4.13 @ 8 pm:
Emerging Artists Commission: Enda Bates
4.16 @ 3 pm
& 4.17 @ 4:30 pm:
Gina Badger: Mongrels
$10 / $8 Members
4.17 @ 8 pm: Mongrels, a free film screening and reception |
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4.16 @ 5 pm:
Yolande Harris: Pink Noise... & Tropical Storm
FREE | These installations will run
4/16 (5 - 7 pm) & 4/17 (5 - 7:30 pm)
4.16 @ 7 pm:
Yolande Harris: Scorescapes
4.17 @ 8 pm
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
with special guest Gry
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Next weekend, don't miss the first two days of The Sonic Unconscious, which brings together three artists whose work begins in the field. The three-day program (April 16, 17, & 21) will range from an herbalist/botanist tour of the Gowanus (
4.16 &
4.17 Gina Badger: Mongrels:
Parts 1 &
2), to sound installations and performances featuring amplified shellfish (4.16 Yolande Harris:
Scorescapes &
The Pink Noise of Pleasure Yachts...), to a film screening drawn on material from herbalist and activist Dori Midnight (4.17 Gina Badger:
Mongrels, a film screening). Earlier in the week, be sure to come for
Emerging Artists Commission recipient Enda Bates, who will combine his handmade multichannel guitar with ISSUE's unique 15-channel speaker system.
4.13 @ 8 pm:
Emerging Artists Commission: Enda Bates
Emerging Artists Commission recipient Enda Bates’ hexaphonic guitar is simply a standard electric guitar with a special pickup providing access to each individual string signal. This allows each string to be processed differently and to be routed to a different place in the room. In this new piece, written specifically for ISSUE’s 15-channel hanging speaker system, the guitar will be transformed not just sonically but also spatially, as a localized guitar splits into individual strings, becoming a fragmented sonic cloud that will mimic the flight of birds as it moves around the audience. Irish composer, musician, and producer Enda Bates is based in Dublin, Ireland, where he recently completed a Ph. D at Trinity College Dublin with Donnacha Dennehy. He is a founder of the Spatial Music Collective, and spatially distributed sound is a key factor in his work.
Culture Ireland is the state agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide, working under the aegis of the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport. Culture Ireland creates and supports opportunities for Irish artists to present their work at strategic international festivals, venues, showcases and arts markets. The agency comprises a board appointed by the Minister and an executive staff led by the Chief Executive.
www.cultureireland.gov.ie
Imagine Ireland is a year-long season of Irish arts in America in 2011, an initiative of Culture Ireland, with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.
www.imagineireland.ie
Enda Bates’ 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.
4.16 @ 3 pm
& 4.17 @ 4:30 pm:
Gina Badger: Mongrels
Chased around by the ghosts of a paved-over salt marsh and equipped with perverted botanists’ tools, voices of divination and herbal elixirs, we will explore the neighborhood of Gowanus on foot and onscreen.
Meet at ISSUE Project Room, from which Gina Badger will lead a field botany tour exploring the place of edible and medicinal weeds in ecologies of decolonization. Advance ticket purchase is highly recommended as attendance is extremely limited.
Badger’s work for The Sonic Unconscious will conclude with a free reception and screening of a video that builds around an interview with herbalist and social justice activist Dori Midnight.
$10 / $8 Members
4.17 @ 8 pm: Mongrels, a free film screening and reception |
RSVP
Gina Badger is grateful to Dori Midnight, Eymund Diegel, Issue Project Room, Proteus Gowanus, Halo Halo, Nika Khanjani and Adam Rosadiuk for their support and insight.
4.16 @ 5 pm:
Yolande Harris: Pink Noise... & Tropical Storm
Yolande Harris' two sound/video installations will run on
4/16 (5 - 7 pm) & 4/17 (5 - 7:30 pm)
Pink Noise (The Pink Noise of Pleasure Yachts in Turquoise Sea) uses sound recorded underwater at a National Marine Reserve in midsummer. A surprising range of sounds – loud thumps, grinds and tones from boat engines, anchors and depth sounders – are juxtaposed with video of colorful light reflecting on the sea from the same location. Headphones are suspended from the ceiling directly above the video projection on the floor, physically emphasizing the technological mediation required to make audible the inaudible underwater sounds.
