The Board of Directors of ISSUE Project Room today announced the appointment of Ed Patuto as the new Executive Director for the organization. Patuto will assume his official duties at ISSUE on November 1, 2010.
The first installment of Minor Musics brings Finnish artists Tomutonttu and Kiila to New York, as well as a rare live performance by Kemialliset Ystävät with New York collaborators Raphael Lyon, Samara Lubelski, Marcia Bassett, Michael Bernstein, Taylor Richardson, Tom Carter, Dave Nuss, and Pete Nolan.
Organized by Branden W. Joseph and David Grubbs, this three-day festival examines the intersections and encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to panel discussions, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’ "Rome '78" and a performance by Ut.
ISSUE Project Room presents the second annual Darmstadt Institute, a festival of interdisciplinary programming including concerts, lectures, workshops, film screenings, and talkbacks which celebrates and critically examines the continuum of the experimental tradition in music and related media.
MATA Interval is a bi-monthly series developed and produced by young participants in MATA’s Curatorial Associate program, which features emerging composers and performers using software instruments, using video as a parallel practice, and rethinking the notion of chamber ensemble in the digital age.
Responding to a declining network of support for innovative experimental literature outside academic institutions, Littoral serves as a central hub for fostering cutting-edge writers, publishers, and literary journals.
A month-long program experimenting with and utilizing ISSUE’s custom-built 15 channel hemispherical speaker system, the Floating Points Festival returns with a line-up of luminary sound artists including Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, Stephen Vitiello, Zeena Parkins, Suzanne Thorpe, C. Spencer Yeh and Tony Conrad.
