Upcoming Events

Yarn/Wire plays premieres two new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two of NYC's most exciting musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. Evans gives solo performance of his signature trumpet improvisations, and Tyondai Braxton + LAAND play a duo set.

HPSCHD, John Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. Its very nature is inextricable from the tumult of the year it premiered, 1969. With Joel Chadabe, keyboardist Neely Bruce and video directed by Braley Eros.

Paralleling his recent series devoted to the overlap between idea-based art, culture bound illnesses, and conceptual poetics, James Hoff is devoting his residency to exploring the concept of involuntary musical imagery, or earworms. Here he gives a performative lecture on his research and compositional strategies.

To celebrate her recently back in print novels "Speedboat" and "Pitch Dark", author Renata Adler reads from both works followed by a conversation with NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank. Adler is well known for her tenure at the New Yorker, who recently called the novels "fundamentally probing, even discomfiting, books".

EXTENDED! Saturday from 12-5pm, the subsonic artifacts of Sabisha Friedberg's "Hoffe Axiom" are installed in ISSUE's theater as a quadrophonic installation. Four subwoofers project a series of cyclical sonic traces or phantom sounds in patterns of low-end frequencies.

devynn emory, known for structured, formal, and spatially detailed dances, presents a semi-collaborative text piece with vocalist Margot Bassett: a collision of emory's formal movement structure, pushing away from the body and through the mouth to create hyper composed sounds.

SOLD OUT! A rare performance by this original, unrecorded Fushitsusha lineup from the 1970s with founding member, New York-based saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi. Known for its torrential walls of sound, Fushitsusha was formed by Haino in '78— initially with Haino on guitar and vocals, and Shiraishi on synthesizer.

SOLD OUT! Opening a three night festival, Keiji Haino gives his first ever solo vocal concert in NYC. Known for intensely cathartic sound explorations, Haino’s unaccompanied wordless screamed vocal performances mark the influence of Artaud’s obsession, with voice violently severed from the body.