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Saturday, December 2
anti-social music: the climax of the octopus

All-world-premiere performances, including works composed by:  William Brittelle, David Durst, Joe Exley, Rima Fand, Andrea LaRose, Dan Lasaga, Pat Muchmore, Barry Seroff, Charles Waters, and John Wriggle.

Anti-Social Music is a non-profit collective of composers and performers created to present new music by emerging, primarily New York-based musicians.  The group came together in November 2000 for what was originally intended as a one-time-only concert called “An Afternoon of Anti-Social Chamber Music.”  Currently the group presents concerts of premieres, twice yearly, of new compositions written and performed by ASM members and associates. 

www.antisocialmusic.com

8:00 p.m.; $10



Sunday, December 3
patrick mcginley + katherine liberovskaya &
margarida garcia + barry weisblat

Set One

w/
Patrick McGinley (aka, murmer); sound art
Katherine Liberovskaya; live video

Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an American born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in Europe since 1996.  In 2002 he founded framework, an organization which produces a weekly field-recording based radio show on London 's Resonamce fm.  he has composed works for many theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live sound works for others. His work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and un-remarked, but which out of context become unrecognizable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one's own breath.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in Montreal and New York . She has been working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around the world. Since 2003 she began exploring live video mixing, using MAX/MSP and Jitter, in improvisation with live new music/sound and has since performed in diverse contexts in North America and Europe with a number of music/sound artists.

Set Two

w/
Margarida Garcia; double bass
Barry Weisblat; home-made electronics

Margarida Garcia, doublebass player, collaborates regularly with Manuel Mota, Sei Miguel. More recently she has been collaborating with Barry Weisblat and Tim Barnes.  She founded the record label Thin Ice.

Barry Weisblat works extensive experiments with electro-magnetic devices, solar technology, homemade and modified circuits for application in sound generation/manipulation, audio engineering and photography.

6:00 p.m., $10

 

Monday, December 4
peter wright + antony milton

Peter Wright; guitar, laptop, electronics, mixer, effects
Antony Milton ; guitar, mixing desk, effects, amplified fish smoker, sampling kepboard, voice

This will be an evening of nuanced and ecstatic drone music by two of New Zealand ’s leading underground artists. Using guitars and electronics each artist will attempt to levitate the audience to a state somewhere between fevered excitement and divine bliss.

www.distantbombs.com

8:00 p.m.; $10  

Wednesday, December 6
steve beresford + special guests

w/
Steve Beresford
Marc Ribot
Shelley Hirsch
Aki Onda

Steve Beresford is a British musician. He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups. 
 
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits and The Flying Lizards.

8:00 p.m.; $10

Thursday, December 7
peter evans + christine bard

8:00 p.m.; $10

Friday, December 8
bradford reed

w/
Bill Bronson
Julianne Carney
Eric Hubel
Jane Scarpantoni
Mark Street

Pencilinaist  Bradford Reed and posse take the IPR on another carefully orchestrated joy tour. There will be sights of unique 
intra-galacticlandscapes with an aural backdrop of unusually beautiful music. A unique blend of sources and ideas is provided
to faithfully cover full range hearing. of a hi-fi combination of chamber, homemade and electric instruments. All this precisely
channeled from parts of the galaxy in real time by a seasoned human crew. Also, The space tanker provides
plenty of passenger leg room.

Bradford Reed never fails to entertain and inspire. This Brooklyn, NY based composer, performer and producer fights and tames the
idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction.  The pencilina is an electric ten stringed collision of the hammer
dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types.  It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide
sonic palette.

www.pencilina.com

8:00 p.m.; $10


Saturday, December 9
betsey biggs + the bsc

Set One

w/
Betsey Biggs; composer, audiovisual

Artist and composer Betsey Biggs will present two works for video and improvised music: a solo audiovisual improvisation based on the idea of beginnings and endings, and The dark has its own light, a video score created for the BSC in 2005. This piece consists of a set of musical instructions for each of a series of twelve monochromatic images - points in time and space. As is always the case, the journey is the destination - both philosophically and musically.  The BSC will then play a long set of electro-acoustic improvisations.

www.betseybiggs.org

Set Two

The BSC

w/
Bhob Rainey; soprano saxophone, electronics, director
Greg Kelley; trumpet
James Coleman; theremin
Mike Bullock; bass
Liz Tonne; voice
Vic Rawlings; prepared amplified cello, surface electronics
Chris Cooper; prepared guitar, electronics
Howard Stelzer; tapes  

Led by Bhob Rainey, one of the most celebrated improvisers working today, and comprised of the Boston area's finest electroacoustic musicians, the BSC is a formidable ensemble, tackling sprawling improvisations as well as cryptic scores from composers like Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Few improvising ensembles of this size (there are eight regular members of the BSC) have created such consistently compelling works, and this is partly due to the unique rehearsal techniques employed by the ensemble, to their sharp, dedicated musical sensibilities, and to many of the long-term musical relationships that have existed within the group (fans will recognize members of the unlikely improv supergroups nmperign and the undr quartet). The BSC has been a mainstay at New England Conservatory's SICPP festival and has recorded an improvised release for Grob Records (_Good_, 2003), and two upcoming releases of avant garde works for Mode Records (Christian Wolff's "Edges" and Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise").

8:00 p.m.; $10

Thursday, December 14
poing + the new york miniaturist ensemble

Set One

Poing

w/
Frode Haltli; accordion
Håkon Thelin; double bass
Rolf-Erik Nystrøm; saxophone  

The Norwegian trio POING presents a program of compositions written expressly for this unusual combination of instruments by composers from Europe and Asia , undoubtedly punctuated by improvisations and other sudden outbursts.

www.poing.no

Set Two

The New York Miniaturist Ensemble

w/
Haleh Abghari; soprano
Erik Carlson; violin
Michael Caterisano; percussion  

Haleh Abghari is a native of Iran and makes her home in New York City , where she remains an active performer of new music.  She has performed as a singer, actor, and voice over artist in the U.S. , Canada and Europe and has appeared in several theatre productions in New York City .  She is a member of VisionIntoArt (VIA), a New York collaborative performance ensemble in residence at the Chelsea Museum of Art.

Violinist Erik Carlson has performed for audiences all over the world, playing both as a soloist and as a member of various ensembles. He has soloed with orchestras in Europe and America , most recently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a composer, he has had his works performed by chamber ensembles across the country.

