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Thursday, September 15th, at 8pm ET, 2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr presents AUDIO MEME, his second program in THE BODY POPULAR series. The program features multidisciplinary artist James T. Green performing a “live mix” of a conversation between sound culture luminaries Josh Gwynn and Leila Day. On July 27th, at 11:30am ET, an initial broadcast mix of the conversation will play on Montez Press Radio.

AUDIO MEME is a project that explores the power and intimacy of podcasts to impact progressive social change. Through the art of using one’s voice, broadcast, and listening, podcasts bring ideas, people, and feelings together, creating opportunity for personal reflection, mass education, and collective conversations.

This event unfolds in two parts. On September 15th, audience members are invited to attend the AUDIO MEME live event at The Garage. In this non-tradition state of the art performance space, multi-disciplinary artist James T. Green will perform a live mix of a conversation about voice, power and social change recorded between sound culture luminaries, Josh Gwynn and Leila Day. On July 27th, a broadcast mix of their conversation will play exclusively on Montez Press Radio Radio.

AUDIO MEME is curated by Theodore (ted) Kerr for ISSUE Project Room. AUDIO MEME is part of Theodore (ted) Kerr’s curatorial residency for ISSUE entitled THE BODY POPULAR, a curated series of gatherings and broadcasts, propelled by artists, podcasters, writers, and others in NYC across the U.S. invested in questions around power, community, knowledge, and consumption in the 21st century. “The Body Popular” riffs on the phrase, “The Body Politic,” a notion that groups of people together have power, and a voice.

THE BODY POPULAR: AUDIO MEME w/ James T. Green Josh Gwynn & Leila Day (Montez Press Radio Broadcast)

wish - I threw in all my coins

00:00 - 02:55 [1] a blind spot
02:55 -  07:40 [2] nobody's watching 
07:40 - 10:24 [3] class traitor

video: https://youtu.be/z4RA3EgTC6g

this track is longer than 10 minutes, so it cannot be monetized. please go buy it on bandcamp.

000000000 (开系先知印记)

'Neo Seven' release date: July 28, 2023.

https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/neo-seven

https://www.blankforms.org/publications/7038634357-neo-seven

7038634357 - Perfect Night

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

Performance
Saturday, March 31st, 2018

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Saturday, March 31st, ISSUE presents Parisian-born artist Félicia Atkinson presenting a brand new performance involving an imaginary dialogue between the poems of Francis Ponge (1899-1988) and texts of her own, in French and in English, accompanied by electronics, voice and piano. The evening also features Afrikan Sciences & Sassacyprigo presenting a performance of nuanced soundscapes, mindful movements, and rhythms that conjure different temporalities.

Atkinson’s distinct practice incorporates diffuse poetic atmospheres and pointillistically rendered sounds that constantly suspend and re-introduce themselves. Often moving to emphasize the relationship between music and sculpture -- sound and its spatialization -- Atkinson’s work concentrates upon the implicit narrative of a “poetics of things” happening in sound. Here, like in the poems of Ponge, a profound “readymade” empathy toward objects, technology, and music emerges. Atkinson is also co-director for the label Shelter Press alongside Bartolomé Sanson, which has released works from Ben Vida, Gábor Lázár, Tomoko Sauvage, D/P/I, Stephen O’Malley, and others.

"La nuit parfois ravive une plante singulière dont la lueur décompose les chambres meublées en massifs d'ombres." The night sometimes revives a singular plant whose glow breaks down the room furnished in masses of shadows" -- Francis Ponge, The Candle (La Bougie) in Le Parti Pris des Choses / The Nature of Things, 1942

Emerging from a long lineage of musical structures born from the difficult social and political conditions of race relations, Afrikan Sciences uses electronic instruments as a medium for open-ended explorations of form and composition across the musical linguistic heritage of African-American music, while Sassacyprigo’s free-form dance stylings channel intuitive action and a continuous “soul survivalist” strength to live free.

“As a human being, I find that I’m at constant battle between the imposed power structure’s ways of looking at freedom and actually living free,” Sassacyprigo states. “It is within my search for personal voice and belonging that I create.”

This program is curated by writer and media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr. Concerned with speculative futures in performative contexts, Brown is part of the cataloguing space Elevator to Mezzanine and was ISSUE's 2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow.

Recorded by Bob Bellerue / Mixed by James Emrick

Félicia Atkinson - LIVE at ISSUE / March 31st, 2018

Performance
Saturday, May 4th, 2019

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Saturday, May 4th, ISSUE presents American musicians Jeff Witscher and Jack Callahan premiering new collaborative and solo work: What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth, Surviving Sound Music, and 106 Kerri Chandler Chords. Although both artists are known for their discrete compositions and far-ranging work under various monikers, recently they have been forwarding primary descriptors such as “Music Art” and “Sound Music” as formal headings that re-assert the simplicity of their own respective practices. The evening features a new collaborative work made specifically for ISSUE, and two new solo works. Witscher returns to ISSUE for the first time since 2013’s PAN_ACT festival. This is Callahan’s ISSUE debut.

