Dafna Naphtali + Bora Yoon

07/14/10 @ 8:00pm

Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist/ improviser/composer from an eclectic musical background. As a singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using her Max/MSP programming for sound processing of voice and other instruments. Dafna has collaborated / performed with many experimental musicians and video artists over the past 15 years, such as Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman , Lukas [...]

Jesse Stiles + Andrew Neumann

07/09/10 @ 8:00pm

Jesse Stiles (b. 1978, Boston, MA) is a new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems. Through the adaptive misuse of emerging digital technologies, Stiles creates works that are simultaneously entertaining, disorienting, immersive, and transcendental. Stiles’ performances and generative installation work engage with and deconstruct a number of populist formats including electronic dance music, [...]

Carver Audain + Richard Francis

07/08/10 @ 8:00pm

Carver Audain (b 1981) is a sound artist actively producing works comprised of field recordings, guitar, electronics, organ, and other assorted sources. Strategically, he uses improvisational tactics to integrate a variety of pre-recorded and pre-arranged material with his live playing through the use of controlled feedback and situation-specific spontaneous composition. Sonically, he produces an array [...]

Leslie Ross + Philip White

07/02/10 @ 8:00pm

Buy Tickets | Admission: $10 ($9 in advance, $8 members) Instrument maker, composer and bassoonist, Leslie Ross, has been creating in NYC since the mid 80′s when she was very active in the downtown improv-scene. Constantly, Improvisation remains central to most of her pieces. In the past number of years, she has focused her explorations [...]

The New Roaratoria: Carlos Giffoni

04/10/10 @ 8:00pm

Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan electronic musician who resides in the New York City area since the year 2000. Currently using modular synthesizers, hand made custom instruments, and various types of analog and digital synthesis in the composition of electronic music pieces, as well as improvising live with local and international musicians. His recent solo work [...]

Turbulence.org Presents: Stephan Moore + Luke Dubois with Todd Reynolds

04/09/10 @ 8:00pm

New works commissioned by Turbulence.org will feature the World Premieres of The Occupants, by Stephan Moore, and Moments of Inertia by R. Luke DuBois. Stephan Moore will present The Occupants, a generative composition with some aspects that can be influenced through single- or multi-user interaction. Moore has used the piece to search for answers to [...]

FLOATING POINTS Festival 2009

THE FLOATING POINTS FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS FOURTH YEAR AT ISSUE PROJECT ROOM July 1, 2009 – Brooklyn, NY – A month-long program experimenting with and utilizing ISSUE Project Room’s custom-built 15 channel hemispherical speaker system, the Floating Points Festival returns this year with a line-up of luminary sound artists including Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, [...]

Morton Subotnick

07/31/09 @ 8:00pm

  Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems.  The work which brought Subotnick celebrity was Silver Apples of the Moon [1966-7], was commissioned by Nonesuch Records, marking the first time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically [...]

Lavalier

07/24/09 @ 8:00pm

Lavalier is in indie-experimental group that formed in NYC in late 2008.  With a penchant for vocal harmonies, fuzz/slide guitar, harpsichord, and accordion, the group creates cinematic music that is both psychedelic and fantastical. Lavalier was created by two longtime friends and musical collaborators, Steve Milton, and Dave Horowitz. Having met in high school, Milton & Horowitz have played in various [...]

Ha Yang Kim

07/22/09 @ 8:00pm

Artist In Residence: Ha-Yang Kim Admission: $15 Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Ha-Yang made her professional solo debut at age 16 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Hailed as “phenomenal” and playing with “brilliant technique full of energy, concentration, musicality and expression” (Mainpost, Germany), she performs new music as a [...]

C. Spencer Yeh + John Wiese

07/17/09 @ 8:00pm

C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1975, moved to the US in 1980; studied radio/television/film at Northwestern University, and is now based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeh is active both as a solo and collaborative artist, as well as with his primary project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh is focused on [...]

Betsey Biggs + Shelley Burgon

07/07/09 @ 8:00pm

Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work in music, sound, video and installation has been called “psychologically complex” by the New Yorker. Her work aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to actively engage the audience, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include [...]

Alan Licht and Loren Connors + Evidence

07/03/09 @ 8:00pm

Over the past two decades, guitarist Alan Licht has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends (Rashied Ali, Derek Bailey) and electronica wizards (Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke) to turntable masters (DJ Spooky, Christian Marclay) and veteran Downtown New York composers (Rhys Chatham). Licht is also renown in the indie [...]

Hisham Bharoocha w/Ben Vida + Ateleia w/Sadek Bazaraa

07/02/09 @ 8:00pm

+ Ateleia and Sadek Bazaraa + Hisham Bharoocha w/ Ben Vida Issue Project Room Doors at 8PM $15 •••••• Tonight’s performance marks a new instance of ‘Archegram’, the ongoing collaboration between musician James Elliott, aka Ateleia, and visual artist Sadek Bazaraa. Combining Ateleia’s pulsing ambient soundscapes and Bazaraa’s deeply atmospheric video art, the two strive [...]

Keith Fullerton Whitman (CANCELLED)

07/01/09 @ 8:00pm

TONIGHT’S CONCERT IS CANCELLED.  MANY APOLOGIES. Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom “digital music.” Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music that incorporates elements from nearly every era: [...]