Cellist, improvisor, and 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence Okkyung Lee performs with dancer Michelle Boulé. In long white shadows the performance space is explored by performers who constantly change their relationships within and towards to it. The audience is faced with unusual ways of perceiving the music and movement.
Volume (IV) is an improvising quartet featuring electroacoustic harpist Shelley Burgon, turntablist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Moore and electroacoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe. Volume (IV) present a new work for ISSUE's hemiespheric 15-speaker sound system, with nightly contributions from installation artists.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Frolic Architecture is the third and newest collaboration from poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs. It follows Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007) and Thiefth (2005), both of which appeared in the Records of the Year lists in The Wire.
Saxophonist/flutist/singer Arthur Doyle has carved a singular path along the outskirts of jazz, performing in a style he calls "free jazz soul." He is joined by Robert Peterson and members of the band NYMPH. Additional performances by composer and improvisor Loren Connors, double bass player Margarida Garcia, and En.
Duo performances by John Bischoff, best known for his work in computer-driven synthesis and performance, with Mark Trayle, a multimedia artist working in live electronic music, installations, and composition; and by electro-acoustic saxophone performer John Butcher, with electronic music composer Thomas Lehn.
Issue Project Room partners with TEDxFort Greene to present a salon featuring stories of creativity and innovation. Speakers include curator Ingrid LaFleur, bassist Melvin Gibbs, Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler, and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom.
Tyehimba Jess explores how the contrapuntal poem and poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history, and geometry in Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox; the Tracie Morris Band, feat. multidisciplinary poet, scholar, and performer Tracie Morris, with Val Jeanty, and Marvin Sewell performs.
The world premiere of Maxim Moston's live orchestration of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" at The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2011 Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama will transform ISSUE Project Room into a point of origins. They will construct a “sacred space” using gathered matter from off-site urban wilds of Brooklyn. Audience members will be invited to build their own instruments and utilize them in an extended jam session open to anyone.