MUSIC
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 19 & 20, 2019
8:00 PM

Michael Morley: Music for the Never Quartet
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Downtown, Brooklyn

$15
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/michael-morley-music-never-quartet-natacha-diels-sad-music-lonely-people
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/michael-morley-music-never-quartet-ursula-scherrer-michael-schumacher-exotica

New Zealand post-rock experimental sound artist Michael Morley presents a piece exploring the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as a resonant amplifier of sound, with four guitars placed on solid wooden furniture and bowed, creating a lush soundscape as the music resonates inside the guitars' soundboxes, further amplified by the solid wood beneath them. Of the two shows, Friday gets the slight nod, because opening that night is Natacha Diels, one of this List's favorite soundscapers: her assemblages of found and other sounds are rooted in a dark humor. Here she'll be concentrating onurban found-sound artifacts -- as will Ursula Scherrer & Michael Schumacher in their opening piece on Saturday, highlighting how exotic -- like a rain forest -- urban ambient sound can seem.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: June, a delightful natural wine bar.