Closing the Can Factory, Opening 110 Livingston

We’ve posted some photos from last week’s final concert in the Old American Can Factory, featuring Talibam!, Jonathan Kane’s February, and Tony Conrad & MV Carbon. It was a surreal experience, with giant eyeball projections, minimalist blues, no-school rap, and an hour-long drone set (by which time most of us were sitting on the floor) to close out an amazing four years in our beloved Gowanus Can Factory.

But we’re looking ahead: this week, we’ve brought one of the top international contemporary music festivals to New York for the first time, in Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York. These artists straddle electronic, chamber, orchestral, and conceptual music with pieces involving everything from 100 metronomes (Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Poème Symphonique,” performed by Iktus Percussion) to Yannis Kyriakides’s audiovisual compositions, juxtaposing projections of text with music performed by his own Ensemble MAE with the International Contemporary Ensemble.

There’s still time left to become a member and receive two free tickets to any Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York concert, in addition to the usual two free tickets, discounts, and other thank-you gifts we’re offering toward membership. So don’t delay – check out the great benefits of a membership to ISSUE Project Room.

Photos from the final Can Factory concert are after the jump!