Having apparently grown tired of simply issuing projects and projecting issues, New York’s ISSUE Project Room has recently announced plans to start a small record label called Distributed Objects. Until now, of course, the space has been known primarily as the place that hosts shows I want to check out right up until I remember that I live in Indiana and that New York is far away . For example, this year’s Unsound Festival took place there, and I was unable to attend because Ohio cock-blocked me. The ISSUE Project Room has apparently taken notice of just how far away I live from it, as Distributed Objects will take the issues, projects, the issuing, and the projecting, convert them into objects, and distribute them into my (and your!) home, because, ideally, that is what record labels do.
The label’s first two releases, planned to arrive in October, will come from Sabisha Friedberg and Sergei Tcherepnin, both of whom were previously artists-in-residence at the ISSUE Project Room. Friedberg’s will be titled The Hant Variance and will feature work recorded with Peter Edwards at EMPAC. Using analog synths, tone oscillators, and field recordings, the three-movement piece is reportedly inspired by the work of the British researcher Vic Tandy into the psychic effects of extremely low frequencies. Tcherepnin’s Quasar, Lanterns comes from a 2009 German installation project that combined analog synths, field recordings, and various other pre-recorded musical elements. Both releases are available on the cheap right now through the label’s pre-order/Kickstarter right here, which will be active through August 15.
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• ISSUE Project Room: http://issueprojectroom.org
• Sabisha Friedberg: http://sabishafriedberg.net
• Sergei Tcherepnin: http://issueprojectroom.org/artist/sergei-tcherepnin