Events 2011

Issue Project Room partners with TEDxFort Greene to present a salon featuring stories of creativity and innovation. Speakers include curator Ingrid LaFleur, bassist Melvin Gibbs, Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler, and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom.

Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.

Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.

Tyehimba Jess explores how the contrapuntal poem and poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history, and geometry in Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox; the Tracie Morris Band, feat. multidisciplinary poet, scholar, and performer Tracie Morris, with Val Jeanty, and Marvin Sewell performs.

The world premiere of Maxim Moston's live orchestration of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" at The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Either/Or, a contemporary music ensemble who focus on new and recent works for unconventional ensemble formations, perform composed works by ensemble founder Richard Carrick, Hans Thomalla, and Keeril Makan.

2011 Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama will transform ISSUE Project Room into a point of origins. They will construct a “sacred space” using gathered matter from off-site urban wilds of Brooklyn. Audience members will be invited to build their own instruments and utilize them in an extended jam session open to anyone.

Members of TILT Brass perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels, as well as works by Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo and Chris McIntyre.

Since 2007, New York performance-duo John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori have created a quiet sensation among presenters across European touring-circuits.

Since 2007, New York performance-duo John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori have created a quiet sensation among presenters across European touring-circuits.

The DownTown Ensemble performs sound/text pieces by Robert Ashley, Daniel Goode, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos. Featured performers include Bill Hellermann, and downtown stalwarts Peter Zummo, Alex Waterman, Andrew Bolotowsky, and Daniel Goode. Songs by David Garland round out the evening.

In partnership with Make Music New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Darmstadt presents a performance of Louis Andreissen's "Hoketus," performed on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange by Yarn/Wire, a unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists.