Past Events

ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Matana Roberts, will premiere the last of three new COIN COIN pieces which focus on spatial and environmental interplay while excavating themes relating to her familial heritage and own personal history.

Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self-financed films from filmmakers all over the world, focusing on an under-appreciated and ignored niche in the independent film community. This evening includes works from artists Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi.

Continuing ISSUE's Littoral Series, curator Tony Antoniadis presents works by Erich Hintze, Eugene Marten and Phillip Stearns.

Los Angeles-based artist and researcher, Yutaka Makino, presents new work from his research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, complex dynamic systems and emergence.

Originally conceived as an outdoor performance piece for eight glockenspiels and public performers, The Aaron Siegel Ensemble performs "Science is Only a Sometimes Friend."

ISSUE presents Rachel Bernsen performing two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.

Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto explicate Sebastian Brant's 1458 novel "The Ship Of Fools" in a contemporary spirit, using a dreamlike world of electro-acoustic sounds, intricate projections, and magnificent singing to emphasize astonishingly up to date medieval themes.

Winsome Brown at ISSUE Project Room performs "Monologues in Stereo."

Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."

NewBorn Trio, formed to perform in Kosovo on NewBorn Day, showcases work with handmade instruments, traditional Asian flutes, and plucked strings to create unimaginable musical textures. Michael Sperone performs "Harmonic Symbols", a series of pieces written for large cymbal and computer.

The Brooklyn-based 10-piece group TILT Creative Brass Band, directed by trombonist Chris McIntyre, presents a full evening of adventurous and unconventional brass music. This concert is the second installment of TILT's on-going series "To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass."

Composer-lute player Jozef van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the renaissance and baroque lute. Chen uses stringed, wind, reed and percussion instruments, tape machines, film projectors and other objects in works that explore his interests in perceptual phenomena and folk and ritual musics.