jessica pavone: “…no way to say goodbye” + anti social music

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…No Way to Say Goodbye is a collection of songs for string quartet that substitutes a second violin for a double bass. The music is influenced by an interest in the simplistic beauty of folk songs and a belief that one’s ability to accompany oneself in song as one of the more natural expressions of music.

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Mattin + Bernhard Gál

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ISSUE Project Room presents Basque artist, Mattin and the Austrian artist and composer, Bernhard Gál.

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King Darves + Florida + Kwaidan

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ISSUE Project Room presents performances by King Darves, Florida, and Kwaidan with special guest Matt Heyner.

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Excepter + Mirror Mirror

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The six-piece improvisational band, Excepter are joined by Brooklyn-based group, Mirror Mirror at ISSUE Project Room.

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MATA Interval - Dither Electric Guitar Quartet

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MATA presents a gloriously loud and eclectic program featuring Dither, a versatile electric guitar quartet and a rising force in New York. Curated by guitarists James Moore and Taylor Levine, MATA will showcase six exciting new works by young composers.

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Sportsman's Paradise + Honne Wells

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At the ISSUE Project Room, Sportsman’s Paradise will perform their Tibetan-bells-and-six-guitars half-hour piece XEAEX and debut a shorter composition for six guitars as well.

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Lavalier

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Lavalier is a collective of artists who use the music of co-founders Steve Milton and Dave Horowitz as a catalyst for live artistic exploration. In conjunction with the live musical performances, real time animation and film manipulation is projected onto a screen in front of and behind the musicians.

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Pamela Z

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San Francisco-based composer, performer and sound artist, Pamela Z, performs solo at ISSUE Project Room.

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From Bacteria to Boys

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From Bacteria to Boys features some of the most startling and beautiful new voices in modern jazz and blurs the lines between rhythmic modern-jazz, chant works, RnB and 20th/21st century classical music, all with an intensity and center of focus any one familiar with Pride’s music has come to expect.

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The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avant-garde of the 1950s-60s. The group takes on various permutations and tonight Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, DJ Olive & William Hooker will be performing at ISSUE Project Room.

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Lawrence D “Butch” Morris

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Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris’ work includes television, film, theatre, dance, radio, interdisciplinary performance based collaborations and concert and recording settings. He has worked with Alice Coltrane, Gil Evans, Philly Joe Jones, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, David Murray, Don Pullen and Reggie Workman.

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Alex Waterman - CANCELLED

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Alex Waterman performs In Sum: Solos for Cello, Stroh Violin, Radios and Field Recordings.

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Jonathan Golove

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“Suite-ness Expanded”: Bach’s Suite No.1 in G major for cello is opened up to include works by contemporary composers from the USA, Mexico, and Italy.

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OptoSonic Tea

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OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. This evening includes live sets by Richard Lainhardt, Domenico Sciajno, and Zach Layton.

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Duane Pitre

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ISSUE Project Room’s Artist In Residence, Duane Pitre, presents Perfect/Imperfect, for Amplified String Quintet and Sine Tones.

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Ned Rothenberg + Paolo Angeli

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Composer / Performer, Ned Rothenberg, & Sardinian prepared-guitarist, Paolo Angeli, perform at ISSUE Project Room.

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Ai Ensemble + MIVOS Quartet

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Clarinetist, Alejandro Acierto, and Cellist, Isabel Castellvi, bring their AI Ensemble to Issue Project Room. Accompanied with a performance by the MIVOS String Quartet.

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Matthew Welch

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Composer and bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch presents an evening of traditional and new music for his notorious instrument, exploring tunes from the idiom and newer ones inspired by it.

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Ensemble Pamplemousse

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Founded in 2002 as a vehicle for musical exploration, Pamplemousse presents concerts of extraordinary focus and clarity.

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VERGE Ensemble

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An evening of electronic/computer music at ISSUE Project Room.

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MATA Interval 2.4

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MATA Interval 2.4: Play! Music for Toys is curated by Angélica Negrón. Featuring performances by ensemble TRANSIT, Judy Dunaway, Jenny Walshe, and special guest Margaret Leng Tan.

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Jason Cady + Ben Neill

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Jason Cady presents Happiness is the Problem: A Phono-Graphic Novel, a two-act opera buffa and comic book about idealism and disillusionment. Ben Neill will present a concert of music for his self-designed mutantrumpet and interactive electronics.

