ISSUE Project Room Presents a Double-Header Honoring
Elliott Sharp and Premieres its First Orchestral
and Operatic Commissioned Works
“…Brooklyn’s leading avant-garde venue…” – Wall Street Journal
Brooklyn, NY (For Release 02.02.2011) ---- ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn’s premier experimental performing arts space, celebrates a month of “firsts” all throughout March 2011. ISSUE celebrates the 60th birthday of composer, innovator, and guitar virtuoso Elliott Sharp in a two-night concert series (3/4 & 3/5). On March 4, ISSUE presents E#@60, its first benefit to be held at its prospective home at 110 Livingston Street. Hosted by Jo Andres and Steve Buscemi, the evening showcases Sharp, his collaborators, and his world premiere works (including an ISSUE commission), as well as performances by world-renowned artists including the JACK and Sirius Quartets. On March 5, several guest artists are slated to perform Sharp’s works including a premiere for Orchestra Carbon.
Marking its first orchestral commission, ISSUE premieres four new works by Duane Pitre, Tony Conrad, Katherine Young, and Alex Mincek for the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (3/12). ISSUE also premieres its first operatic commission, a new sinful rock opera Original Innocence by Dave Nuss and Eric Sanders (3/25).
As always, ISSUE continues to support under-the-radar artists including two new Artists-in-Residence: trumpeter Nate Wooley (3/11) and bassist James Ilgenfritz (3/19); as well as 2011 Emerging Artists Commission recipient Ben Vida (3/17).
Other highlights this month include: the CD release concert of violinist Todd Reynolds (3/16); the raw sounds of guitarist Chris Forsyth and vocal-percussion duet Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai (3/18); and our latest Littoral series event – The Hole Picture, An Intergenerational Dialogue on Erotics & Porn in Lesbian-Feminist Queer Cinema. Complete March 2011 schedule is below.
All Doors @ 8:00PM, Concerts @ 8:30PM (unless otherwise noted)
All events at ISSUE Project Room 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Train F/G Carroll St-Smith St
Train F/G/M/R Fourth Ave-9th St (unless otherwise noted)
Artists and schedules are subject to change
Ongoing 3.01-3.31: ISSUE’s Sonic Bed_Marfa featuring music by Bora Yoon + Betsey Biggs (*FREE*)
ISSUE’s ongoing Sonic Bed_Marfa sound installation continues to feature new works during the month of March. Sonic Bed_Marfa, installed in the loft above ISSUE’s concert space, is a permanent installation of sound making furniture. Designed by sound artist Kaffe Matthews, the bed is upholstered in bright yellow felt and capped in plexiglass. Everyone is welcome to visit the bed for free by appointment.
About Bora Yoon (3.01 – 3.15)
Bora Yoon is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer who creates architectural soundscapes from voice, everyday found objects, chamber instruments, and digital devices. Featured in WIRE magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations, Yoon explores where sound connects to the subliminal in an art form that is part radio Foley, part musical sound design, and movement—creating music with modern and antiquated technologies that plays with sensory associations and spatial idiosyncrasies with much spontaneity and little regard to the classifying genres of instrumentation. Yoon has toured her original sound work ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, at Lincoln Center, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Cannes Advertising Festival with TED conferences, Roulette Intermedium, the Bang on a Can Marathon, and universities across the globe. Her music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation, TED conference, Microsoft, and Samsung; commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC and the SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Asian American Arts Alliance; and supported by Sorel Organization for Women Composers, Billboard, BMI, the Arion Foundation; published by Boosey and Hawkes, Innova, SubRosa, Swirl Records, and the Journal of Popular Noise.
About Betsey Biggs (3.16 – 3.31)
Betsey Biggs is a Brooklyn and Providence-based composer and artist whose practice in music, sound, video and installation aims to explore the resonance between sound and image, to actively engage the audience, and to explore relationships among sound, memory, and geography. The New Yorker describes her work as "psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears." Her music and art has appeared at venues as disparate as ISSUE Project Room, Abrons Arts Center, the Conflux Festival, MASSMoCA, Sundance Film Festival, and on the streets of Oakland, Red Hook, Williamsburg and the Gowanus. Biggs holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University.
