z’ev masterclass (FREE)
A very special masterclass with z’ev
rhythms in sound & the sounds of rhythm
A workshop based on published writings by z’ev: rhythmajik and the three fold ear
[both available at myspace.com/rhythmajik]
major topics:
the mytho-poetics of audiology:
ear drum / hammer-stirrup-anvil / labyrinth
drum as traditional trance inducer / the smithy – pythagoras & shamanism / labyrinth as image of return – Initiation
acoustics & psychoacoustics
a phenomenology of sound & consciousness
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM and SAGIndie present “ACTOR AS AUTEUR” with STEVE BUSCEMI
John Hockenberry Leads Brunchtime Conversation
To Benefit ISSUE Project Room
Actor, writer, film director and ISSUE board member Steve Buscemi will talk with Emmy Award-winning journalist and Co-Host of WNYC Radio and PRI’s The Takeaway, John Hockenberry, about creating unforgettable characters that ultimately drive a film’s narrative and impact. The brunch which is presented in collaboration with SAGIndie, an organization that unites working thespians of the world with passionate filmmaking mavericks who buck the system. The afternoon will feature film clips from the actor’s career and will be held at Bussaco located in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Actor as Auteur – There are numerous iconic characters in film history, from The Little Tramp to Charles Foster Kane to Colonel Kurtz to Travis Bickle, all of them well drawn and directed. However, had Chaplin, Welles, Brando or DeNiro not played these roles would the film had the same powerful impact on our culture? Can a case be made for actor as auteur?
It is difficult to imagine Buscemi’s roles and their indelible effect on each film without his personal, stylized approach in bringing them to life. They emit essential energies striking a balance between deeply held neuroses and outward bombast. From lead roles in films like Fargo, Resevoir Dogs, Living in Oblivion, Trees Lounge, and Ghost World to supporting roles and cameos in films such as The Big Lebowski, and Barton Fink, his presence breathes life into every corner of a film. “Buscemi is a quiet tyrant of artistic fury who threatens to overrun every frame he’s in with the inner desperation he projects even in his most subtle performances,” says Hockenberry.
An active Board Member of ISSUE Project Room, Buscemi began his career in, and continues to support experimental theater, writing and performance. All proceeds from the event will benefit ISSUE Project Room, one of the country’s preeminent centers for experimental culture.
“Actor as Auteur” Brunch To Benefit ISSUE Project Room, Presented in Collaboration With SAGIndie
Sunday, June 6, 12 pm – 2 pm
Bussaco, 833 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
$125 Per Person ($95 tax-deductible, three-course brunch is included.)
SEATING IS LIMITED. Buy Tickets
For more information please call 718-330-0313.
Patrick McGinley Sound Workshop
revenant:sound
In this one-day workshop we will explore sound as a transmitter of nonverbal information. We will focus on sound’s ability to define/describe space, and on our ability to resonate, alter, or create space by using sound.
‘revenant:sound’ is a project that focuses on improvised sonic activities in site specific locations. Voices are given to these spaces by producing sound using only objects found in-situ and the space itself. Participants will focus on a development of attentive listening and the ability to successfully participate in group explorations, while learning to find sonic potentials in everyday materials. Revenant derives its name from a concept of spatial memory, or, more specifically, from the long-term gestural memory of space; the ability of a location to retain an imprint or trace of activity or energy that has been present therein.
Participants are asked to bring one (non-musical) object from their living space, whose sonic potentials we will explore as a group.
Lets Paint TV! with John Kilduff!
ISSUE Project Room is thrilled to present, live, the legendary John Kilduff of Los Angeles’
“For those who haven’t seen it yet, Let’s Paint TV is a Los Angeles cable access television show on how to paint. But host John Kilduff doesn’t just paint. He paints while jogging on a treadmill, cooking food, mixing drinks, taking calls from the public and hosting a TV show. Add psychedelic visuals, abusive phonecalls from Mexicans and fat naked life models, and you’ve got the ultimate A.D.D. TV.”
