MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
ISSUE presents three ensembles exploring and pushing the boundary of contemporary vocal music: Ergodos, a production company and ensemble based in Dublin, Ireland; The Ascoli Ensemble, a vocal sextet performing medieval and contemporary work based in The Netherlands; and New York's own Ekmeles.
Doron Sadja premieres Breath, Heart, Skin— a new work for solo electronics utilizing ISSUE’s multichannel sound system. Delicate, slow, and synthetic, the work combines pristine electronics with lush romantic synthesizers, extreme frequencies, and computer-enhanced cello, clarinet, and percussion.
Issue Project Room's second benefit art auction, hosted at Industria Superstudio. Featuring works by Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Marina Zurkow, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Vitiello, James Franco, Jo Andres, and more, and performances by A^CTION (Kim Gordon, Tony Conrad, John Miller), and Steve Roden.
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.
Frolic Architecture is the third and newest collaboration from poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs. It follows Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007) and Thiefth (2005), both of which appeared in the Records of the Year lists in The Wire.
Cellist, improvisor, and 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence Okkyung Lee performs with dancer Michelle Boulé. In long white shadows the performance space is explored by performers who constantly change their relationships within and towards to it. The audience is faced with unusual ways of perceiving the music and movement.
Saxophonist/flutist/singer Arthur Doyle has carved a singular path along the outskirts of jazz, performing in a style he calls "free jazz soul." He is joined by Robert Peterson and members of the band NYMPH. Additional performances by composer and improvisor Loren Connors, double bass player Margarida Garcia, and En.
Duo performances by John Bischoff, best known for his work in computer-driven synthesis and performance, with Mark Trayle, a multimedia artist working in live electronic music, installations, and composition; and by electro-acoustic saxophone performer John Butcher, with electronic music composer Thomas Lehn.