June 2013

PAN_ACT

Terrence Dixon / Sensational & Koyxen / DJ Call Super / DJ Richard

285 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, 11249

Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.

NY Premiere: Friend of Essex

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE hosts the NY premiere of Friend of Essex—a film homage to the prolific Black gay author Essex Hemphill. Written and Directed by Amir Dixon, the film mixes one-on-one interviews, group interviews, narrative pieces and poetry inspired by Hemphill’s writing and the 1989 film Tongues Untied.

This solo vocal performance by Catherine Christer Hennix marks the close of her installation Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis. On view in ISSUE's 22 Boerum hall June 15-19, this event is the last opportunity to see the installation, which is the composer's first 4-channel computer assisted work since 1969.

PAN_ACT

Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt: “The Illuminatory Sound Environment”

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 19TH: Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new, four-channel work by Catherine Christer Hennix. An expanded realization of the "Illuminatory Sound Environment", a concept developed in 1978 by Henry Flynt, this work is on view daily as a sound installation from 12-10pm.

PAN_ACT

GOETHE TALKS: Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk with composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix in conversation with Henry Flynt. A new, expanded realization of “The Illuminatory Sound Environment” including works by both artists, is installed at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater June 15-19.

PAN_ACT

Rene Hell / Kevin Drumm / Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.

PAN_ACT

Jutta Koether / New Humans / rESPetc2.rSonel / C Spencer Yeh

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.

PAN_ACT

GOETHE TALKS: James Hoff & Mathew Dryhurst

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.

Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.

PAN_ACT

GOETHE TALKS: Joseph Hammer / Jutta Koether / Heatsick + more

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.

PAN_ACT

Joseph Hammer / Jar Moff / Thomas Brinkmann

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe present solo sets by two abstract sound artists who work with aural collage techniques, Joseph Hammer and Jar Moff, and by renowned German minimal techno producer Thomas Brinkmann.

PAN_ACT

Eli Keszler: Archway

Archway under Manhattan Bridge between Anchorage Pl. and Adams St., DUMBO

"Archway" is a massive outdoor installation by Eli Keszler, presented as part of Make Music New York. Tuned and extended piano wires up to 380 feet long will be stretched around a massive space, overlapping to form sculptural shapes and a mechanically driven, intense harmonic resonance.

An evening with electronic music visionaries Rashad Becker and Valerio Tricoli, and a short film by Mark Fell. Becker creates precise, phantasmic sound designs encouraging audiences to focus their hearing. Tricoli explores music's ability to hover between the "here and now" of the event and the shady domain of memory.

ISSUE presents a duo performance by celebrated singer-songwriter Josephine Foster with her husband and collaborator, guitarist Victor Herrero. Esteemed for her timeless and arresting voice, Foster’s rock and folk veiled work has reimagined a disparate spectrum of references in a distinctive body of songwriting.

Bojan Vuletic: L'Écume des jours’

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A series of compositions by Bojan Vuletic, L'Écume des jours’ (The foam of the days) is inspired by and dedicated to French polymath Boris Vian's novel of the same title. With an unusual chamber ensemble including Nate Wooley (trumpet), Dan Peck (tuba), Jacqueline Kerrod (harp), and the Mivos Quartet.

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.

Girma Yifrashewa

ISSUE and Unseen Worlds present a rare North American performance by Ethiopia's most famous living pianist and composer, Girma Yifrashewa. A highly accomplished performer, Yifrashewa performs works by Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Mozart, as well as a set of his own compositions informed by Ethiopian harmonies.