David Weinstein + Janene Higgins and Mari Kimura
Artists David Weinstein, Janene Higgins and Mari Kimura share new work at ISSUE Project Room.
Artists David Weinstein, Janene Higgins and Mari Kimura share new work at ISSUE Project Room.
…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.
ISSUE Project Room presents Basque artist, Mattin and the Austrian artist and composer, Bernhard Gál.
ISSUE Project Room presents a performance by thereminist, Pamelia Kurstin with Carla Rhodes, Shelley Hirsch, Sebastian Rochford and Stian Westerhus
ISSUE Project Room presents Talibam!, Car Commercials plus special guest: guitarist Stian Westerhus.
ISSUE Project Room presents Carlos Giffoni, Dan Friel and Noveller.
Tony Conrad & Genesis P-Orridge: Two special evenings of collaboration: Saturday, 10 January & Sunday, 11 January 2009.
Tony Conrad & Genesis P-Orridge: Two special evenings of collaboration: Saturday, 10 January & Sunday, 11 January 2009.
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by King Darves, Florida, and Kwaidan with special guest Matt Heyner.
The six-piece improvisational band, Excepter are joined by Brooklyn-based group, Mirror Mirror at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.
ISSUE presents a performance of Jonathan Kane's February with support by Monotract.
ISSUE Project Room presents D. Charles Speer and Corndawg.
ISSUE Project Room presents solo performances by Tom Carter, Steve Gunn, and Chris Forsyth.
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.
ISSUE Project Room presents Visitations, Cursillistas, and White Light.
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.
The Dream of the Ants, the ensemble led by guitarist Terrence McManus, will be performing a new multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine. Matt Bauder will be performing with This Could be Anywhere (w/ Jason Ajemian) & Architeuthis Walks on Land (w/ Katherine Young, Amy Cimini).
ISSUE Project Room presents a collaborative performance by singer/composer Shelley Hirsch, self-taugh electronic musician Aki Onda, and video artist Ursula Scherrer.
A collaborative performance between Dafna Naphtali, Alex Waterman, and Darius Jones plus a performance by avant-turnbtablist, Maria Chavez at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
Olde English Spelling Bee + Future Sounds Presents: Predator Vision + Ducktails at ISSUE Project Room.
Performances by the Czech musicians, Iva Bittová with her son, Antonín Bittová, at ISSUE Project Room.
Performances by Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson, Tom Rainy and Magick Report.
C. Spencer Yeh and Michael Johnson perform solo at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room and Qbico Records Present Qbico U-Nite XIII. Featuring sets by Arthur Doyle, Acid Birds, Muruga & Perry Robinson Duo. Plus performances by Badal Roy and Direct Current.
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.
This evening at ISSUE Project Room presents performances by Cleve Pozar's Free Funk Trio; Ken Thomson performs Slow/Fast; Solo performance by Keri Neuringer.
William Parker and James Ilgenfritz Group perform at ISSUE Project Room.
An evening of Phantoms featuring Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins' project, Phantom Orchard, with Phantom Limb & Wooley at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room is proud to host its first Littoral Reading Series event of 2009 featuring: Amiri Baraka and Henry Grimes.
Alex Waterman performs In Sum: Solos for Cello, Stroh Violin, Radios and Field Recordings.
“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.
Till by Turning and Folds Ensemble perform new works at ISSUE Project Room.
Live performances James Blackshaw, Meg Baird and Metal Mountains at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
ISSUE Project Room’s Artist In Residence, Duane Pitre, presents Perfect/Imperfect, for Amplified String Quintet and Sine Tones.
Composer / Performer, Ned Rothenberg, & Sardinian prepared-guitarist, Paolo Angeli, perform at ISSUE Project Room.
Chance. You can give it, you can take it, and if you’re daring, you can create with it. Protean composer, performer and aural provocateur Melissa St. Pierre does all three. Plus, making its US debut, Igor Cubrilovic performs Glaciers at ISSUE Project Room.
