Marcia Bassett & Bob Bellerue

Friday, November 17th at 8pm, ISSUE in partnership with AvanTokyo is pleased to present a solo performance by legendary Fluxist artist Yasunao Tone at Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Tone has a long and storied performance history with ISSUE, including performing with Tony Conrad and Talibam! as part of ISSUE’s 10th Anniversary series in 2013, and most recently premiering AI Deviation at ISSUE in 2016.  The evening also features a duo presentation by experimental musicians Marcia Bassett & Bob Bellerue, working in improvised processes. Their live performances explore sonic states while incorporating guitar and piano soundboard in a blissful fury of feedback and resonance, as well as electronics and synths that explode into gnarled walls of sound.

Marcia Bassett and Bob Bellerue also have a long and intertwining history with the organization, each initially performing solo sets at The Old American Can Factory on the same evening in 2007, while also presenting a number of other projects throughout the years. They began playing together in 2015, recorded Endless Parabolas in the same year, and now perform together at ISSUE for the first time.

In Fall 2023, ISSUE Project Room celebrates its 20th Anniversary with a series of commissioned programs, orbiting around our annual Gala and affiliated Benefit events. ISSUE closes the 20th Anniversary celebration with end-of-year activities featuring longtime friends and collaborators of the organization at key partner venues.

ISSUE Project Room Members tickets are half price and members retain exclusive access to all limited-capacity events until sold out.

Marcia Bassett and Bob Bellerue are sound artists and experimental musicians currently living in New York, who began collaborating in 2015. Marcia Bassett is a NYC-based musician and artist known for her innovative and unconventional approach to music. Exploring the realms of sound collage, improvisation, and immersive audio-visual environments, Bassett’s work delves into the cultural world and immediate surroundings, encountering various phenomena that have the potential to be transformative within ourselves and our environment. Her artistic vision is to create a heady sonic interplay of otherworldly narratives that blend elements of trance and critique. Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and creative technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 30+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – experimental music, sound art, noise, junk metal percussion ensembles, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. Bob’s electronic sound work is focused on resonant feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, recordings, and spaces, in combination with electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language.