Sonic Bed_Marfa at ISSUE Project Room is provided courtesy of Kaffe Matthews and Ballroom Marfa. It was originally commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in Texas for The Marfa Sessions, featuring new works by fifteen artists curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates, and Lucy Raven.
WED 3.02: Rafael Toral w/ Ben Hall ($12/Members $10)
Rafael Toral plays experimental electronic instruments. Strongly interested in phrasing, he calls his style “post-free jazz electronic music,” once described as “a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers.”
Improvising percussionist Ben Hall is a founding member of the 1/4 speed jazz group Graveyards with John Olson of Wolf Eyes. He works with object-based percussion as well as trap set, and curates the label brokenresearch, which focuses on new American improvisation.
FRI 3.04 + SAT 3.05: A Special Two-Night Celebration Honoring Elliott Sharp
A longtime supporter of ISSUE Project Room since its inception in 2003, Sharp will be one of the first artists to premiere new works at ISSUE’s prospective space at 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn.
Elliott Sharp leads the projects Carbon, Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane, and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Radio-Symphony of Frankfurt; Debbie Harry, Perry Hoberman; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; jazz greats Jack Dejohnette, Sonny Sharrock, Oliver Lake, and Billy Hart; turntable innovator Christian Marclay; and Bachir Attar of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka, Morocco. Sharp’s work was featured in the New Music Stockholm festival (2008), at the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale (2007) and the Venice Biennale (2003, 2007).
FRI 3.04 @ 7:00PM: E#@60: A Benefit Concert Honoring Elliott Sharp’s 60th Birthday ($250 VIP Tickets / $50 8 pm concert & after-party only)
Honoring the 60th birthday of composer, innovator, and guitar virtuoso Elliott Sharp, ISSUE Project Room presents a benefit concert hosted by film/dance/light artist Jo Andres and Golden Globe Award Winner Steve Buscemi. The concert premieres two new works by Sharp including Trinity for Andres and Buscemi, and Occam’s Razor, commissioned by ISSUE Project Room, for JACK Quartet and Sirius Quartet, and features performances by Sharp, author Jack Womack and poet Tracie Morris. This marks the first benefit event to be held at ISSUE’s future location at 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn.
SAT 3.05 @ 5:00PM – 12:30AM: Elliott Sharp with Friends at the Can Factory ($35/Members *FREE*)
5:00-7:00PM: Flexagons, a new composition by Elliott Sharp performed by his Orchestra Carbon and conducted by Butch Morris: Open rehearsal and discussion
7:30-8:30PM: Screening of Bert Shapiro's documentary on Sharp "Doing The Don't"
8:30-8:50PM: Elliott Sharp solo: excerpts from Octal for 8-string guitarbass
9:00-9:50PM: Flexagons performance with Curtis Fowlkes-trombone, Chris McIntire-trombone, Jenny Lin-piano, Danny Tunick-percussion, vibraphone, Kevin Ray-bass, Reuben Radding-bass, Judith Insell-viola, Rachel Golub - violin, Ha-Yang Kim-cello, Briggan Krauss - alto sax, Oscar Noriega - reeds, and E#-guitar, reeds
10:00-10:30PM: Oligosono by Sharp: piano solo performed by Jenny Lin
10:40-11:20PM: Bootstrappers: JG Thirwell-electronics, Anthony Coleman-piano, Melvin Gibbs-bass, Don McKenzie-drums, Carl Stone-laptop, and E#-guitar
11:30-11:45 PM: Amygdala by Sharp: guitar solo performed by Marco Cappelli
12:00-12:30AM: All-Guitar SyndaKit with Ben Tyree, Marco Cappelli, Angela Babin, Marc Sloan, Ron Anderson, Zach Layton, Dave Scanlon, Debra DeSalvo, James Ilgenfritz, and Anders Nilsson
THU 3.10: MATA Interval 4.3 ($10/Advanced $9/Members $8)
The final concert in the MATA Interval series, curated by Sugar Vendil, features works experimental and electro-acoustic works by Ryan Manchester, Nina Young, Izzi Ramikssoon, and Jay Wadley. Fashion designer Jonathan Cohen will draw inspiration from these pieces and musicians will “wear” the music they perform. Performers include David Veslocki and JY Lee.
