From the Archives: music
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Floating Points: Francisco López
03/24/12 @ 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 [...]
String Theories: The String Orchestra of Brooklyn @ St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
03/17/12 @ 8:00pm
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn rehearsing Philip Glass’s opera “In the Penal Colony.” Photo by Rachel Seed. String Theories is a joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn designed to provide innovative artists with a unique opportunity to premiere new experimental works for string orchestra. For many of the selected [...]
SOLD OUT! Artist-in-Residence: Yarn/Wire with Nathan Davis and Pete Swanson
03/22/12 @ 8:00pm
For the first concert of their residency at ISSUE Project Room, Yarn/Wire has collaborated on two new pieces: one by percussionist and composer Nathan Davis and another by electronic artist Pete Swanson, best known for his work with Yellow Swans. Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in the performance of 21st century music. A unique instrumental [...]
MATA Interval 4.3: Beaubourg to Brooklyn – Electro-acoustic Music from Paris
03/08/12 @ 8:00pm
Titled Beaubourg to Brooklyn: Electro-Acoustic Music from Paris, the concert features six works for solo instrument and live electronics by six young composers from four continents, all of whom crossed paths with composer and curator Christopher Trapani while working in Paris. The three featured soloists are virtuouso players, renowned for their interpretations of contemporary repertoire: clarinetist Carol [...]
SOLD OUT! Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (Record Release Party)
02/03/12 @ 10:00pm
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity is an extraordinary new collaboration between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker & guitarist Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s previous collaborations with Van Wissem have not prepared the eager listener for the expressivity and emotional depth of his playing on these duets. Respectful of one another’s space the pair weave [...]
Share – free audio & video jam – Featured guests Leslie Ross + Katherine Liberovskaya and Compactor
01/15/12 @ 8:00pm
This is to be a very special Share. Our long-term amazing host, Issue Project Room is moving from the Can Factory after Jan 20th, 2012. So, our following Sunday is still up in the air… but do not worry. We’re working on every possible way to find an alt space or stay at the [...]
SOLD OUT! Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (Record Release Party)
02/03/12 @ 8:00pm
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity is an extraordinary new collaboration between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker & guitarist Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s previous collaborations with Van Wissem have not prepared the eager listener for the expressivity and emotional depth of his playing on these duets. Respectful of one another’s space the pair weave [...]
Title tk + Architeuthis Walks on Land
02/11/12 @ 8:00pm
Title TK (Howie Chen, Cory Arcangel and Alan Licht) is a banter-prone band that has been described as ‘a cross between David Antin and Spinal Tap.’ Sawing, sputtering, gurgling and wailing, Architeuthis Walks on Land is every bit the displaced and terrifying cephalopod that the name suggests. The viola and bassoon are two instruments rarely associated [...]
Anthony Coleman
02/10/12 @ 8:00pm
Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: Sephardic Tinge, Morenica, and Our Beautiful Garden Is Open (Tzadik) and has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish [...]
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...