Sound and video recordings of a tropical storm evoke the multisensory experience of being immersed in a torrential downpour in a rainforest. Tropical Storm presents the intensity of noise and energy through minimal editing, allowing the exact synchronisation of sound and image to work up an affective space of palpable intensity that can be both overwhelming and meditative.
Yolande Harris (UK) uses her performances, installations and instruments to investigate how we use sound to relate to our surroundings, both architectural and ecological. Her current research/practice considers the musical potential of sound worlds outside the human hearing range, through underwater bioacoustics and the sonification of data.
FREE | These installations will run
4/16 (5 - 7 pm) & 4/17 (5 - 7:30 pm)
4.16 @ 7 pm:
Yolande Harris: Scorescapes
Yolande Harris’s Scorescapes is a program including the pieces Tuning In / Spacing Out, a collaboration with Edward Shanken, Fishing for Sound, and S.W.A.M.P., with Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, & William Lang.
Yolande Harris’s Tuning in and Spacing Out: the Art and Science of the Presentness of Sound is a collaborative lecture/performance that explores sound and space as modes of understanding environmental phenomena. Edward Shanken and Yolande Harris draw on artistic sources ranging from Alvin Lucier and La Monte Young to Pauline Oliveros and David Dunn and on scientific research from Jim Crutchfield (complexity) and Michel André (marine bioacoustics). Blending text, sound and video, they weave together the mythic significance of marine mammals, the interconnectedness of the sea and outer-space, and the relationship between ultrasound, insects, and global climate change.
Fishing for Sound creates a sea of spatial connections between phenomena underwater, in the mind, and from outer-space, weaving sounds from marine environments, psychotherapy and sonified navigation satellites. Common to each of these is a mass of background noise – of environment, memory and information – where listening is like fishing for sounds.
S.W.A.M.P. / Field with Kato Hideki (electric bass), Jim Pugliese (drums) & William Lang (trombone)
A third version of S.W.A.M.P. (Some Wayward Attempts at Monitoring Prawns) (after Diapason Gallery, NYC 2009, and Mazzoli Gallery, Berlin 2010), explores the edges between field recording and acoustic improvisation. In combination with Field, environmental and underwater sounds, from biological to anthropogenic, lead to a state of mind that builds on the daydream and the surreal.
Support for The Sonic Unconscious is provided, in part, by mediaThe foundation.
4.17 @ 8 pm:
SHARE - open a/v jam
In the Munch Room
with Special Guest Gry
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.
Gry was born in Denmark in 1975, and grew up in Denmark, Norway and Mozambique. For the past 20 years she has been writing, composing and performing sound art, opera, radio plays, acapella, electronic and pop music. Her unique way of singing and using her voice include recording and looping of words, rhythms, and tones, creating experimental and melodic compositions. Gry’s text work has its own poetic logic; in her idiosyncratic way she deals with love, life, and death in both Danish and English, in some songs even with these and many other languages mixed together. In her live performances each composition is build up from scratch leaving the artist naked for the audience who can follow the act of creation while it happens. With her outstanding voice, exceptional originality and beauty, Gry is embodying the spectrum from dramatic pop to crazy avant-garde in a way that makes her a candidate for one of the most stunning contemporary divas.
Bring your equipment / instruments / gear etc. to join the jam!
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(also enjoy free admission for you and a guest to an upcoming event, limited-edition LPs, signed CDs, & more!)
Upcoming member events:
April 13 - Post-Concert Reception featuring a Q&A with EAC recipient Enda Bates and Artistic Advisory Board Member Elliott Sharp
June 8 - Post-Concert Reception featuring a Q&A with EAC recipient Alex Chechile and composer/performer Suzanne Thorpe.
June 15 - Post-Concert Reception featuring a Q&A with EAC recipient Laura Vitale and Artistic Advisory Board Member Rick Moody
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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.
The Sonic Unconscious continues next week, with Jana Winderen's performance and electronic work Scuttling around in the shallows, which explores how the ocean's smaller creatures use sound for exploration, communication, and feeding.
Support for The Sonic Unconscious is provided, in part, by mediaThe foundation.
Jana Winderen’s presentation is made possible, in part, by the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
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