FRI 3.11: Artist-in-Residence Nate Wooley presents The Seven Storey Mountain (*FREE*) Post-concert ISSUE Members’ Q&A with Artistic Advisory Board Member David Grubbs
Trumpet player Nate Wooley, a 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence, will present The Seven Storey Mountain, a 7-part series of abstractions and additive processes on the theme of ecstaticism. Each performance features elements of all the proceeding performances, and consists of a layered tape background over which Wooley combines graphic notation and improvisation. Performers include Paul Lytton, Chris Corsano, David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Matt Moran, and Chris Dingman. Wooley’s performances and recordings, called “exquisitely hostile,” have been numbered amongst a privileged handful that has helped to shape a new approach to the instrument.
Established in 2006, ISSUE's AIR program provides emerging artists with a 3-month residency including rehearsal space, production, curatorial, and PR/marketing support to create new works, to reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience. ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Jerome Foundation, the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.
SAT 3.12: ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn Commissions (Duane Pitre, Tony Conrad, Katherine Young, Alex Mincek) at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights ($15/Members $12)
ISSUE Project Room, in partnership with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB), is proud to premiere four newly commissioned works. Former ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence Duane Pitre premieres his new work Suspended in Dreams along with a new work by ISSUE board member and pioneer Tony Conrad, virtuoso bassoonist Katherine Young’s Inhabitation of Time, and Wet Ink Ensemble Artistic Director Alex Mincek’s Ebb and Flow. The concert will be conducted by SOB Artistic Director Eli Spindel.
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String Orchestra of Brooklyn is a close-knit group of musicians dedicated to exploring the breadth of the string repertoire, from the concerti of Bach to the latest experimental works by emerging composers. The orchestra also seeks out collaborative projects with other like-minded performance ensembles and organizations, including ISSUE Project Room, American Opera Projects, and Hellgate Harmonie. Founded in 2007 by violinist and conductor Eli Spindel, the SOB has quickly become an integral part of Brooklyn's growing musical community. Based at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights, the ensemble also presents an annual summer concert in Fort Greene Park, and holds regular chamber recitals around the borough.
www.thesob.orgWED 3.16: Todd Reynolds Record Release ($10 & $20/Advanced $9/Members $8)
Todd Reynolds' Double CD Release party for Outerborough on Innova.
Todd Reynolds unveils his debut double CD with a bang, featuring performances of selected tunes off the record, which features his own music alongside a host of New York notables including Michael Gordon, David Lang, Michael Lowenstern, David T. Little, Ken Thomson, Paula Matthusen, Phil Kline, as well as tunes from both members of indie-sensations The Books, Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto. The event will also feature guest performing artists and the New York premieres of integrated videos from The Books, live video art by R. Luke DuBois, and Outerborough by Bill Morrison. Sponsored in part by the New Spectrum Foundation, food and drink will be heavily subsidized.
THU 3.17: Emerging Artists Commission: Ben Vida — Piece for Difference Tones (interrupted) & (computer controlled) Analog Sound Objects (*FREE*) + Post-concert ISSUE Members’ Q&A with Brian Gempp (of Amish Records)
The second of ISSUE’s 2011 Emerging Artists Commissions, awarded to composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Vida, features Vida’s Piece for Difference Tones (interrupted) & (computer controlled) Analog Sound Objects. The new work focuses on the intersections between analog and digital sound synthesis systems. These systems produce what Vida calls “non-representational sound objects,” which are generated in the inner ear rather than from an outside source. It is in these moments, when the inner ear-activating difference tones are punctured by analog exclamations, that a deeper spatialization is revealed and the listener’s aural perception is expanded.
