Thursday, May 18th at 7pm, ISSUE is pleased to present new works from cellist, composer and sound-artist Leila Bordreuil and DC/NYC-based musician and organizer Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses—in addition to their instruments—to explore graphic scores, sound, noise, and improvisation. Centering techniques of sonic feedback generation within instrumental practice, the notated compositions will emerge through a radically collaborative process, in which performers co-create the works. The event takes place outdoors, undercover in the built amphitheater at Under the “K” Bridge Park underneath the Kosciuszko Bridge in Brooklyn.

Described by Bordreuil and Stewart as “an exercise in non-dogmatic composition,” the project invites contributions by an ensemble working with audio feedback, including celebrated drummer Chris Corsano, 2018 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Julia Santoli, 2011 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Nate Wooley, and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence C. Spencer Yeh. The Ensemble also features a special guest appearance from Parisian guitarist Nina Garcia, who is traveling to the U.S. to perform a premiere solo performance on May 12th and then participate as part of the Ensemble. The ensemble explores a series of graphic scores that address the unpredictability of feedback as a catalyst to interpret spaces between composition and improvisation. Through extended rehearsals, the ensemble performers have interpreted and rewritten the pieces collectively.

Features

No results found