With Womens Work: SYANIDE - ENDEAVORING PURITY

Wednesday, February 17th, at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream ENDEAVORING PURITY, a new work by sound artist, producer, and DJ SYANIDE. The piece is part of the With Womens Work series, commissioning artists to interpret and respond to scores included in Womens Work, a magazine first edited and self-published in 1975 by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood.

Notes from SYANIDE on ENDEAVORING PURITY:

Referencing artist Wendy Greenberg's score THE MARK - A ZEN DRAWING included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975, ENDEAVORING PURITY engages anger and fear as two bodies within one person. Emulsifying sound, sense, movement and emotion, these bodies ignite a process of alchemization through extreme sound and extreme silence. Sound and silence are brought under question as the two bodies become vessels of purity.

SYANIDE is a sound artist, producer and DJ living in BK. Since their debut Boiler Room set in 2019 they have quickly gained traction in NYC underground nightlife, developing a sound that questions function of form in dance music. They have been featured on DISCWOMAN's 'DISCUS' podcast, as a panelist for Dweller Festival's premiere discussion 'Who Does Techno Belong To' and performer for Make Techno Black Again x Hecha 'Black Sound' event. Most recently they performed for Lubov NYC's program 'Requiems' and ESS Chicago's collaboration with Night Depository Center for Psychic Technology Quarantine Concert Series. Their most recent release RHONDA RIP is a 6 minute four track piece available on bandcamp.