Ben Vida is a composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who for the past thirteen years worked in many different musical styles, inter-disciplinary collaborations and bands. As a composer his works include pieces for analog/digital hybrid synthesizing systems, acoustic compositions written for his group Town and Country and multi-channel sound/video installations. This year he will be a Composer in Residence at New York’s Diapason Space and at EMS Studios, Stockholm, Sweden. He was an artist in residency at the Electronic Television Center (Owega, NY) in 2008.
Ben’s new work is commissioned as part of ISSUE Project Room’s Emerging Artists Commission and is made possible, in part, through generous support from: the Greenwall Foundation; the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
FRI 3.18: Chris Forsyth’s Paranoid Cat + Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai ($10/Advanced $9/Members $8)
Paranoid Cat is Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth’s third solo album -- a sprawling, harmonically-charged side-long suite backed by a clutch of compositions merging raw and delicate American roots traditions. After more than a decade trotting the globe and recording with a mess of today’s avant-garde greats, plus co-leading the brazenly absurd Peeesseye, Forsyth has arranged a full band to accompany his electric six-string vision of interlocking arpeggios and maximalist peaks. Performers include drummer Mike Pride, bassist Peter Kerlin, pianist Hans Chew (member of D. Charles Speer & Helix), pedal steel player Marc Orleans (Sunburned, D. Charles Speer, etc), Koen Holtkamp (of Mountains) on synths, and trumpeter Nate Wooley. Since Forsyth released his debut 45 in 1998, his guitar style has been equally split between the rich yet often abstract melodies as a solo artist to the fractured, confrontational forces in the Peeesseye trio or alongside Tetuzi Akiyama, and in the tailored collaborations Phantom Limb & Bison and Dirty Pool.
Tonight, as on the recently released Wild & Foolish Heart, vocalist Suzanne Langille performs with sitarist Neel Murgai, in a distinctive vocal-percussion duet. When The Wire reviewed the album, it spoke at length about Suzanne Langille’s vocals without really describing her voice or singing style. Instead, it focused on her aesthetic, noting how she prefers to let go of ego, “throw herself at the feet of her material and let it speak through her.” Best known for her work with guitarist Loren Connors, she began stepping out more individually in the late 1990s, with a solo piece for RoadCone’s InStress series of 7” EPs, and a Secretly Canadian release of the unusual Enchanted Forest.
Neel Murgai is a multi-instrumental performer/composer. He specializes in sitar, which he learns from Pundit Krishna Bhatt, and has a passion for frame drums, including the Persian daf, learned from Soheil Zolfonun. In addition to his work with Langille, Murgai has composed music for film and TV and performed with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Cyndi Lauper, Wyclef Jean, Sameer Chatterjee, Yuerba Buena, Yes Men, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Ellen Stewart, Laraaji, Baba Israel, Raz Mesinai, Mission on Mars, Akim Funk Buddha, Loren Conners, Louis Bellogenis and Cosmo Vinyl.
SAT 3.19: Artist-in-Residence James Ilgenfritz (*FREE*)
I: James Ilgenfritz: The music of Anthony Braxton for Solo Bass
Various works from Anthony Braxton's Duo, Quartet, Ghost Trance Music, Pulse Track, and works for brass ensemble or orchestra are collaged together using Language Music -based improvisation structures.
II: New music for chamber ensemble
A new chamber work for septet, featuring Leah Paul (flute), Kirk Knuffke (trumpet), Julianne Carney (violin), Chris Dingman (vibraphone), Taylor Levine (guitar), and Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), and Ilgenfritz on contrabass, followed by a game piece for the septet, augmented with percussionists and woodwinds.