A native of Dallas, percussionist Michael Caterisano recently completed his Bachelor's Degree at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Daniel Druckman. He spent two summers in Spoleto , Italy at the Festival dei Due Mondi, and recently toured to Lucerne , Berlin , Helsinki , and London . Michael performed Kurtag’s …quasi una fantasia… with the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in Zankel Hall.

Michael is a founding member of the New York Miniaturist Ensemble and O-|, an experimental heavy metal band.

www.nyme.org

8:00 p.m.; $10



Friday, December 15
wade matthews and friends: an evening of free improvised music &
attack/adorn/decay plays the music of conrad kehn

Set One

w/
Wade Matthews; alto flute, bass clarinet, software synthesis
Nate Wooley; trumpet
Bryan Eubanks; live electronics
Andrew Lafkas; contrabass  

Wade Matthews will be joined by trumpeter Nate Wooley, electronicist  Bryan Eubanks and contrabassist Andrew Lafkas for an evening of free improvised music that explores the materiality of sound and silence. Their music is based on an understanding of energy as a cumulative process rather than as a side effect of power, and their use of silence and reduced dynamic levels insures a degree of nuance and sonic permeability that favors active listening.

Set Two

w/
Nate Wooley; trumpet
Matt Bauder; reeds
Christopher Hoffman; cello
Loren Dempster; cello
Reuben Radding; bass
Mike Brown; bass
Andrew Drury; percussion
Aaron Siegel; percussion
Karen Waltuch; viola
Jessica Pavone; viola

Attack/Adorn/Decay, one of New York's newest improvisational and new  music ensembles expands to play a concert of Colorado composer Conrad  
Kehn's music.  The ensemble will be performing Conrad's radical  graphic notation score of "red wine and ash" and a new "color  
notation" piece called "distractions" composed especially for the ensemble.  Conrad teaches composition and theory at the University of  
Denver and is known in the underground scene there as the leader of the uber-improv collective "slow children".

8:00 p.m.; $10

Saturday, December 16
hi speed co-eds + shadow puppies

Set One

“Hi Speed Co-eds”

w/
Andrew Neumann; laptop/smapler, custom electronics
Eric Rosenthal; drums, percussion

Andrew Neumann's revolving cast of  "Hi Speed Co-eds" will be performing tonight as a duo.  Utilizing live sampling (LiSa), tonight's  "High Speed Co-eds" will be sparring between "real" an "unreal" percussive elements.

  www.adneumann.com/ad.html
 www.shirim.com

Set Two

Shadow Puppies

w/
Nick Didkovsky; guitar, homebrew software
Hans Tammen; guitar, homebrew software
Kurt Ralske; video, homebrew software  

Shadow Puppies is a cutting edge trio which conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time.  Didkovsky and Tammen stretch the boundaries of the electric guitar with an arsenal of objects, electronics, and homebrew computer software, while Ralske interactively captures and processes video using digital technology of his own design.  The result is an uninterrupted journey through sonic eruptions, video hallucinations, and aggressive, entrancing mediascapes.

8:00 p.m.; $10

Friday, December 22
robert dick + reuben radding + lukas ligeti &
crescent moon trio: kato hideki + marco cappelli + yumiko tanaka

Set One

w/
Robert Dick; flutes
Reuben Radding; contrabass
Lukas Ligeti; drums

Experimental, improvised music for flutes, contrabass, and drums, by three virtuosos of spontaneous musical expression.

www.robertdick.net
www.reubenradding.com
www.lukasligeti.com

Set Two

Crescent Moon Trio  

w/
Kato Hideki; double bass
Marco Cappelli; classical guitar
Yumiko Tanaka; shamisen

Yumiko Tanaka is the Gidayu-Shamisen virtuoso from Japan . She performs not only the traditional music but also explores in jazz, new music, dance and theatre. Bassist Kato Hideki and guitarist Marco Cappelli quickly became a collaborating team in New York Music scene. They lead / work together in Tremolo of Joy, Italian DOC Remix and acoustic duo. Tonight, they will meet Tanaka for the first time and will create acoustic music inspired by classical and non-traditional Haiku & Tanka poems.

www.japanimprov.com/ytanaka/profile.html
www.katohideki.com
www.marcocappelli.com

  8:00 p.m.; $10

Saturday, December 23
maria chavez  

*This performance marks Maria Chavez’s last performance as artist in residence at ISSUE Project Room.  

Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken ("Pencils of Sound") and a collection of records in various conditions ("The Palette"). "As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground". She has collaborated with improvisers from across the country and around the world, notably guitarist Christina Carter most recently known for her work with DJ Shadow and bands Scorses and Charlambides. Their duo, Weird Cookie, toured the East Coast in 2003 to much acclaim. In 2004, Chavez and London-based laptop improviser Kaffe Matthews won a DLI grant to record in Kingston , New York . Chavez has also performed with Tatsuya Nakamura, Ricardo Arias and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her debut performance in New York City . She was recently selected for a resident musicianship at Dia: Beacon Events with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, to begin in 2007.

8:00 p.m.; $10

Thursday, December 28
IDR


Marco Cappelli; guitar
Doug Wieselman; clarinets and saxophones
Jose Davila; trombone and tuba
Kato Hideki; double bass
Jim Pugliese; drums and percussions

8:00 p.m.; $10

Friday, December 29
sarah bernstein + stuart popejoy: iron dog + thea farhadian
 

Set One

Thea Farhadian; laptop

Thea Farhadian will present laptop explorations in cultural memory, weaving together concepts of the old and the new, past and present, traditional and electronic. The work blends influences from the tonality and ornamentation of Arabic classical and Armenian liturgical music with processed, and sampled sounds, commenting on the incompleteness of memory and the places in-between where things are less remembered, and memory is more obscured.

Set Two

Iron Dog

w/
Sarah Bernstein; violin
Stuart Popejoy; electric bass

Iron Dog is about forces in complement. Violin and electric bass veer from psychic improv to post-rock monophonies, through heavily processed drones and rhythms, acoustic purity and harmonic depth. A language of sound develops in a dream-space of glistening, numbing, chemically-distorted collision. Iron Dog is a two-year-old project begun as a series of acoustic duo improvisations that has since grown to include through-composed pieces and larger ensemble groupings, always unfolding from the essential sonic pairing of electric bass and violin.

  8:00 p.m.; $10

Sunday, December 31
new year's eve celebration

w/
Phill Niblock
Katherine Liberovskaya
Rebecca Moore
Sarah Ibrahim; voice
Bradley Eros; visuals
Stephan Moore
Diana Slattery
Jim Pugliese Phase III

 8:00 p.m.; $30

SEPTEMBER 2006



Thursday, September 7

sylvie courvoisier + jamie saft + ben perowsky

Sylvie Courvoisier, Jamie Saft and Ben Perowsky will present new music combining energetic improvisation, classical and groove all filtered through the lens of Downtown New York's Lower East Side.

