Podcasts about issue project room

Great conversation with Executive Director of Mata Festival Pauline Kim Harris and featured composer Jessie Cox.Music at the Anthology (MATA) celebrates its 27th Annual Festival with performances at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn from June 11th to 14th 2025Titled Intergalactic Infinity: Music Between Spaces, the festival promises to be an incredible few days of sounds, creativity and imagination, that will blow your mind.The episode serves as a way to dive in into the world of MATA, the process of curating a festival of this caliber, and a behind the scene view into the creative process of composers, their source of inspiration, their grit, how they view the future of music and a lot of fun topics you will love!We cannot wait for you to learn more about MATAThanks for listening and please Subscribe, Rate and Review the Podcast. A lot of work goes into bringing Down the Pit to you, and we would to know your thoughts on how we are doing! To become a Down the Pit supporter for as little as $0.99/month, please visit ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/down-the-pit⁠⁠⁠Visit tonebase.com for some amazing online courses and lessons for Violin, Piano, Cello, Flute, Guitar, etc. The best online platform with hundreds of instructional videos and lessons for musicians of all levels! Check it out and use Promo Code ⁠⁠⁠SAMI-30⁠⁠⁠ at Checkout for a 14-day FREE trial and 30% off for a yearly subscription. Sign up TODAY!Thanks to our corporate sponsor ⁠⁠⁠U.S. PAVE⁠⁠⁠ for their continued support!We are on Instagram/TikTok/Twitter @downthepit_podFacebook: Down the Pit PodcastCo-hosts: Sami Merdinian: ⁠⁠⁠@samimerdinian⁠⁠⁠  Ian Loew: @lunchmeat1836Producer: Sami Merdinian Mata Festival 2025For tickets and passes click HERE Guests: Pauline Kim Harris - https://www.paulinekimharris.com/Jessie Cox - https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/⁠⁠Please Support this podcast for more interviews!⁠⁠

LoVid is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist duo working collaboratively since 2001. LoVid's practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise. LoVid's work captures an intermixed world layered with virtual and physical, materials and simulations, connection and isolation.LoVid's process  includes home-made analog synthesizers, hand-cranked code, and tangible materials; their videos, textile works, performances, net-art, installations, and NFTs have been exhibited worldwide for over two decades. LoVid's work has been presented internationally at venues including: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Standard Vision X Vellum LA, Wave Hill, Brookfield Arts, RYAN LEE Gallery, Art Blocks Curated, Postmasters Gallery, bitforms Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Unit London, http://Verse.work, http://Expanded.Art, Art Dubai, New Discretions, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Issue Project Room, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, The Kitchen, Daejeon Museum, Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute, New Museum, and ICA London. LoVid's projects have received grants and awards from organizations including: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, http://Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation.LoVid's videos are distributed by EAI and their work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Moving Image, The Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, Watermill Center, Butler Institute of American Art, Heckscher Museum, NFT Museum of Digital Art, Museum of Nordic Digital Art, and more.

Alec and Nick discuss the poetry and politics of the experimental music festival. At first exploring the history and economy of music festivals such as Big Ears, Moogfest, Hopscotch, Red Bull Music Academy, and the European Festival circuit—the conversation then launches into a  personal discussion probing Nick's curatorial role at ISSUE Project Room and Alec's curatorial role in the Neo-Pastiche: Changes In American Music Festival. Notions of community, consumption, and audience take shape around anecdotes of  DIY organizing, non-profit culture, Dick Higgins, Black Mountain College, Alvin Lucier, George Lewis, and more.

stem-flower-root was commissioned by Wooley and premiered by him on the closing night of the inaugural For/With Festival in 2017 at Brooklyn's Issue Project Room. Only Pisaro's second piece for solo trumpet, the piece is one of the first compositions from the For/With series, a group of pieces Wooley commissioned from artists that normally wouldn't write for brass or for solo trumpet.Purchase this album and accompany Chapbook at:Michael Pisaro: stem-flower-root | Pleasure Of The Text Records (bandcamp.com)Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Solomon from Morahana Arts and Media.

