Eve Essex

Thursday, September 5th, ISSUE Project Room's 2019 Fall season opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with renowned Texan electronic minimalist composer J D Emmanuel giving what he has referred to as one of his “final live performances.” The evening also features composer and musician James Ferraro presenting selections from his Four Pieces For Mirai, a meditation on technological poiesis and its emergent conditions that spans across four different albums and live concerts. Multi-instrumentalist Eve Essex performs new and unrecorded works that extend the sonic landscape established in her recent debut LP Here Appear.

Eve Essex returns to ISSUE in her first solo presentation, performing new and unrecorded works that extend the sonic landscape established in her recent debut LP Here Appear. Essex is a multi-instrumentalist whose detailed and controlled compositions explore a varied spectrum of acoustic and electronic timbres. Primarily a woodwind player, she employs wide instrumentation including alto saxophone, piccolo and voice, supported with live processing as well as beds of synthesizers, drum machine, samples, and other sounds. Her work operates in a space between song, composition, and instrumental improvisation, sliding easily between structured electronic pop and open-ended melodic explorations. Trained in both sculpture and classical music, her practice has spanned multiple media and genres over time, from installation and performance art to the prog, electronic, and electroacoustic ideas explored in her current collaborations, with MV Carbon and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix as HEVM, James K and Via App as Hesper, and with Craig Kalpakjian as Das Audit, among others. Her solo work places a special focus on live execution, retaining both the ardent focus and spirited unpredictability of her recordings -- an inspired outcome of her varied practices.

Eve Essex is a Brooklyn-based musician who performs with alto saxophone, piccolo, voice and electronics, harnessing elements of classical, drone, free jazz, and distorted pop. Her debut solo album, Here Appear, was released by Soap Library (cassette) and Sky Walking (LP) in 2018. As a collaborator she performs regularly as Das Audit (with Craig Kalpakjian), Hesper (with James K and Via App), HEVM (with MV Carbon and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix), and with Dan Fox. Her recordings have appeared on compilations by Wild Flesh Productions, Untergang Institut, PAN (with James K), and Sky Walking (with Dan Fox). Select solo performances include Artists Space, e-flux Bar Laika, Fridman Gallery, Outpost Artists Resources, Safe Gallery, Signal, and Wendy's Subway in New York, Meakusma Festival, Eupen, Belgium, and ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany. She is host of the monthly series "How To Tell A Sound" for Cashmere Radio, Berlin.