An internationally acclaimed cellist Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. He has worked extensively with pioneers of new music including Christian Wolff, Alison Knowles, and Éliane Radigue, whose works— among others— he plays tonight.
Pauline Oliveros has left a profound imprint American music through her decades of work in improvisation, electronic music, teaching, and meditation. Tonight Oliveros returns to ISSUE with the large ensemble work "Primordial Lift". Olivia Block premieres "Dissolution", a solo meditation on communicative disruption.
Guitarist Marc Ribot, who helped organize and performed in the first ever ISSUE Project Room concert, returns tonight for an evening featuring the dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser Matana Roberts, and the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, whose striking instrumental folk draws on acoustic Americana traditions.
Tonight, as part of Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, ISSUE brings Glasgow-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs to Brooklyn for his first US performance in decades. Renowned composer and improvising keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs two recent works for solo piano.
Charlemagne Palestine, best known for intensely performed piano with unique physical "symbols of identification", performs solo joined by composer and improvisor Joe McPhee– a watershed player of the creative jazz scene– and the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who has long occupied a unique role in the jazz firmament.
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain opens with Syrian musical legend Omar Souleyman in Red Hook. The all day event includes from cult psychedelic rock band Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Rick Brown and Che Chen's duo 75 Dollar Bill, and discursive blues from Steve Gunn with John Truscinski and Jason Meagher.
ISSUE and Pioneer Works' collaboration continues with an all-day indoor/outdoor party of frenzied electronics, post-punk noise, and lo-fi experimental rock in Red Hook. Michigan noise legends Wolf Eyes headline, joined by The Men, Amen Dunes, PC Worship, and KHF.
Yokohama based artist and composer Toshiya Tsunoda has produced innovative works of field recording and collage for 15 years, carefully concentrating the lyrical power of the world we inhabit. Tonight he plays two live sets with field recordings, vibration-plates, and sine waves, and premieres two new short videos.
The US debut of Deceh features members of Eleh and Srines. Deceh use analog modular synthesizers to reveal and utilize the harmonic content in acoustic instruments. Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria, founding member of the dronegaze band Growing.
ISSUE and Pioneer Works present a FREE all-day outdoor party of experimental electronics and noise in Red Hook with psychedelic noise trio Hair Police, Chris Goudreau AKA SICKNESS, noise/punk bands White Suns and Guerilla Toss, noise composer Bob Bellerue, and saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi with Cammisa Buerhaus.
ISSUE and supporter Robert Bielecki present a special preview night for Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain with performances by pioneering artists Tony Conrad and Yasunao Tone. This event is open exclusively to supporters of our Ten Years Alive Campaign. To receive your invitation, join or renew your membership now.
ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.