4.6 @ 8 pm:
Haunted House
+ Che Chen & Robbie Lee
+ Helena Espvall & Sandra Sun-Odeon
4.7 @ 8 pm:
Esther Venrooy
+ Pygmy Jerboa
4.9 @ 8 pm:
Unsound New York
@ Littlefield: CoH + Carlos Giffoni + Robert Piotrowicz & C. Spencer Yeh + Marcus Schmickler + Instant Coffee
THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT LITTLEFIELD, 622 Degraw Street
4.10 @ 8 pm:
Mark McGuire + Dolphins Into the Future + Floris Vanhoof + Monopoly Child Star Searchers
4.10 @ 8 pm
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
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Unsound New York continues this week with a night co-curated by ISSUE Project Room and Carlos Giffoni, to be held at Littlefield. The night includes CoH, Robert Piotrowicz with C. Spencer Yeh, Marcus Schmickler, and Instant Coffee. On Wednesday, Haunted House continues their reunion, begun last summer in ISSUE's courtyard, headlining a night with Che Chen & Robbie Lee, and Helena Espvall & Sondra Sun-Odeon. On Thursday, Belgian sound artist Esther Venrooy performs as well as Brooklyn-based voice-computer duo pygmy jerboa. On Sunday, come for a full night with Mark McGuire, Dolphins Into the Future, Floris Vanhoof, and Monopoly Child Star Searchers.
4.6 @ 8 pm:
Haunted House
+ Che Chen & Robbie Lee
+ Helena Espvall & Sandra Sun-Odeon
Haunted House played at Tonic, the Cooler, Brownies and other venues in the late 1990s, until one of its band members moved away. The band was comprised of avant blues guitarist Loren Connors, vocalist/lyricist Suzanne Langille, avant guitarist Andrew Burnes (of San Agustin) and Neel Murgai (soundtrack for “The Yes Men Fix the World”).
Che Chen & Robbie Lee are Brooklyn, NY-based multi-instrumentalists who have been steadily and intensively developing their unique approach to free improvisation over the last several years. Using a shifting constellation of instruments that has included bass clarinets, baroque recorders, reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, flutes, saxophones, bowed and plucked strings, little drums, bells, tape machines and their voices, Che Chen and Robbie Lee create earthy, slow moving improvisations that are informed as much by the ethnic folk traditions of the world as they are by 20th century composition and improvisation.
Sondra Sun-Odeon is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist/vocalist transplanted from California where she spent her childhood taping classical music pieces off the radio and sneaking a hand held transistor radio into bed surreptitiously. Helena Espvall was born and raised in Sweden, and played the guitar and cello in several rock bands (as well as performing in a silent movie orchestra and an Arabian Music ensemble).
4.7 @ 8 pm:
Esther Venrooy
+ Pygmy Jerboa
Esther Venrooy (b. 1974, Rosmalen, The Netherlands) is a composer working in the field of audio art. Her works range from purely electronic composed music to improvised combinations of electronica with traditional instrumentation such as piano, guqin, pipa and satsuma-biwa. Since 2006 she has created site-specific works as well as multimedia performances and installations.
pygmy jerboa (b. 2009, usa) is maria stankova (b. 1984, bulgaria) and iván naranjo(b. 1977, mexico) we perform with live electronics the voice gone inhuman homemade/junk instruments surfaces and supercollider our music often transverses composition and improvisation rules and anarchy we’ve hit bulgaria germany mexico the usa and we are currently based in brooklyn
4.9 @ 8 pm:
Unsound New York
@ Littlefield: CoH + Carlos Giffoni + Robert Piotrowicz & C. Spencer Yeh + Marcus Schmickler + Instant Coffee
Unsound Festival has invited New York’s CARLOS GIFFONI – the man behind NO FUN PRODUCTIONS and the NO FUN FESTIVAL to co-curate an evening at
Littlefield that explores the edges of electronic music with Russian
CoH, experimental Polish artist
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ in a duo with
C SPENCER YEH, German
MARCUS SCHMICKLER and experimental band
INSTANT COFFEE featuring one half of the duo Matmos.
Unsound Festival New York is presented by Fundacja Tone, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York and the Goethe-Institut New York.
This event is at Littlefield: 622 DeGraw Street, Brooklyn
4.10 @ 8 pm:
Mark McGuire + Dolphins Into the Future + Floris Vanhoof + Monopoly Child Star Searchers
Mark McGuire (b. 1986) is an American musician living and working in Portland, OR, his principle instrument being the guitar and using various forms of electronic manipulation. Despite being best known as member of Cleveland electronic group Emeralds (alongside John Elliott and Steve Hauschildt), his solo work is as far reaching and expansive, with something in the region of 40 releases to his name, including releases for Wagon, Arbor, VDSQ, Weird Forest and Editions Mego.
Dolphins Into the Future is the musical project of Belgium’s (Antwerp) Lieven Martens. Spin-off projects are
Duncan Cameron, L.R.J. Martens,
In the Eye of Vision, etc Martens also runs the labels Taped Sounds (formerly known as Dreamtime Taped Sounds, or Dreamtime Tapes) and Cetacean Nation Cassettes, and works as an ambassador for the Cetacean Nation. Furthermore, he hosts the weekly Oceaan Der Geluid radioshow on Radio Centraal, which airs (almost) every tuesday from 10am till noon CET.
Monopoly Child Star Searchers (Pacific City 2011) Charles Berlitz, former agent for boy band, The Skaters, has been inventing landscape music for years, and runs his own productions company called PACIFIC CITY SOUND VISIONS.
Filmmaker and musician Floris Vanhoof (Belgium, 1982) approaches the celluloid of his films and the electronic components of his instruments closely. With an arrangement of electronic gear and film- or slide projectors he searches for the essence and potential of multi media performance. Every concert becomes a hybrid form of projected images, living electronic circuits and field recorded sounds.
4.10 @ 8 pm:
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
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.
Bring your equipment / instruments / gear etc. to join the jam!
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Coming Soon
THE SONIC UNCONSCIOUS
An exploration of three artists whose work begins in the field
April 16, 17 & 21
Over the course of a three-day series of walks, talks, performances, documentary screenings and sound installations, Jana Winderen, Yolande Harris, and Gina Badger will explore the relationships between people and their environments. Sonic material used will include yachts, a Florida hurricane, footage of an interview with herbalist and activist Dori Midnight, and recordings of shrimp from the ocean floor.
Events from ISSUE's friends
"New Audio Liturgy"
Curated by Ha-Yang Kim
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011
51 Bergen Street
(between Smith & Court Streets)
Doors at 9 PM. Show at 10 PM.
All ages. Free.
Brooklyn, NY
F/G trains to Bergen Street stop
Donations graciously appreciated.
Musicians from Montréal and New York's underground soundart / noise / psychadelic / improv / avant-experimental scene join forces activating poetics of vocalizations, visceral vibrations, shimmering strings, magnificent resonance, and dynamic power electronics for ecstatic new audio liturgy.
Hahn Rowe (NYC)
This Quiet Army (Eric Quach-MTL)
Lichens (Robert Lowe-NYC)
Souffle (Riccardo Lucchesi/Jean-Sébastien Truchy-MTL)
Monstre (Philippe Lambert-MTL)
ES/IS (Riccardo Lucchesi/Jean-Sébastien Truchy/John Chang-NYC)
Ha-Yang Kim (NYC)
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