From the Archives: events
Susan Alcorn Residency
05/31/12 @ 8:00pm
The second night of Susan Alcorn’s residency will feature a solo improvised performance followed by her compositions performed by Janel Leppin, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Doug Wieselman, Anthony Pirog and Skulí Sverrisson. Susan Alcorn is a Baltimore, Maryland-based composer and musician who has received international recognition as an innovator of the pedal steel guitar, [...]
John Butcher + Twistycat
05/25/12 @ 8:00pm
John Butcher will perform his new work “The Geometry of Sentiment,” a set of new pieces for acoustic and amplified saxophone developed for the distinctive acoustic space of ISSUE Project Room’s new theater. John Butcher’s work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and solo explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics. Originally a physicist, he [...]
Deviant Septet premieres “Histories” by Sleeping Giant composer collective
05/24/12 @ 8:00pm
Sleeping Giant’s greatest strength is its differences: they are six Brooklyn-based composers (Andrew Norman, Robert Honstein, Ted Hearne, Jacob Cooper, Christopher Cerrone, Timo Andres) joined not by a common aesthetic vision, but by friendship and respect for each other’s distinct creative voices. These “talented guys” (The New Yorker), who are “rapidly gaining notice for their [...]
Celebrating Cecil: William Hooker Ensemble + Thollem McDonas & Arrington de Dionyso
05/16/12 @ 8:00pm
In this evening dedicated to Cecil Taylor’s mastery and enduring influence, virtuoso pianist Thollem McDonas will perform solo and with bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso, followed by a set from the thunderous percussionist and powerhouse bandleader William Hooker, joined by Mark Hennen (piano) and Larry Roland (Bass) and Matt Lavelle (trumpet).
Emerging Artists Commission: Jen Rosenblit & Jules Gimbrone
05/11/12 @ 8:00pm
Photo by Mariana Valencia Pastor Pasture is a revolving expanse of glory and shame. Through research into aural and visceral structures, this work harnesses the performers in all its queerness–as soft, ecstatic, plural, unknown and full of desire. A nonsensical nature is established when sound occurs, when it registers as music and when the moving body [...]
SOLD OUT – An intimate evening with Cecil Taylor
05/19/12 @ 8:00pm
*SOLD OUT – Sign up for our mailing list to receive notification if more tickets become available. This event is part of “Cecil Taylor: A Celebration of the Maestro” co-produced by Harlem Stage & ISSUE Project Room. Legendary pianist and poet Cecil Taylor is one of the greatest improvisers in the history of modern jazz. [...]
Harvestworks Presents: No-input Summit – Toshimaru Nakamura, Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie Jones and Phillip Stearns
04/29/12 @ 6:00pm
Panel discussion begins at 6pm; Performance begins at 8pm On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Harvestworks will produce an investigation into the phenomena of no-input, a style of sound art using internal mixer feedback to generate sound. Presentations will feature No-input icon Toshimaru Nakamura who will be joined by sound artists Philip White, Bob Bellerue, Bonnie [...]
Unsound LABs: Denis Kolokol/Tomek Choloniewski Duo with Nate Wooley + Maria Minerva with Mark Van Hoen + Mark McGuire with Bartosz Weber
04/22/12 @ 4:00pm
Unsound LABs concerts feature collaborations between musicians of different kinds working together for the first time in a series of unique free performances. Curated to cross borders of both sound and geography, this year’s program pairs artists from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia with musicians from the U.S. This year’s LABs features: Zavoloka with Andrea Pensado, [...]
Unsound LABs: Zavoloka with Andrea Pensado + Hai Nguyen Dihn with Nondor Nevai + Kotra with Black Rain
04/21/12 @ 4:00pm
Nondor Nevai (Justina V.) Unsound LABs concerts feature collaborations between musicians of different kinds working together for the first time in a series of unique free performances. Curated to cross borders of both sound and geography, this year’s program pairs artists from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia with musicians from the U.S. This year’s LABs features: [...]
Sister Spit with Michelle Tea & Justin Bond
04/30/12 @ 8:00pm
The legendary literary performance tour, Sister Spit, comes to ISSUE Project Room with a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance! Don’t miss this gathering of taste-makers, novelists, luminaries, chanteuses, performance artists, poets, and musicians.Featuring your host Michelle Tea (Best Music Writing 2010, Chelsea Whistle, Valencia, Rent Girl),“The greatest cabaret artist of (v’s) generation” (Hilton Als, The [...]
Artist-in-Residence: Yarn/Wire with Tristan Perich Chalk
04/28/12 @ 8:00pm
Yarn/Wire, an ISSUE Artist-in-Residence for 2012, premieres a new work Chalk by composer Tristan Perich. Perich’s work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics, and code. His album 1-Bit Symphony (2010), a microchip packaged inside a CD jewel case and programmed to synthesize an entire composition, had “an intense, hypnotic force and a [...]
Littoral: Poetry Out Loud
05/04/12 @ 8:00pm
Poetry Out Loud was a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a sort of “magazine of oral poetry.” The driving forces behind Poetry Out Loud were two couples: Peter and Patricia B McGarry (Harleman), from Topeka, Kansas, and Klyd and Linda Watkins, from Nashville; together they followed their muse of “taking [...]
SOLD OUT! Unsound Opening Night ~ Jenny Hval + Julia Holter + Julia Kent
04/18/12 @ 9:00pm
Julia Holter (Rick Bahto) Unsound Festival New York opens with a night of distinctive female experimental artists working with sound. LA resident Julia Holter and Norway’s Jenny Hval combine avant-garde structures with music at the edge of pop, working with explicit lyrics exploring sex and gender, and subverting expectations. Holter’s Tragedy and Hval’s Viscera were [...]
Artist-in-Residence: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and Bernhard Gann – Liturgy
04/14/12 @ 8:00pm
Aritst-in-Residence Hunter Hunt Hendrix performs with Bernhard Gann as Liturgy, a self-christened “Transcendental Black Metal” band committed to developing and enhancing resonances between black metal and various domains of avant-garde culture: serious music, contemporary art and contemporary philosophy.
The New Monuments + Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski Duo + Lasse Marhaug
04/05/12 @ 8:00pm
Release party for Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski’s album Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon on Graham Lambkin’s KYE label. Improv trio The New Monuments (C. Spencer Yeh, Ben Hall, and Don Dietrich) and Oslo-based noise artist Lasse Marhaug will both perform on the same evening.
Artist-in-Residence: Sergei Tcherepnin with Woody Sullender
04/04/12 @ 8:00pm
3.30.12 – 4.04.12 ~ Artist-in-Residence: Sergei Tcherepnin ~ Massage Performances (Music): A new six-channel composition to be played through your body. Sat/Sun from 3PM–7PM and Mon/Tue from 1PM–5PM ~ Free/RSVP [All slots are full for Massage Performances, but check back in the Fall for more!]. Artist-in-Residence Sergei Tcherepnin and Woody Sullender construct sites for listening, [...]
Floating Points: Francisco López
03/25/12 @ 8:00pm
Stephan Moore and ISSUE Project Room have commissioned a new piece by sound artist Francisco López for Moore’s unique multi-channel sound system. Francisco López has worked with a variety of multi-channel systems, both in live performances and sound installations, from constellations of small transducers to Wave Field Synthesis systems with hundreds of speakers, and acoustic [...]
This Saturday, March 17, St. Ann's Church will host the second installation of String Theories, the joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn that provides artists with an opportunity to premiere new expe...
