Sergei Tcherepnin constructs temporary architectural interventions that push phenomena of the sonorous towards the haptic. For the final installment of his residency at ISSUE Project Room, Tcherepnin and artist Lucy Dodd present Tropical Year Zero, a sonic dramaturgy marking the end of the k’atun cycles.
Over the last few years, Sébastien Roux has worked with the principle of translation, using a pre-existent artworks as scores for a new works. For his installation at REVERSE, Roux presents a 9-channel collection of pieces based on Sol LeWitt's wall drawings.
The second night of Swedish Energies includes Anastasia Ax, Erik Bünger, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Trepaneringsritualen, The Gagmen featuring Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young, and Joachim Nordwall, as well as a film by Lars Siltberg.
The first night of Swedish Energies features Christine Ödlund, Mats Lindström, Vinyl Terror & Horror with guest JG Thirlwell, Rolf Enström, and a duo performance by Aki Onda, and Lise-Lotte Norelius.
Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fundraiser! Ed Osborn's "Albedo Prospect" is video installation considering the polar imaginary and its characteristic spatial and geographic disorientation. Projected as a video triptych, the work is a study of glacial landscapes in the Svalbard archipelago with 8 channel sound.
For his final performance of the 2012 AIR series, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix will present selections from the ever-in-progress libretto for the opera "OIOION", including the poem "Stations of the Arkwork", which follows in the wake of his controversial 2009 essay "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism".
"Nervous Magic Lantern" unravels an unexpected film before our eyes, without actors, without a plot, without celluloid or video. Ken and Flo Jacobs present live projections in a hallucinatory three-dimensional watching experience, with sound by Artist-in-Residence Aki Onda.
"In the Wan Light of Napalm and Moon" presents new research into the intersection of two old and ever-renewing histories: horror and capital. A collaboration w/ Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe AKA Lichens and an armoire, Williams sketches a secret hell of production and circulation, inspired by a Restoration Hardware catalog.
Chimeras are integrated bodies that synthesize incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, finding common ground, or reducing one to the other. In this performance Florian Hecker uses psychoacoustics to compose such creatures from readings of a libretto by Reza Negarestani.
Hailing from Chicago, Zelienople have been etching out a place for themselves in the Windy City for fourteen years. In a rare New York appearance Zelienople teams up with Mind Over Mirrors to perform a live soundtrack to Donald Prokop’s film Gone. P. Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra open the evening.
Mind Over Mirrors, AKA harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly, performs with dancer and musician Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation and detritus as Sabotage and The Powerful People, this evening marks their first duo performance in eight years.
Percussionist Owen Weaver presents works for found objects, intensified and complemented by electronics and non-musical artistic disciplines. New works from Ian Dicke, Lisa Coons, Steven Snowden, and Christopher Cerrone, plus collaborations with Tigue Percussion Trio, dancer Rosalyn Nasky and photographer Lucas Foglia.
Composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is the pioneer of Continuous Music— a piano technique he has developed since the 70s. Using extremely rapid notes and note-series to create a tapestry of sound, Continuous Muisic is based in the innovations of the minimalist composers, with its roots deeply planted in harmony.
RESCHEDULED! Artist-in-Residence Sergei Tcherepnin will premiere a new six-channel composition to be played through your body. The Massage Performances will be limited to a small number of participants, seven massages per evening with a waiting room for a small audience. RSVP required.
This concert concludes the first International Composers Exchange, which brought five artists from the Netherlands to New York City to work in residency with some of the city's most dynamic young ensembles and artistic institutions. With new works that range from jazz to chamber music to video installation.
Lutanist Jozef Van Wissem and filmaker/guitarist Jim Jarmush release their second album, The Mystery of Heaven, in November on Sacred Bones. For this free release celebration, Van Wissem performs with guitarists Loren Connors and Clint Heidorn.
Onda, Raissnia and Doron Sadja perform with paintings, film/slide projectors, tape recorders, tube amps... Projecting 16mm film and slides onto the black surface of oil paints, Raissnia creates a deepened sense of immersion in an alien landscape, while Onda's soundscapes challenge the boundaries of the picture plane.
Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water” directs a dramatic reading of Brooklyn author Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel "Ride a Cockhorse", recently reprinted by NYRB Classics.
