Upcoming Events

27th Annual MATA Festival

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.

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Past Events

Sabisha Friedberg: Hoffe - Axiom

Sabisha Friedberg presents Hoffe - Axiom, a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice. The work draws on extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones.

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Lecture: Carol Robinson & Frances-Marie Uitti

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti give a free lecture with music examples, a demonstration of their pioneering techniques that have expanded the fields of their respective instruments. "Composing with Random Generators" is led by Robinson, and "Strips, Tubes and Code", by Uitti.

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Carol Robinson & Frances-Marie Uitti

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti have worked in parallel for years, originating from their work with Giacinto Scelsi. US Premieres by Robinson/Uitti, Eliane Radigue, Giacinto Scelsi, and Annie Gosfield open this two-night residency, plus a solo cello work by Jonathan Harvey.

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Jules Rosskam: No Place But Between Us

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Jules Rosskam invites you to an exploration of a no-good-place. A performative lecture of research on utopia— presented as an open rehearsal for Rosskam's ‘live film’ in July— "No Place But Between Us" investigates utopia not as a distant, ever unreachable, ideal world, but as a force that exists in and between us.

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Ben Vida

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

For the opening performance of his residency, electronic composer Ben Vida premieres a new solo composition for digital and analog synthesis, followed by a talk with artist Michael Bell-Smith, and a new work for trio with Tyondai Braxton of Battles and Sara Magenheimer.

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ZS + Mivos

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ZS and Mivos Quartet come together for an evening of new chamber music and collaboration. Mivos performs works by Mario Diaz de Leon, Tristan Perich, and J.S. Bach arranged by ZS' Patrick Higgins. ZS perform selections from their recent output, including their ferocious 'Xe' in a new arrangement featuring Mivos.

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For Electronics and Instrument: Phill Niblock and Al Margolis

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

In this evening of live electronics and instrumentalists, Al Margolis premieres a new quartet of bassoonist Leslie Ross, trombonist Monique Buzzarté, live video by Katherine Liberovskaya, and Margolis on laptop. Phill Niblock presents his now-classic "seth-work", a duo for laptop and guitar featuring David Watson.

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