As part of The Sonic Unconscious, ISSUE presents two installations by Yolande Harris. Pink Noise uses sound recorded underwater. In Tropical Storm, sound and video recordings of a tropical storm evoke the multisensory experience of being immersed in a torrential downpour in a rainforest.
Chased around by the ghosts of a paved-over salt marsh and equipped with perverted botanists’ tools, voices of divination and herbal elixirs, explore the neighborhood of Gowanus on foot and onscreen. Gina Badger leads a field botany tour exploring the place of edible and medicinal weeds in ecologies of decolonization.
In Scuttling around in the shallows, Winderen continues her investigation of the sound of shrimp, exploring how the smallest creatures of the ocean use sound for communication, orientation, and feeding. Hydrophones—originally a military development—are repurposed, inadvertently producing unexpected qualities.
As part of "The Sonic Unconscious" festival, ISSUE presents Yolande Harris's Scorescapes, a program including the pieces Tuning In / Spacing Out, a collaboration with Edward Shanken, Fishing for Sound, and S.W.A.M.P., with Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, and William Lang.
ISSUE’s Littoral series presents Jacues Demierre and Vincent Barras. The detailed analysis of the sonorities of the ancient and modern languages, their re-elaboration and re-composition is finally embodied in a score-text, spread out on stage in its concrete dimensions.
For her first Artist-in-Residence performance, Okkyung Lee collaborates with Tom Rainey (percussion), Liberty Ellman (guitar) and Skuli Sverrisson (bass). An independent voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition, Lee her solid classical training as a springboard for new combinations.
Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art.
Sagittarius A-Star is the new incarnation of the legendary Italian label Qbico, who specialized in limited edition, hand-painted vinyls releases, ranging from free jazz to Japanese psychedelia, free-folk, and electronic improvisation. Second Family Band, Trulofa Trio, Matt Valentine and The Aquarian Foundation perform.
Irish composer Enda Bates' hexaphonic guitar is simply a standard electric guitar with a special pickup providing access to each individual string signal. This allows each string to be processed differently, and be routed to a different place in the room. This new work transforms his instrument sonically and spatially.
Esther Venrooy's works range from purely electronic composed music to improvised combinations of electronica with traditional instrumentation (piano, guqin, pipa and satsuma-biwa). Since 2006 she has created site-specific works, multimedia performances and installations. Joined by the anarchistic duo pygmy jerboa.
Haunted House, comprised of avant-blues guitarist Loren Connors, Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes and Neel Murgai reunite after a 10 year hiatus for a special performance. Joined by Che Chen and Robbie Lee, stoner-rock/goth lullaby songwriter Sondra Sun-Odeon, and Helena Espvall (of Espers).