As a pianist and improviser, Sylvie Courvoisier has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her newest release, as a leader, ABATON with Mark Feldman and Erik Friedlander is on ECM Records.

Jamie Saft's stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Bobby Previte, John Zorn, the B-52's, Laurie Anderson, The Beastie Boys, Jerry Granelli, Dave Douglas, Holly Palmer, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postisos, Elysian Fields, Boomish, Black Beatle, Pramrod Sexena, Liminal, Antony and the Johnsons, Chocolate Genius, JoJo Mayer's Nerve, E-Z Pour Spout, Cuong Vu, Chris Speed Trio Iffy, Jane Ira Bloom, and the Groove Collective.

Ben Perowsky started playing professionally with big stars like jazz great James Moody, pop songstress Rickie Lee Jones and soul/jazz hit maker Roy Ayers. In recent years, Ben has played with Joan As Police Woman, Uri Caine, Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra, Ed Pastorini's 101 Crustaceans, Chris Speed's Iffy, John Zorn, David Torn, Brice Goggin, Tom Macintosh, Lost Tribe, John Cale among others.

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, September 8

audrey chen + kyle bruckmann + ernst karel + alessandro bosetti


Kyle Bruckmann; oboe Ernst Karel; trumpet/analog synthesizer Audrey Chen; cello/voice/electronics Alessandro Bosetti; soprano saxophone/electronics This performance is the premier of a combination of two duo projects: Bruckmann/Karel as EKG and Bosetti/Chen as themselves.

Oboist and electronic musician Kyle Bruckmann is a fixture in the underground experimental music scene. While teaching and freelancing extensively as a classical musician, he has collaborated regularly with creative improvisers and sound artists, including Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang, Guillermo Gregorio, Scott Rosenberg, Bob Marsh, and Olivia Block. Ongoing affiliations include EKG, an electro acoustic duo with Ernst Karel, and the experimental punk monstrosity Lozenge.

Ernst Karel plays trumpet and/or analog modular electronics and is recently relocated from Berlin to Boston. Since abandoning classical trumpet in early adulthood, he has explored ways of expanding the vocabulary of the trumpet both acoustically and electronically. In addition to his work as a performer and composer, he is also involved in creating sound installations and works for radio.

Audrey Chen's work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. Her performance work incorporates sound, movement and simple visual/sculptural concepts. Chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. She is currently based in Baltimore where she is a member of the red room and high zero collective, an on-going series and festival devoted to experimental music.

Composer, saxophonist and sound artist, Alessandro Bosetti works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including relation, translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques, noises, and a strong influence from electronic music.



8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, September 9

annea lockwood +
frances white & elizabeth brown


first set
Composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White will present works for electronic sound and instruments, including flute, alto flute, violin, shakuhachi, and theremin. Three pieces will feature video: the first is a special screening of Watermusic, a video work by renowned artist Lothar Osterburg with music by Brown. Osterburg also contributes the video portion of excerpts from Brown's highly-acclaimed chamber opera Rural Electrification, in which Brown will perform on the theremin. White's work for violin, video, and electronic sound, The Old Rose Reader, with text and video by James Pritchett, will be played by virtuoso violinist/composer Mari Kimura. In addition, White will perform a special remix, designed for IPRs 16 channel hemispherical speaker system. White¹s installation piece Resonant Landscape, were featured in the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant's award-winning film Elephant.

second set
Ground of Being, (2000). 25 mins.

"Successive waves of sound pour out from a core sound. I hear them as manifestations of being, enticingly alive and ultimately all interrelated. Many of these sounds were recorded while I was at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center on Lake Como, ranging from a Senegalese scholar telling a story in Wolof in a resonant crypt, to a small electrical meter I found in an alley and mistook, at first, for a bird, The work was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation and Engine 27. I am grateful to all three organisations for the opportunity to realise 'Ground of Being'."

During the 1960s, Annea Lockwood collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists, and created a number of works which she herself performed and later published in Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, and recorded on Tangent Records and later on What Next CDs. During the 1970s and '80s she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives and performance works using low-tech devices. In the 1990s, she turned to writing for acoustic instruments and voices, sometimes incorporating electronics and visual elements and producing pieces for a variety of ensembles.



8:00 p.m., $10





Monday, September 11

rhys chatham guitar trio & growing


Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio

The Ensemble:

RHYS CHATHAM: Guitar
DAVID DANIELL: Guitar
ADAM WILLS: Guitar
BYRON WESTBROOK: Bass
JOE STICKNEY: Drums

Rhys Chatham's concert at ISSUE Project Room will be unique among the shows of his US tour, as it will be the only date devoted to his work of the1970s. The highlight will be an extended performance of the notorious "Guitar Trio" (1977), featuring original projections designed by famed visual artist Robert Longo for the original 1977 premiere -- and not seen since! The evening will provide a singular opportunity to revisit those glorious years in the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and the danceable merged, and a new era of rock was born.

Rhys Chatham altered the DNA of rock. The New York-born composer began as a classically-trained prodigy, but by 1975, Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones. It was an inspired amalgamation - the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock - and with it Chatham created a new type of urban music. Raucous and ecstatic, this sound energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, prefigured the No Wave movement and cast a huge influence over the subsequent work of Chatham's many proteges, including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth.

Growing is Kevin Doria & Joe Denardo. Since 2003 they have performed at notable venues internationally including The University of Washington, LAMOCA, LA & apexart, NYC. Albums released are; The Sky's Run Into The Sea, The Soul of The Rainbow and The Harmony of Light, and His Return.

Tickets are available at Other Music: 212-477-8150; 15 E 4th St. NYC

8:00 p.m., $13





Wednesday, September 13

ben owen + ny phonographers


The NY Phonographers Meetings are a series of annual concerts presenting un-processed or raw location and field recordings in a collaborative immersive listening environment.

The group of performers meets each year as a part of a growing worldwide interest in making field recordings of everyday sounds and unusual sonic events with inexpensive, high-fidelity portable recorders. The concerts focus is to present un-manipulated recordings in their true form, each participant mixing 10 minutes of sound, one into the next, creating a long duration immersive listening environment.

