ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Utilizing the sounds of the harp, birds and other surprising creatures, Shelley Burgon will venture once again into the world of spatialized, real-time live processing and will collaborate with the visual artist Rachel Wood Salley in what will be Burgon’s third piece for ISSUE's 16-channel hemispherical sound system.
This evening Ensemble One presents new music utilizing both improvised and predetermined elements. Providing support is Brooklyn-based harpist, Shelley Burgon.
A night of great classical and contemporary chamber music with duets, trios, quartets and quintets. Works by Music by Boccherini, Cage, Henze, Krenek, Stravinsky, and more.
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt "Essential Repertoire" present Ne(x)tworks Ensemble performing music of the New York School.
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt "Essential Repertoire" present Stars Like Fleas with special guests performing Cornelius Cardew's Treatise.
Ne(x)tworks and Stars Like Fleas member, Shelley Burgon, performs at ISSUE Project Room, and Berlin Based Pianist, Michael Wilhelmi, presents new works for interactive electronics and Piano.
Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a visual and software artist living in New York City. Draves is best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep. For tonight's performance, Scott’s real time video will be accompanied with live music by Zach Layton, Shelly Burgon and Michael Evans.
Volume (IV) is an improvising quartet featuring electroacoustic harpist Shelley Burgon, turntablist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Moore and electroacoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe. Volume (IV) present a new work for ISSUE's hemiespheric 15-speaker sound system, with nightly contributions from installation artists.
This year’s Essential Repertoire festival kicks off with an evening of Luciano Berio’s first ten Sequenzas for solo instrument, noted for their virtuosic implementation of extended technique, performed by a generation-defining group of players in New York’s booming new music community.
Betsey Biggs performs Ton Yam I (For Brian Wilson), a live improvisation deconstructing and reshaping fragments of the Beach Boy's God Only Knows into a sea of floating harmonies, feedback, and glitch: destruction and reconstruction. Shelley Burgon performs "Mirrored Ceiling," a new composition by Stephan Moore.
“Points in a Circle: Site-Specific Works for the Hemispheres at Issue project Room”
A month-long program that features new, site-specific work presented on IPR’s 16-Channel Hemispherical Speaker System
Burgon and Dunn's repertoire consists of both strictly notated compositions as well as purely improvised music - a repertoire that walks the line between chamber music and extended technique.