Michael Pisaro's foray into experimental-pop, "Tombstones" reconstitutes traces and fragments of the voice. Jason Brogan will lead an ensemble of musicians including Julia Holter, from Los Angeles, New York City, and Charleston in a performance of selections from the recently released album.
ISSUE and Light Industry present the US premiere of Leaving (With Four Half-Turns), a thirty minute solid-light film by Anthony McCall with a live performance for guitar and amplifier by David Grubbs. McCall's Line Describing a Cone 2.0, and a solo set by Grubbs begin the evening.
Joseph Keckler is a musician, writer, raconteur, and performance artist known both for his musical output as well as for creating narrative monologues and collage-like performance and video works, often musical, that involve transformation through multiple characters. Playwright, author, and poet Mac Wellman joins.
Anthology Film Archives screens the films of Jon Wozencroft as part of Touch.30 Live in NYC: The Suffolk Symphony (audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen), and Liquid Music (audio by Fennesz). Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
AVA presents a solo exhibition of past and recent work by Japanese sound art pioneer Akio Suzuki. A series of silent objects inviting viewers to imagine their sounds populate the front room. Works on paper, drawings and graphic scores will be on display in addition to a sculpture and instrument made of Japanese bamboo.
As part of the "Voices and Echoes" tour, curated by Aki Onda and presented by ISSUE Project Room, Anthology Film Archives screens four films by Gozo Yoshimasu, with a performance by the filmmaker. This is the first time Yoshimasu has presented his films in the US.
Chelsea Light Moving, the new project from Thurston Moore, Keith Wood, Samara Lubelski and John Moloney give their New York premiere in support for Charalambides’ Tom Carter. Guitarist Steve Gunn and White Out with Dave Shuford round out the bill. All proceeds go directly to Tom Carter.
Rucola Restaurant in Boerum Hill pairs with ISSUE to present a special benefit event: a midsummer tasting with wine pairings by the Chefs of Rucola. Savor the night with performances from MV Carbon and Steve Gunn in ISSUE's historic jewel box theater, NY's only European-styled chamber hall of it's kind.
Composer Arnold Dreyblatt presents two works, including "Turntable History / Spin Ensemble", created from deconstructed recordings of a radiological imagining scanner which he treats as a giant Tesla coil. He also performs "Nodal Excitation", a 1979 work for amplified 'excited strings' bass.
On the extra day this year Mivos Quartet will be hosting their first fundraising event. Join Mivos for a night of great music, food, drinks, a silent auction, and an after party!
S.E.M. Ensemble performs music where distance – both physical and symbolic – becomes a compositional factor. The program includes a set of solo performances by percussionist and S.E.M. Ensemble member Chris Nappi.
“On Silence,” marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth. The program consists of 13 new compositions, each 4’33” long, referencing Cage’s infamous 1952 opus of the same name in which a pianist sits at the instrument for the assigned duration occasionally turning score pages and performing nothing.
Part of the MATA Interval series, ISSUE presents six works for solo instrument and live electronics by six young composers from four continents, all of whom crossed paths with composer and curator Christopher Trapani while working in Paris.
López has developed a detailed sonic construction for ISSUE's multi-channel sound system. It is a true site-specific composition that unfolds with richness and detail as an intense and immersive experience inside a self-contained virtual world of sound.
Release party for Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski’s album Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon on Graham Lambkin’s KYE label. Improv trio The New Monuments (C. Spencer Yeh, Ben Hall, and Don Dietrich) and Oslo-based noise artist Lasse Marhaug will both perform on the same evening.
Unsound LABs concerts feature collaborations between musicians of different kinds working together for the first time in a series of unique free performances. Curated to cross borders of both sound and geography, this year’s program pairs artists from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia with musicians from the U.S.
Unsound LABs concerts feature collaborations between musicians of different kinds working together for the first time in a series of unique free performances. Curated to cross borders of both sound and geography, this year’s program pairs artists from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia with musicians from the U.S.
Unsound Festival New York opens with a night of distinctive female experimental artists working with sound. LA resident Julia Holter and Norway’s Jenny Hval combine avant-garde structures with music at the edge of pop, New York cellist Julia Kent, a collaborator of Rasputina and Anthony and the Johnsons, performs solo.
