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DECEMBER 2003 DECEMBER 5 ELLIOTT SHARP'S Velocity of Hue CD Release Party Solo acoustic guitar In his continuing exploration of the limits of instruments, composition, and improvisation, Issue Project Room celebrates Elliott Sharp's recent release of "The Velocity Of Hue", his latest collection of pieces performed on acoustic guitar as well as acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer. This music, while based upon Sharp's personal sonic vocabulary of textures, densities, and groove, also filters it through the string traditions of the music of central Asia, India, and North Africa, country blues, and the "American primitive" strain of John Fahey and Robbie Basho. DECEMBER 7 the child of microtones, perhaps transparent & ecstatic yod present THE ZOOED REVUE The Zooed Revue rolls into NYC with a multi-part evening of film screening, book reading and music performances. nyc premiere film screening THE TEMPTATION TO ZOOLOGY a film by Matt Valentine, Erika Elder and Gabriel Walsh Starring Dredd Foole, Pat Ireton, mv, ee, Barry Weisblat, Samara Lubelski, P.G. Six, Alan Licht, Greg Anderson, Noah Wall, Joshua Burkett, Tim Dedman, Gabriel Walsh, Richie Midnight, Cynthia Meadows, Nouri, Pegasus, and Boletus. The film is an incredible myth of things seen in the skysea concerning an animal so human and its transfiguration during a journey to the trysting place of an aeon. excerpt book reading mv's fable "small as life & infinitesimally as pure" by Matt Valentine and Devendra Banhart with musical accompaniment from Erika Elder and Alan Licht music performances The Chris Corsano & Dredd Foole Cozmic Luv Unit Samara Lubelski DECEMBER 7 ARTIST'S BAZAAR Come check out hand-made-goods by local artisans and independent artists... The Bazaar features an eclectic mix of high quality artists hand made wares, including jewelry, books, cds, artwork, clothing, objects, oddities, accessories and more... DECEMBER 11 THOM RADICE with THE LOVE DOGS Poet and vocalist, Thom Radice, performs from any number of alternating egos, ids and paranormal entities. Temple Doors Open, Radice1s CD, focuses on loss and transcendence and his published writings, by Poetry, mark the landscape of intimate despair in measures both delicate and resounding. For his acting debut, Radice played "Willum" in the production The Nerd and also performed the lead role, "Reece", in Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn. The Love Dogs cover the sonorous lower register with Andrew Salcius (cello) and C. Burg (bass clarinet). Salcius has all but abandoned the classical nomenclature for musical improvisation and the beyond. Burg began in the beyond as a founding member of the seminal no wave band Mars. She has recorded and performed under numerous aliases including Don King, The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton with Lydia Lunch and Gerry Miles with Melissa Weaver and Alan Licht. DECEMBER 12 TED REICHMAN Emigre Music from Ted's Tzadik debut Emigre. Hypnotic chamber folk fueled with improv energy and electronic textures. Reichman's band spans Budapest, Paris, and the East and West Villages to help you get in touch with your inner expatriate. Ted Reichman - accordion; Okkyung Lee - cello; Roberto Rodriguez - percussion; Doug Wieselman - clarinet & guitar; Curtis Hasselbring - laptop & guitar DECEMBER 20 ROY NATHANSON & TIM KIAH Roy Nathanson has been the saxophonist, co- leader and principle composer of the Jazz Passengers for 17 years. During this time he's written and co-written a lot of odd and beautiful songs for a variety of wonderful singers including Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Scott, Jon Kelley and Mavis Staples. He's always hoped to re-arrange these songs and figure out a way to perform them with a small ensemble. When he met and played with bassist Tim Kiah he was sure that this was the guy to do it with... NOVEMBER 15 BRAD JONES QUARTET Featuring Bob DeBellis (reeds), Greg Tardy (reeds), and Derrek Phillips (drums) all of whom play on this quartet's latest CD "POURING MY HEART IN" NOVEMBER 21 ALAN LICHT'S DIGGER CHOIR Audience are invited to participate in a unique vocal experience Composer/guitarist/improvisor/author Alan Licht will conduct the Digger Choir, augmented by invited guest artists, to perform vocal arrangements of John Stevens' Sustained Piece (1968), Alan Licht's Applause for BS (2003) and Yoko Ono's John Let's Hope For Peace (1969). The concert will feature untrained vocalists as well professional singers performing in various stations in the space, not on a stage. The pieces will emphasize equanimity between the performers (and the audience) but also each performer's individuality. The Stevens and Ono pieces are rarely, if ever, performed, and