- Vice
FEATURING LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY: Sam Kulik (bass trombone), Dan Peck (Tuba), Michael E vans (percussion), Zach Layton (guitar/banjo)
Mundos Ninos children’s percussion workshop with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
Darmstadt Institute and ISSUE Project Room are proud to present an exciting music workshop for young children.
MUNDO NIÑOS, “Children’s World,” is the educational and entertaining music project for young children and children at heart led by acclaimed percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez. Mundos Niños teaches singing and counting rhythm in English and Spanish through music from around the world, including Latin America, Asia, America and Africa. On Saturday June 27, from 1pm to 3pm at ISSUE Project Room, children and their parents are invited to join Ibarra and Rodriguez for this exclusive, hands-on concert. Activities include playing percussion instruments, singing, and learning counting and rhythm exercises. The Mundos Niños CD, “This is a Beat!” contains music for children to sing, dance, count and learn with and will be available for children to follow-up on the program at home.
This workshop is part of “Susie Ibarra Weekend” at ISSUE Project Room for DARMSTADT Institute, which includes a performance by the Susie Ibarra Quartet on Friday evening, June 26 at 8pm.
Tickets (required of all children and adults wishing to attend) are $12 advance (available at ISSUE Project Room, Other Music, and online)/$15 at the door. Parents must accompany all children. This workshop is open to all but recommended for children ages 4 to 8.
ISSUE Project Room is located on the 3rd floor of the OA Can Factory, on 232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), Brooklyn NY 11215
This program is made possible in part by funding from Meet the Composer
http://www.susieibarra.com/mundoninos.html
http://www.issueprojectroom.org
http://www.darmstadtnewmusic.org
MUNDOS NIÑOS Children’s Percussion Workshop
June 27, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm
ISSUE Project Room at the OA Can Factory
232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn NY 11215
$12 advance/$15 door
F, M, R to 9th Street-4th ave
phone: 718.330.0313
Bios
Susie Ibarra is recognized as an innovative drummer and percussionist as well as composer in her solo works as well ensemble music. She currently leads her own quartet, in addition to her band, Electric Kulintang. She composes music for percussion, new opera/musical theatre, chamber ensembles and jazz ensembles. She has also performed with many groundbreaking artists such as John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Trisha Brown, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tania Leon, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Butch Morris, and Pauline Oliveros, among others. Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha Drums, Paiste Cymbals and Gongs, and Vic Firth Artist. Susie Ibarra has taught music for 6 year-old children at grade schools and she has lectured and conducted workshops at numerous universities and conservatories including Juilliard, Mannes College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and The New School.
http://susieibarra.com/
Roberto Juan Rodriguez is an acclaimed percussionist who has performed with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Orchestra, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, Julio Iglesias, Celia Cruz, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Jackson, and Dr. L Subramaniam among others. He currently composes for and leads his own ensemble, Septeto Roberto Rodriguez. Rodriguez is a Grammy and American Music Award recipient. Roberto Rodriguez has taught mentally challenged and disabled children in Miami, lower income children in the neighborhood programs of Brooklyn, written music for Sesame Street, and conducted workshops at Universities and Festivals.
http://www.robertojuanrodriguez.com
Vocal workshop with Joan La Barbara
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt are thrilled to host a vocal masterclass with Joan La Barbara.
