ISSUE presents performances from Keith Fullerton Whitman and Byron Westbrook, two young electronic sound artists whose works demonstrate and acknowledge direct influence from the works of Eliane Radigue.
Byron Westbrook works with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances, under the name CORRIDORS, involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment, with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. Westbrook has presented at NYC venues such as Tonic, Roulette, The Stone, Diapason Gallery, ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery, as well as Les Voûtes (FR), Wien Konzerthaus (Austria), NonEvent (Boston), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), and the Institute of Intermedia (CZ). He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Jandek, Sawako, Heribert Friedl, Stefan Tcherepnin, Maria Chavez, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Tetuzi Akiyama, among many others. Westbrook has also collaborated with Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre, David Watson and Jonathan Kane. He has worked as technical coordinator of Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 2004. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik at Sclhoss Schrattenberg. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
American electronic musician Keith Fullerton Whitman has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill'n'bass and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for Croatian). His works under the Hrvatski moniker hew closest to the drill'n'bass facet of IDM and were his primary musical outlet in the mid-to-late 1990s. Other solo aliases include ASCIII and Anonymous. Keith played with many groups in the 1990s, including El-Ron, The Liver Sadness, Sheket/Trabant, The Finger Lakes and Gai/Jin. Since 2001 he has primarily released under his own name.
