In his site-specific performances, installations, and sculptures, Robert uses site-specific materials to dissolve the tension between structural development and pre-existing environments.
Jim Pugliese's Phase III will team up with guitarist extraordinaire Marc Ribot in a rare night of musical camaraderie. The evening will start off with a solo set by Marc Ribot followed by Phase III.
Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney have created a unique and inclusive body of work involving the poetic setting of sacred/historical texts, within a framework of syncretic tunings and sounds. They will share a selection of these pieces and other gems!
ISSUE Project Room inaugurates our 2005-2006 literary season with "New Language" -- a series of multidisciplinary events that include readings, multi-media performances, small press bookfairs, literary exhibitions and more.
My new record "solo-solo bass" is the ultimate challenge for bassplayers, the one-track/one bass challenge, trying to stay interesting for the course of one CD's length of music or a whole evening of a live-concert. Having realised, that I cannot do that all alone, I have asked fellow bassplayers to write pieces for me
Longtime collaborators Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone, laptop) and Wayne Horvitz (keyboards, electronics) team up with mutual coconspirator Jim Black (drums, laptop) for a golden evening of spectacular noise and audio sweetness.
Don't miss the launch of Stephan Moore's sixteen-channel hemispherical speaker system. ISSUE Project Room will host Moore's unit as a long-term installation designed to allow interested composers the opportunity to experiment, present and create new works specifically for these components.
A performance of improvised music conducted with the use of graphic scores. The scores are maps containing cells with written word directions/suggestions taken from my glossary of terms that I use to describe subtle, and not-so-subtle approaches to sound, rhythm, dynamics, form, groupings and thematic material.
An evening of collaborative, improvisational video and music. Joining Kendall are musicians he's worked with in the past -- Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai), o.blatt (Keiko Ueinishi) and Bradford Reed & Bill Bronson -- plus pianist Anthony Coleman and his Hellbender Film Projekt video-partner Al Griffin.
