Either/Or
Either/Or is a cutting-edge contemporary music ensemble based in New York City. Founded in 2004 by pianist/composer Richard Carrick and percussionist David Shively, Either/Or focuses on compelling new and recent works for unconventional ensemble formations rarely heard elsewhere. The group draws upon its roster, featuring some of New York’s leading interpreters, to present intense chamber music alongside larger ensemble works. E/O has performed to critical acclaim at Miller Theatre, Merkin Concert Hall, The Kitchen, MATA Festival, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and ICA:Boston, in addition to frequent appearances at experimental music venues such as The Stone, Roulette, and Issue Project Room.
Ensemble Pamplemousse + Yarn/Wire
Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (Andrew Greenwald, Rama Gottfried, Dave Broome, Jessie Marino, Natacha Diels, Kiku Enomoto and Russell Greenberg) presents Absurd Limitations: the emergent product of reducing, restricting, narrowing, squelching, slicing, and otherwise removing all unnecessary fodder. In extremes, what remains is a curious series of decomplexities which the audience is driven to anatomize into a consolified structure. Space is at a premium; noise is molecular; silence is hypothetical but desired. Ensemble Pamplemousse presents five new works of exploitative self-limitation effectuated through the conflux of adventure and confusion.
Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in contemporary music. A unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists allows Yarn/Wire to interface with both traditional performance practice and emerging stylistic trends with ease. They will play alphabeta by Eric Wubbels and Wolf by Kate Soper.
The Propensity of Sound: New and historic works with Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue & Laurie Spiegel
This coming weekend, ISSUE will be hosting a series dedicated to the works of Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue & Laurie Spiegel. The compositional practices of each of these distinguished composers reflect an organic physical relationship with the natural properties of sound production. Through an extended engagement with new forms of electronic technology, the works of Oliveros, Radigue and Spiegel exhibit innovative and intuitive processes that rethink concepts of musical perception and redefine the traditionally hierarchical roles of performer/listener, professional/amateur, and musician/non-musician.
The subtle but wide-reaching impact of their pioneering works remains critically underexamined. Despite these artists’ development in parallel motion to the widely celebrated careers of composers such as La Monte Young and Philip Glass, the artistic trajectories of these three women remain largely underexposed and the inherent distinctions of their works from the male-dominated classification of minimalism remain underemphasized. Through a series of talks, rare performances, and premieres, “The Propensity of Sound” will begin a dialogue aiming to redress aspects of the distorted historical narrative of music after 1960, highlighting the essential contributions and wholly unique approaches to sound production developed by these women composers.
The program will include five events, including a special performance at ISSUE’s future home at 110 Livingston (entrance at 22 Boerum Place).
The Propensity of Sound festival is presented, in part, through generous support from The Barbara Lee Family Foundation and from CHORA, a project of the Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation led by Artist and Foundation Director Lauren Bon. CHORA aims to support the intangibles that precede creativity.
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Cadillac Moon Ensemble + Magic Names Group
Cadillac Moon Ensemble is changing the idiom of quartet music. With its unique instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and percussion, the ensemble is dedicated to retaining the intimacy and artistry of traditional chamber music while constantly challenging the way composers view a quartet. CME is focused on commissioning new works from and developing integral relationships with emerging and established composers.
CME presents a concert of works for a traveling quartet:
Program:
Christian Wolff – Pairs (1968)
Matthew Welch – “…for fear that my shadow may enter the world…” (2010)*#
Wolfgang Rihm – Deploration (1979)
Pawel Szymanski – Limericks (1979)
Nicholas Chase – Street Mix No. 1: New York (2010)*#
* world premiere # written for CME
Danielle Weinberg, percussion
Andie Springer, violin
Roberta Michel, flutes
Evelyn Farny, cello
Magic Names is a 6-member self-led vocal ensemble, founded in 2007 to champion Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, which the group premiered after an intensive 18-month rehearsal period in May 2009 at New Museum in New York City. Members are Dafna Naphtali, Nick Hallett, Gisburg, Robert Osborne, Daisy Press, and Peter Sciscioli. Magic Names, presents Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” and a new work by Dafna Naftali entitled “Panda Half-Life” made possible through funding from the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program of American Composer’s Forum.
