Artists Space

Eiko Ishibashi:
Two New York Nights

Performance
June 8, 2022, 8pm

with Michael J. Schumacher

11 Cortlandt Alley

Free with RSVP
Due to limited capacity, please choose either June 8 or June 9 and RSVP for one person only.

Artists Space presents the North American debut of Japanese composer, improviser, and songwriter Eiko Ishibashi. For these two concerts, Ishibashi has selected a New York-based musician to open each evening: Michael J. Schumacher on June 8th and Loren Connors on June 9th.

A color photograph of a figure in a pointed hat with a wide brim, wearing a black and white robe. The figure is pictured amid tree branches and vines that block their face. They hold a twisted vine in their left hand.
Portrait of Eiko Ishibashi [A color photograph of a figure in a pointed hat with a wide brim, wearing a black and white robe. The figure is pictured amid tree branches and vines that block their face. They hold a twisted vine in their left hand.]

Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist whose work ranges from acclaimed singer-songwriter albums to scores for film, television, theater and exhibitions, to improvised music.

Since launching her solo career in 2006, she has released numerous albums on labels including Drag City, Black Truffle, and Editions Mego. Her sixth full-length album The Dream My Bones Dream, released in 2018, was selected as one of the year's best albums by numerous magazines. In 2020, she was commissioned to create music for art and photography exhibitions, such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Japan supernatural, and Memory of Future at Mandako coal mine in Kumamoto, Japan.

In 2016, Ishibashi branched out into film composing, creating the score for the film Albino's Tree, directed by Masakazu Kaneko, which won the Best Music Award at the Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards. In 2019, she composed the music for the anime Mugen no Juunin – IMMORTAL. Her score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2021 film Drive My Car has garnered international attention and was recently arranged into an album incorporating sound effects from the film.

In January, she released her new LP, For McCoy on Black Truffle in January, and began a radio residency on the global radio platform NTS Radio.

Several figures sit on the ground, legs crossed.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [Several figures sit on the ground, legs crossed.]
Several figures stand along a wall illuminated by red light. One figure, seated, uses a computer at a small round table.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [Several figures stand along a wall illuminated by red light. One figure, seated, uses a computer at a small round table.]
A woman stands behind a microphone under dim red light. The woman looks down to her right while typing on a keyboard.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A woman stands behind a microphone under dim red light. The woman looks down to her right while typing on a keyboard.]
A woman stands in front of a micrphone and computer. Her face and hands are illuminated by red light.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A woman stands in front of a micrphone and computer. Her face and hands are illuminated by red light.]
A figure facing a microphone looks upon a computer with audio software open.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A figure facing a microphone looks upon a computer with audio software open.]
A woman with dim red lights on her face in a dark environment stands and talks behind a microphone.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A woman with dim red lights on her face in a dark environment stands and talks behind a microphone.]
The upper body of a figure appears in front of a microphone, into which they play the flute.
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [The upper body of a figure appears in front of a microphone, into which they play the flute.]

Based in Brooklyn, Michael J. Schumacher has innovated in the area of spatialized sound and algorithmic composition since the 1980s, creating multi-channel, generative "Room Pieces" presented in galleries, museums, concert halls, public and private spaces. XI Records has published a DVD of five sound pieces as "apps" that create unique versions each time they run. “Living Room Pieces” is a generative installation designed for home listening; in 2021 Schumacher made an edition of 10 for Raspberry Pi. “The Portable Multi-channel Sound System” is a complete immersive environment that fits in a suitcase, with which he has toured Europe and the United States.

Schumacher studied music composition with Stanley Applebaum, John Eaton and Vincent Persichetti and piano with Seymour Bernstein and John Ogdon, and has degrees from Indiana University and Juilliard. He also worked with La Monte Young and Milton Babbitt. He has collaborated with choreographers, poets, architects, musicians and filmmakers including Bruce Andrews, Tom Chiu, Charles Curtis, Liz Gerring, Ken Jacobs, Victoria Meyers, Ursula Scherrer and Sally Silvers.

https://www.michaeljschumacher.com/

Program support is provided by Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Imperfect Family Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.