Saturday, April 10th at 4pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to host an event for ISSUE Members with Cory Arcangel, Hampus Lindwall, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Akira Sileas & Nils Henrik Asheim in conversation around the Remind Me Tomorrow pipe organ commissions and concert, and their respective roles as curators, performers, and composers.
Remind Me Tomorrow is a program organized in collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel and organist Hampus Lindwall, who have invited a group of artists and musicians to compose new music to be performed on the pipe organ by orgainsts Nils Henrik Asheim (NO), Hampus Lindwall (BE) and Joy-Leilani Garbutt (US). The program will premiere Thursday, April 8th, at 8pm EST.
Remind Me Tomorrow will include compositions by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Stine Janvin, Seth Price, Akira Sileas, Cory Arcangel and Hampus Lindwall. The night will be virtual and take place in the US, Scandinavia, and Europe, and is the third installment in Arcangel and Lindwall’s series of pipe organ concerts which focus on generating new repertoire for the organ.
In the past this series has featured the premieres of pieces by Ellen Arkbro, Pierre Bismuth, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Tom Crawford, Haley Fohr aka Circuit des Yeux, Hanne Lippard, Haroon Mirza, Charlemagne Palestine, as well as by Cory Arcangel and Hampus Lindwall themselves. Remind Me Tomorrow is presented in parallel with Arcangel’s exhibition of contemporary art, Century 21, at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY.
The April 10th conversation will be accessible via Zoom for ISSUE Members and invited guests with RSVP. For more information please contact Corinne Daniel, Development Director, at corinne@issueprojectroom.org
ISSUE Members directly support artists and ISSUE’s ongoing programming initiatives and commissions during this challenging time for performing arts.
Cory Arcangel is an artist, composer, curator, and entrepreneur living and working between Stavanger, Norway, and Brooklyn, New York. Recently he has worked on a dizzying array of seemingly unrelated projects; he co-curated with Michael Bell Smith, “The Year in the Internet 2020”, an online show of “links” for the social network Are.na; for the “Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber”, 2019, he created banners of “destroyed jeans” for the facade of the Sharjah Art Museum as well as composed a new work for pipe organ — which was placed into the mix at the Radisson Blu Sharjah gym and later released as a cassette tape by Issue Project Room in 2020. His work is included in many public collections, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.
Hampus Lindwall is a musical artist active in many fields ranging from contemporary classical to experimental and electronic music. He has released several organ albums, as a soloist and in collaborations. As described by Boomkat, in 2021 Lindwall “drop(d) acid” with a “mind-spanking array of virtuosic acid solos” played on a TB-303 on his recent release, Lost & Found, for the record label Matière-Mémoire. Hampus Lindwall is the Titular Organist in Saint-Esprit, Paris, and professor of improvisation at IMEP, Namur in Belgium.
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is an artist. He is part of the computer music group EVOL together with Scottish artist Stephen Sharp. Roc’s work explores processes of deformation, both literally and metaphorically, in graphical pieces, light installations, essays and, especially, music. His recordings have been released by labels such as Diagonal, Editions Mego, Presto!? Superpang or iDEAL among others. His music, both solo and with Sharp, is based on a drastically reductionist approach to musical palette, focusing on very few sound objects at a time. An assemblage of flexing, flexible bass lines and asymmetric beats which makes use of analogies about bending and twisting to stretch some of his favourite cultural icons, from hardstyle arpeggios to 80s house music –– he calls it Acid Mereotopology.
Akira Sileas is an electronic music composer, performer, programmer and lecturer based in England. After self-releasing two EPs containing studies of Cartesian synthesis, Akira's algorithmic modular synthesizer tracks have featured on electronic music labels Superpang and New York Haunted (as Nd:YAG), with recent ambient pieces released through Rusted Tone Recordings. Besides a keen interest in the mechanics of synthesis and sound, Akira's music is deeply influenced by the phenomenological experience of natural and man-made environments, with each release based upon an individual theme informed by visual and textural elements and locations.
Nils Henrik Asheim enjoys a combined career as composer and performer. He started out as a composition pupil of Olav Anton Thommessen and made his début at the UNM nordic festival for young composers in Helsinki at the early age of fifteen. He subsequently went on to study organ and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He has been awarded the EBU Rostrum prize and the Nordic Council Music Prize, among others. Asheim has been acclaimed by critics for his personal style of improvisation on the organ. Since 2012 he has been recognized for his innovative programming work as the resident organist of the new concert hall in Stavanger, Norway.