This special evening, devoted to the music of acclaimed young composer Mohammed Fairouz, features the New York Premiere of The Named Angels and other works performed by the Borromeo String Quartet. The Cygnus Ensemble performs with soprano Elizabeth Farnum, as well as other piano works and songs with pianists.
ISSUE Project Room presents a rare live performance with Klyd and Linda Watkins, co-founders of Poetry Out Loud-- a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a sort of “magazine of oral poetry.” Joined special guests Tom Carter, Keith Connolly, Dave Nuss and Messages.
Two of the most exciting innovators of the trumpet Nate Wooley and Mazen Kerbaj will present an evening of solos and duos. This will be Mazen Kerbaj’s first performance at ISSUE.
Mariel Roberts premieres new works for solo cello from her debut album nonextraneous sounds, including compositions by Andy Akiho, Sean Friar, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, and Daniel Wohl.
The second evening of “Voices and Echoes” presents a series of unique collaborations including Otomo Yoshihide + Marina Rosenfeld duo, Gozo Yoshimasu + Tamio Shiraishi + Cammisa Buerhaus trio, and Akio Suzuki + Jason Lescalleet duo.
The first evening of “Voices and Echoes” brings together pioneering Japanese artists Akio Suzuki, performing on a range of unique instruments including an ancient stone flute, and experimental poet Gozo Yoshimasu in collaboration with guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshide.
Comprised of field recordings by Chris Watson and Mike Harding with a vocal arrangement conducted live by Marcus Davidson, The Bee Symphony explores the vocal harmonies between humans and animals. Harding also presents Watson’s Forest Floor, and a new work by Watson and Davidson.
ISSUE presents Eleh’s first ever US performance. Eleh create highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog electroacoustic music with emphasis on tonal juxtapositions, bass tones and various acoustic phenomenon. Joined by Lary 7.
Turntablist Philip Jeck performs live with Ted Riederer on electric guitar and vinyl lathe. Riederer records and cuts the performance straight to vinyl as it happens, handing these records instantly to Jeck. The process repeats continuously as the music evolves. Ken Montgomery will perform “8-Track Magic”.
Featuring: Marcus Davidson, Philip Jeck, Dave Knapik, Lary 7, Ken Montgomery, JG.Thirlwell and very special guest The Enchantress of Bioluminosity & others... Conducted by Mike Harding
Iktus Percussion perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1975 music-theatre work Musik Im Bauch for six percussionists, at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. Preceding the Stockhausen, New York Virtuoso Singers, directed by Harold Rosenbaum perform Danish choral composers.
The composer-percussionist Eli Keszler transforms Eyebeamʼs Project Space with L-Carrier, a large-scale,mechanical stringed instrument. A remote website displaying the pieceʼs evolving visual data score supplements this audio environment. June 7th, the piece accompanies a live ensemble performance.
Kaufman Center’s Face the Music is an “alt-classical” ensemble of more than seventy unusually talented teenagers from in and around New York City. Face The Music performs works by Osvaldo Golijov and Angélica Negrón, followed by electro-acoustic pop outfit, Balún.
The final evening of this festival includes a solo and duo performances by Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson, a performance by Tara Hugo, and the music of Ryan Sawyer and Ben Vida.
The second night of this three day festival includes solo and duo performances by Philip Glass and Jon Gibson, and a special presentation of Tristan Perich's "Momentary Expanse" and "What's thought of as a boundless, continuous, expanse..."
This first evening of the three day festival includes a solo performance by Philip Glass, a special presentation of Nate Wooley’s seven part 7 Storey Mountain, a solo performance by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, and a special duo performance by Glass and Merritt.
Composer Rhys Chatham performs his now-classic Guitar Trio (1977), presented at ISSUE Project Room in partnership with Northern Spy Records as part of the second annual SPY MUSIC FESTIVAL. This performance will feature Rhys Chatham with nine guitarists, one bassist, and one drummer.
This selection of pieces for violin and piano, performed by Conrad Harris (violin) and Jenny Lin (piano), is drawn from a wide span of Mumma’s career and includes electroacoustic and electronic works.
Darmstadt and ISSUE Project Room celebrate the John Cage centenary year with this program of works for string ensemble and chorus. The evening's program includes Twenty Three, String Quartet in Four Parts, and Hymns and Variations.