click here to watch a video of a mini-masterclass via New Music Box
JOAN LA BARBARA’s career as a composer/performer/soundartist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries in developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques: multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her “signature sounds”. Creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology, her awards in the U.S. and Europe include the 2008 Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center; 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition; DAAD Artist-in-Residency in Berlin and 7 National Endowment for the Arts fellowships: Music Composition, Opera/Music Theatre, Inter-Arts, Recording (2), Solo Recitalist and Visual Arts; ISCM International Jury Award; Akustische International Competition Award; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Collaboration Award of NY Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media; Meet The Composer and ASCAP Awards. Numerous commissions for concert, theatre and radioworks, including: “in the dreamtime” and “Klangbild Köln” for WestDeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne; “Dragons on the Wall”, a music score commissioned by Mary Flagler Cary Trust and “Calligraphy II/Shadows” for voice and Chinese instruments, both for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; choral work “to hear the wind roar” for Gregg Smith Singers, I Cantori and the Center for Contemporary Arts/Santa Fe,; “Events in the Elsewhere” from “The Misfortune of the Immortals”, funded by Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace; “Awakenings” for chamber ensemble, from the University of Iowa Center for New Music; “l’albero dalle foglie azzurre” (tree of blue leaves) for solo oboe and tape, commissioned by The Saint Louis Symphony, and “A Trail of Indeterminate Light” for cellist who sings. “73 Poems”, her collaborative work with text artist Kenneth Goldsmith, was included in “The American Century Part II: SoundWorks” at The Whitney Museum of American Art. “Messa di Voce”, an interactive media work, in collaboration with Jaap Blonk, Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, premiered at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria on September 7, 2003 and was awarded Honorary Mention in the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. Live Music for Dance commissions include “Landscape over Zero” (2004-05 for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company), “Fleeting Thoughts” (2005-06 for Jane Comfort & Company), and “Desert Myths/Isle of Dunes”(premiered at NJPAC April 29, 2006 featuring Ne(x)tworks and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company). “Atmos” for flute and sonic atmosphere, commissioned by Meet The Composer/NYSFM, premiered March 2008 at Symphony Space, performed by Margaret Lancaster; recording will be released on New World Records in 2009. In 2007-08, La Barbara received a NYSCA Music Composition award to compose a new spoken word opera, “An American Rendition”, in collaboration with choreographer/theater artist Jane Comfort, which premiered September 2008 at Duke Theatre, NYC. La Barbara is currently composing a new opera.
La Barbara has collaborated with artists including Lita Albuquerque, Cathey Billian, Melody Sumner Carnahan, Judy Chicago, Ed Emshwiller, Kenneth Goldsmith, Peter Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Steina, Woody Vasulka and Lawrence Weiner. In the early part of her career, she performed and recorded with Steve Reich, Philip Glass and jazz artists Jim Hall, Hubert Laws, Enrico Rava and arranger Don Sebesky, developing her own unique vocal/instrumental sound. She has premiered landmark compositions written for her by noted American composers, including Morton Subotnick’s chamber opera “Jacob’s Room” for American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia and MANCA, Nice, his media poems “Hungers” for Los Angeles Festival and Ars Electronica, Linz and “Intimate Immensity” for the Lincoln Center Festival; the title role in Robert Ashley’s opera “Now Eleanor’s Idea” at Festival d’Avignon and BAM’s Next Wave Festival, “Balseros” for Miami Grand Opera, “Dust” in Yokohama and NYC, “Celestial Excursions” for MaerzMusic Berlin and NYC, and “Concrete”for La Mama E.T.C. in NYC; Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” at Festival d’Avignon; Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices”; Steve Reich’ “Drumming” at New York’s Town Hall and John Cage’s“Solo for Voice 45” with “Atlas Eclipticalis” and “Winter Music” at Festival de La Rochelle, France. Her collaboration with Judy Chicago, “Prologue to The Book of Knowing … (and) of Overthrowing” was performed at the First New York International Festival of the Arts and Telluride’s Composer-to-Composer Festivals.
