Michèle Bokanowski / Paula Matthusen
Thursday, May 16th at 8pm, ISSUE presents pioneering French composer of electroacoustic music, Michèle Bokanowski, for her East Coast debut. ISSUE is thrilled to be welcoming this critically important composer for a rare performance in NYC where she will share a series of selected works for concert and film at Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The evening will also feature two new works by composer Paula Matthusen that includes improvisations with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor, and video by Tom Snelgrove.
One of the few female composers of her generation to build electroacoustic music for concert, theatre, and cinema–notably for director, animator, and husband Patrick Bokanowski’s work–the artist uses raw sounds to discover music led by the material itself and not by idea or thought.
For the first time at ISSUE, she will present three live electroacoustic works spanning the length of her career including Tabou (1984), Battements Solaires (2008), and Rhapsodia (2018). The performance of Battements Solaires will be presented alongside Patrick Bokanowski’s film of the same name.