The program will begin with an opening sound installation from Ben Owen. Additional participants include: Tom Mulligan, Albert Casais, Seth Cluett, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Bruce Tovsky, Mike Rosenthal, Gill Arno, Stephan Moore, Ben Owen, Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Michael Farley, and Michelle Nagai.

8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, September 14

michael bisio & tomas ulrich
+ ddt

Cd release party for Michael Bisio and Tomas Ulrich's latest album Pulling Strings.

Set 1
Mike Bisio; bass
Tomas Ulrich; cello

Set 2
DDT
w/
Dom Minasi; Guitar
Tomas Ulrich; Cello
Ken Filiano; Bass

Michael Bisio invariably astounds his audience with the beauty of his tone as well as the intensity of his very personal musical language. Bisio is one of the few musicians that has managed to meld the high-concept sense of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. "His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched. Having whirled the listener into a transportive state, he gently shows the way out..."

Tomas Ulrich fulfills the roles of bassist, guitarist, and additional horn player and is endlessly talented and creative. Tomas has written music for theater, film and instrumental performance and has concertized in Europe, Japan, South America, Canada and throughout the United States. Mr. Ulrich can be heard on over 60 Cds in a wide variety of musical styles and settings.

DDT is made up of three of the most versatile and exciting string players in New York City. Dom Minasi (guitar), Tomas Ulrich (cello), and Ken Filiano (bass) explore a wide range of musical vistas in their compositions and improvisations. Their 2003 Cd Time Will Tell, where the trio is joined by John Bollinger (drums) and Carol Mennie (voice) was released to great critical acclaim.

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, September 15

ned rothenberg's 50th birthday concert

Ned Rothenberg will be celebrating his 50th birthday at ISSUE Project Room. Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

There will be 2 sets of music with Ned performing on clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax & shakuhachi in combinations with:

John Zorn; sax
Sylvie Courvoisier; piano
Mark Feldman; violin
Shelley Hirsch; voice
Alex Waterman; cello
Robert Dick; flute
Marty Ehrlich; clarinet/sax
Peter Evans; trumpet
Jerome Harris; bass/guitar
Gerry Hemingway; drums
Ralph Samuelson; shakuhachi
Satoshi Takeishi; percussion
Stomu Takeishi; bass
Jon Backer; piano

This event is SOLD OUT

8:00 p.m., $20





Saturday, September 16

game piece for string instruments

w/
Miya Masaoka; koto
Hans Tammen; guitar
Alex Waterman; cello
Jack Martin; guitar
Cornelius Dufallo; violin
Dan Joseph; dulcimer
Marco Cappelli; guitar
Tomas Ulrich; cello
Stephanie Griffin; viola
Bradford Reed; pencilina
Uncle Woody Sullender; banjo
Kato Hideki; bass
Andy Salcius; cello
Jane Scarpantoni; cello
Dylan Willemsa; viola
Marc Stewart; 2 x 4 kora
Julian Bennet Holmes; ukulele
Lucian Buscemi; bass

IPR's Artistic Director, Suzanne Fiol, will conduct Game Piece For String Instruments. The work is an improvisational piece conducted through touch that will begin with each performer playing a solo which will seamlessly meld into the next. After the first set of solos, it will continue as duos, trios, quartets, etc. until all the musicians are playing together at the end. The performance will include notable musicians who perform regularly at IPR and aims to assemble artists from varying genres in an attempt to eradicate the boundaries of stylistic differences and make room for the possibility of new languages.

8:00 p.m., $10





Wednesday, September 20

nate wooley's silo & alessandro bosetti

Silo
w/

Nate Wooley; trumpet
Audrey Chen; cello/voice/electronics
Leonel Kaplan; trumpet

Solo Performance
Alessandro Bosetti; laptop/voice

Silo is the product of three conscientious improvisers who had the rare opportunity of daily rehearsal and exploration for 20 days in upstate New York. The result is a special communication and a group sound that is organic, biological, mechanical, and very personal. The three players are making their first appearances on the international improvisation scene: Leonel Kaplan with his work with Wade Matthews and Axel Dorner, Nate Wooley with his solo work on Creative Sources Recordings, with his trio Blue Collar and many sideman projects in New York, and Audrey Chen with her stellar new album, LIMN with Tatsuya Nakatani and work with Gianni Gebbia. The trio has a new cd out on Utech Records.

Composer, saxophonist and sound artist, Alessandro Bosetti works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including relation, translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions. As a saxophonist he has developed an original instrumental language that incorporates extended techniques, noises, and a strong influence from electronic music.

8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, September 21

psycohneedles & oliver ray

Equinoxium Autumnalis: Cross the line with Psycohneedles, Oliver Ray and the sun.

Psychoneedles was conceived and birthed by Dr. Yes and Mr. Hills, two semi-cleaned up post 90's rock n' roll hedonists who got jaded and got out of the Big City. The strangers met on the one tiny street in their new tiny town and turned an old farm house into their Psycho Lab, a sonic melting pot of 3 parts country living isolation angst, 1 part "horny hell", a pinch of relief and resignation and a dash of internet ritual re-invention. Later, they mixed in Mr. O. Ray, an international rock star cast away, who was stranded on the Psycho Shores and happily never found a way out.

Poet and songwriter Oliver Ray wrote songs with and played in Patti Smith's band between 1996-2005. He will read and play songs from his upcoming album, Bye Beautiful.

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, September 22

elliott sharp + orchestra carbon

Elliott Sharp/Orchestra Carbon performs QUARKS SWIM FREE

Quarks Swim Free is E#'s latest algorithmic piece for Orchestra Carbon. For 11 or more musicians and based on prime numbers, Quarks Swim Free creates a dense primordial soup filled with high-energy collisions, gnashing grooves, and warped melodies. Quarks Swim Free premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2003. This performance will be captured by noted documentarian Bert Shapiro for his film on E#'s work.

For this concert the ensemble includes Kinan Azmeh, Curtis Fowlkes, Rachel Golub, Brad Jones, Ron Lawrence, Jenny Lin, Chris McIntyre, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kevin Ray, Danny Tunick, Alex Waterman and more



8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, September 23

an evening of poetry w/ kathy engel + gale jackson + marc zegans

Kathy Engel has been a full-time advocate/organizer/consultant/producer/writer engaged in building social justice, human rights and peace organizations and campaigns. She has worked extensively as a bridge between organizations and individuals who may not ordinarily work together or engage in dialogue with the purpose of building multi-racial/cross-class progressive institutions and projects, and maximizing the effectiveness and creativity of progressive efforts. Her work is based on a commitment to breaking boundaries, and infusing the imagination and thinking of the artist and the intellectual into the strategic planning for grassroots, community, national and international media and organizing efforts.