the Ono piece will be performed in Licht's new arrangement for multiple voices and pre-recorded guitar feedback. The evening's title is in homage to the English Civil War-era agrarian movement and the late 60s San Francisco street theatre "life actors" - social activists (which included actor Peter Coyote and the late Emmett Grogan). NOVEMBER 22 TIM BARNES & MATTIN set MARGARIDA GARCIA & BARRY WEISBLAT set DAVID DANIELL & JAMES ELLIOTT PEOPLE MUSIC Tim Barnes & Mattin -New York premier Both Mattin and Tim Barnes' sound work deals with contrast. This is Mattin's first visit to the United States. A Basque Country native, Mattin (computer) works with an electronic instrument; however, he investigates the acoustic properties of his computer by generating feedback that is often instigated by actually bowing the computer itself. During the past three years, local percussionist and composer, Tim Barnes (percussions) has worked strictly with acoustic instruments, but searches for a sound field where acoustically generated sounds take on electronic-sounding qualities. Separately, their explorations and performances bring a kind of fragility to improvisation, yet their approach to sound is effused with intensity. Mattin has spent a good part of the last two years touring throughout Europe, playing with such artists as Eddie Prevost, Radu Malfatti, Kaffe Matthews, Dieb 13, Mark Wastell, and Rhodri Davies (to name a few). His sound work has also been exhibted in Ireland, England, and in Spain. Tim Barnes runs the record label Quakebasket, which has released archival recordings of Angus MacLise and Christopher Tree, while also supporting new artists such as Glenn Kotche, Minamo, Michael Schumacher, Marina Rosenfeld, and Toshio Kajiwara. As a performer, Tim has played with such visionaries as Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sean Meehan, and John Zorn. Margarida Garcia & Barry Weisblat In the short time these two have publicly displayed their musical aesthetics, both Barry (homemade electronics) and Margarida (double bass) have each collaborated with an impressive collection of experimental artists, such as Tower Recordings, Oren Ambarchi, Tetuzi Akiyama, Ruth Barberan, Toshio Kajiwara, and Phill Niblock. Weisblat's machine and circuit manipulations also reach into the area of photography and sound engineering, where he has aided the likes of the late Peter Kowald, Erstwhile Records, and sound artist Dean Roberts. While Garcia's graphic design work has been displayed as video art, installations, and poster art. As a duo, Margarida and Barry have developed a spontaneous language and a dynamic range that is all their own. She journeys through the landscape of the bass and electronic pick-up with her fingers, bow, sticks and stones, and anything else she finds fit, while he experiments with electro-magnetic devices, homemade circuits, and solar cell technology. David Daniell & James Elliott David Daniell (pedal steel guitar) and James Elliott (laptop) have worked both as an improvising duo and (under the Project Qua Project moniker) creating intricately composed electronic music. Daniell and Elliott are the co-founders of Antiopic, a New York record label focusing on experimental electronic and electroacoustic music which has produced several albums (including Daniell's solo debut) as well as the critically-acclaimed collection of politically-charged MP3 releases, the Allegorical Power Series. Daniell, a member of San Agustin (releases on Road Cone, Family Vineyard, and Table of the Elements) has performed extensively on the guitar for over 10 years, moving recently to exploring the detournement of the pedal steel guitar. Elliott also produces dense, abstractly melodic computer-music as Ateleia. In this pairing the two create a tightly-conjoined melding of an unconventional approach to a traditional instrument with innovative real-time computer processing. ISSUE 7 Visual Exhibition Featuring work by ISSUE Magazine's contributing artists: Phoebe Gloeckner, Richard Kern, Mark Lyon, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Denis Piel, Jack Pierson and Kehinde Wiley. October 1st through the 30th OCTOBER 18 ANTHONY COLEMAN'S PROFESSIONALES Presenting their newest material slated for an upcoming album! For several years, composer/pianist Anthony Coleman, bassist Brad Jones and drummer Roberto Rodriguez traveled the world as the rhythm section for Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos. But now they have wandered off to slightly more dangerous, unknown territory. However, all this time working as a rhythm section has contributed to a muscularity that allows them to leap over arcane and ambiguous hurdles. Friends of the Spaghetti Western may appreciate the fact that they like to consider themselves the Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, and Tomas Milian of new music. OCTOBER 24 ELLIOTT SHARP - THOMAS DIMUZIO Electroacoustic solos and duos Don't miss two true sonic gurus in action! OCTOBER 29 RATTAPALLAX Launch Party Hosted by Flavia Rocha & Edwin Torres to celebrate the recent issue 10 of Rattapallax, a journal of contemporary international writing. Poets reading their work will include: Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India. Her book of poems,Illiterate Heart, won a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. A new collection, Raw Silk, (Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) is forthcoming in spring 2004. Thaddeus Rutkowski's novel, Roughhouse (Kaya), was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian Book Awards. His poems have been anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon. Philip Nikolayev's two collections of poems are Artery Lumen (Barbara Matteau Editions: Cambridge, MA 1996) and Dusk Raga (The Writers Workshop: Calcutta, 1998). He recently won the Verse Press prize for Monkey Time. Samuel Menashe served as an infantryman in World War II. His first book, The Many Named Beloved, was published in London by Victor Gollancz, Ltd., in 1961; Collected Poems was published in 1986 by The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine; and The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems was published in 2000 by Talisman House. Meg Kearney is associate director of the National Book Foundation. Her collection, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published in 2001 by BOA Editions. She directs the Verse Circus reading series in New York City. Jeet Thayil and Bombay Down (Indian musicians) Jeet Thayil's third collection of poems, English, a co-publication by Penguin India and Rattapallax, is forthcoming in January 2003. He lives in New York City, where he works as an editor and writer. Matvei Yankelevich is founding-editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he edits the Eastern European Poets Series and co-edits the poetry magazine 6x6. Elaine Sexton's first book of poems, Sleuth, was published earlier this year by New Issues (Western Michigan University). Her recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and Women's Review of Books. Nancy Mercado is the author of It Concerns The Madness. Her most recently anthologized work appears in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed. Eugene Ostashevsky's translations of the Oberiuty, Russian absurdist poets of the 1930s, won the Wytter Bynner Poetry Translation Fellowship. His latest chapbook, The Off-Centaur, was published by The Germ magazine. Derek Beres is the managing editor of Global Rhythm, music editor for Rattapallax, and freelance contributor for The Village Voice, Urb, Trace, Relix, and Blue. Second2Last They are a team of four artists who fuse rhythm, vocal percussion, hip-hop, funk, reggae, jazz and blues into new forms of poetic and musical expression. The group is Johny Lashley, Bade Francis, Brian Polite and Aisha Bell. OCTOBER 31 STEVEN PARRINO'S "The No Texts" Book launch Plus an implosive Halloween performance by Electrophilia Since the late 1970s, Steven Parrino has been exploring "The Death of Painting" through a number of signature gestures, most notably his mis-stretching of the monochrome canvas. While Parrino's aesthetic is directly related to the nihilism and aggression of No Wave, Punk Rock, and B-movies, it has also been heavily influenced by such varied artists as Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. With The No Texts (Abaton Book Company), Parrino presents an apocalyptic wonderland of despair, compassion and humorous hopelessness. His writings and commentary from 1979 - 2003 (among them "Blow Job," "False-Face Tries To Annihilate The World" and "Toward Expanding The Post-Modern") chart a highly opinionated course through his own artistic productions, be they visual or musical. Started in 1997 as a solo project to create a resistant and uncompromised music, Electrophilia is now a duo, with Steven Parrino on bass guitar and Jutta Koether on synthesizer SEPTEMBER 13 MARCO CAPPELLI GUITARS (solo) Marco Cappelli connects the classical guitar repertory of the last century with the more extreme avant-garde music of today. For his performance in the Project Room, Cappelli has created an inspiring program comprised of 20th century master-pieces that include the work of Ginastera and Britten to Scelsi, Tedde and Lugo. Marco Cappelli performs regularly in Europe for both classical music concert societies as well as for jazz and improvised music festivals. He has worked with musicians Enrico Rava, Michel Godard, Markus Stockausen, Giovanni Sollima and many others. 