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Shelley Burgon + Michael Wilhelmi

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Ne(x)tworks and Stars Like Fleas member, Shelley Burgon, performs at ISSUE Project Room, and Berlin Based Pianist, Michael Wilhelmi, presents new works for interactive electronics and Piano.

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Shahzad Ismaily

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Shahzad Ismaily performs at ISSUE Project Room.

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Mark Stewart

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Mark Stewart’s Sublime & Ridiculous Noises for Traditional & non-Traditional Soundmakers comes to ISSUE Project Room.

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Stephan Moore

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Album release party for Stephen Moore's To Build a Field with performances by Stephan Moore, Evidence, video artist RoseRose and a special guest.

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Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris

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Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris conducts a chorus of poets and string ensemble at ISSUE Project Room.

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Eugene Chadbourne

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American composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist, Eugene Chadbourne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.

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Rick Moody and Amy Denio

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Acclaimed composer and musician Amy Denio and novelist/singer-songwriter Rick Moody trade spots reading and accompanying one another on a variety of experiments in text and music.

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Duane Pitre + Tristan Perich

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Artist-in-residence, Duane Pitre, performs new work. Joined by Tristan Perich at ISSUE Project Room.

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Yoga with Liz Kresch

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Liz Kresch has maintained a dedicated yoga practice since 1996. Her teacher training was completed with Adrienne Burke at Atmananda currently Centerpoint Studio in early 2004.

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John Jesurun

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John Jesurun, a winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 1996, is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost innovators of avant-garde theater, creating virtuoso works that overlap media and language in surprising and unpredictable ways.

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Flaming Fire + Lydsod

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ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present the premiere performance of Flaming Fire II, the new incarnation of Flaming Fire, rising like a glorious phoenix out of the ashes of their smoldering remains.

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Lumendog and HKM+

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Lumendog and HKM+ perform together as well as individual sets at ISSUE Project Room.

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Matthew Ostrowski + Karlheinz Essl

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Born in New York City, Matthew Ostrowski has been active since the early 1980s, working in improvised music, music theater, electroacoustic composition and audio installations. Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, improviser and performer utilizing computer, live-electronics, kalimba and other gadgets.

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Glenn Branca + Neg-Fi + Paranoid Critical Revolution

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Glenn Branca performs Lesson No. 3 (A Tribute to Steve Reich) with Reg Bloor, Ryan Walsh, Evelyne Buhler, and Libby Fab. New York-based outfits Neg-Fi and Paranoid Critical Revolution share new work at ISSUE Project Room.

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Jonathan Kane's February

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Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend — as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham, the rock excursions of La Monte Young and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet.

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Sam Ashley

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Sam currently performs solo, as a principal vocalist with Robert Ashley’s opera company–with whom he has had leading roles in 6 operas–and with the ensemble, “Very Important Now”, touring in the US, Europe and elsewhere.

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Mary Jordan Presents “Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis”

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In 2005, Mary Jordan was featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces. Shortly thereafter, she premiered her first feature length documentary entitled Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis which has garnished many awards. In addition to her work in film, Mary is also involved in photography, perform

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Jessica Rylan

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Boston synthesizer designer and tone warper, Jessica Rylan, performs at ISSUE Project Room.

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Ha-Yang Kim

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Korean cellist, composer and improviser, Ha-Yang Kim performs at ISSUE Project Room.

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Angie Eng, Okkyung Lee & Satoshi Takeishi

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Live video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. A garden of digital improvisational delights, a cross between music for silent film, a surrealist appetizer and a magic act.

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Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo

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Old friends Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo invite one and all to ISSUE Project Room for the world premiere of their new collaborative film: Jacka Spades (a.k.a. Get This Picture Here).

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Tony Oursler’s “Synesthesia”

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DARMSTADT “Classics of the Avant Garde” begins its month-long Institute at ISSUE Project Room with a special edit of Tony Oursler’s video project, Synesthesia, with editor in attendance to discuss the work.

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Amir Mogharabi + Amy Granat

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Collaborators Amir Mogharabi and Amy Granat pair painting, text, and film for an exclusive, one night setting at ISSUE Project Room.

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Ne(x)tworks

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Tonight's program includes a rare complete reading of Fredric Rzewski’s Les Mouton de Panurge from 1969 that audaciously combines pure Minimalist additive/subtractive technique with bold indeterminacy, plus music for and by Ne(x)tworks.

