As part of a festival celebrating the record label Table of the Elements, ISSUE presents performances by Stephen O’Malley, Jonathan Kane’s February, Igor Cubrilovic, and Tony Conrad / Gastr Del, who accompany a film by Tyler Hubby.
Art-punk band Lycaon Pictus recalls “the apocalypse imagined by Pere Ubu,” (New York Times). Their keyboard/bass/drums trio combines drones and heavy synthesizers with dark humor. Thank You Rosekind will play selections from their forthcoming album ATTENTION INTENTION!
Ellen Fullman, composer, instrument builder, and performer, will perform on her life-long work the Long String Instrument, where multiple strings are held tight across an entire room. She is Joined by David Gamper, Theresa Wong, David Douglas, Sean Meehan, and Monique Buzzarté.
Darmstadt Institute is pleased to present the NYC Premiere of the documentary “Knots and Fields” by British artists Andrew Chesher and David Ryan. Since 2008, the filmmakers have intensely worked with interview and archive material on their film about the Darmstadt Summer Course.
In Alvin Lucier’s Queen of the South, performed here by the ensembles loadbang and Pygmy Jerboa, a metal plate is put into motion by amplified voices, such that sand on the plate forms into beautiful designs. The duo On Structure perform "Strange Song Cycle".
Pianist Thollem McDonas's extensive travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent and Europe. His musical experiences are extremely diverse and his ever expanding variety of approaches to music making result in dramatically new and different outcomes.
The Belgian / Dutch electric guitar quartet ZWERM (Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Matthias Koole, Toon Callier) present: TIMESTRETCH featuring music by Larry Polansky, Hans Roels, Guy De Bièvre, James Tenney, and Philip Glass.
Darmstadt presents Zeelab (Jacob Adler & Ilona Kubiaczyk) with the Iktus Percussion Quartet. The evening will feature music by Philip Glass, Tom Johnson, Jacob Adler, Morton Feldman, and Mauricio Kagel; and special guests Taka Kigawa, piano, and Christa Van Alstine, bass clarinet.
Wet Ink Ensemble plays new works by Eric Wubbels, George Lewis, and Kate Soper, as well as Rick Burkhardt’s Alban and Alex Mincek’s Nucleus. Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging.
Terre Thaemlitz's "Soulnessless" is composed from an openly non-spiritual and anti-religious perspective that sees atheism not as a solution or alternative to religious organizing, but as an act of self-defense entwined with the hopelessnes of life amidst an unstoppable onslaught of spiritual dogma and superstition.
Red Light New Music presents a concert of music by Earle Brown, Bruno Maderna, and premieres by Scott Wollschleger and Vincent Raikhel. The ensemble, started in 2004, presents repertoire of composers rarely performed, as well as their own music. Joined by composer/multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Loen.
