Tim Barnes (percussion) + Manuel Mota (guitar) + Barry Weisblat (home made electronics) + Toshio Kajiwara (turntables) + Margarida Garcia (bass)

featuring John Zorn & Mike Pride’s A BIG SELLOUT

The final event of the CERF Festival 2005 centers on composers involved with sound as sound, sound as art and sound as social commentary.

Solos & duos.

Burgon and Dunn's repertoire consists of both strictly notated compositions as well as purely improvised music - a repertoire that walks the line between chamber music and extended technique.

Talking Stick is a truth based story telling series in which all forms of live performance are encouraged: Comedy, poetry, music, oral and text oriented storytelling.

These musicians (aka A-T-M) belong to a younger generation of live electronic performers Luc Ferrari recently described as "les nouveaux concretes" remaining true to the Schaefferian ideal of recontextualising magnetic sound.

The phOnOmena posse spends the night at ISSUE... again!

The phOnOmena posse spends the night at ISSUE.

A Tsunami Relief Benefit featuring performances, songs, poetry, dance, stand-up comedy, rock bands, and an art show all by New York City school kids. Proceeds from the event will go to MADRE, an International Women's Health Rights non-profit organization sending relief aid to tsunami devastated areas. www.madre.org

All levels welcome. Bring your own art supplies

Each session will include model(s) and musicians. Initiative for a creative community

Duo-plus video- featuring audio processing/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and pianist Shoko Nagai w/ live video manipulation by video artist Adam Kendall (Hellbender Film Projekt)

Erik Friedlander plus broken trio