Upcoming Events

As part of a festival celebrating the record label Table of the Elements, ISSUE presents performances by Stephen O’Malley, Jonathan Kane’s February, Igor Cubrilovic, and Tony Conrad / Gastr Del, who accompany a film by Tyler Hubby.

The 2008 Table of the Elements release Guitar Trio is My Life! is celebrated here with a much larger ensemble, the Lords of Tinnitus, anchored by drummer Jonathan Kane and accompanied by images by artist Robert Longo. Text of Light (William Hooker, Alan Licht, and Nels Cline), Jon Mueller, and Peg Simone join.

Zeena and the Adorables (Zeena Parkins, Shayna Dunkelman, and Preshish Moments) perform on a bill with M2 (Roger Miller & Ben Miller) and James Elliott as Ateleia.

The collective project MLB, hosted by STEIM and organized by Jamie Allen, is an ensemble performance project featuring a collection of noise and light performance works together in various combinations, live. Performers include Loud Objects, Phillip Stearns, Yao Chung Han, and Jamie Allen.

With his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" David Linton makes vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound and pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects. Bruce Tovsky presents a new work entitled "Methe."

Performances by virtuoso saxophonist and clarinetist Kenny Millions, who unleashes what is sometimes called “creative terrorism” in performances both comic and enigmatic, and Starlicker, a trio deeply rooted in the Chicago and international avant garde, jazz and post rock scenes.

Five artists come together to mark a unique moment in the development of digital instrumentalities and music; The T-Stick digital musical instrument, built in 2006, will take center stage in the world premieres of five new works, among the first music to be formally created for this instrument.

ISSUE’s Littoral series presents Jacues Demierre and Vincent Barras. The detailed analysis of the sonorities of the ancient and modern languages, their re-elaboration and re-composition is finally embodied in a score-text, spread out on stage in its concrete dimensions.