Past Events

Josephine Foster, celebrated for her timeless and arresting voice and songs, several widely acclaimed albums, and the magnetic nature of her live performances. A self-proclaimed opera school dropout, her unusually imaginative work unites a wide musical spectrum and forms a truly singular body of songwriting.

Sara Wintz is a writer, editor and lead singer of the pretty panicks press. DITHER, a New York based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation.

At ISSUE, Mottel creates an environment where photography is digitally altered and projected, backed by a soundscape performed by Mottel on 'electronically affected' piano, oscillators and samplers. In a sense, his music is a personal take on the sum of his influences.

Preparing the Past is an “evocative” three-movement work for 4-hand piano, two vibraphones and two glockenspiels. It is inspired by the activities taking and looking at photographs—from the actual picture-taking moment through the reconsideration of that moment as a physical artifact.

With members hailing from 14 countries on 5 continents, Ensemble Laboratorium presented its debut performance at the 2005 Lucerne Festival. A truly international ensemble, Laboratorium seeks to discover and develop an interactive exchange between the cultures represented by its members.

Darmstadt Institute and ISSUE Project Room are proud to present an evening of contemporary keyboard music by four specialists in the experimental tradition: Michael Century, Stephen Gosling, Emily Manzo, and Kathleen Supové.

Z'EV is a conceptual artist, sound sculptor, and poet. After studying at CalArts with Concrete poet Emmett Williams he produced visual and sound poetries, and was included in the "Second Generation" show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco in 1975.

Darmstadt Institute in collaboration with David Grubbs Presents: Luc Ferrari, Two Works for Ensemble with Memorized Sounds. Program includes "Tautologos III" (1969; Chicago version, 2001) and "Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue" (1977).

Branden Joseph presents a talk regarding "biomusic and the end of representation" with performances by filmmaker Bruce McClure and composer David Dunn.

While Zs' music has been variously categorized as no-wave, noise, and post-minimalist, it is primarily concerned with making music that challenges the physical and mental limitations of both performer and listener.

For the first part of the program, Carbon utilizes the multi-channel speaker system to perform an abstract composition that is influenced by subjects relating to paranoia, dementia, epistemology, and biopsychosocial approaches. For the second part of the program, Carbon collaborates with Steven Litt.

Portraying physical and architecturally improbable spatial themes, Metalux seeks to situate the individual within a tangled web of technological interfaces. Their music can be heard as abstract sonic fiction.