Events 2009

C. Spencer Yeh + John Wiese

Old American Can Factory

As an improviser, Yeh is focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. As a sound artist/composer, Yeh works with all aspects available surrounding a work, aurally and physically, as elements key to the cumulative experience.

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MV Carbon + Okkyung Lee

Old American Can Factory

MV Carbon performs on cello, samplers, tape machines and oscillators, using ISSUE's multi–speaker system to portray concepts of time passage in moments of stillness. She gathers field recordings in open-air industrial and urban environments and shapes these sounds into percussive form.

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Mari Kimura with Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad

Old American Can Factory

Mari Kimura teams up with visual artists Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad, presenting everything from her virtuosic solo works of her signature bowing technique Subharmonics to realtime interactive audio visual works using ISSUE Project Room's 15 channel diffusion system.

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Lesley Flanigan w/ Luke Dubois

Old American Can Factory

Lesley Flanigan performs with ISSUE's unique speaker system, turning each individual speaker into a voice of its own, orchestrating them to perform as a hanging choir above her. The room resonates with sounds of her voice in multiple spaces, as she builds a choral arrangement that feeds off itself.

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See Hear Now (David and Gisela Gamper)

Old American Can Factory

David and Gisela Gamper’s See Hear Now is a real-time music and video collaboration that seeks to merge the sonic and the visible, and to transport the performers and audience to a transcendent experience. For their Floating Points performance they design a unique projection installation for ISSUE's "ceiling of sound."

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Betsey Biggs + Shelley Burgon

Old American Can Factory

Betsey Biggs performs Ton Yam I (For Brian Wilson), a live improvisation deconstructing and reshaping fragments of the Beach Boy's God Only Knows into a sea of floating harmonies, feedback, and glitch: destruction and reconstruction. Shelley Burgon performs "Mirrored Ceiling," a new composition by Stephan Moore.

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Alan Licht and Loren Connors + Evidence

Old American Can Factory

Alan Licht and Loren Connors have been performing improvised guitar duos since 1993. Tonight Licht will add piano to the mix.

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Keith Fullerton Whitman (CANCELLED)

Old American Can Factory

Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom “digital music.”

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David Linton

Old American Can Factory

David Linton presents an extended time solo audio visual performance with special guest visitations and words in the air.

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