ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning nearly 30 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room.
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I am sitting in a room: Alvin Lucier's 90th Birthday Celebration, Part 2
ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning nearly 30 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room.
I am sitting in a room: Alvin Lucier's 90th Birthday Celebration, Part 1
ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning nearly 30 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room.
I am sitting in a room: Alvin Lucier's 90th Birthday Celebration
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ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning nearly 30 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room.
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A Week of Strings: Music on a long thin wire: A sound installation by Alvin Lucier
Old American Can Factory
February celebrates the individuality of instrumentation with a week of horns, percussion, string, and voice. Suzanne Fiol curates in collaboration with 4 musicians; Chris McIntyre: A Week of Horns, Billy Martin: A Week of Percussion, Zach Layton: A Week of Strings, Sarah Ibrahim: A Week of Voice.
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Alvin Lucier "Hard Wood" - performed by The Daxophone Consort
The Daxophone Consort presents HARD WOOD, a new commission by the esteemed experimental composer Alvin Lucier (performed as a quartet with Trevor Saint)
John Cage's "Ryoanji" performed by The Daxophone Consort
The Daxophone Consort presents John Cage's "Ryoanji" in collaboration with Alvin Lucier.
The Daxophone Consort with Judith Berkson
The Daxophone Consort presents a new collaboration with NYC experimental vocalist and composer Judith Berkson.
Alvin Lucier, Marina Rosenfeld, Jarrod Fowler, Seth Kim-Cohen and the New York Miniaturist Ensemble
Old American Can Factory
A concert organized in honor of the publication of Seth Kim-Cohen’s new book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Practice (Continuum).
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ISSUE presents composers & instrumentalists Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom -- the U.S.'s only extant daxophone consort. At ISSUE, the group collaborates with experimental vocalist and composer Judith Berkson. The concert features the premiere of a new commission, HARD WOOD, by Alvin Lucier.
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ISSUE and the Board of Directors invite you to join us for our annual Gala, taking place on October 17, 2018. The evening honors pioneering composer Alvin Lucier; Regina Myer, President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership; and Jeanne Lutfy, ISSUE Board Chair and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commissioner.
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Alvin Lucier: Tilted Arc Performed by Trevor Saint
Glockenspiel performer Trevor Saint follows his exceptional performance of Lucier’s Richochet Lady at ISSUE in 2017 with the premiere of Tilted Arc, a new piece written by Lucier this year featuring bowed glockenspeil and pure wave oscillators.