ISSUE presents a performance of Christian Wolff’s Edges or Exercises featuring Nate Wooley (trumpet), Christian Wolff (small percussion and melodica), Michael Pisaro (electric guitar) and Kristin Nordeval (voice). In the liner notes for Wolff’s 10 Exercises, the American composer Frederic Rzewski describes the work as “not reproducing familiar forms, but revealing, behind these, life’s unpredictability. You could say it is political; improvisatory; concerned with collaborative, non-hierarchical forms of social organization; but you can’t really say what it is like (although John Cage came close when he said, after a performance of the Exercises in New York, that it was like the classical music of an unknown civilization).”
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September 30th, ISSUE presents WITH, the second night of FOR/WITH. The evening premieres Michael Pisaro's Stem-Flower-Root and features works by Annea Lockwood and Christian Wolff, as well as a roundtable panel with the mini-festival's composers and performers.
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ISSUE is pleased to present FOR, the first evening of FOR/WITH, featuring new commissions with some of America’s most iconoclastic composers and performers. The evening premieres a new piece by Christian Wolff, his debut duo with Michael Pisaro, as well as works by Annea Lockwood and Ashley Fure.
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Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley
ISSUE presents jazz leaders Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley in duo performance, returning together to 22 Boerum for the first time since ISSUE’s 10 Years Alive On The Infinite Plane in 2013.
Jazz leaders Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley perform in duo, returning to 22 Boerum for the first time since ISSUE’s 10 Years Alive On The Infinite Plane. Their music combines composition and improvisation, and explores the potential of modern melody and rhythm posited against abstract sound and texture.
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Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain V, Maya Dunietz, Fritz Welch, TILT play William Dougherty
Abrons Art Center: 466 Grand St., NYC 10002
Tectonics closes with the premiere of Nate Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain V", expanded in scale and complexity for a 19-piece ensemble. Maya Dunietz performs "Boom" for vocals, electronics, piano, and video. Fritz Welch (Peeesseye) performs solo. TILT Brass play a trombone quintet by William Dougherty.
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NY Times on Nate Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain"
Steve Smith of The New York Times reviews the premiere of Nate Wooley's latest version of "The Seven Storey Mountain."
Nate Wooley: "Seven Storey Mountain"
ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn
ISSUE presents Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain IV, a 7 part song cycle for ecstatic instruments and tape. Bringing together all sections of the work for the first time, the concert features an all-star cast of Chris Corsano, Ryan Sawyer, C. Spencer Yeh, Matt Moran, Chris Dingman, and TILT Brass sextet.
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From the archives, with Mark Stewart, David Cossin, Dorit Chrysler, Armin Ra, David Simons, Anthony Ptak, Rob Schwimmer, Sean Meehan, James Fei, Jeff Arnal, Briggan Krauss, Tomas Ulrich, Billy Martin, Chris Mann, Alessandro Bosetti, Nat Wooley, Ben Owen, MInoshima Osechi, Kenta Nagai, Phil Niblock and more.
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Philip Glass: Music With Friends
Ongoing Series
For three intimate evenings, Philip Glass comes to ISSUE Project Room-- a rare occasion featuring Glass in duo performances with Laurie Anderson, Jon Gibson, and Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, as well former ISSUE Artists-in Residence Tristan Perich, Nate Wooley, and Ryan Sawyer with Ben Vida.
Newton armstrong, cor fuhler & nate wooley
Old American Can Factory
A night of performance in three parts.