Composer and visual artist Tristan Perich will present an introductory workshop on hardware programming, providing a basic understanding of Assembly, a low-level programming language that drives most hardware at the lowest level.
Founded in 1976, Gamelan Son of Lion is a repertory ensemble based in downtown New York specializing in contemporary music written for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. The ensemble performs founding member Barbara Benary's "Braid Pieces" and other works.
Either/Or performs the world premiere of Public Works by composer, poet and compositional linguist Chris Mann, on a program with new work by Andrew Byrne and Thomas Meadowcroft. Object Collection presents New York Girls, an exercise in extremes, and a fanfare for the dispersed.
Darmstadt celebrates Pauline Oliveros’ 80th birthday with a program celebrating Oliveros’s diverse body of work and a handful of her valued collaborators, including Swiss pianist Anmari Mëtsa Yabi Wili, Jason Hwang, Alex Waterman, Fast Forward, Jim Alteri, and Miguel Frasconi.
Man Forever is the composition project of drummer John Colpitts aka Kid Millions. This evening serves as a portrait of Kid’s work for Man Forever; in addition to works for tuned drums, Kid will present new ensemble pieces for guitar and voices.
Mivos Quartet and Wet Ink Ensemble present their first joint concert, featuring works by Wet Ink composers Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, and Kate Soper. In addition to the music for quartet, Kate Soper and Joshua Modney will perform Soper's duo for voice and violin, Cipher.
The first night of Susan Alcorns residency will include new arrangements of Astor Piazzolla songs performed with Ryan Sawyer, Steve Swell, Darius Jones, Michael Formanek, Maria Chavez and Country Western Improv group with Skulí Sverrison, Ryan Sawyer, C Spencer Yeh, Beverly Keys, and Patrick Holmes.
In Camera, the surreal and psychedelic electronic music duo project of Christoph Heemann (of seminal experimental band H.N.A.S.) and Timo van Luijk produce an immersive cinematic and narrative sonic environment. Joined by Andrew Peckler and VioSac.
Susan Alcorn (+)1 (-)1 will feature a solo improvised performance by Alcorn followed by (Minus)One, ensemble curated by Janel Leppin, performing Alcorn’s compositions featuring Janel Leppin with Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Doug Wieselman, Anthony Pirog and Skulí Sverrisson.
John Butcher will perform his new work "The Geometry of Sentiment," a set of new pieces for acoustic and amplified saxophone developed for the distinctive acoustic space of ISSUE Project Room's new theater. Joined by Twistycat, the bass woodwinds brainchild of Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci.
"Histories" is a new collaborative evening-length work by Sleeping Giant, a companion piece to L’Histoire du Soldat that examines and contrasts our personal histories with Stravinsky’s seminal 1924 work.
In this evening dedicated to Cecil Taylor’s mastery and influence, virtuoso pianist Thollem McDonas will perform solo and with bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso, followed by a set from the thunderous percussionist and powerhouse bandleader William Hooker, joined by Mark Hennen, Larry Roland and Matt Lavelle.
"Pastor Pasture" is a revolving expanse of glory and shame. Through research into aural and visceral structures, this work harnesses the performers in all its queerness–as soft, ecstatic, plural, unknown and full of desire.
Legendary pianist and poet Cecil Taylor is one of the greatest improvisers in the history of modern jazz. A Brooklynite for thirty years now, Cecil Taylor performs a spellbinding solo evening in his “back yard” at ISSUE Project Room’s unique new historic Downtown Brooklyn theater.
Harvestworks produces an investigation into the phenomena of no-input, a style of sound art using internal mixer feedback to generate sound. Presentations will feature No-input icon Toshimaru Nakamura who will be joined by sound artists Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones, and Phillip Stearns.
The legendary literary performance tour, Sister Spit, comes to ISSUE Project Room with a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance! Don't miss this gathering of taste-makers, novelists, luminaries, chanteuses, performance artists, poets, and musicians.
2012 Artists-in-Residence Yarn/Wire premiere "Chalk," a new work by composer Tristan Perich. Perich’s work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics, and code.
Aritst-in-Residence Hunter Hunt Hendrix performs with Bernhard Gann as Liturgy, a self-christened “Transcendental Black Metal” band committed to developing and enhancing resonances between black metal and various domains of avant-garde culture: serious music, contemporary art and contemporary philosophy.