Benedict Nguyen is a writer, dancer, and curator based on occupied Lenape and Wappinger lands (South Bronx, NY). Benedict's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AAWW's the Margins, Flypaper, and PANK. Their fiction writing was supported by an AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship in 2017. They're at work on a novel. Their criticism has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Shondaland, the Establishment, and Culturebot, among others, and in commissioned profiles for Danspace Project, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Fusebox Festival. As the 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room, Benedict created the multidisciplinary performance platform “soft bodies in hard places,” which has partnered with Materials for the Arts, Culturebot, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Center for Performance Research, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!). They've performed in DapperQ Fashion week and in recent works by Sally Silvers, José Rivera, Jr., Nick Mauss at the Whitney Museum, Monstah Black, and more. They've worked as an arts admin unicorn and grant writer for Jennifer Monson, Donna Uchizono, and John Jasperse. They've served on selection committees for Movement Research at Judson Church, the MAP Fund, and Bronx Council on the Arts. Otherwise, Benedict has worked a tutor, grant writer, Postmate, cater waiter, and more. As a producer, educator, and artistic entrepreneur, Johnnie Cruise Mercer leads as the Company Director of Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC (@jcm_redprojectnyc). His process-memoirs, happenings, and performance events have been commissioned/held at The Dixon Place, Bates Dance Festival (@batesdancefestival), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (@baxarts), AUNTS @NYU Skirball, The NADA Conference (@newartdealers), Abrons Arts Center (@abronsartcenter), The Fusebox Festival (@fuseboxfestival), Gibney (@gibneydance), Danspace Project Inc (@danspaceproject), The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (@theclaricemd), and most recently at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Mercer is currently 2019-2021 Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (@baxarts), 2020-2021 Black Artist Space to Create AIR through The New Dance Alliance (@newdancealliance) and a 2020-2021 Ping Chong + Company (@pingchongco) Creative Fellow. Find out more info on the company and the work at www.trpnyc.com. Transcripts of this episode are available at odc.dance/stories.

The Poet of Experimental Music – Celebrating Alvin Lucier’s 90th Birthday | Konzert [14.05.2021] Seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre hat Alvin Lucier eine Reihe wichtiger Kompositionen hervorgebracht, welche die Kultur der experimentellen Musik und der Klangkunst nachhaltig beeinflusst haben. Anlässlich seines 90. Geburtstags spielt ihm das ZKM ein ganz besonderes Ständchen: Dem Klangkünstler und Giga-Hertz-Preisträger 2020 zu Ehren, feiert am 14. Mai 2021 ein neues Werk Luciers im audiovisuellen Livestream des ZKM Premiere. Das Stück wurde im April 2021 am ZKM produziert mit Instrumentalistinnen des Ever Present Orchestras, das sich der Aufführung der Musik von Alvin Lucier widmet. Das ZKM ist darüber hinaus bei der Aufbereitung von 90 Künstler:innenbeiträgen im Rahmen der Veranstaltung des Issue Project Room in New York zu Ehren von Luciers Geburtstag beteiligt.

Alec and Nick discuss the role of narcissism in the history and production of experimental music. The episode gives a close account of the paradigm introduced by art historian Branden Joseph in “Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage” with special attention to how problems of authorship, the archive's role in framing genealogy, critiques of institutionalized culture, and the “dark triad” (narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism) all play out in “minor histories” of music. La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, 4Chan, Bandcamp Friday, Charlemagne Palestine, Sigmund Freud and more are all discussed. Opening theme music by Xander Seren. Closing music: unreleased recording of Tony Conrad & Charlemagne Palestine, presented by ISSUE Project Room at First Unitarian Congregational Society on March 3rd, 2015 Cover image: Tony Conrad performing Sunbow (1977) at the 3rd S.E.M. Spring Festival, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, June 4 and/or 5, 1977. Performance with bowed mirror, sunlight, projector control mechanisms, and slides. Photograph by Kevin Noble.