Clarinetist, Alejandro Acierto, and Cellist, Isabel Castellvi, bring their AI Ensemble to Issue Project Room. Accompanied with a performance by the MIVOS String Quartet.
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.
Founded in 2002 as a vehicle for musical exploration, Pamplemousse presents concerts of extraordinary focus and clarity.
An evening of electronic/computer music at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a special performance of Erik Satie’s masterpiece, “Socrate” based on the life and death of Socrates, featuring a libretto by Jean Cocteau, performed by soprano Daisy Press and pianist Emily Manzo.
Huang Ruo performs Future in Reverse (FIRE) and Anthony Coleman shares new work at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room’s Artist In Residence, Duane Pitre, presents new work.
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.
Elliott Sharp performs Octal followed by a performance of SyndaKit by All-String Orchestra Carbon.
The Andrea Belfi, David Grubbs, Stefano Pilia Trio perform new material at ISSUE Project Room. Accompanied with a performance by Scott Haggart, further expanding his DISKONO 017 record.
Mark Stewart’s Sublime & Ridiculous Noises for Traditional & non-Traditional Soundmakers comes to ISSUE Project Room.
Album release party for Stephen Moore's To Build a Field with performances by Stephan Moore, Evidence, video artist RoseRose and a special guest.
Kate Valk & Andrew Schneider perform together at ISSUE Project Room.
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris conducts a chorus of poets and string ensemble at ISSUE Project Room.
American composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist, Eugene Chadbourne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.
Readings of the work of William S. Burroughs, Marquis DeSade & Edgar Allan Poe with Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Chloe Webb, Tom Davis, & special guests and music by Trevor Dunn, Yuka Honda, Sean Lennon, Doug Weiselman & Hal Willner.
An evening of syncopated static.
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.
ISSUE Project Room & Moby invite you to attend a private listening party, video screening, and rare concert performance.
Artist-in-residence, Duane Pitre, performs new work. Joined by Tristan Perich at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.
Jolie Holland coveys motion and arrival with her fourth album, The Living and the Dead. Performing at ISSUE Project Room with Shahzad Ismaily and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs, Stars like Fleas).
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.
Play- and joyful freeform acoustic/electronic music by Dane, Emil de Waal and the great artists of the evening.
Lumendog and HKM+ perform together as well as individual sets at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
Grey Room presents performances by Ulrike Müller and Emma Hedditch, Petit Mal + XXX Macarena at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.
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.
IMPULSE to SUCK: The performance of the apology and the separation of sex and state.
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
For the first time in more than 18 years, keyboardist John Medeski of the innovative trio Medeski Martin & Wood is pairing with guitarist Tisziji Munoz for live dates and an upcoming recording session this spring.
Benefit to Celebrate ISSUE’s Sixth Anniversary at Galapagos Art Space. Featuring The Pinch of the Baboon, Elysian Fields, MV Carbon, Mountains, Ray Sweeten, Brock Monroe and Bec Stupak and many more.
Performances by the interdisciplinary artists, Ann Adachi, Marie Evelyn, Nick Lesley and Todd Merrell.
Boston synthesizer designer and tone warper, Jessica Rylan, performs at ISSUE Project Room.
Crackleknob's performance at ISSUE Project Room celebrates their new, self-titled release on HatHut Records.
Korean cellist, composer and improviser, Ha-Yang Kim performs at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
Songstress/poet Angela Jaeger joins forces with underground textsmith extraordinaire Byron Coley for an evening of sporadic talk.
Carlos Giffoni collaborates with cellist, Okkyung Lee, at ISSUE Project Room. Supporting performances by Oneohtrix Point Never and Religious Knives.
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).
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.
Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra's first North American tour coinciding with their latest release, Humiliated.
Collaborators Amir Mogharabi and Amy Granat pair painting, text, and film for an exclusive, one night setting at ISSUE Project Room.
The New York-based collective, Transit, performs works by the composers Matthew Welch and Daniel Wohl.
A sonic arts experiment led and designed by some of New York’s most exciting sound artists and musicians in support of ISSUE Project Room.
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.
