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.
Henry Flynt: Solo Electric Boogie (1979/2017) - LIVE at ISSUE / April 7th, 2017
Philosopher, artist, and avant-garde composer Henry Flynt performs Solo Electric Boogie (1979/2017) at Spectral Density: An Evening of Performances Dedicated to Tony Conrad.
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.”
James Fei & Laetitia Sonami: After 9 Evenings - LIVE at ISSUE / September 30th, 2016
James Fei and Laetitia Sonami started their improvisational collaboration in 2013. While the materials and techniques used by the two musicians differ significantly, both employ tactile interfaces coupled with electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral responses.
Leila Bordreuil: Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble - Live at ISSUE / September 10th, 2016
Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear.
Oren Ambarchi - LIVE at First Unitarian Congregational Society / September 8th, 2016
Oren Ambarchi opens ISSUE's 2016 fall season, showcasing his highly refined sonic work ethic that is at once nuanced and cerebral -- sonically sublime and intelligently constructed.
Container - Live at Pioneer Works / July 30th, 2016
The solo guise of multifaceted artist Ren Schofield, Container recalls the likes of D.A.F., Surgeon, and Legowelt in a set of massive sound, presented on July 30th, 2016 at Pioneer works.