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.
Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend — as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham, the rock excursions of La Monte Young and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet.
Glenn Branca performs Lesson No. 3 (A Tribute to Steve Reich) with Reg Bloor, Ryan Walsh, Evelyne Buhler, and Libby Fab. New York-based outfits Neg-Fi and Paranoid Critical Revolution share new work at ISSUE Project Room.
Grey Room presents performances by Ulrike Müller and Emma Hedditch, Petit Mal + XXX Macarena at ISSUE Project Room.
Born in New York City, Matthew Ostrowski has been active since the early 1980s, working in improvised music, music theater, electroacoustic composition and audio installations. Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, improviser and performer utilizing computer, live-electronics, kalimba and other gadgets.
Lumendog and HKM+ perform together as well as individual sets at ISSUE Project Room.
Play- and joyful freeform acoustic/electronic music by Dane, Emil de Waal and the great artists of the evening.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present the premiere performance of Flaming Fire II, the new incarnation of Flaming Fire, rising like a glorious phoenix out of the ashes of their smoldering remains.
Jolie Holland coveys motion and arrival with her fourth album, The Living and the Dead. Performing at ISSUE Project Room with Shahzad Ismaily and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs, Stars like Fleas).