Witscher & Callahan's What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth is a new piece for multiple speakers examining the banality of the human drama in the 21st century. Begun in 2017 as an idea, WHOESOE consists of a series of prompts given to a number of speakers, whose responses are recorded. From this material the piece is organized. The work presented is one of many possible realizations of the piece.

Callahan will present a new iteration of 106 Kerri Chandler Chords for voice and computer, a work derived from his project Housed, an archive of (currently) 850 chords from classic House tracks Callahan collected in 2016, which was released on NNA Tapes and is currently being turned into an online archive. The piece is a primary example of Music Art.

Jack Callahan (b. 1990) is a composer and sound engineer based in New York. He received a BA in Music Composition & Theory from Hampshire College in 2012. In 2011 he studied privately with Jürg Frey in Aarau, CH. Since 2013 Callahan has been primarily working under the moniker die Reihe, taken from the journal edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen. With this project he has toured the both the U.S. and Europe multiple times and has released music with labels such as Anomia, Ascetic House, NNA Tapes, Salon. In 2013 he founded Banh Mi Verlag, an imprint dedicated to contemporary experimental music and culture. As a composer his music has been performed internationally by ensembles such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Wet Ink Ensemble, So Percussion, the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dog Star Orchestra. He currently curates the concert series Pennies from Heaven in collaboration with Control Synthesizers and Electronic Devices in Brooklyn. In 2018 he co-authored the manifesto Toward Agave Expressionism with Alec Sturgis. This lead to the establishment of the festival Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music which will take place in Asheville, NC in April 2019.

Recorded by Bob Bellerue / Mixed by James Emrick

Jack Callahan (die Reihe): 106 Kerri Chandler Chords - LIVE at ISSUE / May 4th, 2019

Performance
Friday, July 19th, 2019

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Friday, July 19th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed New Zealand-based artist and musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet, a new piece exploring the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as a pure resonant amplifier of sound. Perhaps best known as one third of the Dead C, an enduring free rock unit that has pushed the proto- and post-punk templates to exhilarating points of disintegration for the past three decades, Morley has also recorded music as Gate, the Righteous Yeah, the F—k Chairs, and Sun Valley, as well as under his own name across a range of genre.

Michael Morley’s Music for The Never Quartet is a performative installation for a quartet of bowed acoustic guitars placed on solid wooden furniture. The guitar bodies amplify the bowed strings, which the furniture further amplifies, creating a lush and generous sound field. The quartet modifies the collective sound with the addition of wooden blocks, bowls, and rods placed atop and underneath the instruments. The audience is encouraged to move around the space to experience the sound from multiple vantage points. However, Morley explains that “remaining in one place allows for the shifting time signatures of the different vibrating strings to wash [over] the listener.” The audience is also welcome to record the performance on their mobile devices to be played back as loops during the installation.

This is the fourth year in an ongoing program collaboration between ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks, two organizations that are committed to supporting the creation and presentation of experimental performance practices while sharing resources.

Michael Morley is a New Zealand based sound artist and visual artist. His work across a range of genre confirms his abilities as an artist, composer, improvisor, performer, and producer. Responsible for over 100 audio releases from 1985 to 2019 as: Gate, The Dead C, The Righteous Yeah, The Fuck Chairs, Sun Valley, and many other collaborations and solo recordings. The development of Music for The Never Quartet has come from a thirty year exploration of the guitar and of sound as art. The focus of the acoustic guitar as the nexus of an examination of sound comes from a desire to provoke and create experimental music that challenges the status quo of the hierarchy of rock and popular musics and allows for a reimagining of the idea of performance and composition.

Michael Morley: Music For The Never Quartet - LIVE at ISSUE / July 19th, 2019

Performance
Saturday, July 27th, 2019

ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

Saturday, July 27th, ISSUE presents a special “end of season” program gathering three singular artists working across avant-garde rhythmic music. The evening showcases Actress, the alias of British electronic musician and producer Darren J. Cunningham -- widely celebrated for hybridizing known genres within electronic music and operating on the cutting-edge of club culture. Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra presents “Rhythm Cycles (for Drumset),” while “rhythmanalyst” Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.) premieres a new piece “Her Velocity; like a foreign (after)image, renders her opaque.”

Susie Ibarra’s “Rhythm Cycles” is a set of pieces that examine rhythm through shifting melody, texture, tempo, polyrhythms, while maintaining cycles. It is both a study and a meditation in rhythm. A virtuosic composer, percussionist and improviser, Ibarra is known for her innovative style and exquisitely global essence, coupling a profound respect for indigenous musics with a unique sense of the avant-garde. Ibarra’s solo performances have been noted for their dynamic range and expressive technique, as well as her incorporation of diverse styles and influences. Her sound has been described as “a sound like no other, incorporating the unique percussion and musical approach of her Filipino heritage with her flowing jazz drumset style,” by Modern Drummer Magazine.

