LXV

Thursday, March 21st, ISSUE presents artist and electronics visionary Mark Fell, returning to ISSUE for the first time since 2015 to premiere an untitled new piece with cellist, composer, and improviser Okkyung Lee. The evening also features Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV, collaborators on joint album Sirens, each presenting new solo work.

Philadelphia-based producer LXV performs a long-form grouping that expands upon his recent interests in varying forms of rhythmic texture and sculpting fields of sound out of processed human voice and sampled and synthesized media.

LXV is the most recent project by U.S. producer David Wesley Sutton. Using the LXV project Sutton spatially arranges processed voices, digital fragments and fractured synthesized and sampled media into virtual sound environments and complex rhythmic contraptions that imbue existential inquiry, the universality of consciousness, and the expressions and compulsions of the human condition within the modern landscape.LXV has been described as ''Sleek jagged contraptions, reflect virtual utopianism... Sonics with a tangibly and refreshingly different grain- cold, clear, uncompromising and pretty exquisite'' -- (Adam Harper, WIRE Magazine). "Concisely and evocative, as opposed to materiality... perfectly complementary exploration of the spirit-mind" (Sonia Garcia, Noisey) Early in 2019 LXV released "Payload" a full length of sounds inspired by the mutability of information as well as outsider music and sound art.