Sat Jul 20, 8:00 PM - Sat Jul 20, 11:00 PM
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Community: Downtown Brooklyn

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The evening also features 2019 Harvestworks New York Electronic Art Festival artists Ursula Scherrer & composer Michael Schumacher premiering Exotica, a new piece made specifically for ISSUE.

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Saturday, July 20th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed New Zealand-based artist and musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet, a new piece exploring the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as a pure resonant amplifier of sound. Perhaps best known as 1/3 of the Dead C, an enduring free rock unit that has pushed the proto- and post-punk templates to exhilarating points of disintegration for the past three decades, Morley has also recorded music as Gate, the Righteous Yeah, the F—k Chairs, and Sun Valley, as well as under his own name across a range of genre.

The artists, who have been collaborating since the 1990s, incorporate SONYC’s (Sounds of New York City) large-scale field recording database of classified “urban sounds” -- a multidisciplinary initiative led by researchers from New York University, looking at ways to acquire, analyze, classify, and model urban noise pollution in New York City. These field recordings, along with their labels, comprise a high quality dataset of the sounds of New York in the 21st Century.

Michael Morley’s Music for The Never Quartet is a performative installation for a quartet of bowed acoustic guitars placed on solid wooden furniture. The guitar bodies amplify the bowed strings, which the furniture further amplifies, creating a lush and generous sound field. The quartet modifies the collective sound with the addition of wooden blocks, bowls, and rods placed atop and underneath the instruments. The audience is encouraged to move around the space to experience the sound from multiple vantage points. However, Morley explains that “remaining in one place allows for the shifting time signatures of the different vibrating strings to wash [over] the listener.” The audience is also welcome to record the performance on their mobile devices to be played back as loops during the installation.

The origin point for Ursula Scherrer & Michael Schumacher’s Exotica was a statement made by a visitor to Ursula’s apartment who compared the obtrusive sounds of the city to “being in the rainforest and hearing exotic birds.” In Exotica, the artists have taken this idea and imagined creating a parallel place, within the confines of ISSUE’s theater, that us

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