2.16 @ 8 pm
Frank London Brass Quartet + SKELETON$
2.17 @ 8 pm
Soundscreen Design Presents: Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968–70
2.18 @ 8 pm
Dither + Dawn of Midi
2.19 @ 8 pm
Ensemble Pamplemousse
+ Yarn/Wire
2.20 @ 4 pm – midnight
Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama: UTOPIA=NO PERSON
2.13 @ 8 pm
Share –
free audio & video jam
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The Joshua Light Show's legendary tenure as the house light artists for Bill Graham's Fillmore East comes into focus this Thursday with a book release party for Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968-1970 published by Soundscreen Design. Chamber Music Month is still in full swing, with performances by Frank London's Brass Quartet, SKELETON$, electric guitar quartet Dither, international improvisation trio Dawn of Midi, virtuosic composers' collective Ensemble Pamplemousse, and two-piano two-percussionist quartet Yarn/Wire.
2.16 @ 8 pm
Frank London Brass Quartet + SKELETON$
Frank London Brass Quartet *World Premiere* of a new improvising brass quartet made up of four of today’s most interesting, unique, versatile and idiosyncratic brass players. Each is a renowned soloist, sideman and bandleader. Among the four of them, they have played with almost everyone you can imagine. This group and tonight's performance is dedicated to Suzanne, who inspired it at every level. Members are Frank London (trumpet), Ray Anderson (trombone), Josh Roseman(trombone), and Marcus Rojas (tuba).
SKELETON$ usual quintet is expanded here for a night of new compositions, arrangements and ideas. The band will explore the outer limits of their work, with a large ensemble drawn from the wide spectrum of New York’s underground music scene.
2.17 @ 8 pm
Soundscreen Design Presents: Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968–70
Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968-70 is an account of the
Joshua Light Show’s legendary two years at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. Performing with The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, The Band, and many others, the Joshua Light Show created extravagant visual experiences to accompany the music. The book includes exclusive photos and film stills from those performances, along with pleasant detours to the set of Midnight Cowboy and the Woodstock festival. Dan Nadel has interviewed Joshua White and scoured his archives to compile this mini-history.
Soundscreen Design, a “product company inspired by music” and publisher of the Artist Music Journals series hosts a party celebrating the book’s release. The evening will include music by “Gary, Devin, and Ross,” the musical collaboration between Gary Panter, Devin Flynn, and Ross Goldstein. Joshua White and his team will enliven ISSUE’s performance space with a multi-channel video environment, incorporating never-before-seen archival footage.
2.18 @ 8 pm
Dither + Dawn of Midi
The Collected presents new works for celebrated electric guitar quartet Dither, including world premiers by Brent Miller, Adam Fong and Denise Gilson, and music by Lisa R. Coons from Dither’s 2010 album. Each piece focuses on different idiomatic elements of the quartet’s sound palette and develops aesthetic concepts from both classical and vernacular repertoires.
Dawn of Midi is a collective made up of Indian contrabassist Aakaash Israni, Pakistani percussionist Qasim Naqvi, and Moroccan pianist Amino Belyamani. Creating a bold face on the notion of idiosyncratic music, Dawn of Midi blends together the sentiments of many musical worlds. In this age of modern improvisation where the distinctions between musical normatives are blurred, DoM’s thematic and timbral approach is reminiscent of many genres bound in one simultaneous moment.
Dither, a New York based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire, spanning composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. Formed in 2007, the quartet has performed in the United States and abroad, presenting new commissions, original compositions, multimedia works and large guitar ensemble pieces. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, all of Dither’s music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars. The quartet’s members are Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Josh Lopes, and James Moore.
2.19 @ 8 pm
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.
2.20 @ 4 pm – midnight
Artist-in-Residence: Prince Rama UTOPIA=NO PERSON
UTOPIA=NO PERSON, =NO PLACE, =NO TIME is a series of three performances intended to explore the link between music and utopia. To conduct the examination, members of Prince Rama will create a pseudo-utopian cult called THE NOW AGE that will look at musical performance as ritual, musicians as shamans, audience as initiates, records as magic portallic fossils of frozen time, and utopia as a medium between the physical and metaphysical realms.
For the first performance, UTOPIA=NO PERSON, an initiation ceremony will be conducted via a "15 minute exorcise routine". A play off the words "exercise" and "exorcise", UTOPIA=NO PERSON focuses on the body as a vehicle for utopian experimentation, encouraging willing participants to undergo a confrontation with personal demons and shedding of individual identity through the physical exhaustion of the body.
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.
2.20 @ 8 pm
Share: free audio & video jam
Sunday nights at ISSUE are host to a come-one-come-all group of musicians and video artists, collaborating in a jam called SHARE. Those who work with audio need only to bring an instrument or other sound-producing device and an XLR, RCA, or 1/4" cable (if amplified). The video jam is a multi-user live synthesis, in which participants are able to jointly compose the visual output. Bring your laptop/camera/Amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables.
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ISSUE's first benefit at 110!
Please join us on March 4, 2011 at 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn, for our first benefit event in the space in celebration of Elliott Sharp’s 60th birthday, hosted by Jo Andres and Steve Buscemi.
Thank you to our new E#@60 sponsors:
ISSUE gratefully acknowledges support for this event from:
2.23 @ 8 pm
Gianni Lenoci /Gianni Mimmo Duo
+ Ramin Arjomand
Gianni Lenoci studied improvisation with Mal Waldron and Paul Bley. Since 1979, he has performed extensively as a soloist, with jazz combos, and in experimental units with renowned players in both jazz and improvised music fields. Gianni Mimmo’s treatment of musical timbre and of advanced techniques on the soprano sax, to which he has monastically dedicated himself, have become the distinguishing features of his style.
Ramin Arjomand is a New York-based composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. His composition teachers have included Stephen Jaffe, Gheorghe Costinescu, Fred Lerdahl, Jonathan Kramer, and Tristan Murail. His concert music has been performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers, Speculum Musicae, So Percussion Ensemble, the Columbia Collegium Musicum, and numerous independent ensembles and soloists in New York City venues.
Gianni Lenoci has played with Massimo Urbani, Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre, Steve Grossman, Harold Land, Bob Mover, Enrico Rava, Glenn Ferris, Eugenio Colombo, Don Moye, Han Bennink, Antonello Salis, Carlo Actis Dato, David Gross, Paul Lovens, Sakis Papadimitriou, Georgia Sylleou, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsch, Markus Stockhausen, Steve Potts, Carlos Zingaro, John Tchicai, Kent Carter, William Parker, and David Murray.
Upcoming events from ISSUE's friends:
Brooklyn Rail 10th Anniversary Silent Art Benefit Auction
Viewing times:
Thursday - Saturday,
Feb. 17–19 from noon - 6 pm
SILENT AUCTION:
Saturday, Feb. 19
from 6–9 pm
Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts
601 West 26th St., 15th Fl., New York, NY 10001
$25 Entrance Fee
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