Distributed Objects

Distributed Objects is a publishing imprint started in 2015, featuring recorded and written documents focused on emerging artistic practices.

Releases draw primarily from work and writings of participants in ISSUE Project Room’s Artist-in-Residence program, alongside previously unreleased historical materials, published in tandem to create a broader contextual framework. Distributed Objects seeks to expand the discourse around time-based performances developed at ISSUE by disseminating artists’ writings and unique recorded materials, offering new perspectives into the contemporary creative community local to New York City.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 006: Shelley Burgon

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Each year, ISSUE Project Room commissions and creates a limited edition Mixtape for the organization’s members. ISSUE is pleased to announce that our 20th Anniversary Member Mixtape will feature harpist, composer, sound artist, and longtime ISSUE collaborator Shelley Burgon. The Mixtape features performances from ISSUE’s archive with additional computer processing by Burgon. Each Mixtape comes with a digital download and a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 005: Vanessa Rossetto

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by composer, musician, artist, and philosopher Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix—known for her “transcendental black metal” project Liturgy. The tape is ISSUE's fifth physical mixtape with digital download and features Hunt-Hendrix performing a philosophical reading of the libretto for Liturgy's Origin of the Alimonies laid over a glitch soundscape composed of source material from Liturgy’s fourth album H.A.Q.Q. Each mixtape comes with a digital download and a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 004: Embaci

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci, our fourth physical Mixtape with digital download. The tape features remixes by Nidia Minaj, and Ashanti, acapellas by Missy Elliot, and features from Air Max '97, E+E, and more, plus a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 003: Cory Arcangel

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by multimedia artist Cory Arcangel, our third physical Mixtape. The tape features an unreleased recording of NYARTIST (2019). For the project, Arcangel composed an algorithmic score for pipe organ—located at nyartist.coryarcangel.com—and an iteration of this score was recorded by organist Hampus Lindwall. For this Mixtape, the pipe organ piece is surrounded by EDM tracks by Zoie Makes Noise, Xentia, DemonDubz & Crysus, Comasleep, and more.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 002: Lizzi Bougatsos

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ISSUE's second Mixtape is by sound artist Lizzi Bougatsos. The tape is issued in a limited cassette edition and features Lonnie Holley, Louis Farrakhan's eulogy to Dick Gregory, new unreleased music from her band Gang Gang Dance recorded specifically for this tape, and others + a J-Card designed by the artist.

Yarn/Wire and Pete Swanson: Eliminated Artist

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Known for his uncompromising tape and synthesizer work, Pete Swanson has pushed the limits of electronic music since the early 2000s. Since stepping down as half of formative underground duo Yellow Swans, he has subverted the genres of noise and electronic dance music as a solo artist.

Sabisha Friedberg with Peter Edwards: The Hant Variance

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Sabisha Friedberg’s double LP The Hant Variance was recorded at EMPAC with Peter Edwards in a custom-tuned environment using advanced multi-channel recording techniques to capture a configuration of spatialized sound sources. Combining granular synthesis, analogue synthesizers, tone oscillators and field recordings, the composition is comprised of three movements.

Sergei Tcherepnin: Quasar ⇔ Lanterns

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Sergei Tcherepnin’s Quasar ⇔ Lanterns was originally produced in 2009 as an 8-channel installation with Ei Arakawa at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Remixed to stereo for this release, Tcherepnin’s trio of works combine analog synthesizer recordings and other instrumental sources with field recordings captured during the artists’ travels to Turkey and Georgia.