This week, Isaac Jean-François interviews Jessie Cox about his TV series, "Space Travel from Home." About Jessie: “...some of the most experimental music of not just the day but the season... held a listener’s attention with surprises and delights aplenty.“ — LA Times Jessie Cox is a composer, drummer, and scholar, currently in pursuit of his Doctorate Degree at Columbia University. Growing up in Switzerland, and also having roots in Trinidad and Tobago, he is currently residing in NYC. He has written over 100 works for various musical ensembles including electroacoustic works, solo works, chamber- and orchestral works, works for jazz ensembles and choirs. As a performer he has played in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the USA; with musicians from all over the world. His scholarly writing has been published in the journal Sound American, and Castle Of Our Skins’ blog, a publication is forthcoming in Critical Studies in Improvisation; and he has presented his work at numerous conferences and festivals. For more about Jessie, visit: https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/ Space Travel from Home, the complete series, can be viewed at: https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/space-travel About Isaac: Isaac Jean-François (he/him) is a doctoral student in the joint degree program with African-American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Jean-François’s research interests include black studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sound studies. His research on composer and performer Julius Eastman is featured in an upcoming issue of Current Musicology in an essay titled, “Julius Eastman: The Sonority of Blackness Otherwise” (July 2020). Jean-François is committed to the intersection between academia and advocacy work and serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Stonewall Community Foundation based in New York City. Jean-François earned his B.A. from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cum Laude. He holds a Certificate of Study from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Upcoming for Jessie Cox: 3/31/21, premiere at Issue Project Room: https://issueprojectroom.org/event/propositions-deadwip-sound-listening-jessie-cox 3/20/21: premiere at Maerzmusik on March 20th: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/berliner-festspiele/programm/bfs-gesamtprogramm/programmdetail_334357.html 3/26/21: record release with Infrequent Seams on March 26th: https://stringnoise.bandcamp.com/album/alien-stories This episode was recorded and produced by Jessie Cox and Isaac Jean-François, in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, and edited by Marina Kifferstein.

Brandon Lopez is a bassist/improviser/composer who works at the intersection of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. He has been an artist-in-residence at Roulette and Issue Project Room, performed as a soloist with the NYPhilharmonic and in ensembles with Fred Moten, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Gerald Cleaver, who is his guest for this episode. TAK commissioned and performed Empty Church of Plenty with Brandon in the fall of 2019 at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem and on the 2020 New Ear Festival. Gerald Cleaver, a drummer/improviser/composer who’s worked with Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, and William Parker. He’s the bandleader of Violet Hour, Black Host and he recently released an album of electronic music titled Signs. Gerald Cleaver's Signs: https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/signs Black Host: https://geraldcleaversblackhost.bandcamp.com/releases Brandon Lopez's bandcamp: https://nevernotagravedigger.bandcamp.com/ website: https://www.brandonlopez.nyc/ to learn more about TAK, go to http://takensemble.com

