Media 2019

ISSUE presents the New York City debut of Japanese quartet SAICOBAB, consisting of avant vocalist YoshimiO of Boredoms/OOIOO (celebrated as a battler of Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips) and instrumentalists Yoshida Daikiti (sitar), and Motoyuki “Hama” Hamamoto (percussion, gamelan).

Jack Callahan presents a new iteration of 106 Kerri Chandler Chords for voice and computer, a work derived from his project Housed, an archive of (currently) 850 chords from classic House tracks Callahan collected in 2016, which was released on NNA Tapes and is currently being turned into an online archive. The piece is a primary example of Music Art.

Jeff Witscher’s Surviving Sound Music is a new work which presents an unhinged narrative using musical elements and spoken texts. Raiding all genres to create sound disorientation and communicate everyday thoughts in tandem with each other, the piece continues Witscher’s identification with radio art -- for its techniques, using music, sound and voice to assert hybrid narrative. This piece also specifically references Witscher’s “Sound Music,” his term for the overlap between electronic composition, computer music and sound art

ISSUE presents guitarist, bagpiper, and organizer David Watson in collaboration with percussionist, improviser, and producer Tony Buck, best known as a member of The Necks and for his far-reaching improvisational collaborations.

Multidisciplinary artist and 2010 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Laura Ortman presents new solo work “from the rosined-out beast of her tough-stained violin -- where deranged crumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess emerge.”

Max Hamel, known for their prolific output as Head Separating From Body, presents new work where the inputs and outputs of their modular synth are switchable, nonbinary, and fluid. Further, the sound is activated by touch, so the artist’s body completes the circuit.

Drag performance artist and musician Reagan Holiday performs high femme harsh noise for the apocalypse. Full on, full drag, full volume.

The Daxophone Consort presents John Cage's "Ryoanji" in collaboration with Alvin Lucier.

The Daxophone Consort presents HARD WOOD, a new commission by the esteemed experimental composer Alvin Lucier (performed as a quartet with Trevor Saint)

Kara-Lis Coverdale performs new solo work exclusively on the pipe organ at First Unitarian Congregational Society, a Hutchings organ registered with the New York City branch of the American Guild of Organists. Driven by a patient devotion to space, Coverdale’s compositions exist between erudite computer music and acoustic melancholy, seen in her hybrid organ and piano works mediated by electronics and digital interfaces.

Philadelphia-based producer LXV performs a long-form grouping that expands upon his recent interests in varying forms of rhythmic texture and sculpting fields of sound out of processed human voice and sampled and synthesized media.

Josh Sinton presents krasa, a series of investigations exploring the amplification and sound magnification of the contrabass clarinet