Marcia Bassett presents a new sound + light performance featuring projections sourced from digitized super 8mm film, liquid light experiments, and video feedback + color gel slide projections by Barry Weisblat. Kyle Eyre Clyd, the moniker of Alabama-based, interdisciplinary artist Kyle Kessler, also presents new work.
John McCowen presents compositions for solo contrabass clarinet for his inaugural performance as an Artist-In-Residence. These works present the concept of the instrument as an acoustic synthesizer. By sustaining multiple sounds simultaneously, the clarinet becomes a harmonic tube where sounds create beating harmonics.
ISSUE presents an audio/visual collaboration with interdisciplinary artists & curators Funneled Smoke, prolific composer Vito Ricci & vocalist Lise Vachon, and Philadelphia-based duo Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus, with immersive 3-channel rear projection rig, live visuals & large-scale painting.
Just The Right Height, the music project of interdisciplinary artist Keke Hunt, and Drumloop, the recent moniker of artist and musician Daffy Scanlan, each present new solo work. Both artists chart critical new contexts at the intersection of fragmented narrative, sound design, pop music and experimental composition.
ISSUE opens its 2020 season with legendary electronic music innovator Moritz von Oswald, 2017 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Antenes (Lori Napoleon), & American composer Britton Powell. At ISSUE, von Oswald presents Akklamation, a piece that sets out to unify the expansive musical paths of the electronics visionary.