Mike Bullock is a composer, improviser, visual artist, and writer based in Western Massachusetts.  Mike has been performing since the mid 90s at venues across the US and in Europe, including Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; Instants Chavirés in Paris; Café OTO in London; Experimental Intermedia and ISSUE Project Room in New York City; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and EMPAC in Troy, NY. In June 2015, Bullock received a Performance Grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.   We talk about his early years, how he discovered his creative calling, the concept of self-idiomatic music, how Covid has impacted his plans, the western Massachusetts creative music scene, and much more.   Enjoy, and be sure to check out Mike’s website and bandcamp page and follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Vimeo!   Listen to Contrabass Conversations with our free app for iOS, Android, and Kindle! Check out my Beginner's Classical Bass course, available exclusively from Discover Double Bass!   Thank you to our sponsors!   Dorico - Dorico helps you to write music notation, automatically producing printed results of exceptional quality — and plays it back with breathtaking realism. It is easy enough for anyone to learn, yet has hundreds of advanced notations, features, options and sounds to satisfy even the most demanding professionals.  With its streamlined, natural user interface, students and those with less experience in scoring can compose and arrange straight into Dorico, making learning the language of music notation much faster and more intuitive. Editing and making changes — such as instrument, time signature or key — are straightforward, with the notation instantly and correctly adapting to include them, reinforcing the learning outcome.   Ear Trumpet Labs - They make hand-built mics out of Portland, OR and they have an excellent mic for upright bass called Nadine. The Nadine is a condenser mic with a clear natural sound and incredible feedback rejection. This mic is a completely new design -- the head mounts in between the strings above the tailpiece with a rubber grommet, and the body securely straps to the tailpiece with velcro elastic. A 14-inch Mogami cable connects the two parts making it easy to place on any bass. It’s durable and holds up to the demanding needs of the instrument while offering excellent sound quality. Ear Trumpet Labs is offering a free t-shirt just for Contrabass listeners with the purchase of a mic, just visit EarTrumpetLabs.com/contrabass to claim yours and check out the Nadine!   Practizma - The Practizma practice journal is packed with research based strategies to turn your ho-hum practice into extraordinary practice.  Develop your curiosity, discipline, creativity, daring, tenacity and zen.  Take a journey with four elements each week: goal setting, reflection prompt, action challenge, and journal pages to track your practice.  Curious? Download the introductory chapter of the journal for free - this gives you an idea of what it's all about.   Modacity - Are you a practice-savvy musician? Get Modacity – the music practice app that organizes, focuses, and tracks your progress.  Recorder… metronome… tone generator… timer… note taking… Do away with the random assortment of music practice apps in your arsenal. Modacity™ combines all the tools you need into one easy to use, music practice tool.  Organize, focus, and reflect on your practice – motivating you to increase retention in less time.  Modacity has a special offer for Contrabass Conversations listeners that includes lifetime access to the app. Contrabass Conversations production team: Jason Heath, host Michael Cooper and Steve Hinchey, audio editing Mitch Moehring, audio engineer Trevor Jones, publication and promotion Krista Kopper, archival and cataloging theme music by Eric Hochberg Subscribe to the podcast to get these interviews delivered to you automatically!

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist currently based between San Diego and New York City. Her creative practice encompasses contemporary & experimental music, improvisation, noise & acoustic feedback, and band-like collaborations with other creative performers. She has performed as a featured artist of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Notable performances have been as a soloist presented by ISSUE Project Room, as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial in Los Angeles, and in recital at the Vigeland Mausoleum (Oslo). Madison is the clarinetist of TAK Ensemble, a founding member of the [Switch~ Ensemble], and can be heard on Wandelweiser Editions and Another Timbre. Madison is a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego and received her Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music. In this episode, TAK flutist and Executive Director Laura Cocks and Technical Director Taylor Brook interview Madison, who is the newest member of TAK ensemble. This episode was edited by Marina Kifferstein with help from Alex Van Gils.

This episode is the third episode of our podcast series diving back into our 2016 Publishing Conference, which we held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. The panel we’re sharing this week is titled “Finding Your Community”, featuring Jenny Zhang, Alice Sola Kim, Tony Tulathimutte,  and moderated by Jarry Lee. Jenny Zhang is the author of Sour Heart and the recently published My Baby First Birthday-- Alice Sola Kim was a 2016 Whiting award winner and has published in Tin House, The Village Voice, and McSweeney’s among others. Tony Tulathimutte is the author of the novel Private Citizens, and runs a really great writing workshop called Crit, which we’ll link to in the episode notes. Jarry Lee is a model and actor, and former deputy editor at Buzzfeed. Keep in mind this audio is from 2016, but we think it still has lots of relevant and helpful advice for writers looking for a writing community. Tony Tulathimutte's writing workshop in Brooklyn: https://crit.works/ 

This episode is the second episode of our podcast series diving back into our 2016 Publishing Conference, which we held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. The panel we’re sharing this week is titled “Breaking into Speculative Fiction”, featuring Jennifer Marie Brissett, author of the novel Elysium, and the upcoming 2020 novel Destroyer of Light, and Malka Older, author of the Centenal Cycle trilogy, which includes the novels Infomacracy, Null States, and State Tectonics. And last year Malka Older published the serial story Ninth Step Station. Their conversation on speculative fiction will be moderated by speculative fiction editor Tim O'Connell.  Remember this audio is from 2016, so some parts of the conversation are interesting to hear in retrospect, like when they talk about the “upcoming 2016 election” !  