Gale Jackson will be reading from the brand new books MeDea (Glad Day Press) and Suite for Mozambique (Ikon). She is a poet, writer, librarian and cultural historian. She is the author of MeDea, Suite for Mozambique, Bridge Suite: Narrative Poems, A Khoisan Tale of Beginnings and Ends, and We Stand Our Ground with Kimiko Hahn and Susan Sherman. She currently serves on the faculty of Goddard College, as poet in residence at The Secondary School for Journalism and as storyteller in residence at The Hayground School.

Marc Zegans is a poet, playwright and author. His current work explores waking dreams and the experience of human fragility in the post-industrial landscape. He is now completing a book that explores these themes, entitled, Poems of Danger and Abandon. He is also developing a spoken work album for Philistine Records. As a non-fiction writer Marc has written extensively about innovation in the public sector, and philanthropic practice. He is currently completing a book entitled, The Essential Work of Public Management, which is a non-foundationalist theory of the role of administration in democracy.



8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, September 28

taylor ho bynum + rachel bernsen + the boyer brothers

Composer and cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum and his Sextet Plus performs music for seven musicians in a round room. The piece incorporates the unusual geography and acoustics of ISSUE Project Room as added creative elements in the ongoing struggle to balance individual and ensemble, composition and improvisation, and simplicity and complexity. With Matt Bauder (reeds); Jessica Pavone (viola); Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello); Mary Halvorson (guitar); Evan O¹Reilly (guitar); and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).

Choreographer Rachel Bernsen presents a new trio: Three bodies explore the tension between the presentational and the personal. In the hyper-reality of the performative context, superficiality is undermined by the real and vice-versa, and both are laid bare in stark and even sinister terms. Complete with real artifice. With Danielle Goldman and Nancy Forshaw-Clapp.

Nathan and Gabriel Boyer debut their animated short film series "The Further Adventures of Sweathunter," a surreal mystery whose main character is a crazed guru who lives in a trailer. Within a noir-ish urban setting, cabbage-patch kids seek wisdom from Sweathunter, a police team of bird brothers share a single brain while they either solve or commit crimes, and a newspaper editor tries to get to the bottom of it all. Meanwhile, our hero explores his sexual obsession with a giant eyeball.



8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, September 29

maria chavez

This performance marks the beginning of Chavez's fall residency at ISSUE Project Room. Subsequent performances will be held on October 18th, November 19th and December 21st.

Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken ("Pencils of Sound") and a collection of records in various conditions ("The Palette"). "As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground". She has collaborated with improvisers from across the country and around the world, notably guitarist Christina Carter of well-known bands Scorses and Charlambides. Their duo, Weird Cookie, toured the East Coast in 2003 to much acclaim. In 2004, Chavez and London-based laptop improviser Kaffe Matthews won a DLI grant to record in Kingston, New York. Chavez has also performed with free jazz great Jack Wright, Tatsuya Nakamura, Ricardo Arias, fellow turntablist Motoko Shimizu, visual artist/musician Donna Huanca, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her debut performance in New York City.

8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, September 30

erik sanko + guests

Erik Sanko (vocals/guitar)
Andy Green (guitar/vocals/omnichord)
Garo Yellin (cello)
Bruce Tovsky (loops/processing/cracklebox)

Erik Sanko is the leading light in the much admired Skeleton Key and was a member of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards for over 15 years. He also helps out such luminaries as Yoko Ono, Jim Carroll and John Cale from time to time. Rumour has it that he has also been seen playing with the newly reformed Contortions. Sounding like the journals of an alchemist set to the music of your grandmother's broken pump organ, Sanko fashions oddly compelling songs from mangled melody and ragged scraps of rhyme.

http://www.skeletonkey.org



8:00 p.m., $10



AUGUST 2006






Friday, August 4

habitats: collaborative environments

Presented by EIDOLON CULTURE

Live electronics by David Linton, DJ Olive, Amoeba Technology

Enhanced environment installations by: Zarah Cabañas, Lu(x)z, Amoeba Technology, Marianna Ellenberg, Hans Steiner.

"Habitats" is a cultural evening organized to initiate an exchange between art, technology & environment. Artists participate in creating an intermediate space of co-existence which is fundamentally collaborative, contextual and interdisciplinary in its orientation.

Habitats description + Habitats@Brooklyn Lyceum in November @ www.eidolon.org.

8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, August 5

little dreamO in slumberland
by bradley eros

"Even sleepers & dreamers are collaborators on what goes on in the universe."
-Heraclitus

A 12-HOUR marathon organized by Bradley Eros and co-curated in single-hour slots by various artists, this event will include artists, filmmakers, videomakers, musicians, dancers, poets and performers.

Events will take place AROUND the circular room (Issue Project Room is located in a silo)- moving hour-by-hour around the perimeter of the silo interior - rotating like a big clock, or cylinder, that we are all within. Some events - installations & environments - will happen outdoors.

8:00 p.m. - 8:00 a.m., $10





Thursday, August 10

ipr's
interns perform

w/
Carrie Fucile
Ben Bontempo
Colin Sanderson
Noah Modie

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Carrie Fucile is a recent graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program and is a Brooklyn-based video and installation artist. In her work she uses her body to investigate impermanence.

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Walt Whitman Death Mask is Ben Bontempo, a student based in Western Massachusetts, who imbues his rhythmic noise with the improvisatory energy and language of clown and mask play.

"Ben plays stuff, wears ski masks, speaks in tongues".

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Colin Sanderson is a student at Marymount Manhattan College. He has played in numerous bands, most notably AS IS, a group that dabbles in an eclectic mix of post-punk, ska, progressive rock, free improv and even the classic rock of Led Zeppelin. In his own music, Colin is interested in exploring the intersection between the post-psychedelic sonic exploration that emerged in the late 1960s and early 70s (as exemplified by Terry Riley, Can, Miles Davis, Fripp and Eno, and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis) and the more recent experiments of Naked City, Mr. Bungle, the Boredoms, the Ruins, and Tortoise. For this performance, Colin will perform a short Mississippi John Hurt-inspired piece for electric guitar, as well as a longer solo improvisation with guitar, sampler and drum machine.

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Noah Modie is a self taught guitarist and experiment conductor currently studying experimental music at Simon¹s Rock College of Bard. He will be accompanied by drummer John Snyder, and fellow weirdo Cy Gengras. They will be performing a veritable extravaganza of musical delights, ranging from more sparse noise oriented sections, introspective solo guitar, and finally, some straight up heavy shit.