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Bing and Ruth + Elodie Lauten

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Performance by Brooklyn-based ambient chamber band, Bing and Ruth joined by a performance from electronic music composer Elodie Lauten.

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Climax Golden Twins with Sublime Frequencies Film Screening

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Climax Golden Twins is a Seattle, WA based experimental collage outfit originally consisting of Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor, then picking up Scott Colburn in 1996. Tonight's program will feature screenings of "My Friend Rain", "Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan," as well as an excerpt from a work in progress.

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Phill Niblock

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Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since.

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Lesley Flanigan + Connie Beckley

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Lesley Falnigan performs with her Speaker Synth: a sculptural instrument she built to make music as she samples sounds from her voice and feedback to create a pallet of melodies and rhythms. Also featuring a performance by composer and performance artist, Connie Beckley.

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Susie Ibarra Quartet

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The Susie Ibarra Quartet performs original music inspired by Filipino indigenous folklore.

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David Linton

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David Linton presents an extended time solo audio visual performance with special guest visitations and words in the air.

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Keith Fullerton Whitman (CANCELLED)

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Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom “digital music.”

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Michael Gira + Wooden Wand

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Swans' frontman, Michael Gira, performs at ISSUE Project Room with support by Wooden Wand. Followed by a screening of "Stay the Same Never Change" on the rooftop of th Old American Can Factory.

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Dan Senn + Stephen Vitiello with Molly Berg

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Dan Senn's performance will encompass elements he has developed for his installation work over recent years including installations, field recordings from The Czech Republic, and recent experimental video. Vitiello and Berg will perform selections from their recent release "The Gorilla Variations."

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MEM (Soundart in the Basque Country today) + Baseline

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MEM is an annual cultural festival celebrating local and international electronic, extreme and experimental acts. At ISSUE, the program will feature a lecture by Txema Agiriano, video works by Bubi Canal, Iván Gómez, Ignacio Sáez and more, plus a performance by Bilbao-based sound artist, Baseline.

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Gleason’s Twins + Michael Beharie

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At ISSUE, Gleason’s Twins ensemble will share their obsession with the blur between speech and music, word and sound. Michael Beharie will be joined by Amanda Wolman, Brendan Evans, Ted Rankin-Parker and Jonah Rossenberg in a led improvisation based loosely on Alejandro Jodorowski’s classic film The Holy Mountain.

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Dougie Bowne

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Musician, composer and producer, Dougie Bowne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.

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Chris Brokaw Performs “CANARIS”

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In September 2008 Chris released CANARIS, an album entirely for solo acoustic guitar. The first half is unplugged acoustic guitar; the title track is an extended piece for electrified acoustic guitar. This will be his first performance of the album in its entirety.

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Robbie Lee

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For this performance, Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee leaves behind most of his usual odds and ends to focus on the extraordinary portative organ, a Medieval-style miniature pipe organ.

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Sportsman’s Paradise + Cotton Museum + Sick Llama

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At the ISSUE Project Room, Sportman's Paradise will perform their Tibetan-bells-and-six-guitars half-hour piece, XEAEX, and debut a shorter composition for six guitars as well. Cotton Museum and Sick Llama will also perform.

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Meredith Drum and Alison Ward

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Meredith Drum presents three low-ball sci-fi video works that form a loose trilogy, “The Tower”, “The Formula” and “The Double." Alison Ward explores the ideas and motivations behind her piece the Beastly Beauty in the form of a performance as slide lecture.

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Scott Draves – Dreams in High Fidelity

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Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a visual and software artist living in New York City. Draves is best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep. For tonight's performance, Scott’s real time video will be accompanied with live music by Zach Layton, Shelly Burgon and Michael Evans.

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Nate Boyce + Ray Sweeten

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The San Francisco-based video artist and musician, Nate Boyce, performs new work as well as a performance by Ray Sweeten.

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SHAPESHIFTER – curated by Michelle Handelman

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A night of film, video and performance curated by Michelle Handelman. Works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy

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James Nares

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James Nares is known for his paintings, films and to some extent, his music (most notably as a member of the Contortions). He will be showing a selection of his films, with an emphasis on those which have a musical or sonic component.

