

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.
Eliane Radigue presents two selections from her masterpiece Songs of Milarepa.
ISSUE presents performances from Keith Fullerton Whitman and Byron Westbrook, two young electronic sound artists whose works demonstrate and acknowledge direct influence from the works of Eliane Radigue.
Eliane Radigue introduces the New York premiere of her 2009 acoustic composition Naldjorlak, a two and a half hour work in three movements. Performed by Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, and Bruno Martinez .
The second performance and NYC premiere of Pauline Oliveros’ 1998 "Primordial/Lift," featuring Oliveros and performers from the original studio recording: Andrew Deutsch, Anne Bourne & David Grubbs. Followed by Robinson's "Billows," a twelve-section piece for basset horn and a reactive electronic environment.
In celebration of Laurie Spiegel's 65th Birthday, ISSUE Project Room is pleased to host a reception and piano concert of her work. The evening begins with a 45-minute informal gallery show and concludes with a rare performance of some of Spiegel's very personal solo piano pieces performed by Joseph Kubera.
Portraying physical and architecturally improbable spatial themes, Metalux seeks to situate the individual within a tangled web of technological interfaces. Their music can be heard as abstract sonic fiction.
For the first part of the program, Carbon utilizes the multi-channel speaker system to perform an abstract composition that is influenced by subjects relating to paranoia, dementia, epistemology, and biopsychosocial approaches. For the second part of the program, Carbon collaborates with Steven Litt.
While Zs' music has been variously categorized as no-wave, noise, and post-minimalist, it is primarily concerned with making music that challenges the physical and mental limitations of both performer and listener.