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8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, August 11

michael evans' fulminate trio


With these gentlemen on the edge of their improvisational seats, allowing their future musings to connect and disconnect, Michael Evans' Fulminate Trio features Ken Filiano (double bass), Anders Nilsson (electric guitar) and Michael Evans (acoustic and electronic percussion). As much influenced by slow moving Japanese folk songs, Sonny Sharrock's `Black Woman` period and ordered forms of chaos, their audio < > poltergeists hoover, dart, collide, transmute and fly unison in and out of auditory focus.

Raised in southern Sweden, electric guitarist Anders Nilsson has worked together with many artists on the experimental scene in NY such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Ken Filiano, Raoul Björkenheim, Matt Heyner, Kermit Driscoll, Michael Evans, Evan Gallagher, Tom Bruno, Ras Moshe & Jeff Arnal.

Embracing classical, jazz, the world of spontaneous improvisation and inter-disciplinary performances with dance and the spoken word, Ken Filliano fuses the rich traditions available to the double bass, bringing out the many voice inherent within this instrument. Ken tours widely, playing across the United States, Canada, Europe and South America.

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/ multi- instrumentalist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. As well as being a drumset player, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics.



8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, August 12

an evening with bill etra
+ brandon emerick + benton-c bainbridge


Legendary video artist and tool designer Bill Etra will show works and discuss his thirty eight years of experimental video in a live performance featuring his latest digital tool designs. Bill will be joined by several friends including Brandon Emerick and Benton-C Bainbridge for a live video/audio jam.

8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, August 17th

lambic
& city dreams inc.: a multimedia performance


CITY DREAMS INC.

a multimedia performance

JESSICA LURIE; saxophones / accordion / voice

ANDREW DRURY; drums / percussion

DANIJEL ZEZELJ; acrylic paint / brushes / rollers

With a special guest BRANDON SEABROOK; banjo / guitar

Jessica Lurie, Andrew Drury and Brandon Seabrook join forces with Danijel Zezelj in City Dreams Inc.,an oddly captivating multimedia performance that evolves into a storytelling ritual in sound and paint. The combination of painting and music highlights much overlooked dimensions of temporality and sensuality in painting and adds a visual frame to music. Audience members inevitably construct private, inner narratives and generate meaning.

An exuberant spirit animates the music, nearly all of which is improvised and rooted in high energy free jazz with influences from the Balkans, Brazil, Cuba, klezmer, the blues, and funk. The painting (black and white acrylic on a board, canvas, wall, or any available surface) combines the expressionism of graffiti and murals with the atmosphere of silent movies. It grows from the abstract towards the figurative, following a precise narrative line. Brushes and rollers create sounds and become musical elements themselves, merging with the rhythms and melodies of the horns and drums. Audiences have described the City Dreams as "slow motion animation" and "eavesdropping on a collective dream."

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LAMBIC

Lambic is a style of Belgian ale that is spontaneously fermented from wild yeasts. Lambic is also a band featuring Paul Sullivan on guitars and effects, and Stephen Moses (alice donut) on drums, trombone, and effects. Lambic is spontaneously fermented music, free improvisation with a groove.

"I first played with Steve when we were in Dock Ellis, a psychedelic rock band. We had each been doing solo performances for years using effects and loops. When we joined forces, Lambic was spontaneously created. It's joyful music that can and does go everywhere. Like it's namesake, Lambic is always changing and evolving, sometimes messy, but always exciting. We never know where it's going to go, and that is the point."

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, August 18

the dimestore dance band


THE DIMESTORE DANCE BAND... "an ongoing conversation around guitarist Jack Martin's succinct, affecting melodies, with group-composing and improvising from bassist Jude Webre and drummer Scott Jarvis. Lovely, intimate, melancholy, and boisterous...a spirited blend of 1940s small-combo sounds, post-bop stumbling struts and Ivesian ethereal flights."

8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, August 19th

jeremiah cymerman, erik hinds, & matthew welch


Ending a weeklong tour of the north-east, Jeremiah Cymerman, Matthew Welch, and Erik Hinds, three young musicians whose singular voices absolutely demand attention, present an evening of solo and trio music. Each musician will perform a brief solo set and then reconvene for a trio set. Music for Bagpipes, H'arpeggione, and Modified Electroacoustic Clarinet doesn¹t get any better than this.

Matthew Welch's compositions range from traditional-like bagpipe tunes to electronic pieces, improvisation strategies and fully notated works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra. A recording of his most recent compositions, Dream Tigers, was released on John Zorn's Tzadik Records' Composer Series in March of 2005.

Erik Hinds plays quartertone electric guitar and the H'arpeggione, an upright acoustic instrument with 12 sympathetic strings built by Fred Carlson. Equally influenced by improvisational music and "composed" sounds, Erik's style blends primitive folk, heavy metal, and sacred musics from around the world into a distinct voice.

Jeremiah Cymerman is known for an admirable DIY aesthetic and an unorthodox approach to the Bb clarinet. Cymerman has performed with many of music¹s most daring luminaries including Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Walter Thompson, & Otomo Yoshihide.



8:00 p.m., $10





Sunday, August 20th

meetings III
w/ matt davignon, david linton, ben owen, richard garet, sawako & bruce tovsky
+ video artists shimpei takeda and chika


Bay-area improviser Matt Davignon pays a rare visit to New York City, and this setting pairs him with a diverse group of local improvisers. Know for his prowess with drum machines and processing, coaxing curtains of sound from his boxes, Davignon also co-curates one of the Bay Areas' most adventurous music series' in one of its most inviting spaces - The Luggage Store Gallery. Joined by David Linton, Ben Owen, Richard Garet, Sawako and Bruce Tovsky, the group will be augmented by video artists Shimpei Takeda and Chika, who will provide two screens of improvisational video. Sound designer Stephan Moore will sculpt the resulting soundscape with his innovative 16-channel hemispheric speaker installation.