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Kenneth Goldsmith sings Roland Barthes with live String Quartet

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A live String Quartet (Mari Kimura, Dana Lyn, violins; Jessica Pavone, viola; Egil Rostad, cello) will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and improvisations in the style of Anton Webern while Kenneth Goldsmith sings text by Roland Barthes.

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Byron Coley and Andy Schwartz with Loren Connors

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ISSUE Project Room presents author and poet Byron Coley reading from an unpublished novel about record collectors called ”Dominos." Musical accompaniment by the legendary Loren Connors, plus a reading by former editor of “New York Rocker,” Andy Schwartz.

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Alex Waterman reads Robert Ashley

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A conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, "In memoriam…Esteban Gomez" (1963).

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POETRY TO THE INFINITIVE POWER(S)

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Join us for an evening in celebration of ISSUE Project Room featuring dozens of literature’s finest poets followed by a bacchanalian celebration and performance by These Are Powers.

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Patrick McGinley Sound Workshop

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In this one-day workshop we will explore sound as a transmitter of nonverbal information. We will focus on sound’s ability to define/describe space, and on our ability to resonate, alter, or create space by using sound.

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Sim Cain and Melvin Gibbs

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Sim Cain appears in a solo context “because the IPR asked me when I had been coincidentally considering the drum kit in a solo context” followed by a set with bass legend and ethnomusicologist (as well as former Rollins Band mate) Melvin Gibbs.

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Francis Dhomont

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French composer, Francis Dhomont, presents new work in electroacoustic music at ISSUE Project Room.

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Wingdale Community Singers

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The Wingdale Community Singers bring their old-community-feel of folk music to ISSUE Project Room with new material from their record "Spirit Duplicator."

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Andrew Barker Quarter + Ricardo Gallo

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ISSUE Project Room welcomes the quartet of Andrew Barker, Daniel Carter, Tanya Kalmanovitch, and Hill Greene to present it’s first meeting; a genesis of total improvisation. The quartet will be joined with a performance from Columbian composer, Ricardo Gallo.

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Radon Ensemble 10th Anniversary

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The international collective, Radon, performs at ISSUE Project Room on their 10 year anniversary tour. They are joined by Sikhara and HHY & Drums of Habnon.

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Ma La Pert (Jennifer Walshe + Tony Conrad)

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Ma la Pert is the duo of Jennifer Walshe and Tony Conrad. They use voice, violins, viola, bass, autoharps, autotune, keyboard, shells, broken plastic, words, parts of words, stories, chanting, jigs, screaming, shouting, broken drum skins, bells, green furry outfits, breastplates, wire, bird call, and old lady dresses.

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John Butcher

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John Butcher performs two sets; one solo with acoustic and amplified saxophone, the second in collaboration with cellist Okkyung Lee.

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Fair Use Trio

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The New York-based trio improvises new work based on the use of cinema as raw materials for experimental live performance.

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Scott Haggart / Lary Seven / Felix Kubin Trio

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The Scott Haggart / Lary Seven / Felix Kubin Trio will further expand the territory of DISKONO 017 – a conceptual 12” vinyl record assembled over the course of seven years.

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XXX Macarena

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Jutta Koether, Tony Conrad and John Miller bring back the alien drones to ISSUE Project Room just in time for Thanksgiving.

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Nate Wooley + C. Spencer Yeh + Chris Corsano

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ISSUE Project Room presents a performance by Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh, and Chris Corsano working as an improvising unit, as well as the premiere and recording of Wooley’s new work with tape which extends the work recently released on Important Records (Seven Storey Mountain with David Grubbs and Paul Lytton).

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Zero Film Festival

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Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self-financed films from filmmakers all over the world, focusing on an under-appreciated and ignored niche in the independent film community. This evening includes works from artists Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi.

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Yutaka Makino

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Los Angeles-based artist and researcher, Yutaka Makino, presents new work from his research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, complex dynamic systems and emergence.

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Aaron Siegel Ensemble

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Originally conceived as an outdoor performance piece for eight glockenspiels and public performers, The Aaron Siegel Ensemble performs "Science is Only a Sometimes Friend."

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Rachel Bernsen

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ISSUE presents Rachel Bernsen performing two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.

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Cornelius Dufallo

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Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."

