String, strings and more strings at Issue Project Room all week. Too much to say here. So check out their web site if you like the best of the best cutting edge, avant garde new music. Here’s Friday and Saturday’s show:

8pm $10Friday February 22nd
alex waterman, kenta nagai + todd reynolds w luke dubois

8pm $10
Saturday February 23rd

dave soldier w/rebecca cherry and winsome brown + elliott sharp’s
all-string syndaKit

Rebecca Cherry performs excerpts from “The Compleat Victrola Sessions”
scored to film collage in collaboration with composer Dave Soldier.

Brilliant young violinist Rebecca Cherry, formerly principal violin in the
London Symphony, will present selections from The Complete Victrola
Sessions, a collaboration with composer Dave Soldier, with pianist Jerome
Tan – an evocation of the allure and danger of addiction in the 1920’s,
using black and white silent film with nostalgic, surreal virtuoso music.

Elliott Sharp’s All-String SyndaKit

performers include:

Eszter Balint
Reuben Radding
Dave Hofstra
Ron Lawrence
Kevin Ray
Jessica Pavone
Judith Insell
Alex Waterman
HaYang Kim
MV Carbon
E#

SyndaKit was premiered in 1998 for Elliott Sharp’s Orchestra Carbon and
has since been performed by the German group Zeitkratzer, the Beijing New
Music Ensemble and ensembles in Vienna, Palermo, Tubingen, Bratislava, Los
Angeles, plus many more.

Constructed of 144 composed cores and a set of simple instructions for
their manifestation and manipulation by the players, SyndaKit creates an
ever-shifting rhythmic matrix, a pulse bristling with vibrating detail
based on the activities of flocking birds, African drum choirs, cellular
automata, hunting packs, and recombinant amino acids. The sum effect is
that of a lifeform that lives to loop and groove, always mutating.