51717

Thursday, April 20th at 8pm, ISSUE is pleased to present new works from longtime friends Lili Schulder and Luke Wyatt, known through their far-reaching releases under the monikers 51717 and Torn Hawk, respectively. Despite each navigating singular pathways through underground electronic music, this presentation will feature new works expanding on and departing from their best known practices. The performances will take place at The Emily Harvey Foundation’s space in SoHo, Manhattan.

Genizah, גְנִיזָה, the Hebrew for “hiding place,” commonly refers to a repository where Jewish sacred books and ritual objects are kept before burial in a cemetery. The structure of the Genizah provides a protective way station, or a meeting point, for text and memory on their journey from life to dust—from legibility to obscurity. 51717’s music is the sonification of, and secure structure for, an investigation of name and nothingness, the gross and the subtle, the lived and the inherited, the conscious and unconscious, informed by her psychotherapeutic work with patients  and the transference/countertransference which is experienced.

51717 and Torn Hawk have recently been featured on the 400 Floor Podcast by Nina Protocol, hosted by Jack Callahan. The episode focuses on the artists' mutual experiences growing up on the East Coast in the ‘90s before eventually crossing paths in NYC in the mid ‘00s, their association with Ron Morelli's L.I.E.S. label, and more. 

51717 is a psychospiritual communication channel of Lili Schulder, an artist and psychotherapist based in New York City. Known for a heavy and minimalist sound design, 51717 is an intensely intimate medium initially compelled by her Orthodox Jewish background.  Schulder’s work is ingrained with a burden of memory; through processes of decay and dissolution, gross themes and ritual actions are rendered into minor forms. The work embraces tensions between noise and silence, language and sound, immanence and transcendence, and a cyclical process of binding and deconstruction via meditative and ritual practice. Using analog and digital sound technology, 51717 has performed at Atonal Festival (Berlin), Hospital Fest (NYC), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Soup (Tokyo), M.A.P.S. Festival (San Francisco) as well as many other events and venues worldwide. Recordings have been released on cult underground labels such as L.I.E.S., Jealous God, Total Black, Opal Tapes, and Royal Sperm. The debut LP “Paranoia Star” (L.I.E.S.) was described by The Wire magazine as being “remarkably restrained while maintaining a sense of peril.”