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Scott Draves' "Dreams in High Fidelity"

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Dreams in High Fidelity is an evolving painting that illustrates the unknowable boundary between machine and human design. The infinitely playing, non-looping animation features high-resolution clips hand-picked by Draves from the thousands produced by the artificial life form he created, the Electric Sheep.

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Jandek

The representative sings and plays guitar, dressed all black and backed by local musicians. The group rehearses only once, the afternoon of the show. The music is electric, loud, and largely improvised. For each show the representative writes a whole new set of lyrics, which he keeps on a music stand.

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Joan La Barbara Workshop

An afternoon with legendary singer and composer Joan La Barbara as she demonstrates her signature extended vocal techniques and approach to singing, including the vocal warm-ups, stretches, tone production, resonance focusing, reinforced harmonics or overtone singing, and other techniques.

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Initially based on guerilla impulse and a dissatisfaction with the early 90’s post grunge diaspora, the No-Neck Blues Band emerged in 1993 on New York’s lower east side, soon congealing into an 8-piece cabal of practicing improvisers, determined to collectively inhabit an elsewhere entirely of their own design.

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Duane Pitre with Tony Conrad

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Artist-in-residence Duane Pitre works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonally, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships. He is joined by seminal experimental musician and artist Tony Conrad.

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Marc Ribot

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Marc Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus.

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Morton Subotnick

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Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. 

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Dan Senn + Betsey Biggs

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Dan's performance encompasses elements he has developed for his installation work over recent years, including his "Many Pairs Sounding" and "Huffa Puffa" installations, field recordings from The Czech Republic, and recent experimental video.

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Suzanne Thorpe + Zeena Parkins

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Extreme Terrains is a multi-channel work that presents its audience with opportunities to listen to instinct and interact with the piece on a visceral level, asking listeners to trust what they feel as much as what they hear. Featuring Alex Chechile, Joe Boro, Jawwaad Taylor and Suzanne Thorpe.

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Lavalier

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Lavalier is an indie-experimental group formed in NYC in late 2008.  With a penchant for vocal harmonies, fuzz/slide guitar, harpsichord, and accordion, the group creates cinematic music that is both psychedelic and fantastical.

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Thomas Ankersmit + Tony Conrad

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Thomas Ankersmit (born 1979, Leiden, The Netherlands) is a musician and artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. His main instruments are a Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone.

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Ha Yang Kim

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Ha-Yang Kim made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She performs new music as a soloist and with ensembles and artists in festivals and concert venues throughout the world, with influences that draw equally from western classical, South Indian and Balinese music, among others.

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C. Spencer Yeh + John Wiese

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As an improviser, Yeh is focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. As a sound artist/composer, Yeh works with all aspects available surrounding a work, aurally and physically, as elements key to the cumulative experience.

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MV Carbon + Okkyung Lee

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MV Carbon performs on cello, samplers, tape machines and oscillators, using ISSUE's multi–speaker system to portray concepts of time passage in moments of stillness. She gathers field recordings in open-air industrial and urban environments and shapes these sounds into percussive form.

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Mari Kimura with Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad

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Mari Kimura teams up with visual artists Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad, presenting everything from her virtuosic solo works of her signature bowing technique Subharmonics to realtime interactive audio visual works using ISSUE Project Room's 15 channel diffusion system.

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Lesley Flanigan w/ Luke Dubois

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Lesley Flanigan performs with ISSUE's unique speaker system, turning each individual speaker into a voice of its own, orchestrating them to perform as a hanging choir above her. The room resonates with sounds of her voice in multiple spaces, as she builds a choral arrangement that feeds off itself.

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See Hear Now (David and Gisela Gamper)

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David and Gisela Gamper’s See Hear Now is a real-time music and video collaboration that seeks to merge the sonic and the visible, and to transport the performers and audience to a transcendent experience. For their Floating Points performance they design a unique projection installation for ISSUE's "ceiling of sound."

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Betsey Biggs + Shelley Burgon

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Betsey Biggs performs Ton Yam I (For Brian Wilson), a live improvisation deconstructing and reshaping fragments of the Beach Boy's God Only Knows into a sea of floating harmonies, feedback, and glitch: destruction and reconstruction. Shelley Burgon performs "Mirrored Ceiling," a new composition by Stephan Moore.

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Alan Licht and Loren Connors + Evidence

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Alan Licht and Loren Connors have been performing improvised guitar duos since 1993. Tonight Licht will add piano to the mix.

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