Saturday, October 25th and Sunday, October 26th, ISSUE Project Room hosts a two-night series highlighting artists of the Kye imprint, an esteemed experimental record label out of Poughkeepsie, New York, founded in 2001. Kye’s aesthetic involves “organizing sound” as opposed to “making music,” in the words of founder/label-head Graham Lambkin, the sound artist and composer who established himself through the sonic experiments of the Shadow Ring. Lambkin and Kye’s artists create deep, atmospheric, and evocative pieces often through the use of electronics, analog tape, field recordings, and sound collage. A range of artists from the influential imprint perform across two evenings, with varied backgrounds and distinct approaches to organized sound, weaving together concepts from both the sonic and visual arts, as well as the sounds of the everyday.
Saturday, October 25th at 8pm, electronics manipulator Tim Goss, Lambkin’s former Shadow Ring collaborator, appears with Call Back the Giants, an inter-generational duo with his daughter, Chloe Mutter. Austin-based artist Vanessa Rossetto conjures evocative visual-soundscapes in a duo with a secret guest TBA. Matt Krefting, who came to prominence with northeastern rock outfits Son of Earth and the Believers, presents his refined, textural soundscapes in a solo performance.
The series continues the following evening, Sunday, October 26th at 8pm, with a solo performance by acclaimed improvising violinist Malcolm Goldstein, who as a composer, author, and educator, has been an influential force in New York’s contemporary music community since the 60s. Kye label-head Graham Lambkin appears in a duo for piano and tape with Australian improvisor James Rushford. Lambkin also presents a tape piece by Henning Christiansen, Opus 186 Schafe statt Geigen (1988), performed by Christiansen with 30 sheep. One of the central figures of the Danish branch of Fluxus and also of Denmark’s radical art movement Ex School, Christiansen is highly regarded for his collaborations with Joseph Beuys and for works that trespass conventional boundaries between artistic disciplines.
