Past Events

ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 19TH: Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new, four-channel work by Catherine Christer Hennix. An expanded realization of the "Illuminatory Sound Environment", a concept developed in 1978 by Henry Flynt, this work is on view daily as a sound installation from 12-10pm.

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk with composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix in conversation with Henry Flynt. A new, expanded realization of “The Illuminatory Sound Environment” including works by both artists, is installed at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater June 15-19.

This solo vocal performance by Catherine Christer Hennix marks the close of her installation Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis. On view in ISSUE's 22 Boerum hall June 15-19, this event is the last opportunity to see the installation, which is the composer's first 4-channel computer assisted work since 1969.

An evening with electronic music visionaries Rashad Becker and Valerio Tricoli, and a short film by Mark Fell. Becker creates precise, phantasmic sound designs encouraging audiences to focus their hearing. Tricoli explores music's ability to hover between the "here and now" of the event and the shady domain of memory.

"Archway" is a massive outdoor installation by Eli Keszler, presented as part of Make Music New York. Tuned and extended piano wires up to 380 feet long will be stretched around a massive space, overlapping to form sculptural shapes and a mechanically driven, intense harmonic resonance.

ISSUE and Goethe present solo sets by two abstract sound artists who work with aural collage techniques, Joseph Hammer and Jar Moff, and by renowned German minimal techno producer Thomas Brinkmann.

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY team up with The Bunker to present a late-night lineup at Ridgewood's K&K Super Buffet. With Regis, Lee Gamble, Laurel Halo, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Bill Kouligas.

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.

Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.

Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.

A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.