Composers James Blackshaw and Koen Holtkamp perform new works at ISSUE Project Room.
A performance by the Søren Kjærgaard and Andrew Cyrille duo. Plus performance by Kjærgaard with collaborators including Kate Hideko, Zach Layton and Bruce Tovsky.
This evening's program includes a pre-concert talk regarding music and dance, the work of John Cage, David Tudor and the current musical practice of MCDC. Followed by a concert featuring music for a MinEvent, Blues99, composed by John King for two performers.
An evening of contemporary music for multiple electric guitars. Conceived and curated by composer Dan Joseph, the program explores the growing repertoire of multiple electric guitar compositions with works by a diverse group of composers spanning three generations.
Performance by Brooklyn-based ambient chamber band, Bing and Ruth joined by a performance from electronic music composer Elodie Lauten.
Cellist, Francesco Dillon, and pianist, Emanuele Torquati, share a new work Simple Space.
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.
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.
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the experimental literature publisher, Exact Change.
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.
Mivos String Quartet and the CNS Symphony Orchestra play works by Tony Conrad, Huang Ruo and Luke Dubois + Dave Soldier and Brad Garton
The Susie Ibarra Quartet performs original music inspired by Filipino indigenous folklore.
Darmstadt Institute and ISSUE Project Room are proud to present an exciting music workshop for young children.
David Linton presents an extended time solo audio visual performance with special guest visitations and words in the air.
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.”
Liz teaches Iyengar-based vinyasa yoga and pilates.
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.
Pittsburgh artist Jacob Ciocci will present a new 20-minute mix of original videos and animations. David Wightman will perform as Fortress of Amplitude, a guitar wielding minstrel from another time and place.
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."
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.
Franck Vigroux (France) and Matthew Bourne (UK) make their debut appearance in New York at ISSUE Project Room. A passion for intense counterpoint, analog synthesizers and extremes of texture ensure that this concert will be a mindfucker of unbelievable breadth and power.
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.
When composer and musician Ben Miller takes the stage, he will trade his guitar for a conductor’s baton, and lead his 15-piece saxophone ensemble, the Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra (SSO), through a rousing evening of musical offerings that will no doubt turn the audience on its collective ear.
Eran Sachs and Lary 7 perform at ISSUE Project Room.
Musician, composer and producer, Dougie Bowne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.
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.
David First's Gestural Improv Group.
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.
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.
The San Francisco-based video artist and musician, Nate Boyce, performs new work as well as a performance by Ray Sweeten.
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
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.
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.
Honne Wells, Juan Comas, Sacred Harp and Greg Jamie at ISSUE Project Room.
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim presents new work at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room is thrilled to present, live, the legendary John Kilduff of Los Angeles’ Let's Paint TV.
Nick Hallett and Daisy Press sing works by Ives, Monk, Ashley, Cardew and more.
ISSUE Project Room presents Tony Conrad and Brandon W Joseph in a reading and discussion followed by a performance by Tony Conrad.
The evening will also include music performance by Nondor Nevai w/ Mick Barr as part of ISSUE’s Littoral Series co-curated by Suzanne Fiol and Tony Antoniadis.
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.
A conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, "In memoriam…Esteban Gomez" (1963).
Gary War shares his acclaimed "uncharted sonic wizardry" at ISSUE Project Room. Joined with performances by Tom Carter and Purple Haze.
Artist-In-Residence: Matana Roberts.
Angela Jaeger: KICKWANTS ONLY: excerpts from the punk diaries. Joined by Christ Brokaw + Pat Irwin and Cynthia Sley performing as Command V.
Genesis P’Orridge, Ariana Reines, Bryin Dall, Dan Hoy, Morrison Edley, Holy Shit and Jon Leon perform at ISSUE Project Room.
Elliott Sharp performs his piece "Octal:Book Two" for solo 8-string guitarbass. Orchestra Carbon also performs Elliott Sharp's "SyndaKit."
