Media 2018

David Behrman performs Long Throw with Joseph Kubera, John King and Cleek Schrey. The piece was one of three works by three composers commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as music for the 2007 dance, “eyeSpace.” Long Throw makes use of 21st Century digital technology -- music software and sound sensors -- and has performance roles for the core musicians of the Company in 2007: Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi, John King and Stephan Moore.

Glockenspiel performer Trevor Saint follows his exceptional performance of Lucier’s Richochet Lady at ISSUE in 2017 with the premiere of Tilted Arc, a new piece written by Lucier this year featuring bowed glockenspeil and pure wave oscillators.

Julia Santoli continues her 2018 residency with the premiere of a new work within her “Siren Sore” cycle: a mutant project of myriad form manifesting as visual project, recording album, and performance through genre-crossing collaborations. The evening premieres “burning body of love” with double bassist Zach Rowden.

Originally staged in the offices of Apollinaire’s review Les Soirées des Paris on May 21st, 1914, where it was performed in French and Italian, Savinio’s Les chants de la mi-mort centers around a family drama during the period of the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento. Savinio intended this intermedia work, which combined music, literature, theatre, set design, and costumes, as a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk: a total work of art

Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, and cultural producer Nick Hallett presents his opera-in-process, To Music, a dark comedy that looks at the nature of inspiration and originality through the cautionary tale of a fictional composer’s behavior on social media—a portrait of the artist on Facebook.

Harsh and minimal, BLJ performances are anti-music rituals of entropy and sonic decay, informed by both religion and sadomasochistic gay male sexuality.

Rachika S weaves multi-instrumental samples and synthesized sounds with collaged found and personal video, set in a light and scrim installation. Based in Brooklyn, her work draws on intergenerational memory and meanders purposefully through appropriated visual and audio landscapes from immaterial pasts to the immediate present.

ISSUE is thrilled to present a rare U.S. performance from celebrated Paris-based Argentinian artist Horacio Vaggione, composer of electroacoustic and computer-assisted music and pioneer of micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound. His music is characterized by lively, often violent colors, but also by subtle relationships that are set up between acoustic instruments and recorded or computer-generated elements.

51717, the intuitive language of New York-based artist Lili Schulder, presents work that explores themes of “Perfected Fear” described in the rabbinic literature of Genesis Rabbah, as well as the exorcism of anguish as it has become understood within Jewish Meditation and the interpretations of Reb Nachman of Bratslav.

McPhee, Dorji, and Orcutt come together for a debut trio performance -- a discourse flowing between mutually frenetic and intentionally meditative.

Thursday, June 7th, ISSUE presents an improvisation between unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and celebrated four-string guitarist Bill Orcutt.

Thursday, June 7th, ISSUE presents an improvisation between unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and Poughkeepsian creative jazz originary Joe McPhee.