Everyday Experimental: November 17 – 19, 2011

Everyday Experimental draws its inspiration from commonplace activities and inconsequential sounds of the everyday: from Knowles’ exploration of the sound of a bean to Lambkin’s uncanny field recordings of the interior and grounds of his home in upstate New York. With a special focus on the contribution of women to sound art, ISSUE Project Room will present a series of performances and talks with Alison Knowles [11.17], a new work by Moniek Darge followed by electroacoustic collaborations with Françoise Vanhecke and Graham Lambkin [11.18] and a sound installation by Annea Lockwood [11.14-11.19] along with a performance by Lois Svard of Lockwood’s Ear-Walking Woman and a multi-channel sound piece by Chicago based composer Olivia Block [11.19].

Robert Ashley: “The music has outgrown the architecture.”

On Oct. 23, Issue Project Room held a screening of Robert Ashley’s 1983 classic made-for-TV-opera “Perfect Lives,” in support of our ongoing fundraising campaign for “Vidas Perfectas,” to be held December 15 – 17 at Irondale Theater in Brooklyn. After the screening, Robert Ashley, Alex Waterman and Ned Sublette (who will play the narrator, “R,” [...]

Wouter Vanhaelemeesch – “The Hypnotic Defense”

The cover for “All Things are From Him, Through Him and In Him,” by Brethren of the Free Spirit. Artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch. “The Hypnotic Defense” is a show by Belgian artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, who has contributed art to albums by Jozef van Wissem, as well as LP covers for people like Robbie Basho, Jack [...]

ARCADIA Gala honoring William Basinski and featuring music from Robert Wilson’s “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic”

11/02/11 @ 7:00pm

A Gala Honoring William Basinski Featuring an exclusive New York premiere of music from Robert Wilson’s “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,” with William Basinski, Antony, and Marina Abramovic. When William Basinski opened his nightclub Arcadia in 1992, Williamsburg had more than a decade of history as an outerborough artists’ colony. Arcadia and a handful of other [...]

ISSUE Project Room Benefit Art Auction at Industria Superstudio

10/01/11 @ 6:30pm

  ISSUE Project Room art auction looks to raise $100,000 to support new work by hundreds of NYC artists Bid online or on-site on artworks by ANDY WARHOL, YOKO ONO, MARINA ZURKOW, CINDY SHERMAN, STEPHEN VITIELLO, JAMES FRANCO, JO ANDRES AND MORE Performances by A^CTION (Kim Gordon, Tony Conrad, John Miller), and Steve Roden Buy [...]

Vidas Perfectas

VIDAS PERFECTAS is an all new, Spanish language version of the classic avant-garde television opera from the 1980s: PERFECT LIVES. Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives challenges the ways in which we perceive the relationship
 between language and music, mixing chanting, storytelling, meditation and ecstatic
 revelation. And as the world’s first ‘television opera,’ has almost single-handedly
 changed [...]

ISSUE Receives Additional $1.1 Million For Construction of 110 Livingston

Dear Friends, We are pleased to inform you that ISSUE Project Room has been granted an additional $1.1 million by the City of New York for construction of our theater at 110 Livingston Street! These funds are in addition to the $1 million previously granted in 2009 by the Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and [...]

ISSUE’s 2012 Artists-in-Residence

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce our Artists in Residence for 2012: Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Aki Onda, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Yarn/Wire. ISSUE Project Room’s 2012 Artist in Residence program, founded by Suzanne Fiol, has provided a support structure for musical ensembles, composers and sound artists since 2006. Providing artists with access to ISSUE’s facilities, equipment, PR/marketing, curatorial and technical expertise, the AIR program offers artists an opportunity to develop significant new works in partnership with ISSUE over the course of the year, cultivating long-term relationships within the organization and the greater cultural community.

Floating Points Residencies 2011-2012

The Floating Points programming explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s house speaker system. Began in 2006 as Points In A Circle, an annual month-long series of multi-channel audio concerts featuring the Hemisphere speaker system, it became the Floating Points Festival in 2008 when Issue Project Room moved to the Old American Can Factory. Starting [...]

Photos from John Moran + Saori (…in Thailand)

John Moran + Saori gave the New York premiere of their 2010 performance piece “John Moran and Saori (…in Thailand)” last weekend at ISSUE Project Room. Check out photos of their performance below. Photos by Brad Buehring.

Nate Wooley & James Ilgenfritz @ 110 Livingston

This past week, ISSUE held a reception and short concert by our Artists-in-Residence Nate Wooley & James Ilgenfritz [Artist-in-Residence Nate Wooley with MIVOS Quartet + Peter Evans: Saturday, 6/18, FREE | RSVP] at our future home at 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. This space, which has previously hosted more than a few string quartets, William Basinski, [...]

Wet Ink Ensemble (via the WFMU Free Music Archive)

If Wet Ink Ensemble existed when “uptown” and “downtown” still had meaning, much of their programming would seem to land them decidedly north of 34th St. But like the capital-D Downtown groups, the bread and butter of their programming comes from the ensemble members themselves, with composers such as Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, Sam Pluta, playing vital roles in the group.

Photos from Ellen Fullman @ 110 Livingston

Sculptor, composer, and performer Ellen Fullman performed on her Long String Instrument on May 22, 2011. Below are some photos from that event, which included collaborations with Sean Meehan, Theresa Wong, David Gamper, Monique Buzzarté, and David Douglas. Photos by Brad Buehring.

Tons of free music from Darmstadt Institute 2011 artists (via the WFMU Free Music Archive)

ISSUE Project Room’s annual Darmstadt Institute — which borrows the name (if not polemic) of the famous incubator of post-WWII difficult music — runs throughout the month of June, with imports like John Moran & Saori, Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles), and Jennifer Walshe; Darmstadt stalwarts like TILT Brass, Claire Chase & Rebekeh Heller, and the Wet Ink Ensemble; and some revivals of underrepresented American artists such as David Borden’s Mother Mallard Portable Masterpiece Co. and Larry Austin.

Darmstadt Institute 2011: John Moran, Larry Austin, Terre Thaemlitz, David Borden, TILT Brass, Jennifer Walshe, and many more

Check out the full schedule of our Darmstadt Institute 2011. The festival welcomes the first U.S. performance by groundbreaking performance duo John Moran . . . and his neighbor, Saori since 2007, including the premiere of their new work “John Moran & Saori (…in Thailand).” Other highlights include: a celebration of composer Larry Austin‘s 80th birthday, [...]

Interview with Darmstadt Institute Curators Nick Hallett & Zach Layton

Zach Layton: We started using the name Darmstadt when we were a small listening party, and now we’re a series where the artists we present are playing at the actual Darmstadt MusikInstitut in Germany, like JACK quartet and ICE Ensemble (6.22: Claire Chase + Rebekah Heller). The very first day of our festival on June [...]

Table of the Elements: Where the Truth is Spoken

Where the Truth Is Spoken By Steve Dollar Everybody loves a mystery. Generations of record collectors have spent valuable chunks of their lives poking through vinyl bins in search of unknown pleasures, or rambling though the piney woods with their ears cocked for a high, lonesome sound. Think of Harry Smith, magical curator of forgotten [...]