Theoretical Music: UT + Talk Normal
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Ut
Ut returns for its first U.S. concert since 1991. Sprung from the downtown No Wave scene, Ut (Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham, Sally Young) originated in New York City in December 1978. They were joined by filmmaker Karen Achenbach in February 1979 before resuming as a three-piece with the original members in May 1980. Migrating to London in ’81, they released records on their own label, Out Records, and then on Blast First/Mute. Ut played what was thought to be their last gig in Paris in March 1990; their next performance was an announced set in London in July 2010. “The raw power and sheer drive of Ut is quite straightforward and unmistakable. This is a true threatening guitar band.” (New York Rocker)
Talk Normal
Since their lightning-strike first appearance, Brooklyn-based noise duo Talk Normal’s sound has stormed upward and outward, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls, and marching orders. Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register started Talk Normal in 2007, and Rare Book Room released their debut, Sugarland, in 2009.
Theoretical Music: Two panel discussions focusing on the crossing of the New York art and music scenes
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Robert Longo: Untitled (drawing for Glenn Branca Album Cover), from the series Men in the Cities, 1981 Graphite and charcoal on paper 60 x 60 inches/152.4 x 152.4 cm Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Panel One
Director Beth B, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, contemporary artist Dan Graham, artist/critic John Miller, painter/singer/musician Taro Suzuki, moderated by Branden W. Joseph.
Panel Two
Fashion designer/guitarist Nina Canal, writer/archivist Byron Coley, founder of Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) Peter Gordon, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, author Neb Sublette, moderated by David Grubbs.
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Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983
An event organized by Branden W. Joseph and David Grubbs for ISSUE Project Room
November 3-5, 2010
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
The last several years have been witness to an increasing number of exhibitions, books, and archival audio releases representing New York art, music, and underground cinema from the years that hinge the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, the traveling retrospective Dan Graham: Beyond, Thurston Moore and Byron Coley’s No Wave: Post-Punk, Underground, New York, 1976-1980, Marc Masters’ No Wave, Tim Lawrence’s Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992, and the DVD release of Ericka Beckman’s 135 Grand Street New York 1979 all speak to a growing interest in historicizing this period of multidisciplinary ferment.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Theoretical Music: Rome ’78 – Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker and Artist, James Nares
Buy the three-night package for $25, a discount of $5.
“Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983” is a three-day event organized by art historian Branden W. Joseph and musician David Grubbs to take place at ISSUE Project Room. Its purpose is to examine the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983. In addition to an evening of panel discussions (Thursday, Nov. 4) among some of the most notable figures to emerge from the art, music, and film scenes of the time, the event will include a rare screening of James Nares’s no wave epic, Rome ’78 (Wednesday, Nov. 3) and conclude with a concert performance headlined by the first New York appearance in years by the fearless, crucial downtown band, Ut (Friday, Nov. 5).
Rome ’78 (1978, 90 minutes, dir. James Nares)
Starring Patti Astor, James Chance, Bradley Field, David McDermott, Eric Mitchell, Lance Loud, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Anya Phillips, and Pat Place, among others.
British-born artist James Nares has lived and worked in New York for more than three decades. He is known both as a painter and as a filmmaker, and his films were the subject of a 2008 retrospective at Anthology Film Archives. Jim Jarmusch described Nares’s films as “luminous jewels scattered in the dirt—as varied and striking as his paintings, his photographs, and his train of thought.” As a painter, Nares uses his mastery of the balance between spontaneity and control to create a single elegant stroke that pulsates with energy, relating to Franz Kline as well as to the cartoon brushstrokes of Roy Lichtenstein. As a musician, Nares played with the Contortions and the Del-Byzanteens.
SWANS + Baby Dee + Ben Frost @ The Brooklyn Masonic Temple
The Swans
Presented by ISSUE Project Room in collaboration with Haunting The Chapel and the Blackened Music Series
@ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
317 Clermont Ave (@ Lafayette Ave)
7:00pm Doors
7:45pm Ben Frost
8:45pm Baby Dee
10:00pm-Midnight Swans
Midnight-3am Afterparty w/ DJ Sasha Grey
ISSUE Project Room in collaboration with Haunting The Chapel and the Blackened Music Series is thrilled to present Swans’ first NYC show inmore than a decade. It will take place at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, the loudest venue in the city.
