The reviews are still rolling in, but by all account Gaudeamus Muziekweek was a huge success. Check out some of the photos after the jump, and let us know which ones are your favorites. Without the support of you (our audience) we wouldn’t have been able to hold such a successful first weekend in our new home – but what really makes this all happen is the ongoing commitment of our members. We’ve added new benefits to our membership program for 2012, including the Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room CD and invitations to private events with artists in our community. So become a member today!

Image by Sara Driver

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 layers of melody and waves of feedback while acoustic guitar and lute wrap together with a subtle depth expemplifying an austere understanding and compatibility. Jarmusch’s guitar work is metaphysical, at times sounding like a hurdy gurdy and at other time sounding as if it is responding to the calls of the lute. The final piece, He Is Hanging By His Shiny Arms, His Heart An Open Wound With Love, finds Jarmusch accompanying a solo lute composition with a reading from St. John Of The Cross. With three titles named after Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s work, this record is extraordinary, new and arcane at the same time, modern but timeless.

Chamber Music Month is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

We’ve posted some photos from last week’s final concert in the Old American Can Factory, featuring Talibam!, Jonathan Kane’s February, and Tony Conrad & MV Carbon. It was a surreal experience, with giant eyeball projections, minimalist blues, no-school rap, and an hour-long drone set (by which time most of us were sitting on the floor) to close out an amazing four years in our beloved Gowanus Can Factory.

But we’re looking ahead: this week, we’ve brought one of the top international contemporary music festivals to New York for the first time, in Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York. These artists straddle electronic, chamber, orchestral, and conceptual music with pieces involving everything from 100 metronomes (Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Poème Symphonique,” performed by Iktus Percussion) to Yannis Kyriakides’s audiovisual compositions, juxtaposing projections of text with music performed by his own Ensemble MAE with the International Contemporary Ensemble.

There’s still time left to become a member and receive two free tickets to any Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York concert, in addition to the usual two free tickets, discounts, and other thank-you gifts we’re offering toward membership. So don’t delay – check out the great benefits of a membership to ISSUE Project Room.

Photos from the final Can Factory concert are after the jump!

Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York – presented for the first time in the United States by ISSUE Project Room – features the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi’s “Dèpart dans…”, a composer portrait of Yannis Kyriakides, International Contemporary Ensemble, Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Poème Symphonique” for 100 metronomes, Ensemble MAE, Wet Ink Ensemble, Iktus Percussion & much more.

Check out a few sample tracks from some of the artists who are performing at Gaudeamus Muziekweek, hosted on the Free Music Archive.

Help support ISSUE’s move to 110 Livingston – donate today!

What is share?

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.

open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join

8pm, free —

Tonight’s featured guest are:

Leslie Ross + Katherine Liberovskaya
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=822

Leslie Ross (quadrophonic sound performance) + Katherine Liberovskaya (visuals) will perform a rare duet set at Share!

Leslie Ross, performer, sound-installation artist, bassoonist and instrument-maker, has been exploring and experimenting with sound for over 25 years. In both gallery and street performance settings as well as in collaboration with choreographers, she has created works for numerous constructed instruments and installations. Her compositions for performance are mostly structured scores that play with memory and recall, where the ‘recalled’ may be developed in predetermined various ways. Improvisation remains the central and essential element of these scores.
In the past few years she has returned her focus to a detailed exploration and understanding of bassoon multiphonics. This process of investigation has led to the creation of solo works that use an extensive system of micro-amplification: 15 microphones are placed at tone holes on the instrument and the signal from these microphones are directed to many speakers around a room. She continues to build replicas of historical bassoons in her workshop on the Lower East Side of NYC.
Web site:http://www.leslieross.net/otherT.html

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal, Canada and New York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown around the world. Since 2001 her work mainly focuses on collaborations with composers/sound artists mainly in live video+sound performance. Among these: Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/ If,Bwana, Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat), Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, Tom Hamilton, David Watson, Anne Wellmer, David First, and many others. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently always been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX and Espace Vidéographe in Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC.
http://www.liberovskaya.net

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& also.. (a little later…)
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Compactor

http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=823

http://compactor.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/compactornoise

Compactor is the solo industrial/noise/electroglitch project of Derek Rush, who has been a participant at Share NYC off and on for a couple of years.
Derek is better known for his band Dream Into Dust and other projects with Bryin Dall including A Murder Of Angels.
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Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow

SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)

Show up early!!! and stay late!!

http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.org

Come down to the Can Factory this January 20 for a farewell-to-the-can-factory / record release party with Jonathan Kane’s February, Talibam! and MV Carbon & Tony Conrad. We’ll be celebrating the release of February’s first live album – recorded over two nights at ISSUE Project Room – and our move to 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn.

Check out a sample track from the album, hosted on the WFMU Free Music Archive. The entire album will be available at the concert on January 20, so hope to see you there!

Since 1945, the Netherlands-based contemporary music festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek has presented groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership with Gaudeamus, ISSUE Project Room will present, for the first time in the United States, a festival highlighting some of the extraordinary talent that has emerged from the Gaudeamus Muziekweek.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York will mark ISSUE Project Room’s move to its new home at 110 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, where it has won a 20-year, rent-free lease and where, beginning in late January, it will present all of its programming. One of New York’s foremost commissioners and presenters of experimental art and performance, ISSUE has grown rapidly since its 2003 founding. In the process, it has contributed to the development of the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, where it is currently located, and, previously, Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It will now play a vital role in the development of rapidly growing Downtown Brooklyn.