Share – all night free open audio & video jam – featured guests @ 10:30PM Chen + Yassin + Carey + Olsen
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
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 feature guest will play @ 10:30PM: The set will happen immediately following Issue Project Room’s ‘Jandek’ concert taking place at the (OA) Can Factory’s courtyard.
A rare meeting of the three from three points of the world:
Audrey Chen (cello/voice) Baltimore
Raed Yassin (acoustic bass) Beirut/Amsterdam
Jeff Carey (live electronics) Odenton
Morten J Olsen (percussion) Norway/Berlin
Audrey Chen (cello/voice)
http://myspace.com/audreychen
jeff carey (electronics)
http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org
Raed Yassin (acoustic bass)
http://myspace.com/raedyassin
Morten J Olsen (percussion)
http://www.myspace.com/themoha
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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://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=600
Share – collective showcase by the artists group, ‘ichiigai’ from Karlsruhe, Germany
What is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
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 presentation:
Come EARLY!!! to catch the very special presentations/showcases by the artists group, ‘ichiigai’ from Karlsruhe, Germany!
The concentrated presentations will be 1 hour total by 8 artists, starting at around 20:30. Do not miss the occasion!
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About ichiigai
ichiigai is an independent label for sonic and visual art, run by artists in the vicinity of the State University for Arts and Design (HFG) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe,
Germany.
ichiigai means ‚not one‘ or !1.
ichiigai promotes the fusion of sound, music, video and art.
ichiigai is focused on a model of distributed creative action situated in modern networked
communities.
http://www.ichiigai.com
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See Share’s website for detailed information about all the artists: http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=602
(in the alphabetical order:)
capman
born 1982
Musician [Lo-fi Electro Psykedelic Punk FreeJazz Noiz]
AudioVisual Performer & Producer
studies MediaArt at University of Arts & Design Karlsruhe. Germany
works on improvisation, installation, spatial acoustics, moving pictures.
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co of bacosa
The music of BACOSA is located between minimal-electronica and Jazz-improvisation.
Acoustic sounds generate electronic sounds.
Frank Halbig
born 1970 in Munich / Germany.
Studied in the class for gold- and silversmith at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg; masterclass.
Studied media art at State University for Arts and Design (HfG) Karlsruhe.
Guest artist at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe since 2006.
Executive producer at the radioplay department (ars acustica) of the Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden since 2007.
Head of the Media art/sound department at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design since 2008.
http://www.frankhalbig.com
http://www.bacosa.de
http://www.sol-sol.de
http://www.antarktika.at
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dmda
DMDA, born 1978 in Cologne/Germany. Lives and works in Karlsruhe and Cologne. He is a musican, artist and performer who works alone as well as in severeal coorporations and projects with artists of different categories.
His perfomances are made up of electronic live sets, theatric, partially absurd stagings, audio-visual installations as well as instrumental
improvisations. His sound is covering a wide range in which the human voice, harmonic guitars, synthesizers are spread as well as distorted,
minimalistic beats, metal guitars and painfull noise.
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fff
run by Florian Meyer since 2004.
Born 1976 in Berlin / Germany.
Demand is the sound producing usage of music related objects and machines, which are not intended to produce sound by themselves.
Main fokus is the classical dj-setup, recently reduced to only the mixing-device and/or some cables.
Hereby the process for realization of music is subjekt to various conditions and hence to sudden change at any time. The result is a ruminant quest for spaces beyond melody and rhythm.
fff-performances therefore take place along the line between boring media-art and interesting music or the other way round.
