Rose Kallal presents a cinema performance using immersive, multiple 16mm film loops created using a wide range of technical processes including traditional animation techniques, video synthesis/feedback, and computer animation, along with Kallal's own electronic sound work using modular synthesis.
Media
ISSUE has a significant archive of performance documentation that represents both an important link to the past, and a future resource for artists and audiences. ISSUE’s public media archive is a consistently updated and freely accessible collection of video and audio documentation from recent and past ISSUE performances. Currently, ISSUE is in the process of digitizing historical documentation from its former homes at The Old American Can Factory and silo space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Regular updates feature newly published materials within ISSUE’s constantly expanding performance history.
Nao Nishihara & Aki Onda
NYC-based composer and performer Aki Onda and Yokohama-based sound practitioner Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in New York as an Asian Cultural Council grantee. Nishihara returns to New York Thursday, November 10th, to further develop their sonic and spatial exploration. The duo explores the architecture and acoustics of ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater site-specifically, presenting a non-directional sound/visual landscape by installing handmade instruments and analog equipment within a visually arranged set-up.
After 9 Evenings: John Cage’s "Variations VII” Realized by Ed Bear
Ed Bear performs a newly-commissioned interpretation of John Cage’s infamous "Variations VII.” First performed at “9 Evenings” (1966), the stochastic piece included only technologically-produced or electrically-amplified sound from a variety of sources, transmitted or picked up live in the performance space.
James Fei & Laetitia Sonami: After 9 Evenings - LIVE at ISSUE / September 30th, 2016
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.
After 9 Evenings: LoVid
Drawing inspiration from the study of proxemics, LoVid presents "Interplayce" -- a work concerned with the distances between people depending on the relationships and contexts in which they interact and examining the relationship between the body and architectural instruments.
After 9 Evenings: Thomas Dexter
Thomas Dexter’s performance work, best understood as a type of “live-filmmaking,” begins with the poetics of cinema as a vector for exploring physical translations and discursive negotiations between image and sound, signal and noise, and more broadly, representational systems.
After 9 Evenings: Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida
Composer and turntable artist Marina Rosenfeld and analog synth innovator Ben Vida reprise their improvisational collaboration first presented during Vida’s 2013 ISSUE residency.
After 9 Evenings: Morton Subotnick & Lillevan
Pioneering experimental composer Morton Subotnick premieres a new collaboration with Berlin-based video artist, Lillevan. Their light and sound duet combines analog recordings, electronic patches, and live performance on a hybrid Buchla 200e/Ableton “instrument” with live video animation.
Leila Bordreuil: Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble - Live at ISSUE / September 10th, 2016
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.
Zeena Parkins & Brian Chase at First Unitarian Congregational Society
Pioneering harpist and multi-instrumentalist Zeena Parkins performs a duo set with composer and drummer Brian Chase, two performers who share a focused intensity and immediate physicality. As an ensemble, their music crafts hyper-vivid portraits-in-sound which integrate the detail and subtlety of classical composition with the energy and urgency of improvisation.
Oren Ambarchi - LIVE at First Unitarian Congregational Society / September 8th, 2016
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.
Eartheater at Pioneer Works
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Container - Live at Pioneer Works / July 30th, 2016
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.
Horse Lords at Pioneer Works
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works are pleased to present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.