III: Billy Fox's Blackbirds and Bullets: CD Release Party
Composer Billy Fox's second record for Clean Feed, Dulces, features jazz improvisation influenced by West African and north Indian music. The band, Blackbirds and Bullets, features James Ilgenfritz (bass), John O’Brien (drums), Evan Mazunik (keyboards), Miki Hirose (trumpet), Gary Pickard (saxophone), Matt Parker (saxophone), and the composer playing maracas and conducting.
Bassist/composer James Ilgenfritz approaches the double bass as an archeologist, examining rarified aspects of the instrument’s sonic palette to confound the status quo. Recent performances include work with George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Dick, John Zorn, Gary Lucas, Marilyn Crispell, Lukas Ligeti, and Dave Ballou. In 2007, James received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum for a cross-country tour, performing newly commissioned semi-improvisational notated works for contrabass by composers Jeffrey Treviño, Stephen Rush, and Gordon Befferman, culminating in a performance at Roulette in NYC. Improvisation is central to James’s work, and he has written and lectured on the art of improvisation and its metaphorical relationship to the practical complexity of daily life.
Established in 2006, ISSUE's AIR program provides emerging artists with a 3-month residency including rehearsal space, production, curatorial, and PR/marketing support to create new works, to reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience. ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Jerome Foundation, the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.
FRI 3.25: Original Innocence – A new opera by Dave Nuss and Eric Sanders ($12/Members $10)
Original Innocence, ISSUE Project Room’s first operatic commission, is a rock opera conceived by Dave Nuss and Eric Sanders. Based in the Depression-era South, a traveling troupe of performers from a new religious sect dramatically depict their theology in a tent-meeting style “passion play” about the creation of the world. While their tale includes familiar characters from the Biblical narrative -- Adam, Eva, Lucifer, and Satan -- the purpose of their myth is to redefine humanity not as corrupted by but founded on the concept of “original sin.” The narrative tells of the pre-historical mythology of our world, offering a tale of Adam and Eva’s "first love" in which their "sin" ultimately leads to our "salvation” – a celebration of our physical existence, ability to love unconditionally, and opportunity to be liberated from desire and suffering.
Eric Sanders is a New York City-based playwright and producer. He is the author of the hit fightsical "Last Life" at the Ohio Theatre and Brick Theater, directed by Timothy Haskell. Other shows include "The Wendigo," "Ixomia," "fuckplays," "Dread Awakening," "Oblivia," "Faint," "Heartless," "The Hillside," and "It's a Dry Heat." Eric was the Associate Producer on the musical "Xanadu" on Broadway, as well as the hit indie-rock musical "Hostage Song" at the Kraine Theater. He is currently working on his first feature film, "Night of the Long Knives,” which he is writing and directing. www.funintrouble.com
Dave Nuss has been an active part of the NYC musical community for nearly twenty years. Currently he is working on promotional projects with FeralHouse Press (Seattle) and Process Media (LA, CA) on music related to new American religious movements. After completing an extensive audio-archiving project on the Source Family and Yahowha 13 (based in Hawaii), he created the band Sabbath Assembly to perform the hymns of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a UK-based apocalyptic 70’s cult.
SAT 3.26 @ Screening 3PM & Panel 5:30PM: LITTORAL: The Hole Picture: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Erotics & Porn in Lesbian-Feminist Queer Cinema (*FREE* $8 Suggested Donation)
The feminist reception and production of pornography has had a complicated & fascinating trajectory, a discourse of representation often bound by the logic of the male gaze. The Hole Picture brings together a selection of socio-sexual films & videos by artists Barbra Hammer, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner that celebrate desire and redefine notions of queer sexuality and the lesbian body. Presenting a multigenerational overview of representation, this screening and panel discussion will focus on contemporary artistic practices which incorporate avant-garde visions of sexuality and erotics, dissecting the trope of pornography itself. Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by art historian Kelly Dennis, author of Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching.
