ISSUE Project Room Festivals in 2014

From New York’s ISSUE Project Room:

Unsound New York – April 2014
Unsound— the Kraków-based festival of electronic and experimental music— has grown from a small underground event to a worldwide force. ISSUE co-presents the festival’s return to New York in April for four focused days of music and related visual arts. This year’s series will do what Unsound does best: explore the linkages between varying music genres in unexpected ways, often throwing a spotlight on artists from Poland.

Tectonics Festival New York – May 2014
Founded in 2012 by Ilan Volkov, music director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Tectonics festival highlights cutting-edge emerging and established composers working across chamber, orchestral, and electro-acoustic mediums. A rare forum for the critical consideration of developments in contemporary composition, the festival folds in explorations of improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental performance practice.

New York Festival Ultima – May 2014
Scandinavia’s largest contemporary music festival, since 1991 Ultima has been a key arena for new music and related art forms. For their first New York Festival Ultima teams up with ISSUE to present a 5 day series highlighting outsider Scandinavian and American electro-accoustic composers, with a special attention being paid to female composers.

Artists-In-Residence – Ongoing through 2014
ISSUE’s 2014 Artists-in-Residence include performance artists Raul De Nieves and Georgia Sagri, choreograpers Moriah Evans and Gillian Walsh, and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. Since 2005, ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program has provided artists an opportunity to develop significant new works in partnership with ISSUE over the course of the year.