1st Annual HOWL! Festival August 21- 26 AUGUST 21 ELLIOTT SHARP Elliott Sharp returns to the Project Room with new selections from “The Velocity Of Hue,” a collection of pieces performed on acoustic guitar as well as acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer. AUGUST 24 Readings: KIMIKO HAHN & JOHN WEIR Kimiko Hahn is the author of six collections of poetry that include The Artist’s Daughter (W.W. Norton), Mosquito and Ant (W.W. Norton), The Unbearable Heart (Kaya), and Earshot (Hanging Loose). She has received an American Book Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for Arts and The New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently Hahn is a professor at Queen’s College/CUNY and resides in Brooklyn, New York. John Weir is the author of the award-winning novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, and writes for Rolling Stone, New York, and other magazines. He will read from his forthcoming second novel. AUGUST 25 REBECCA MOORE & THE PREVETION OF BLINDNESS plus Video Visuals by Harvey Stein A site-specific, all-women string quartet to perform an evening of song and instrumentals. Moore is currently at work on her third CD, to be released in the Oracles series on John Zorn’s Tzadik record label. AUGUST 26 THE SUPREME INDIFFERENCE + GERRY MILES + CONVOLUTION THE SUPREME INDIFFERENCE premeire performance with Alan Licht (vocal), Kim Gordon (instruments), Jim O’Rourke (instruments), Chris Corsano (drums). GERRY MILES has existed since the early 90s but has only performed in public once before. A CD of a collaboration between Gerry Miles and Japanese musician Keiji Haino was released in 1996 on Atavistic records. The group inlcudes Lucy Hamilton aka Connie Burg (bass clarinet, guitar), founding member of the legendary No Wave band Mars, one of the four bands on the landmark No New York LP produced by Brian Eno, along with Melissa Weaver (keyboards), Tim Barnes (percussion) and guest Alan Licht. CONVOLUTION is the new electro-visual expression of Mark Cunningham (trumpet, electronics), former member of Mars, Don King and Raeo, and Barcelona-based visual artist Silvia Mestres (guitar, vocal). JULY 10 PINE Pine combines the classic New Zealand formula of bedrooms and four track recorders mixed with a dash of great Kiwi traditions like The Clean, The Bats and the Straightjacket Fits. With their minimalistic line-up of snare, organ and electric guitar they mix a smidgen of punk, folk and 60s melodies to create something refreshingly unusual, spikey and polite. JULY 9 JUNE 27 ELLIOTT SHARP The Velocity Of Hueworld premeire Elliott Sharp's "The Velocity Of Hue" is a new collection of pieces performed on acoustic guitar as well as acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer. This music, while based upon Sharp’s personal sonic vocabulary of textures, densities, and groove, also filters it through the string traditions of the music of central Asia, India, and North Africa, country blues, and the “American primitive” strain of John Fahey and Robbie Basho. "The Velocity Of Hue" will be released as a CD in November by England’s Emanem label. JUNE 14 TRIBUTE TO FRANTZ CASSEUS Guitarist Marc Ribot with classical guitarists Michael Newman and Laura Oltman come together in special evening paying tribute to life and work of Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. In conjunction with Tuscany Publishing's release of the first print edition The Complete Works of Frantz Casseus, Volume One: Work for Solo Guitar, this night also marked the inauguration of The Frantz Casseus Scholarship, an endowment to aid aspiring musicians/composers of Haitian descent in pursuing a formal musical education. Listen to Oltman & Newman play selections of Casseus on John Schaeffer's WNYC radio show, Soundcheck. JUNE 5 ANTHONY COLEMAN'S PROFESSIONALES Anthony Coleman (composer/piano), Brad Jones (bass), Roberto Rodriguez (drums) For several years, these three musicians traveled the world as the rhythm section for Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos. But now they have wander off to slightly more dangerous, unknown territory. However, all this time working as a rhythm section has contributed to a muscularity that allows them to leap over arcane and ambiguous hurdles. Friends of the Spaghetti Western may appreciate the fact that they like to consider themselves the Lee Vam Cleef, Strother Martin, and Tomas Milian of new music. MAY 17 THE JAZZ PASSENGERS w/ DEBORAH HARRY Roy Nathanson (saxophone), Bill Ware (vibes), Brad Jones (bass), Deborah Harry (vocals) In support of the Project Room, the Jazz Passengers reunited on stage for a rare, intimate benefit. APRIL 11 PROJECT ROOM Kick-Off Fundraiser featuring the Brooklyn based art-punk band FEAST
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