Experimental Nordic artists Avant Joik make their 2024 U.S. debut at ISSUE Project Room. Blending traditional joik language and vocal experimentation using electronic soundscapes, Indigenous Sámi singer Katarina Barruk (vocals/joik) and acclaimed experimentalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (vocals and live electronics) perform with live visuals by Sámi artist Matti Aikio. Renowned experimental vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara will open the evening.
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Avant Joik / Joan La Barbara
Brooklyn Music School
Experimental Nordic artists Avant Joik make their 2024 U.S. debut at ISSUE Project Room. Blending traditional joik language and vocal experimentation using electronic soundscapes, Indigenous Sámi singer Katarina Barruk (vocals/joik) and acclaimed experimentalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (vocals and live electronics) perform with live visuals by Sámi artist Matti Aikio. Renowned experimental vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara will open the evening.
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Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room (projected redux) with Joan La Barbara, Abigail Levine, James McNew and James Fei
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room, recorded for his 90th Birthday Celebration, presented by ISSUE in May 2021. The evening includes versions of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room from Joan La Barbara, Abigail Levine & James McNew all created during isolated stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Lucier himself recorded live at ISSUE’s Boerum theater in 2017. The evening will also feature a panel conversation with La Barbara, Levine and McNew focusing on their presentations and Lucier’s legacy, moderated by James Fei.
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Darmstadt Essential Repertoire: Ne(x)tworks ensemble performs music of the New York School
Old American Can Factory
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt "Essential Repertoire" present Ne(x)tworks Ensemble performing music of the New York School.
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Exact Change 20th Anniversary
Old American Can Factory
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the experimental literature publisher, Exact Change.
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ISSUE presents the first of two days observing the work of revolutionist composer Alvin Lucier. The Ever Present Orchestra stages two recent Lucier works: Braid and Hanover. Joan La Barbara gives the American premiere of Double Rainbow. Lucier himself performs Bird and Person Dyning.
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Artists-In-Residence Alumni Collaborations: Audrey Chen & Ne(x)tworks (Joan La Barbara + Miguel Frasconi)
Cellist, vocalist, and electronics producer Audrey Chen performs alongside two key members of the collaborative ensemble Ne(x)tworks: renowned vocalist Joan La Barbara and composer, improviser and electro-acoustician Miguel Frasconi.
An afternoon with legendary singer and composer Joan La Barbara as she demonstrates her signature extended vocal techniques and approach to singing, including the vocal warm-ups, stretches, tone production, resonance focusing, reinforced harmonics or overtone singing, and other techniques.
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Now in its ninth year, Darmstadt's annual birthday concert has become a time-honored tradition. Terry Riley's 1964 masterwork is performed by new music legends including Joan La Barbara, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, Joshua Rubin, Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris, and members of So Percussion and Iktus percussion.
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Ne(x)tworks Collaborates
Old American Can Factory
Ne(x)tworks and a number of stellar guests delve into the disparate world of open, graphic and modular scores created after the innovations of Earle Brown and the New York School of the 1950’s.
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Joan la Barbara: Selections from Woolfsong, an opera in progress
Old American Can Factory
Performed by Ne(x)tworks & special guests