Spin-off from iff
http://www.khm.de/~flw/feinmotorik
http://www.discogs.com/fff4-barkthatfishingmarble/release/1435065
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irel.ier
semi-algorythmic lifeperformances, DJing, DIY electronics, installation and multichannel compositions.
With sh, member of composting.
Releases:
lofi e.p. – tape release
earshot e.p. – net release
dub wrec sessions – net release
Further information:
http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~lfuettere
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sh
Frank Bierlein
is a audio-visual artist who lives in Karlsruhe/Germany.
He is studing media art at the State University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. His work currently focuses on multichannel sound installations, experimental sound, electronic dance music and non-linear, interactive‚ game-engine based music and video works.
The artist‘s works have been exhibited at smc in Berlin (2008), Hörspieltage at ZKM Karlsruhe (2008) etc. He has performed with other ichiigai-artists in several locations around Germany including electronic church (Berlin), kuhle knut (Freiburg), art’s birthday »safe and sound« (Karlsruhe) and has produced sound and visuals for the project „lepidoptera“ in cooperation with dancers from „bewegungs-art“ in Freiburg.
Further information:
http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~fbierlein/
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soundflorA
The artist SoundflorA is routed in traditional
singer-song writer music for voice and guitar. In 2007 she startet to use electronic devices like MIDI and drum-sampling and combined them with unusual analog instruments such as a paper-tape organ, bells and the use of found footage sound. So noise and music find a new synthesis on the border between alternativ soundtrack and radio play.
Last year SoundflorA finished the unpublished concept album „The duration of a soap bubble“
based on philosophical texts. It includes very different electro-acoustic tracks.
In general SoundflorA is a loop-based artist.
The newest project is called „I‘m a walkman band“ and more performance orientated.
For this kind of „retro-sampling“ she trys to use outmoded equipment with modern Dj-techniques and follows in the footsteps of artist like the japanese Aki Onda and his „Casette Memories“.
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tordebruit
Elmar Farchmin
Born 1980 East-Berlin
MediaArtStudent (HfG Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ichiigai-Member since 2004
Visual Arts – Animation, VJing.
Soundtrack, Musicvideo, Radioplay MaxMSP Programming, selfmade Interfaces.
SoundInstallations – Multichannel Evironment – up to 44 speakers, Mobile, Sculpture.
Performances – DJing, Cello, Voice, Dirty Electronics.
Several Bands/Projects – accoustic/electronic/lyrical.
He performed at different locations in german cities – Berlin, Hamburg, Munich…
Share @ Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
The Conference of the Guitars (works by James Tenney, Dan Joseph, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Paula Matthusen and Lisa Coons)
“THE CONFERENCE OF THE GUITARS”
Works for multiple electric guitars by James Tenney, Dan Joseph, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Paula Matthusen and Lisa Coons.
The Conference of the Guitars (works by James Tenney, Dan Joseph, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Paula Matthusen and Lisa Coons)
“The Conference of the Guitars”
Works for multiple electric guitars by James Tenney, Dan Joseph, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Paula Matthusen and Lisa Coons.
Performed by Dan Joseph, Marco Cappelli, and Elliott Sharp with Dither: Josh Lopes; James Moore; David Linaburg; and Taylor Levine.
Septet for Six Electric Guitars and Bass – James Tenney
Particle Accelerator – Dan Joseph
SyndaKit – Elliott Sharp
tba – Marco Cappelli
but because without this – Paula Matthusen
X-Sections (excerpt)– Lisa Coons
Chris McIntyre + Arthur Kampela
ARTHUR KAMPELA
“Navigating between Avant-Bossas-Novas, Atonal Sambas, and complex new music pieces…”
Kampela’s “chamber music band”:
Arthur Kampela on guitar, viola, vocal(s) and electronics
Margaret Lancaster on flute(s),
Stephanie Griffing viola,
Joanne Lin, Cello,
Danny Barrett, cello,
Jose Moura electric bass
Pradeep Ratanyake, Sitar
Arthur Kampela is an internationally acclaimed composer and guitar player, who has recently been commissioned by the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC for a composition, scheduled to be conducted by Magnus Lindberg in December 2009. In 2007, his “Elastics II” (for flutes, guitar, and electro-acoustic sounds) and “Percussion Study V” (for viola and-acoustic sounds) were premiered at Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, by the Linea Ensemble; and in 2006, his “Antropofagia” (for electric guitar and large chamber ensemble) was premiered at the ISCM World Music Days 2006 Festival, by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin with Wiek Hijmans on electric guitar.
