Events 2009

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

ISSUE Project Room presents a performance by Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh, and Chris Corsano working as an improvising unit, as well as the premiere and recording of Wooley’s new work with tape which extends the work recently released on Important Records (Seven Storey Mountain with David Grubbs and Paul Lytton).

The third night of the Essential Repertoire Festival at ISSUE Project Room featuring performances by Peter Zummo, David van Tieghem, Ned Sublette, Jill Kroesen, Peter Gordon & the Love of Life Orchestra.

The second night of the Essential Repertoire Festival at ISSUE Project Room featuring performances by Meredith Monk/M6, Jon Gibson and Phill Niblock.