Past Events

AMPLIFY 2015: Exploratory

Anne Guthrie & Vanessa Rossetto, Taku Unami & Devin DiSanto, Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet

Fridman Gallery: 287 Spring St., NYC 10013

Horn improvisor/composer Anne Guthrie and Austin-based composer/violist Vanessa Rossetto play their first collaboration. Tokyo-based composer Taku Unami performs with the object-oriented Devin DiSanto, also a first-time duo. Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet combine their expansive sounds for a surely epic closing set.

SOLD OUT! Yoshi Wada: Earth Horns with Electronic Drone

Emily Harvey Foundation: 537 Broadway #2, NYC 10012

SOLD OUT! Renowned composer, instrument builder and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada reprises performances of his early 70s work “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone”. Wada performs on four original “pipe horn” instruments with an ensemble of NY players, and is accompanied on organ and electronics by his son composer Tashi Wada.

International Festival of Text-Sound Poetry

LECTURE & LISTENING SESSION: Charles Bernstein, Erin Morrill

Goethe-Institut: 30 Irving Pl., NYC 10003

Charles Bernstein speaks on the history of PennSound, the web's largest archive of digital poetry recordings, with some close listening included. Through the consideration of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a talk by Erin Morrill explores the de-automatization of listening practices via a Dadaist mindset.

International Festival of Text-Sound Poetry

LECTURE & LISTENING SESSION: Steve McCaffery, Edwin Torres, Marc Matter & Swantje Liechtenstein

Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211

Steve McCaffery, of the legendary Four Horsemen, plays, performs and discusses various 20th century sound texts. Torres explores sound as a landing point for a territorial poetry to begin. Matter and Liechtenstein focus on pre-conceptual poetry in relation to historical text-sound-works, poésie sonore and Hörspiel.

International Festival of Text-Sound Poetry

Antje Vowinckel, Marc Matter, Swantje Lichtenstein

Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211

Sound and radio artist Antje Vowinckel performs with voice and vinyl. Marc Matter mutates voical sounds via turntablist techniques. Swantje Lichtenstein's conceptual poetry and sound improvisations utilize electroacoustic elements.

International Festival of Text-Sound Poetry

Anne-James Chaton, Stine Motland, Ian Hatcher

Wendy’s Subway: 722 Metropolitan Ave., 2nd Fl., Brooklyn 11211

Spanning plastic, poetry and post-rock, French artist and poet Anne-James Chaton performs. Both instrumental and physical, Stine Janvin Motland pushes the limits of the natural acoustics of the voice. Poet and programmer Ian Hatcher explores cognition in the context of digital systems.

Artists-In-Residence 2015

C. Spencer Yeh: Video On Demand

Anthology Film Archives: 32 2nd Ave, NYC 10003

C. Spencer Yeh presents two new moving image works showcasing his unique perspective as an artist, organizer, and audience member. A travelogue captured via smartphone in Egypt explores surveillance, chance composition, tourism, and politics. Shot over the year 2002, a "concert film" documents approximately 40 bands.

Áine O'Dwyer: Pipe Organ

First Unitarian Congregational Society: 116 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn 11201

UK-based Áine O’Dwyer's performances cross boundaries of composition, improvisation, chance, psycho-geography. Primarily a harpist, for this concert she grapples with the "king of instruments", applying her sense of melodic, structured improvisation to the pipe organ.

CANCELLED Susan Howe and David Grubbs: Performance Retrospective

MoMA: 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

ISSUE Project Room presents a two-evening retrospective of collaborative performance works by poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs, in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art. Since 2003 the pair has created four full-length works. Three pieces are presented as well as a moderated discussion with the artists.

Swedish Energies V: Nordic Edition

John Duncan, Jana Winderen, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Saturn and the Sun, Åke Hodell

Saint Vitus: 1120 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn 11222

ISSUE’s Swedish Energies Festival returns to NY for the 5th-annual edition. Presented in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians spanning genres of sound and visual art.

Swedish Energies V: Nordic Edition

Asplind + AlmgrenRecén + Koch w/ Mats Lindström, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Tommi Keränen, Ragnhild May, Lukasz Szalankiewicz

Saint Vitus: 1120 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn 11222

ISSUE’s Swedish Energies Festival returns to NY for the 5th-annual edition. Presented in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians spanning genres of sound and visual art.

Benefit for ISSUE Project Room

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE returns to our 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a unique event before the final stage of construction begins. Pioneering artist Joan Jonas performs. GABI is joined by Michael Pisaro. Charles Bernstein, Mónica de la Torre, and Elizabeth Willis read, and David Grubbs performs, in recognition of Susan Howe.