July 2021

Distant Pairs Series

Distant Pairs: Rashad Becker & Fuji||||||||||ta - not to be or not not to be

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ISSUE and AvanTokyo present the debut collaboration of Berlin-based composer & musician Rashad Becker and Japanese sound artist Fuji||||||||||ta. “not to be or not not to be” is their words it is “a scrapbook of sensitivities in scarcity of acumen (a tiny cycle of 8 visual scores for supervised soliloquy)."

Distant Pairs Series

Distant Pairs: Carmen Baliero & Cecilia Lopez - AEROSILLA (el turismo posible)

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Carmen Baliero & Cecilia Lopez met around 1999 when, as a 16-year-old conservatory dropout, Lopez started taking composition classes with Baliero. Both born in Buenos Aires, the pair have an expansive collaborative history that spans decades. ISSUE is pleased to present a new work AEROSILLA (el turismo posible)

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Distant Pairs: Viola Yip and Laetitia Sonami - PineApple on a Lonely Island

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ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present the debut collaboration between Viola Yip & Laetitia Sonami. Communicating between Berlin and Oakland, Yip and Sonami—both who have long standing approaches to instrument building—explore collaboration through the creation of a virtual electronic instrument.

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Distant Pairs: Raven Chacon & Rob Thorne

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ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration between Diné composer, performer & installation artist Raven Chacon and New Zealand Maori composer, improvisor & anthropologist Rob Thorne. Both have extensive histories using various high-pitched Indingenous wind instruments from their respective territories.

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Distant Pairs: Sofia Jernberg & Tomeka Reid - Meditations for voice and cello

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Having collaborated only once before, Sofia Jernberg & Tomeka Reid embark from two respectively vast performative histories of composed and improvised music—from Jernberg’s standing collaborations with Fire! Orchestra, to Reid’s shortlist of collaborators that include Anthony Braxton & George Lewis.