Artist-in-Residence Sergei Tcherepnin and Woody Sullender construct sites for listening, touching, and direct engagement with sonic material. Their temporary architecture of tactile speakers disperses the duo’s live electronic music in performance. In April, they will present their largest-scale piece yet.
String Theories is a joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn designed to provide innovative artists with a unique opportunity to premiere new experimental works for string orchestra. Featuring works by Anthony Coleman, C. Spencer Yeh, MV Carbon, and Eric Wubbels.
For the first concert of their residency at ISSUE Project Room, Yarn/Wire has collaborated on two new pieces: one by percussionist and composer Nathan Davis and another by electronic artist Pete Swanson, best known for his work with Yellow Swans.
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity is an extraordinary new collaboration between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker and guitarist Jim Jarmusch. The two perform together in celebration of the album's release.
Flowers & Cream, an independent poetry publishing imprint founded by Sonic Youth songwriter Thurston Moore, features work by young, emerging poets steeped in contemporary poetic practice and investigation/illumination. The evening features Moore joined by Elaine Kahn, Anselm Berrigan, John Coletti and more.
Spurse (plus collaborators and special guests) present mid-winter feast to explore and experiment with community. This free multi-course meal will feature foraged and gleaned local plants and animals in unique preparations and one-of-a kind settings.
Title TK, a banter-prone band that has been described as ‘a cross between David Antin and Spinal Tap,' perform on a bill with viola/bassoon free improv duo Architeuthis Walks on Land (Amy Cimini and Katherine Young).
Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. He performs his compositions solo and in ensembles joined by Sean Conly and Satoshi Takeshi, Ashley Paul and Eli Keszler and many more.
Now entering its 4th year, The Experimental Music Yearbook is a repository for composers, performers, and the public to glean the methods and styles of various artists. Composers include Peter Ablinger, Casey Anderson, Olivia Block, John P. Hastings, Tom Johnson, Taku Sugimoto, Hans W. Koch, and Christian Wolff.
One of the few new music ensembles that writes its own music, Ensemble Pamplemousse has been fishing through the new music community looking for composers who reflect the ideals Pamplemousse holds dearly- idiosyncratic ideas, the dedication to carry them out, and the audacity to playfully disregard any of that.
Iktus Percussion performs works for amplified triangle and 100 metronomes, among other instruments, by Ron Ford, Michel Van der Aa, Hugo Morales Murguia, Yannis Kyriakides, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Ensemble MAE will return to perform work by other composers, including Robert Ashley's "in memoriam ... Esteban Gomez."
Yannis Kyriakides, winner of the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for his piece conSPIracy cantata, is currently based in Amsterdam. Ensemble MAE will join with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to perform a number of works by Kyriakides, as well as other Dutch composers Peter Adriaansz and Michel Van der Aa.
January 26 will feature Dutch electronic musician Wouter Snoei, an authority on 192-channel “wave-field” synthesis techniques. NY-based electronic artist Matthew Ostrowski will also perform, as well as the duo R WE WHO R WE, a collaboration between New York composer-performers Philip White & Ted Hearne.
Composer-performance collective Wet Ink Ensemble kicks off Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York with the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi's "Départ dans..." Wet Ink will also play works by Ted Hearne, Chris Trapani and Richard Barrett along with works by Wet Ink members Alex Mincek and Kate Soper.
Join us for a farewell to the Old American Can Factory! ISSUE Project Room is moving permanently to Downtown Brooklyn, and closing the Can Factory ane celebrating the release of Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room. With Talibam!, Jonathan Kane's February, and MV Carbon with Tony Conrad.
a canary torsi's Five Performers Demonstrate a Field is an investigation of how movement in a particular room affects a simple sound environment: specifically through Hemisphere speakers in the sanctum of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Choreographed by Yanira Castro, with music by Benjamin Bernstein.
The final concert in the MATA Interval series, curated by Sugar Vendil, features works experimental and electro-acoustic works by Ryan Manchester, Nina Young, Izzi Ramikssoon, and Jay Wadley. Fashion designer Jonathan Cohen will draw inspiration from these pieces and musicians will “wear” the music they perform.