This Week at the ISSUE Project Room

From New York’s ISSUE Project Room:

05/05 @ 8pm – Ensemble Simul Cantare + Mick Barr
ISSUE Project Room presents an evening of Sacred Medieval music and Heavy Metal Chant and the Emergence of Polyphony: The Adornment of Sacred Christian Text Vocal choir conducted by Fr. Joel Warden Abigael Upton Brown Rebecca Fasanello Dan Rosenbaum Dana Haynes John Tavener: Dum transisset sabatum Selections from the Libre Vermell de Montserrat Selections from the Worcester Fragments Examples from the corpus of Gregorian Chant for the […]

05/06 @ 8pm – Re: Percussions – an evening of experimental and improvised approaches to the drum.
Recent collaborative works will be premiered and followed by a group improvisation. Participants include: Christine Bard is a drummer/percussionist/composer in the NYC area. Bard moved to NYC to record for Enja records with Nana Simopoulos and Hamid Drake. Soon after, she met Dean Drummond and Jim Pugliese and discovered the Downtown Scene of NYC, where she began […]

05/07 @ 8pm – Artist In Residence: Matt Mottel – Osmotic Imagination
‘A developmental work’ conceived by Matthew Mottel photography by Syeus Mottel photographic alteration/cinema by Brian House lighting design by Ben Furgal sound design by Matthew Mottel Matthew Mottel, a native New Yorker, was influenced by many cultural ideas and people to shape his present. He has discovered that his father, Syeus Mottel, a photographer and theater director, documented many […]

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