ISSUE Project Room’s gorgeous jewel-box theater at 110 Livingston—originally designed by McKim, Mead, and White and built in the 1920s—will become the only European-style chamber hall open to the public in New York, and one of only a few in the United States. ISSUE Project Room Executive Director Ed Patuto says, “The ability to present works in an authentic hall with acoustics that complement the performance will be an unprecedented asset for New York’s experimental and broader cultural communities.”

Like ISSUE, Gaudeamus serves as a catalyst and incubator for the development of trends in contemporary music. The festival has nurtured and supported the work of composers ranging from Louis Andriessen, Gyorgy Ligeti and Pauline Oliveros to Yannis Kyriakides, Richard Barrett and Ted Hearne.

Mixing performances by Dutch and American ensembles, Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York will feature the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi’s “Départ dans…” performed by Wet Ink Ensemble, plus performances by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Iktus Percussion, and the Netherlands-based ensemble MAE. Programs include a portrait of Amsterdam-based composer Yannis Kyriakides, an evening of electronic music featuring Wouter Snoei, Matthew Ostrowski, and Philip White & Ted Hearne; a rare performance of Gyorgi Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes; and performances by the CUNY New Music Ensemble.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services and has received funding through a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation. Support has also been provided by Buma Cultuur, Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Muziek Centrum Nederlands with special thanks to Erwin Maas and Henk Heuvelmans.

Flowers & Cream is a small press / independent POETRY publishing imprint founded by Sonic Youth songwriter Thurston Moore. The press aims to feature work of young, emerging poets steeped in contemporary poetic practice and investigation/illumination.

Living betwixt Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, Thurston Moore has been involved with editing the Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal since early 2000. His own verse has been published in various anthologies and by a number of imprints since Water Row Press first presented Alabama Wildman, a collection of scattered writings from the 1970s and 80s. He has been on faculty at the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University.

Moore will be joined by Elaine Kahn as the assistant poetry editor and business facilitator of Flowers & Cream Press. Elaine is a poet and songwriter with work published by Glass Eye Books, Big Baby Books, Ecstatic Peace Library, as well as being featured widely in various journals. She has worked as an intern for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, CA and as the Poetry Buyer for City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently resides in Northampton, MA.

Flowers & Cream recognizes the diversity of resonance in the contemporary poetry scene, a community charmed with reference to earlier schools, waves, gestures, pronouncements, and inks all with eyes both forward and askance.

The Littoral Series is made possible by support from The Casement Fund, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Food and eating are central to community. When we eat we are in companionship with our neighbors and all those who show up, both the invited guests and the unexpected company. Seated with us at the table are our fellow humans, plants, mushrooms, bacteria and other animals. While some of these visitors eat and some are eaten, all participate in a variety of exchanges.

Please join spurse (plus collaborators and special guests) in a mid-winter feast to explore and experiment with community. This multi-course meal will feature foraged and gleaned local plants and animals in unique preparations and one-of-a kind settings. The meal will be free and we ask in return a lively willingness to be in cahoots with the questions of eating, foraging, community and our multi-species commons. Collaborators include Jen Woodin, Chad Curtis, Cameron Andersen, En Sang Cho, Gale DellaRocco, Priscilla Dobler, Melissa Graff, Shoji Miyazawa, and Amy Williams.

Space is limited. RSVP required.

As ISSUE transitions from our current location in the Gowanus to our new home in Downtown Brooklyn, the nature of our programming, community and relationship to Brooklyn will change greatly. In an attempt to keep our decision-making transparent and create an open forum for community input, we have established an informal series called Species of Spaces. Meant to serve as a non-strategic plan for our move, a discussion running alongside and supplementing our normal work, Species of Spaces is an attempt to reinvigorate and extend our experimental origins. Species of Spaces will be the home for a plethora of shared concerns and interests with no defined structure or agenda. For each event, we will invite a number of guests and collaborators to help formulate the evening and lead the discussion. Each iteration will inform the next, the conversation gaining practicality and robustness throughout the year.

“To start with, then, there isn’t very much: nothingness, the impalpable, the virtually immaterial; extension, the external, what is external to us, what we move about in the midst of, out ambient milieu, the space around us.” – Georges Perec

This project received generous support from the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Species of Spaces is made possible by support from The Casement Fund, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image by Sara Driver

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 layers of melody and waves of feedback while acoustic guitar and lute wrap together with a subtle depth expemplifying an austere understanding and compatibility. Jarmusch’s guitar work is metaphysical, at times sounding like a hurdy gurdy and at other time sounding as if it is responding to the calls of the lute. The final piece, He Is Hanging By His Shiny Arms, His Heart An Open Wound With Love, finds Jarmusch accompanying a solo lute composition with a reading from St. John Of The Cross. With three titles named after Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s work, this record is extraordinary, new and arcane at the same time, modern but timeless.

Chamber Music Month is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.