Past Events

In celebration of Laurie Spiegel's 65th Birthday, ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a reception and piano concert of her work.  The evening begins with a 45-minute informal gallery show and concludes with a rare performance of some of Spiegel's very personal solo piano pieces performed by Joseph Kubera.

The second performance and NYC premiere of Pauline Oliveros’ 1998 "Primordial/Lift," featuring Oliveros and performers from the original studio recording: Andrew Deutsch, Anne Bourne & David Grubbs. Followed by Robinson's "Billows," a twelve-section piece for basset horn and a reactive electronic environment.

Eliane Radigue introduces the New York premiere of her 2009 acoustic composition Naldjorlak, a two and a half hour work in three movements. Performed by Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, and Bruno Martinez .

ISSUE presents performances from Keith Fullerton Whitman and Byron Westbrook, two young electronic sound artists whose works demonstrate and acknowledge direct influence from the works of Eliane Radigue.

Eliane Radigue presents two selections from her masterpiece Songs of Milarepa.

ISSUE Project Room presents Swans’ first NYC show in more than a decade at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple-- the loudest venue in the city-- in collaboration with Haunting The Chapel and the Blackened Music Series. Performance artist, harpist and accordionist Baby Dee opens.

The third Artist-in-Residence performance by MV Carbon, featuring a duo with Brian Chase and a solo set with sculptural instrument-- a conceptual piece that explores the fluctuating facets of sentiment and nostalgia.

For this performance, Richard Garet presents the latest development of his Light Field video series. These works examine process, color, motion, digital glitches, RGB phenomena, afterimage, and the sensory gaps between the eye and the mind.

The opening of our two-night showcase of experimental music from Finland features Kemialliset Ystävät's Jan Anderzén as Tomutonttu, and the US debut of Kiila, a six-piece psych-tinged folk rock band.

Minor Musics: Finland features a rare live Kemialliset Ystävät performance with New York collaborators Raphael Lyon (aka Mudboy), Samara Lubelski, Marcia Bassett, Michael Bernstein, Taylor Richardson, Tom Carter, Dave Nuss, and Pete Nolan.

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Interdisciplinary artist Richard Garet presents AREAL, a new work for active listening, with further emphasis on physical reception by utilizing light and fog to activate ISSUE Project Room's environment. This presentation anticipates the publication of Richard Garet's AREAL by the West Coast media label 23Five Inc.