Dyketactics, 1974, 4 minutes, Barbara Hammer
Menses, 1974, 4 minutes, Barbara Hammer
Multiple Orgasm, 1976, 6 minutes, Barbara Hammer
Women I Love, 1976, 22 minutes, Barbara Hammer
Superdyke Meets Madame X, 1977, 20 minutes, Barbara Hammer
Community Action Center, 2010, 69 mins., A.K. Burns + A.L. Steiner
Established in 2006, ISSUE’s Littoral program is a monthly series that pairs innovative contemporary writers with musicians, sound, and video artists. Littoral promotes critical dialogue that examines the intersection of these artistic disciplines, bringing together distinctive artists and uniting diverse audiences from NYC’s innovative creative community.
ISSUE’s Littoral Series is made possible, in part, through generous support from The Casement Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.
SUN 3.27 @ 7:00PM: ETHEL’s HomeBaked: A Work in Progress Performance ($5)
ETHEL, “extraordinarily skilled, passionate musicians (New York Times),” presents a sneak-peek into four new commissioned works by composers Andy Akiho, Anna Clyne, Judd Greenstein and Matt Marks. (Premieres are scheduled for May 23rd as part of NYC’s Tribeca New Music Festival.) ETHEL’s HomeBaked commissioned works are from innovative, emerging composers who live and work in our hometown of New York City. Come see what’s cookin’ in ETHEL’s kitchen!
Acclaimed as America’s premier postclassical string quartet,
ETHEL boldly infuses contemporary concert music with fierce intensity, questioning the boundaries between performer and audience, tradition and technology. Formed in 1998, New York’s ebullient ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers: Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello) and Mary Rowell (violin). ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades including repertoire by Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, David Lang, John Zorn, Steve Reich, JacobTV, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs. ETHEL currently serves as Park Avenue Armory’s 2011 Artists-in-Residence.
www.ethelcentral.com
ETHEL’s HomeBaked commissions are funded in part by the Jerome and Greenwall Foundations.
TUE 3.29: Frank Bretschneider + Y.E.R.M.O. ($15/Members $12)
Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Described as abstract analogue pointillism ambience for spaceports or hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat, Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. After studying fine arts and publishing several graphic editions, he began to satisfy his obsession for electronic music in 1984 by starting his first tape experiments and running a cassette label. With the founding of AG Geige in 1986, a successful and influential band of East Germany‘s musical underground, he began to explore the possibilities of an exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video or computer graphics.
Y.E.R.M.O. provides powerful noise and psychoactive moods since 2004. The band is formed by Yannick Franck (°1981), sound artist and performer, co-founder of Idiosyncratics Records and Xavier Dubois, fierce guitarist and electro-acoustic experimentalist. Y.E.R.M.O. works in close collaboration with artists Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert since early 2007 and performed live for the screening of Things to Come, at Sonic Visions Festival at KUFA, Esch. They also created the soundtrack for The Crossing for the exhibition ELO - Inner Exile, Outer Limits at MUDAM Luxembourg and the multifaceted installation Collision Zone for the Luxembourg Pavilion on the occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale. In November 2009 they performed a live version of Collision Zone featuring Nigerian vocalist Otobong Nkanga during Rainy Days festival (Philharmonie du Luxembourg). They work with other occasional participators such as Jason Van Gulick (drums on Collision Zone album) and collaborate with visual artists Sabrina Harri (Finland) and Alexia de Ville de Goyet (Belgium).
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ISSUE Project Room, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, was established in 2003 by visionary artist Suzanne Fiol, and is a vibrant nexus for cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary arts in Brooklyn. ISSUE supports emerging and established experimental artists through more than 200 programs each year including music concerts, literary readings, films, videos, dance, visual and sound art, new media, critical theory lectures and discussions, site-specific work, commissions, educational workshops, master classes, and genre-defying interdisciplinary performances that challenge and expand conventional practices in art.
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Support for ISSUE has been provided by 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.
