Join us this week for three completely FREE concerts at ISSUE Project Room: Artist-in-Residence Okkyung Lee (
4.27), a new installment of Theoretical with Viet Erlmann's Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (
4.28) and a continuation of the Littoral series with Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras's Voicing Through Saussure (
4.29).
4.27 @ 8 pm
Artist-in-Residence
Okkyung Lee with Tom Rainey, Liberty Ellman & Skuli Sverrisson
For her first Artist-in-Residence performance at ISSUE Project Room, Okkyung Lee will collaborate with Tom Rainey (percussion), Liberty Ellman (guitar) and Skuli Sverrisson(bass).
Cellist and improviser Okkyung Lee is a 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence. A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, Korean traditional and pop music, and noise with extended techniques to create her unique blend of music. She has received a composer commission from New York State Council on the Arts (2007) and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (2010).
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.
4.28 @ 8 pm
Theoretical: Veit Erlmann, Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
Theoretical, ISSUE’s bi-monthly series of critical discourse, continues in April with ethnomusicologist, musicologist, anthropologist, and cultural historian Veit Erlmann. Erlmann’s book, Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality, examines hearing’s role as the “second sense,” — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the “first sense.” Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to explode this myth by reconstructing the history of aurality and the process through which the ear assumed a central role in modern culture and rationality.
ISSUE’s Theoretical Series is made possible, in part, through generous support from The Casement Fund.
4.29 @ 8 pm
Littoral: Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras – Voicing Through Saussure
ISSUE’s Littoral series presents Jacues Demierre and Vincent Barras this month. The detailed analysis of the sonorities of the ancient and modern languages, their re-elaboration and re-composition is finally embodied in a score-text, spread out on stage in its concrete dimensions through the language performance of the two sound artists. Barras & Demierre have previously published Voicing Through Saussure, a film by Véronique Goël.
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.
4.31 @ 8 pm
SHARE - FREE Audio / Video Jam
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.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
FREE
