Bryan Eubanks’ “Object V” is a new composition for viola, clave, metal plate feedback system, electronic samples, and Digital Signal Processing. Performed by Eubanks and Catherine Lamb (viola), “Object V” is part of a series of solo electroacoustic works which began as a way to explore what is possible with a limited set of materials placed in a simple frame or grid.
Operating under the maxim “relax, it's only a crisis,” DeForrest Brown Jr. and Steven Warwick's "Elevator to Mezzanine" featured a stunning, distinctive DJ set from Voice Training (Jaclyn Miller).
Thursday, June 15th, ISSUE presents the debut trio performance between Fei, Kato and and veteran NYC percussionist Sean Meehan.. Their practice is described by The Wire as “no casual knob twiddling -- [with] Kato’s sense of timing as dramatic as it was with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith in their storied trio group Death Ambient, and Fei approaching the business of making music with deadly earnestness.”
Philosopher, artist, and avant-garde composer Henry Flynt performs Solo Electric Boogie (1979/2017) at Spectral Density: An Evening of Performances Dedicated to Tony Conrad.
Saturday, March 11th, ISSUE presents composer, artist and curator Eric Frye performing work in 4-channel sound. Eric Frye performs his erudite style of uncompromising, fractured electronics that at once recall the spattered tangle of Keith Fullerton Whitman's recent generations, the digital subversions of Jeff Witscher and the incisive chimerizations of Florian Hecker.
Saturday, March 11th, ISSUE presents pioneering computer musician and scholar Curtis Roads cultivating his purely computer generated tonalities from the “…realm of microsound, [from] sound grains first predicted in the acoustical theories of the physicist Dennis Gabor and the polymath Iannis Xenakis.”
James Fei and Laetitia Sonami started their improvisational collaboration in 2013. While the materials and techniques used by the two musicians differ significantly, both employ tactile interfaces coupled with electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral responses.
Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear.
Oren Ambarchi opens ISSUE's 2016 fall season, showcasing his highly refined sonic work ethic that is at once nuanced and cerebral -- sonically sublime and intelligently constructed.
The solo guise of multifaceted artist Ren Schofield, Container recalls the likes of D.A.F., Surgeon, and Legowelt in a set of massive sound, presented on July 30th, 2016 at Pioneer works.
In this interview from Clocktower Radio, Eve Essex talks to composer Pat Spadine about his story-driven, genre-defying, deliciously sensual, multimedia "opera", Apollo's Accidental Answer, which appears in its final form at ISSUE Friday, June 27, 2014.
Recorded in October 2013, Australian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi performs live at ISSUE our anniversary festival "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain".
Recorded live in December 2013: turntable artist Marina Rosenfeld and electronic composer Mats Lindström. This first-ever collaboration was part of ISSUE's third-annual Swedish Energies festival.
C. Spencer Yeh performs a solo electronic set, recorded live as part of the PAN_ACT festival in June 2013. The set starts off with a minimal percussion sound, evolving into a complex glitch beat and textural washes of electronics.