Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
In this one-day workshop we will explore sound as a transmitter of nonverbal information. We will focus on sound’s ability to define/describe space, and on our ability to resonate, alter, or create space by using sound.
The world renown thereminist Pamelia Kurstin returns to ISSUE Project Room joined by Dewanatron (Brian and Leon Dewan).
The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album ”The Ascension: The Sequel” at ISSUE Project Room.
Larkin Grimm + MV & EE's "Barn Nova" album release.
Idiosyncratic guitarist Marco Cappelli is joined on this date by saxophonist Noah Kaplan and bassist Giacomo Merega. With an emphasis on altered and prepared sounds, as well as micro-intervallic structures, the trio strives for a constant projection of both idiom and abstraction with a rock touch.
A concert organized in honor of the publication of Seth Kim-Cohen’s new book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Practice (Continuum).
Join us for an evening in celebration of ISSUE Project Room featuring dozens of literature’s finest poets followed by a bacchanalian celebration and performance by These Are Powers.
Ikue will present an excerpt from her newest work in progress featuring live collage animation.