In this episode of AAWW Radio, we’re time traveling through our archive, bringing you panel discussions from our 2016 Publishing Conference, which we held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. The first panel we’re sharing this week is titled “What I Wish I Knew Before I Got My MFA”, featuring Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill and who received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop-- Karim Dimechkie, author of Lifted by the Great Nothing and who received his MFA at the Michener Center, and Kaitlyn Greenidge, who received her MFA from Hunter College and is the author of the novel We Love You Charlie Freeman. Together they speak on their MFA experiences in a conversation moderated by Brooklyn Rail Editor Joseph Salvatore, who is the author of the short story collection To Assume a Pleasing Shape. Keep in mind this audio is from 2016, but we find the conversation is still very relevant, and hopefully people on their MFA journey can find this helpful!

First off, yes lieve Dipsausers!!! We did it!!!We hebben de 100% gehaald en zijn iedereen meer dan dankbaar! Maarrrrrrr we hebben nog ruim een week en ook alle extra’s gaan alleen naar de schrijvers!Heard but not seen. The gentrification of Black music and the whitewashing of dance music history have created spaces which are codified as white, that is, spaces in which Blackness is heard, but not seen. The Black roots of dance music genres such as House and Techno have been progressively phased out. Capitalist enterprises have promoted a form of white hedonism which favours instant gratification over community building, preying on partygoers’ inherent desire to experience a sense of belonging. Recent efforts have been made not only to understand neocolonialism within the dance music industry, but also reclaim spaces from institutions which have been othering and commodifying Black bodies for far too long. This special Dipsaus episode will focus on the decolonisation of dance music, and within this context, we will discuss the possibilities for global solidarity and Black togetherness within the context of dance music and its ecosystem.This will be a collaboration between Dipsaus Podcast and Dance With Pride and continuation of Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca.SPEAKERS:DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based writer, media theorist and curator. He has previously worked with publications such as Triple Canopy, NPR, Tiny Mix Tapes, Mixmag, FACT, Zweikommasieben, and Avant.org. In 2017 he was the inaugural Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room.Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam based independent curator, cultural programmer and radio host with an interest in counter-culture, oral histories and global social issues. She currently does programming for the RCMC.Dr Mathys Rennela is a postdoctoral researcher working on quantum algorithms at the University of Leiden, music writer and musician, who thrive to connect those different activities and offer a commentary on the current state of the dance music scene.Special s/o to Axmed Maxamed and The Black Archives. And with an amazing performance by LGCA2 and afterparty with DJ ARAKAZA. Perfromance was by lgca²ShownotesRed Light Radio accused of failing to uphold community values.Black Togetherness & Solidarity with Panashe Chigumadzi & Amal AlhaagBlack Togetherness: Fiction & Myths of Black WomxnhoodBlack Togetherness in Framer Framed with Olave Nduwanje in conversation with curators Amal Alhaag en Barby Asante

Jules Rosskam is an award-winning filmmaker, educator and interdisciplinary artist interested in liminal spaces: the space between male and female, between documentary and fiction, between moving image and still. His interdisciplinary practice works to induce a perceptual shift in our understanding of how and what bodies mean in the context of documentary film, toward an apprehension of multiplicities. He is the director of transparent (2005), against a trans narrative (2009), Thick Relations (2012), Something to Cry About (2018), Paternal Rites (2018) and Dance, Dance, Evolution (2019). Recent screenings include the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, Arsenal Berlin, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, and the Queens Museum of Art. Recent residencies include Yaddo, Marble House Project, PLAYA, ACRE, and ISSUE Project Room. Rosskam holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Film, Video, New Media, 2008). He is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at University of Maryland Baltimore County. Paternal Rites Trailer, NEW from Jules Rosskam on Vimeo. Dance Dance Evolution Teaser from Jules Rosskam on Vimeo.

