Saturday, January 18th, ISSUE opens its 2020 season with new work from legendary electronic music innovator Moritz von Oswald, musician, instrument builder, DJ and 2017 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Antenes (Lori Napoleon), and American composer Britton Powell.
Moritz von Oswald remains one of the defining figureheads of the so-called “Sound of Berlin” as a member of Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Maurizio, and as one half of the Borderland duo alongside Juan Atkins. As a driving force behind the emergence of dub techno, he is widely considered as pivotal in the progression of electronic music since the early 90s. At ISSUE, he presents a new live show entitled Akklamation, a performative compositional cosmos that sets out to unify the expansive and divergent musical paths of the electronics master. From his origins in the German new wave, to his pioneering work in the intersection of dub and various strands of electronic music, to his more recent forays into the fringes of experimental music and composition, Akklamation serves as an investigation into the future of rhythmic structures, timbral architecture, and an exploration of the psycho-physical effects of repetition.
2017 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Antenes (Lori Napoleon) returns to ISSUE to present a new iteration of her ongoing exploration of material from the NOKIA Bell Labs Archives -- a research process that has run parallel to her practice of appropriating antique and/or otherwise obsolete objects in ways that reference and extend their original functionality. Further refining, processing, and spatializing this material, Napoleon combines synthesis with binaural recordings of Bell Labs artifacts from telecommunications history paired with microscopic sounds produced by personal objects from her life (shells, wires, rocks, old watches, etc.) recorded within the famed The Murray Hill anechoic chamber, the world's oldest wedge-based anechoic chamber built in 1940. Notably, she also uses hand-made equipment built during her residency, including a switchboard that electronically controls 90's flip phone motors Napoleon salvaged -- creating organically unfolding rhythms, drones and resonances within these items, including a replica of the first liquid transmission telephone.
American composer Britton Powell presents “If Anything Is,” a new work exploring themes of hyper-reality and ambient capitalism through a mixed-media environment designed for sound and multichannel video. Filmed and recorded over the course of 2019 the work explores an ecstatic exchange of experience in the face of a much-accelerated media and commercial world. A meditation on the intersection of technology, ritual, and urban landscape, the work draws a map through scenes filmed in New York City and points the audience towards the collision at this crossing.
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