March 2013

ZS + Mivos

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ZS and Mivos Quartet come together for an evening of new chamber music and collaboration. Mivos performs works by Mario Diaz de Leon, Tristan Perich, and J.S. Bach arranged by ZS' Patrick Higgins. ZS perform selections from their recent output, including their ferocious 'Xe' in a new arrangement featuring Mivos.

Artists-in-Residence 2013

Ben Vida

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

For the opening performance of his residency, electronic composer Ben Vida premieres a new solo composition for digital and analog synthesis, followed by a talk with artist Michael Bell-Smith, and a new work for trio with Tyondai Braxton of Battles and Sara Magenheimer.

For Electronics and Instrument: Phill Niblock and Al Margolis

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

In this evening of live electronics and instrumentalists, Al Margolis premieres a new quartet of bassoonist Leslie Ross, trombonist Monique Buzzarté, live video by Katherine Liberovskaya, and Margolis on laptop. Phill Niblock presents his now-classic "seth-work", a duo for laptop and guitar featuring David Watson.

R. Andrew Lee: Dennis Johnson’s "November"

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Dennis Johnson's "November" (1959), one of the most significant pieces of the minimalist repertoire, was virtually unknown until recently. Renowned pianist R. Andrew Lee gives the first performance of this epic work since its premiere, working from a score reconstructed by composer and musicologist Kyle Gann.

Artists-in-Residence 2013

Jules Rosskam: No Place But Between Us

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Jules Rosskam invites you to an exploration of a no-good-place. A performative lecture of research on utopia— presented as an open rehearsal for Rosskam's ‘live film’ in July— "No Place But Between Us" investigates utopia not as a distant, ever unreachable, ideal world, but as a force that exists in and between us.