Born in Brooklyn, raised in the south of France, Leila Bordreuil is a classically trained cellist whose work sits at the intersection of improvisation, noise and sound art. Based ion Brooklyn since 2012, she has worked closely with Michael Foster, Zach Rowden, Lea Bertucci and Weasel Walter. This conversation was just recorded last week as Leila gets ready to premiere a new piece at Issue Project Room this Wednesday!

Susan Alcorn - "Excerpt 4 - Jandek with Susan Alcorn Ryan Sawyer Shahzad Ismaily" - Jandek Live at ISSUE Project Room [CC BY-NC-ND] Starlicker - "Set 2" - Live at ISSUE 5/5/2011 [CC BY-NC-SA] Bing and Ruth - "Bing and Ruth Live at ISSUE Project Room 6/13/09" - Bing and Ruth Live at ISSUE Project Room 6/13/09 [CC BY-NC-SA] Ensemble Pamplemousse - "Dave Plays Rama's (second half)" - BLOCKS (Live at ISSUE Project Room) [CC BY-NC-SA] Uncle Woody Sullender - "Part II" - Live at ISSUE 5/22/10 [CC BY-NC-SA] Bill Nace - "Live at ISSUE 1/29/10" - Live at ISSUE 1/29/10 [CC BY-NC-SA] Gary War - "Scales" - Horribles Parade [CC BY-NC-SA] Music behind DJ: Podington Bear - "60's Quiz Show" - Bon Voyage [CC BY-NC] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/80938

Michael Foster is a young and intense saxophonist who has been blowing minds and fucking people up in New York City since his arrival in 2012. At the fore of his output is a confrontational musicality that deals with equal parts queer identity and a commitment to the most extreme technical aspects of his instrument. He stays active across a broad range of projects and in 2018 his curatorial platform Queer Trash is in residence at Issue Project Room. For this one we get into sax talk, identity politics, Japanese literature and a whole lot more. Good shit.

Photo: Dave Knapik Recorded at the Issue Project Room, Brooklyn in December 2011 ENOUGH!!! is Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jason Lescalleet & Joachim Nordwall. Enough is Never Enough

Lary 7 appeared as part of the Touch.30 Live in NYC events held by Issue Project Room in September 2012

On March 13, 2008, reedist Ashley Paul performed a live set on RF. Ashley is just about to start a stint as an Artist in Residence at the Issue Project Room in New York City, and has just released her second solo CD, Dol, on Rel Records. You can read an interview with her in the featured section of the site. This was her first appearance on the program. Podcast Special Edition 23: Ashley Paul Live on Rare Frequency

Als der New Yorker Club Tonic am 13. April 2007 schloss, war die Aufregung groß. Hohe Immobilienpreise drängte die New Yorker Musik-Szene einst aus der 52. Strasse, später aus dem West Village, in jüngster Zeit schlossen diverse Musikclubs in der Lower East Side, zuletzt war das Tonic dran. Auch die meisten der Musiker, die sich vor 20 Jahren billige Apartments an der Lower East Side mieteten, sind längst umgezogen. Neue Clubs haben dort geöffnet, wo sie jetzt leben. Im noch preiswerten Brooklyn machen Läden wie Barbés und Issue Project Room von sich reden, doch ein Tonic-Ersatz ist das nicht. Der Tom Waits-Gitarrist Marc Ribot spricht von Marktversagen: Auf dem Spiel stehe die Präsentation von Neuer Musik in New York. Mit der Künstlerintiative Take it to the Bridge hat Ribot jetzt den Kampf aufgenommen, nach europäischem Vorbild soll die Stadt New York einen Musikclub für die unabhängige Jazz und Improvisationsszene subventionieren.