MEJA (Michael Evans + Jeff Arnal) are joined by ESP (East Side Percussion: Michael Evans, Christine Bard & Jim Pugliese) and Ryan Sawyer with Zach Layton at ISSUE Project Room.
Ikue will present an excerpt from her newest work in progress featuring live collage animation.
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.
A concert organized in honor of the publication of Seth Kim-Cohen’s new book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Practice (Continuum).
Larkin Grimm + MV & EE's "Barn Nova" album release.
Idiosyncratic guitarist Marco Cappelli is joined on this date by saxophonist Noah Kaplan and bassist Giacomo Merega. With an emphasis on altered and prepared sounds, as well as micro-intervallic structures, the trio strives for a constant projection of both idiom and abstraction with a rock touch.
The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album ”The Ascension: The Sequel” at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
The world renown thereminist Pamelia Kurstin returns to ISSUE Project Room joined by Dewanatron (Brian and Leon Dewan).
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.
Bobby Previte presents the premiere of AMNIOTIC, a new post-psychedelia trio with Previte, drums, Jamie Saft, bass and keyboards, and Jen Shyu, voice. AMNIOTIC takes over where Saft and Previte’s DOOM JAZZ left off.
Ashtray Navigations and the Flower Corsano Duo perform new works at ISSUE Project Room.
Collaborative performances between Michael Flower, Chris Corsano, Count Hejnowski, Phil Todd, Mel Crowley and Marcia Bassett.
French composer, Francis Dhomont, presents new work in electroacoustic music at ISSUE Project Room.
The Wingdale Community Singers bring their old-community-feel of folk music to ISSUE Project Room with new material from their record "Spirit Duplicator."
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.
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.
Idea Fire Company is joined by Infinity Window and Sons of God at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
John Butcher performs two sets; one solo with acoustic and amplified saxophone, the second in collaboration with cellist Okkyung Lee.
Brooklyn-based duo, Neg-Fi, are joined by Brownout and Necking at ISSUE Project Room.
Memorial event commemorating ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Fiol.
The New York-based trio improvises new work based on the use of cinema as raw materials for experimental live performance.
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by Mike Tamburo and Ben Reynolds.
Matana Roberts presents COIN COIN Happening II: Fields of Memphis, featuring violinist Mazz Swift.
ISSUE Project Room presents new works by Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia & Marcia Bassett Duo, and the Barry Weisblat & Mike Bernstein Duo.
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.
Jutta Koether, Tony Conrad and John Miller bring back the alien drones to ISSUE Project Room just in time for Thanksgiving.
The first night of the Essential Repertoire Festival at ISSUE Project Room featuring performances by Connie Beckley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Petr Kotik.
The second night of the Essential Repertoire Festival at ISSUE Project Room featuring performances by Meredith Monk/M6, Jon Gibson and Phill Niblock.
The third night of the Essential Repertoire Festival at ISSUE Project Room featuring performances by Peter Zummo, David van Tieghem, Ned Sublette, Jill Kroesen, Peter Gordon & the Love of Life Orchestra.
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).
ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Matana Roberts, will premiere the last of three new COIN COIN pieces which focus on spatial and environmental interplay while excavating themes relating to her familial heritage and own personal history.
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.
Continuing ISSUE's Littoral Series, curator Tony Antoniadis presents works by Erich Hintze, Eugene Marten and Phillip Stearns.
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.
Originally conceived as an outdoor performance piece for eight glockenspiels and public performers, The Aaron Siegel Ensemble performs "Science is Only a Sometimes Friend."
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.
Winsome Brown at ISSUE Project Room performs "Monologues in Stereo."
Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto explicate Sebastian Brant's 1458 novel "The Ship Of Fools" in a contemporary spirit, using a dreamlike world of electro-acoustic sounds, intricate projections, and magnificent singing to emphasize astonishingly up to date medieval themes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Alan Licht and Loren Connors have been performing improvised guitar duos since 1993. Tonight Licht will add piano to the mix.
Tonight's performance marks a new instance of 'Archegram', the ongoing collaboration between musician James Elliott, aka Ateleia, and visual artist Sadek Bazaraa.