Together with very special guest Wolter Wierbos from Holland, Gerry Hemingway and Alex Waterman present a set of trio music. Coming out of work in the larger Quintet setting, tonight’s music will be more conversational and languid without holding back the virtuosic energy of these three musicians.
Ashley Paul/ Eli Keszler combine sustained resonances with constantly shifting jabs and attacks. Keszler’s bowed metal and driving percussion, and Paul’s expressive reeds and floating vocals, creating deliriously eye opening moments. The duo will be joined by some very special guests.
ISSUE Project Room presents a solo performance by Ashley Paul and a collaborative performance between Eli Keszler and Loren Connors.
The third year of Floating Points Festival (formerly Points in a Circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s innovative house speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.
2008 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ashley Paul performs alongside longtime mentor and renowned pianist-composer Anthony Coleman. Both artists debut collaborative reinterpretations of songs by Paul, including works from her new album Lost in Shadows, as well as new compositions from Coleman.
ISSUE welcomes back Ashley Paul, performing alongside longtime mentor and renowned pianist-composer Anthony Coleman. The evening also features artist M Lamar presenting American Cuck, a multimedia video, environmental installation, and musical performance exploring the maintenance of white supremacy.
Recorded live in June 2013, percussionist Eli Keszler and saxophonist Ashley Paul perform a duo as part of the PAN_ACT festival. Keszler's bowed crotales and cymbals resonate within Paul's altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuously shifting, multi-layered harmonics and intense inner ear sound.
ISSUE presents work from 3 former Artists-In-Residence: Yarn/Wire, Tristan Perich, and Ashley Paul. Yarn/Wire perform Perich’s “Chalk”– a hypnotic chamber piece for pianos, xylophones, and 1-bit electronics. Ashley Paul’s song-based solo work is a psychologically intense combination of melody and raw textures.
ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.
Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. He performs his compositions solo and in ensembles joined by Sean Conly and Satoshi Takeshi, Ashley Paul and Eli Keszler and many more.