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
The San Francisco-based video artist and musician, Nate Boyce, performs new work as well as a performance by Ray Sweeten.
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.
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.
David First's Gestural Improv Group.
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.
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.
Musician, composer and producer, Dougie Bowne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.
Eran Sachs and Lary 7 perform at ISSUE Project Room.
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.
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.