Michael Gira has handpicked performance artist, harpist and accordionist Baby Dee to open the show, this time featuring keyboards accompanied by cello.
Formed in 1982 and led by Gira, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Swans instigated and heavily influenced New York’s NoWave scene. They are considered one of the most influential post-punk bands to date, often incorporating droning vocals, thunderous rhythms, and varied, complex instrumentation.
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Ikue Mori with alex waterman and ned rothenberg
Ikue will present an excerpt from her newest work in progress featuring live collage animation.
Adapting the illustration from the popular story book “Yellow Book” from the Edo period in 19th century in Japan called “Taihi no Senbonsakura” (tragedy of thousand hands goddess)
Thoe characters are now torn out from the original background and merge into a new environment interacting with live music.
Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music.
In the mid 80’s Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style.
Through out in 90’s She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. 1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also “One hundred Aspects of the Moon” commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99.
In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. 2000 commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premired the piece “Aphorism” also awarded Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship.
Recived the grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006. In 2008 Celebrated 30th music year, presented 5 on-going projects at Japan Society in NYC.
Current working groups include MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, duo project PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, various projects with John Zorn. and John Zorn’s Electric Masada.
SOLD OUT! Glenn Branca Ensemble – THE ASCENSION: THE SEQUEL
SOLD OUT
From left to right, guitars: Evelyne Buhler, Eric Hubel, Reg Bloor and Greg McMullen, conductor: Glenn Branca, drummer: Libby Fab, bass: Ryan Walsh (photo by Tony Cenicola)
The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album ”The Ascension: The Sequel” at Issue Project Room on Oct. 17th.
The set will be about an hour and will include three world premieres***:
1. “The Tone Row That Ruled The World”***
2. “Carbon Monoxide”***
3. “Quadratonic”***
4. “The Blood”
5. “Lesson No. 3 (tribute to Steve Reich, 2006)”
The show will open with excerpts from the Ericka Beckman film
“135 Grand Street 1979″
including the only known footage of No Wave bands: Theoretical Girls, The Static, Ut and Youth In Asia.
For more info or photos contact: glenn@glennbranca.com
James Nares
James Nares is known for his paintings, films and to some extent, his music (most notably as a member of the Contortions).
He will be showing a selection of his films, with an emphasis on those which have a musical or sonic component.
“As befits a linchpin of film’s No Wave movement, director James Nares is barely recognized for his impact on cinema. His aesthetic a ragged, often wordless and colorless zoom on inanimate objects or people oddly reduced to the same state — set a precedent built upon by more accessible filmmakers such as David Lynch.” -Flavorpill
“James Nares’ films are like luminous jewels scattered in the dirt — as varied and striking as his paintings, his photographs and his train of thought.”
- Jim Jarmusch
“Nares’ “Motion Pictures” will tear you apart and put you back together all at once.”
Amy Taubin- Artforum.
Glenn Branca + Neg-Fi + Paranoid Critical Revolution
GLENN BRANCA
NEG-FI
In addition to PCR, Guitarist Reg Bloor has been playing with Glenn Branca (to whom she is married) since 2000. She played in Branca’s Symphony No. 12, Lesson No. 3, his rock band Branca/Bloor, in his trio, eventually becoming Concertmaster for his Symphony No. 13 for 100 Guitars. In the late 90′s she was a founding member of the Boston-based band TWITCHER, who released the self-produced CD “Leg of Lamb of God” in 1999 and appeared on the soundtrack for the Troma film “Terror Firmer”.
Prior to joining PCR, drummer Libby Fab studied electro-acoustic music and music composition at Trinity College Dublin, where she completed an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology. Libby became part of the Glenn Branca crew in 2006 as technical director, rehearsal drummer and assistant engineer for Symphony No. 13. She has worked on Branca’s shows in Montclair (New Jersey), Ghent, Dublin, London, Minehead, Rome, Seattle and St. Louis. She also performed in Branca’s Lesson No. 3 in London and Minehead.
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