Past Events

Horn improvisor/composer Anne Guthrie and Austin-based composer/violist Vanessa Rossetto play their first collaboration. Tokyo-based composer Taku Unami performs with the object-oriented Devin DiSanto, also a first-time duo. Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet combine their expansive sounds for a surely epic closing set.

SOLD OUT! Renowned composer, instrument builder and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada reprises performances of his early 70s work “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone”. Wada performs on four original “pipe horn” instruments with an ensemble of NY players, and is accompanied on organ and electronics by his son composer Tashi Wada.

Charles Bernstein speaks on the history of PennSound, the web's largest archive of digital poetry recordings, with some close listening included. Through the consideration of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a talk by Erin Morrill explores the de-automatization of listening practices via a Dadaist mindset.

Steve McCaffery, of the legendary Four Horsemen, plays, performs and discusses various 20th century sound texts. Torres explores sound as a landing point for a territorial poetry to begin. Matter and Liechtenstein focus on pre-conceptual poetry in relation to historical text-sound-works, poésie sonore and Hörspiel.

Sound and radio artist Antje Vowinckel performs with voice and vinyl. Marc Matter mutates voical sounds via turntablist techniques. Swantje Lichtenstein's conceptual poetry and sound improvisations utilize electroacoustic elements.

Spanning plastic, poetry and post-rock, French artist and poet Anne-James Chaton performs. Both instrumental and physical, Stine Janvin Motland pushes the limits of the natural acoustics of the voice. Poet and programmer Ian Hatcher explores cognition in the context of digital systems.

C. Spencer Yeh presents two new moving image works showcasing his unique perspective as an artist, organizer, and audience member. A travelogue captured via smartphone in Egypt explores surveillance, chance composition, tourism, and politics. Shot over the year 2002, a "concert film" documents approximately 40 bands.

UK-based Áine O’Dwyer's performances cross boundaries of composition, improvisation, chance, psycho-geography. Primarily a harpist, for this concert she grapples with the "king of instruments", applying her sense of melodic, structured improvisation to the pipe organ.

ISSUE Project Room presents a two-evening retrospective of collaborative performance works by poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs, in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art. Since 2003 the pair has created four full-length works. Three pieces are presented as well as a moderated discussion with the artists.

ISSUE’s Swedish Energies Festival returns to NY for the 5th-annual edition. Presented in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians spanning genres of sound and visual art.

ISSUE’s Swedish Energies Festival returns to NY for the 5th-annual edition. Presented in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians spanning genres of sound and visual art.

ISSUE returns to our 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a unique event before the final stage of construction begins. Pioneering artist Joan Jonas performs. GABI is joined by Michael Pisaro. Charles Bernstein, Mónica de la Torre, and Elizabeth Willis read, and David Grubbs performs, in recognition of Susan Howe.