In addition to the internationally-acclaimed “Three Voices for Joan La Barbara by Morton Feldman” (New Albion NA018), “Joan La Barbara Singing through John Cage” (New Albion NA035) and “Joan La Barbara/Sound Paintings” (Lovely Music LCD 3001), she has recorded for A&M Horizon, Centaur, Deutsche Grammophon, Elektra-Nonesuch, Mode, Music & Arts, MusicMasters, Musical Heritage, Newport Classic, New World, Sony, Virgin, Voyager and Wergo. “Voice is the Original Instrument”, La Barbara’s seminal works from the 70’s, was released March 2003, as a 2-cd set (Lovely Music LCD3003-2) and hailed as one ofThe Wire’s 10 best reissues of the year. “ShamanSong” (New World Records 80545-2) includes her compositions “ShamanSong”, “Calligraphy II/Shadows” and “ROTHKO”, a sound painting inspired by the Rothko Chapel. Her collaboration with visual/text artist Kenneth Goldsmith, “73 Poems”, is an edition of prints, book and cd produced by Permanent Press and Lovely Music Ltd (LCD 3002). “The Time Is Now” a compilation of music composed to texts by Melody Sumner Carnahan, includes La Barbara’s works: “de profundis: out of the depths, a sign” and “A Different Train” (Frog Peak FP006). Recording projects as singer and/or producer include “Only: Works for Voice and Instruments” by Morton Feldman” (New Albion NA085); “Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns” (New Albion), “John Cage at Summerstage with Joan La Barbara, Leonard Stein and William Winant”, Cage’s final concert performance on July 23, 1992 in NYC’s Central Park (Music & Arts CD-875); “Centering – the music of Earle Brown” (Newport Classics npd 85631). La Barbara is featured on two new Earle Brown cd releases: “Folio and Four Systems” (Tzadik TZ 8028) and “Tracer”, with her ensemble Ne(x)tworks, on Mode Records, as well as Robert Ashley’s “Now Eleanor’s Idea”, “Your Money My Life Good-Bye” and “Dust” (Lovely Music).
Her works have been choreographed by John Alleyne for Ballet British Columbia, Nai-Ni Chen, Jane Comfort, Martha Curtis, Catherine Kerr, Martha Scott, and she performed her music with Merce Cunningham for a 1976 “Events” evening. Filmscores include “Anima” (Elizabeth Harris Productions); a score for voice with electronics for Steve Finkin’s “Signing Alphabet” animation to assist hearing children in learning to communicate with the deaf, broadcast worldwide since 1977 for “Children’s Television Workshop/Sesame Street”; and music for films by Richard Blau, Monica Gazzo, Amy Kravitz, Elyse Rosenberg, Steven Subotnick and Harvey Wang, and for video works by Susanna Carlisle. “Immersion”, an underwater dance film by Jodi Kaplan featuring La Barbara’s music was shown at the 1999 “New Directors/New Films” Festival at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. La Barbara also composed and performed the “Angel Voice” for actress Emmannuelle Béart in the feature film “Date with an Angel”, performed the “Alien Newborn Vocals” for “Alien: Resurrection” and was vocal soloist on the John Frizzell musical soundscore for “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer”.
Educated at Syracuse and New York Universities and Tanglewood/Berkshire Music Center, studying voice with Helen Boatwright, Phyllis Curtin and Marian Szekely-Freschl, she learned her compositional tools as an apprentice with the numerous composers with whom she has worked for three decades. La Barbara served on the faculties of California Institute of the Arts, Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, The College of Santa Fe, The University of New Mexico, as guest lecturer at Princeton University Autumn/Winter 2006-07, and recently joined the Composition Faculty of New York University’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professionals, as well as maintaining a private studio in New York City. She served as Vice President of the American Music Center in New York; co-Artistic Director of the New Music America Festival in Los Angeles; was Contributing Editor for Musical America/High Fidelity (1977-87) and Schwann/Opus magazines, and, from 1989-2002, produced and co-hosted “Other Voices, Other Sounds,”a weekly radio program focusing on contemporary classical music. She serves on the Board of Directors of MATA-Young Composers Now!, and is Vice President of the Electronic Music Foundation.
La Barbara was Artistic Director of the multi-year Carnegie Hall series, “When Morty met John”, and Artistic Director, Curator and Host of “Insights”, a series of encounters with distinguished composers for The American Music Center. In 2005 she produced a series of radio programs for NPS in Holland, “Sonic Lives”, which has met with critical acclaim.
La Barbara has been awarded the American Music Center’s 2008 Letter of Distinction for significant contributions to the field of contemporary American music. Joan La Barbara is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP and is a member of The American Music Center, SAG, AFTRA and AEA. For press quotes, photos and additional information see
http://www.joanlabarbara.com
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