8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, August 24th

aki onda/alan licht
+ the volt collective


set 1
Aki Onda & Alan Licht have been performing as a duo since 2001 in the U.S. and Europe. The combination of real-time improvisation with cassettes imbued with traces of personal history and post-modern electric guitar, each played through tube amps to arrive at a mutually gritty sound, is unique both to the experimental scene and to each man's body of work.

set 2
audio visual project The Volt Collective

Gregory Boland
Nick Lesley
Roberto Osorio
Stanley Ruiz
Chris Blackburn
Aidan Collins
Raoul Thomas
Melissa Bolger
Paul Rothman
Nathaniel Weiner
Scott Pittinsky



8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, August 31

martin baumgartner, ikue mori and dj olive


Ikue Mori (lptp), Dj Olive (tt and lptp) Martin Baumgartner (lptp)

Three Musicians who have all met in different combinations but never as a trio will team up for an evening of improvised electronic music. Ikue Mori's brilliant and clear sounds, Martin Baumgartner's rich textures and Dj Olive's twisted squeaks in combination with their astonishing ability of fast reaction will infuse and build unique and engaging soundsculptures.





8:00 p.m., $10





JULY 2006





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"Points in a Circle:
Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue Project Room"


A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR's 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System

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Saturday, July 1

thomas ankersmit
+ benton-c bainbridge
+ bobby previte

Thomas Ankersmit

"A more or less improvised solo concert of music for analogue synthesizer, computer and alto saxophone"

Thomas Ankersmit plays saxophone, makes electronic music and creates installation pieces with sound, infrasound and modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces. Influenced more by experimental and electroacoustic practices than (free) jazz, Ankersmit focusses on exploring the timbral extremes of the saxophone. He has performed solo as well as with artists such as Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Keith Rowe, Giuseppe Ielasi, Borbetomagus and others.

Bobby Previte & Benton-C Bainbridge

Electronic drums and live video. This showdown between two mad scientists brings you a live previsualization of their upcoming DVD, "Dialed In." http://www.bobbyprevite.com/dialedin.html

Benton-C Bainbridge is a Bronx-based artist working with video as a painterly and performable medium. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to capture music's human abstraction in moving images. Currently, he is designing video for RGB LED displays and live spectacles on stage and TV with FUEVOZ, a company he cofounded with Owen Bush.

Drummer Bobby Previte has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria's Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods, to Carnegie Hall, and has presented his music at major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.



8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, July 6

cornelius dufallo's realeyes
+ dafna naphtali's travels
w/ alex waterman

Cornelius Dufallo: "Realeyes"

Scored for violin, electronics, and hemispheric speaker system, Realeyes is a thirty minute meditation on peace. Exploring concepts of destruction and transcendence, Realeyes juxtaposes hypnotic "sound-breath" with moments of harsh dissonance, improvisations, and extended techniques.

Cornelius Dufallo (a.k.a. Neil) is currently one of the violinists in ETHEL. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the "new faces of new music," he has received worldwide acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and composer. Neil was a member of the Flux Quartet from 1997-2002, then he join the band NurseKaya which he performed in from 2002-2004. Other recent affiliations include Ornette Colemanís Harmelodic Chamber Players, and Butch Morrisís New York Skyscraper and Phantomstation. Neil is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP.

Dafna Naphtali: "Travels"

A set of 16-channel sound pieces, abstractions and reminiscences of years of itinerant travel in unusual circumstances -- created using sound movement and spatialization concepts she honed in her 2 years as a resident programmer at Engine 27, and performed live -- with special guest musicians and live video.

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/improviser-composer from an eclectic background of music-making. A singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her custom Max/MSP/Jitter programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments that she has been writing since 1992. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (www.whatbat.org), recorde on Tzadik (4 Stars, All Music Guide). Dafna can also be heard on Mechanique(s) with Hans Tammen in a forthcoming release on In-situ and was featured vocalist on Jose Halac's CD 'Dance of 1000 Heads' (Tellus).

Guest Alex Waterman will perform cello & electronics

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, July 7

marina rosenfeld & john king

Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and turntablist based in New York City. Her work straddles the worlds of music composition and improvisation, visual and sound art, photography, video and performance, and has taken many forms since she formed her first "orchestra" at the California Institute of the Arts in 1994. Marina's work has appeared in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Biennial (2002), the Tate Modern Museum, Artists Space, Creative Time, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & Mills College.

John King (guitar/electronics) has performed interactive computer music with the electronic music collectives unitygain and share at Galapagos and open air in NYC over the past four years. His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Bang On A Can All-Stars; the new string quartet ETHEL; Red Orchestra; Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire; and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently on the Music Committee at MCDC. He'll be performing with a new interface which combines composition, improvisation and randomization.

8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, July 8

david linton
+ anthony jay ptak & cyrus pireh's "the end of music"


First hitting his stride as a downtown drummer in the early 1980's David Linton then moved to solo performing, live electronics, computer assisted composition, and sound design for dance and theater. Throughout the 90s he became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and production of event/ environments. Linton¹s fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic musicians and visualists assumed the form of a live television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television 1 AM Sunday mornings on MNN CH 34/mnn.org.

Anthony Jay Ptak is an artist and composer who studied under Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, Lydia Kavina, and Herbert Brun, and had technical consultations with Robert Moog. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival, and has been a guest theremin artist at the historic Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000, where he was appointed visiting researcher in 2001. He has given presentations on the theremin and electro-acoustics at Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), School of the Art Institute, Chicago Cultural Center, St. Louis Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, FFMUP Princeton University, and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is a member of the New York Theremin Society. http://axoxnxs.com

Cyrus Pireh http://4gre.tripod.com/

8:00 p.m., $10





Wednesday, July 12

off the bimah on the waterfront
a benefit for the music fund of kolot chayeinu/voices of our lives

Please join us for an evening of jazz on the waterfront as Music Director and Hazzan for Kolot Chayeinu Lisa B. Segal steps off the bimah to perform with preeminent jazz musicians Marty Ehrlich and Roy Nathanson.

8:00 p.m., $45; doors open at 7:30 pm

this event is SOLD OUT





Thursday, July 13

maria chavez + michael j. schumacher

Avant Turntablist Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken ("Pencils of Sound") and a collection of records in various conditions ("The Palette"). "As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground"(www.804noise.org).

Michael J. Schumacher is a composer/performer, curator and teacher. As Director of the sound and intermedia galleries, Studio 5 Beekman and Diapason, he has produced exhibitions by David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Stephen Vitiello, La Monte Young and other pioneer sound experimenters. He composes electronic sound installations using 2 - 25 speakers, computer-controlled random structures, taped and live music and acoustic works for piano, chamber ensemble, voice, and orchestra, and has presented his sound installations at major art institutions in the United States and Europe. His discography includes five solo CDs, including a double CD set on the XI label "Room Pieces" (2002), and he appears as pianist on the new Stephen Vitiello/David Tronzo CD on New Albion.

