ISSUE presents pioneering experimental composer Morton Subotnick premiering “As I Live & Breath” a duet of image & sound augmented with live visual work. The performance opens with new work from musician, instrument builder and DJ Antenes (Lori Napoleon)
ISSUE opens its 2020 season with legendary electronic music innovator Moritz von Oswald, 2017 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Antenes (Lori Napoleon), & American composer Britton Powell. At ISSUE, von Oswald presents Akklamation, a piece that sets out to unify the expansive musical paths of the electronics visionary.
Antenes’ ISSUE residency culminates in the presentation of a time-based “audio museum” reflecting her visits to the NOKIA Bell Labs Archives -- a research process that has run parallel to her practice of appropriating antique or otherwise obsolete objects in ways that reference and extend their original functionality.
Thursday, May 25th, Antenes opens her 2017 residency with new work incorporating research on the unique audio terrain of early, analog telephone pioneers and hackers. The performance features found field recordings threaded into the electro-acoustic qualities and electronic signals from her handmade switchboard synths.
ISSUE announces the selection of Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Byron Westbrook, Kabir Carter, and Antenes as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2017 season. ISSUE's residency program commissions emerging NY artists to create challenging time-based works.