonorites (Montpelier 2007), Densites (Fresnes en Woevre 2007), Jazz Festival (Mullhouse 2007), Noise Festival (Ljubljana 2007), Sonic Protest (Paris 2007), Escena contemporanea (Madrid 2007), ErstQuake (New York 2006), No Trend (London 2006), Parthenay Festival (Parthenay 2006), LMC festival (London 2005), What is music? (Australia 2004),Improvisations (Adelaide 2004), Avanto (Helsinki 2004), Lieux Communs (Montreal 2004), Observatori (Valencia 2004), Ciberart y MEM (Bilbao 2004), LEM e Improvisa ( Barcelona 2003), Freedom of the City Festival (2003 & 2002 London), Konfrontation 2003 (Nickelsdorf), SKIF 7 ( 2003 San Petersburg & Moscow) , Wrong Festival (Barcelona 2002), MEM (Bilbao 2003, 2002,2001), Ertz 2001 & 2002 (Bera) y Elektronikaldia (2001,Donostia/San Sebastian). Exhibitions http://www.mattin.org Bernhard Gal"relive" In his solo laptop performance “relive”, Bernhard Gal recycles sound materials from previous works and sound installations, creating new musical structures live in concert. Fragments of these works are taken apart and reassembled in a quasi-improvised, real-time context. The pool of used sounds ranges from environmental sound recordings (phonographies) to language samples as well as instrumental sounds. Additional materials from current music and art projects are constantly being added to Gal's sound library, hence his 'repertoire' keeps expanding and changing continuously. A CD release of “relive” is scheduled to be published on the Austrian label Gromoga Records in fall of 2008, hence this concert can be seen as the New York record preview party. The Austrian artist, composer and musicologist Bernhard Gál has become internationally known as one of the most prolific sound artists of a younger generation. During the past ten years Gál has created around 50 sound installations and media art projects, combining sound, light, objects, spatial concepts and video projections into intense and often site-specific interdisciplinary art works. He also composes music for acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic music. As a (laptop) musician he has been performing around 150 concerts on four continents. He runs the record label Gromoga Records and is director of the Austrian art organization ‘sp ce’. Currently, Gál lives as a freelance composer, artist and curator in Vienna and Berlin where he also taught sound art at the University of Arts in 2006-07. For his music and art projects Gál has received numerous awards, his music has been made available on some 25 audio publications. 8pm $10
Friday September 26th
featuring: Fabio, host of "Strength through Failure" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/FR Ken Montgomery and Michael Evans duo
Saturday, September 27th
featuring: Trouble, host of "This is the Modern World" A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Loretta Lynn carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air. Dj Trouble has been spinning a free-form mix of outerspace sounds for WFMU since 1995. Don't get the viking lady mad. with: Lights http://www.myspace.com/lightsmakemusic
Tuesday September 30th ISSUE Project Room’s Artist in Residence for Fall 2008:Tristan PerichNew works by Tristan Perich for Piano and electronics In all of his creative activities, Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his compositions for solo instruments, small ensemble and orchestra. As a visual artist, he works primarily with machines to create pen-on-paper drawings that explore the limits of traditional drawing through randomness and order.
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