8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, July 14

andrew neumann + joe morris
& thomas buckner + bruce arnold

Andrew Neumann live electronics Joe Morris electric guitar

"duets for electric guitar and real time sampling"

Andrew Neumann is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, electronic/interactive music, and film and video installation. Neumann's work deals with issues concerning the uses of technology, language, and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. These works, what he calls "Constructures", re-contextualize the technologically derived icons and place them in a new environment that allows one to question their original use and see the possibilities of organizing these icons/objects, into a new language with a completely re-defined hierarchy.

Joe Morris has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe as a solo and as a leader of a trio and a quartet. Since 1993 he has recorded and/or performed with among others; Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Joe and Mat Maneri. He began playing acoustic bass in 2000 and has since performed with cellist Daniel Levin, Whit Dickey and recorded with pianist Steve Lantner. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the US and Europe. He is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department. He was nominated as Best Guitarist of the year 1998 and 2002 at the New York Jazz Awards.

Thomas Buckner, voice with Bruce Arnold, guitar

will perform
Matthias Kaul, Silence Is My Voice

Robert Ashley, Tract

Noah Creshevsky, Jubilate

Phill Niblock, A.Y.U.

"[Thomas] Buckner has made a name for himself working in the cracks where new music (Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier) meets creatively improvised jazz (Roscoe Mitchell). His rich baritone is a marvel ..." -- Time Out January 1998
Recent performances include a duo concert with renowned pianist Cecil Taylor at the Festival of Music of Extended Duration in Prague (Czech Republic) and the world premiere of Roscoe Mitchell's 'Fallen Heroes' (performed with the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble at Lincoln Center, New York City).

The Los Angeles Times has written "Bruce Arnold deserves credit for his effort to expand the potential of the jazz palette." His unique Signature sound stems from his combination of jazz and classical methods, and he is one of the only guitarists currently working with SuperCollider (a computer program for live sound processing).

8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, July 15

miguel frasconi + jane scarpantoni

Miguel Frasconi will be presenting "An Orchestra of Orchestras: The Rite Project #3." Frasconi continues his series of re-imagining Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, this time with 16 different recordings of the 20th century masterpiece played simultaneously through Stephan Moore's 16 speaker system.

Miguel Frasconi is a composer, improvisor and sound artist who uses glass objects, electronics, keyboards, and devolved instruments to create music that sounds from a uniquely imagined tradition. His recent collaborations include new works with choreographer Alonzo King, electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and the new music ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion. His background includes work with John Cage, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and James Tenney, and studies ranging from the music of South India and Indonesia to the Dada and Fluxus movements.

Jane Scarpantoni, will explore the interactive capabilities between themselves and the Issue Project Room's amazing 16 point-in-the-round sound system, brainchild of Stephan Moore, who will aid and abet them in drawing sonic circles around YOU. Come, be immersed...

Jane Scarpantoni has transformed the Cello into a new instrument. Her work with the Lounge Lizards, Patti Smith, Lou Reed and many others is enjoyed the universe over.



8:00 p.m., $10





Tuesday, July 18

francisco lopez + stephan moore + todd merrell

Over the last twenty-five Years, Francisco Lopez has developed an astonishing sonic universe that is absolutely personal and iconoclastic, and based on a profound listening of the world. His work destroys boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifts with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, and proposes a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

"Between what we can hear and what we can see are frequencies that surround us every day. They come from electrical systems in ships, the sun, cars, weather patterns, the subway, radio, and countless other sources. Every day, every hour, and everywhere, they change." Using a single sideband shortwave receiver and electronics, Todd Merrell will search the airwaves for the electrical fingerprints of Issue Project Room on July 18, and transform these electromagnetic waves into an immersive, musical soundscape, an impression of what Issue Project Room sounds and feels like electrically and musically, on that day, in that hour.

Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of the large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers at IPR. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers.



8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, July 20

shelley burgon + douglas henderson

Shelley Burgon will perform an electro-acoustic set with harp and computer.Her solo work often incorporates spatialization as she is truly inspired by the movement of sound through many channels. She has a duo with bassist Trevor Dunn, plays in the band Stars Like Fleas and can often be heard improvising under the conduction baton of Butch Morris.

Sound artist/composer Douglas Henderson's primary focus is on multi-channel electroacoustic compositions and installations, with a growing body of sound-producing sculptures and the occasional musical score. His work can be seen in the Whitney Museum in New York to Muu Gallery in Helsinki to SICMF in Seoul South Korea.



8:00 p.m., $10





Friday, July 21

pamela z

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and 'The BodySynth" gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Captipal Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.



8:00 p.m., $10





Saturday, July 22

chris tignor + slow six

Multi-media collective Slow Six has been delivering its own brand of electronic chamber music since 1998. Instrumentation includes amplified strings, electric guitars, keyboards, homegrown software instruments, and video projections mixed live throughout the space. Born of that natural space between classical and popular music, Slow Six mixes the instrumental prowess and compositional focus of classical music with real-time digital signal processing and lush visual landscapes. http://www.slowsix.com

Sara Baird is the artistic director, choreographer and dancer with Anemone Dance Theater, which she cofounded in 2001. Based in New York City for over twelve years, she has performed on tour across the United States, to the south of France, and to the lunar landscape of Bolivia's altiplano.

As a digital media artist, Lee Whittier employs video to tell stories seen through the eyes of people dabbling in space travel, implanting wireless networks, overcoming compatibility issues, & quietly building utopias.



8:00 p.m., $10





Wednesday, July 26

jim staley

Composer/trombonist Jim Staley is renown for his groundbreaking solo performances and collaborations with advanced music creators including Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Morgan Powell, David Weinstein, Takehisa Kosugi, Ikue Mori, Robin Holcomb, and many others. He has worked with many choreographers (Suzie Brown, Pooh Kaye, Debra Loewen, Sally Silvers and others), and been a member of several creative music ensembles including Psychological Operations, Elliott Sharp's Carbon, The Tone Road Ramblers, groups headed by Lenny Pickett and John Zorn, the Slide Hampton Jazz Ensemble, and the New York Composer's Orchestra.

8:00 p.m., $10





Thursday, July 27

scanner + evidence w/ diana slattery

Sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood began performing as the duo Evidence in 2001. Focusing on the universe of real-world sound, Evidence pours field recordings like water into their compositional and improvisational process, resulting in music that balances between tight organization and unregulated flow. Using recording equipment, laptops, and other electronic devices, Evidence creates music that deals with gradual change, improvised over time, sometimes atmospheric, sometimes pulsating, always texturally striking and unique.

Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson,The Royal Ballet, M