HPSCHD, John Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. Its very nature is inextricable from the tumult of the year it premiered, 1969. With Joel Chadabe, keyboardist Neely Bruce and video directed by Braley Eros.
Join us for a farewell to the Old American Can Factory! ISSUE Project Room is moving permanently to Downtown Brooklyn, and closing the Can Factory ane celebrating the release of Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room. With Talibam!, Jonathan Kane's February, and MV Carbon with Tony Conrad.
“Even sleepers & dreamers are collaborators on what goes on in the universe.”
-Heraclitus
A night of music, poetry and film, to keep the fires of rebellion and action lit and burning, featuring…
Projections of sublime horror, via films, videos, & magic lantern slides..by the Vampirate (Bradley) Eros, including Witchcraft Through the Ages, with appearances from Faust, Dracula, Vampyr and the Raven plus special guests Lary 7, DJ Maria Chavez and Dorit Chrysler (theremin) among other mystery guests...
"from the unconscious to the uncanny, outdoors from dusk to starlight........... dream sequences, dance fantasy, erotic mystery, surrealism, silent films, animation, avant-garde, trance, nightmare, reverie, hallucination, desire..."
Artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, poets, puppets, activists and many others gather inside the Project Room to fuel and inspire a ceremony of sounds, acts and visuals from sunset to sunrise.