Today in New York, Kampela is also regarded as a Dionysian performer: in his review of Kampela’s performance at the 92nd Street Y, Tim Brookes stated, “[Kampela] played the most avant-garde music of the show,using tapping effects, using a spoon, playing with the strings bent off the side of the fingerboard: one of the pieces ended with a noise that sounded like a Geiger counter…he never lost a sense of joy, of surprise or that infectious rhythm. It was clearly the work of a madman…a Brazilian madman.”
Pianist Jenny Lin just recorded his piano ‘tour-de-force’ “Nosturnos” opening her CD “The Eleventh Finger” released by by Koch label. Kampela’s compositions have been performed all over the world. Locally, at Weill Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Miller Theater, Mannes College, 92Y, Americas Society, at Satalla, The Cutting Room, etc. He has toured with his band playing in places as diverse as Mexico City, São Paulo, Strasbourg and most recently the Outreach Festival, in Schwaz, Austria.
In the ’80s, Kampela was celebrated in Rio de Janeiro for compositions that fused popular Brazilian styles (Bossa Nova, Samba, Tropicália) with Free Jazz and contemporary textural techniques. In Brazil, he was likened to Frank Zappa for his virtuosic musicianship and madcap performances, such as playing lead guitar while dressed as a hermaphrodite–his right side in drag, left in a suit–to portray two characters–one singing falsetto–in a short opera about a couple negotiating the perils of lovemaking in a Volkswagen.
Kampela holds a Doctorate degree (D.M.A.) from Columbia University, having been taught by such composers as Mario Davidovsky, at Columbia, and abroad,, by the British Brian Ferneyhough. A recent graduate from CUNY, partly wrote her dissertation (Rhythm in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finissy, and Arthur Kampela: a Guide for Performers) on Kampela’s music and a rhythmic system he developed: “micrometric modulation” based on commutative and associative properties that coordinate the unfolding of complex ratios and sub-ratios, expanding Elliott Carter’s work on rhythm. In some compositions, Kampela employs ergonomic and motoric approaches to subvert traditional playing techniques. For example, in “Exoskeleton” for solo viola, a guitarist plays the viola, using guitar-playing techniques.
Kampela’s links:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=arthur+kampela+videos&aq=f (VIDEOS YOUTUBE)
http://www.myspace.com/arthurkampela (MUSIC MYSPACE)
http://www.kampela.com (MY WEB SITE)
Ben Katz
Ben Katz is a harpsichordist and composer based in New York City. He has studied harpsichord with Arthur Haas and composition with Kitty Brazelton, Jim Pugliese, and Anthony Coleman. Past projects have included an all-Bach program for Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS Johannathon Event and an Evening of Young Composers at ISSUE Project Room. Katz has worked extensively as a continuo player. Many of his compositions incorporate the sounds of Willard Martin’s unique keyboard instruments including the Ultimo, a just-intonation harpsichord, and the Lautenwerk, strung in gut to sound like a lute.
Steven Long, composer/visual artist/harpsichord
Mandy Wolman, violin
Brendan Evans, guitar
On February 27th composers Ben Katz and Steven Long, joined by Amanda Wolman and Brendan Evans, will present new music for Les Neiges D’Antan, a chamber group of two harpsichords, violin, and guitar formed for the occasion. Long has a painted a harpsichord lid as a visual counterpoint to the music. Long and Katz will peform Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres’s Pavanne: L’entretien des Dieux in their arrangement for two harpsichords.