Susie Ibarra is a Filipina-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist. Her compositions are sometimes described as “calling up the movements of the human body; elsewhere it’s a landscape vanishing in the last light, or the path a waterway might trace” (New York Times). Recent commissions include Kronos String Quartet’s 50 for the Future Project Pulsation, PRISM Saxophone Quartet + Percussion’s Procession Along the Aciga Tree, Talking Gong trio with pianist Alex Peh and flautist Claire Chase, film score When the Storm Fades directed by Sean Devlin, and a multimedia game piece Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms for Asia Society. Susie Ibarra is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Music. She is a 2018 Asian Cultural Council Fellow in support of her sound research of An Acoustic Story on Climate Change: Himalayan Glacier Soundscapes. She is recording and researching sound along the Ganges from source to sink in collaboration with glaciologist and geomorphologist Michele Koppes. Ibarra leads the DreamTime Ensemble, which recently released the album Perception, a suite of music exploring memory and shifting sensory experiences. In 2017 the album was chosen in in a top ten playlist for the NYTimes and featured in WBGO's Take Five Gives the Drummer Some with featured Drummer-Led records. She performs in collaborative ensembles Mephista, Yunohana Variations, and LIMBS. Always curious about different ways to think about and play rhythm, Susie Ibarra is collaborating most recently with ThinkFun! Games and Splice.com. With ThinkFun Games, Ibarra is inventing an interactive polyrhythm board game to teach rhythms. With Splice.com Sound Samples and launched on Splice Originals a sound sample packet, Experimental Percussion with Susie Ibarra in Dec 2018. In July, 2019 Splice Originals will launch a second sound packet with built e-music instruments to play her percussion sounds. Since 2012, she has been a faculty member at Bennington College where she teaches percussion, drumset, composer /performer ensembles, improvisation, and art intervention. Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha, Vic Firth, and Paiste Drum Artist.

Susie Ibarra: Rhythm Cycles (for Drumset) - LIVE at ISSUE / July 27th, 2019

امان امان… شکست عهد منو گفت هرچه بود گذشت…
به گریه گفتمش آری ولی چه زود گذشت!
بهار بود و تو بودی و عشق بود و امید…
بهار رفت و تو رفتی و هرچه بود گذشت..
شیرین و شیرین؛ شیرین گشت که سم
شیرین همه کسم
نازار شیرین ناز شیرین؛ شیرین گشت که‌ سم
شیرین نازنین؛ شیرین همه کسم
عشقِ تو داسه تیشه وه دسم
عشق تو؛ تیشه به دستم داده…
هر شو له‌ دوریت؛ فره هولمه
هر شب از دوریت، خیلی بیقرارم
شیرین گیان؛ شیرین آی گشت که‌ س
شیرین جان، شیرین ای همه کسم
چنه بیستون غم له کولمه…
اندازه کوه بیستون غم بر شانه ام هست
شیرین گیان کو بیستون چس؟!
شیرین جان؛ (در برابر غم تو) كوه بیستون چی هست؟!
کوه‌ کی بیستون ارام جور خاکه!
كوه بیستون برایم چون خاک است!
شیرین گیان؛ وه توره‌ش کیشم
شیرین جان (به عشق تو) به توبره‌ اش میکشم!
وه تیره ی غمت جرگم پرچاکه

از كوه غمت؛ جگرم پر چاک است
شیرین گیان؛ من وه کی بویشم؟
شیرین جان، به کی بگم؟
شیرین و شیرین؛ شیرین گشت که سم
شیرین همه کسم
نازار شیرین ناز شیرین؛ شیرین گشت که‌ سم
شیرین نازنین؛ شیرین همه کسم
عشقِ تو داسه تیشه وه دسم
عشق تو؛ تیشه به دستم داده…
د‌شو ارای چه له بیستون نات؟
دی شب برای چه از بیستون نیامد (صدای تیشه)
شیرین گیان؛ د‌نگه ‌کی تیشم
شیرین جان؛ صدای تیشم
هاتمه له خواوت نازت به ‌کیشم!
برای اینکه به خوابت آمدم تا نازت بکشم
آهنگ شیرین جان سریال نون خ
شیرین گیان؛ سوزانی ریشه م
شیرین جان سوزاندی ریشه ام را
وه زخم تیشه عقده خالی کم
با زخم تیشه عقده خالی میکنم
شیرین گیان عقده‌ی وه رینم
شیرین جان عقده دلم را (خالی میکنم)
و زوان تیشه نال و زاری کم
به زبان تیشه ناله و زاری میکنم
شیرین گیان من وه دریونم
شیرین جان من از درونم

seyed jalal mohamadiyan-shirin shirin

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Michael Morley: Music For The Never Quartet - LIVE at ISSUE / July 19th, 2019

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