Sydney Spann & Kiera Mulhern

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 3

Saturday, November 12th at 8pm ET, at The Queens Museum, Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their third and final work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman). The piece is an opera in three parts developed as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. 

Rebekah Heller

Rebekah Heller performs Brazilian-born composer Felipe Lara’s Metafagote for solo bassoon. Written expressly for Heller, the piece explores and inverts the raw sound of the solo bassoon, using electronics, spatialization and powerful melodic writing.

Eric Frye - LIVE at ISSUE / March 11th, 2017

Saturday, March 11th, ISSUE presents composer, artist and curator Eric Frye performing work in 4-channel sound. Eric Frye performs his erudite style of uncompromising, fractured electronics that at once recall the spattered tangle of Keith Fullerton Whitman's recent generations, the digital subversions of Jeff Witscher and the incisive chimerizations of Florian Hecker.

Curtis Roads - Live at ISSUE / March 11th, 2017

Saturday, March 11th, ISSUE presents pioneering computer musician and scholar Curtis Roads cultivating his purely computer generated tonalities from the “…realm of microsound, [from] sound grains first predicted in the acoustical theories of the physicist Dennis Gabor and the polymath Iannis Xenakis.”