Shelley Burgon + Michael Wilhelmi
Shelley Burgon (harp & computer) is a member of the collaborative chamber ensemble Ne(x)tworks and the band Stars Like Fleas. She has spent the last six years improvising as a soloist and with many legendary people associated with the New York downtown avante-garde music scene. Currently, she is spending her time composing and songwriting. She received a BA in Jazz Studies from SFSU and and MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. She can be heard on many labels including Hometapes, Ipecac and Tzadik.
www.myspace.com/starslikefleas
Berlin Based Pianist, Michael Wilhelmi presents new works for interactive electronics and Piano.
Ensemble Pamplemousse
ensemble pamplemousse
Founded in 2002 as a vehicle for musical exploration, Pamplemousse presents concerts of extraordinary focus and clarity. Comprised of virtuosic musicians trained in classical, electronic, and improvisational realms, the group consistently delivers fresh, exhilarating new concepts in sound. The members’ eagerness for aural discovery has allowed for ample experimentation processes, where boundaries are non-existent, and from which a strong dialogue has emerged. Among the group’s vernacular resides formerly unfathomable sound landscapes formed by the acute relationships the performers have forged with each other, and with the composers who are an intrinsic part of the ensemble. The product, uncompromising and resolutely beautiful, is created by incredibly innovative, yet-to-be-named approaches to performance and composition.
http://www.ensemblepamplemousse.org
Listen to Ensemble Pamplemousse play “Butterfly Effect” by composer Natacha Diels:
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till by turning + folds ensemble
Till by Turning is the collective effort of Amy Cimini, Erica Dicker, Emily ManzoSarah Biber, and Katherine Young.
Working as performers, educators, improvisers, scholars, composers, and song-writers — Till by Turning performs new chamber music by established and emerging artists and develops creative educational programs.
“There’s an old Shaker dance number, written in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett, that likely serves as inspiration for…Till by Turning. It’s called “Simple Gifts,” and what it describes is a kind of serendipitous joy in movement through time and space: “When true simplicity is gain’d / To bow and to bend we shan’t be asham’d / To turn, turn will be our delight / Till by turning, turning we come round right.”
The group belongs to a new generation of adventurous musicians bringing contemporary music to clubland….the players dip into the modern canon…and give breath to new works by their peers.” – Steve Dollar, Time Out Chicago
The members of Till by Turning met while studying instrumental performance at Oberlin Conservatory. Inspired in part by a unique instrumentation (violin, viola, cello, bassoon, and piano), our first concert was a program of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music.
Since then, we have commissioned and premiered music by Jessica Pavone, Aaron Siegel, Sabrina Schroeder, Alex Ness, and Katherine Young. Our repertoire also includes pieces by Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen, Harold Meltzer, James Tenney, and Christian Wolff. Our dedication to challenging and experimental new music goes hand in hand with our commitment to educational programs.
Jason Brogan (director), Michael Hanf (performance), Nathan Koci (horn), David Linaburg (electric guitar), Dave Ruder (clarinet) and Sam Sfirri (piano)
“A fold is always folded within a fold, like a cavern in a cavern. The unit of matter, the smallest element of the labyrinth, is the fold, not the point which is never a part, but a simple extremity of the line.” (4)
“[E]very contour is blurred to give definition to the formal powers of the raw material, which rise to the surface and are put forward as so many detours and supplementary folds.” (17)
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold
folds ensemble:
experimental music and performance
Jason Brogan, electric guitar (director)
Kieran Daly, laptop/activities
Sam Sfirri, piano/melodica
On January 25, ISSUE Project Room will inaugurate its new space at 110 Livingston with Gaudeamus Muziekweek, a four-day festival celebrating groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership ...
ISSUE is starting off the New Year with a change of scenery. That's right, Issue Project Room is moving out of our space at the Old American Can Factory and into 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. We've had a great run at the Can Factory,...