Upcoming Events
27th Annual MATA Festival
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
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.
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Member Event: Thomas Ankersmit
Computer Music Center
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.
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Glory, Glory: Live Recording with JJJJJerome Ellis & STARR busby
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
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.
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LISTENING THROUGH THE FIRE: A Town Hall with Matana Roberts & Friends
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
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.
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Past Events
ISSUE presents an audio/visual collaboration with interdisciplinary artists & curators Funneled Smoke, prolific composer Vito Ricci & vocalist Lise Vachon, and Philadelphia-based duo Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus, with immersive 3-channel rear projection rig, live visuals & large-scale painting.
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Just The Right Height, the music project of interdisciplinary artist Keke Hunt, and Drumloop, the recent moniker of artist and musician Daffy Scanlan, each present new solo work. Both artists chart critical new contexts at the intersection of fragmented narrative, sound design, pop music and experimental composition.
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ISSUE opens its 2020 season with legendary electronic music innovator Moritz von Oswald, 2017 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Antenes (Lori Napoleon), & American composer Britton Powell. At ISSUE, von Oswald presents Akklamation, a piece that sets out to unify the expansive musical paths of the electronics visionary.
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ISSUE is pleased to welcome back the enigmatic Jandek, the musical project of Corwood Industries, to Brooklyn. Jandek has performed in ISSUE’s previous locations in the Gowanus Silo and the courtyard of the Old American Can Factory. This marks Jandek's first performance at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater.
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Light and color improviser Lindsay Packer premieres her third commissioned work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. In Call and Response: ECHOLOCATION, Packer collaborates with Alex Nathanson and Dylan Neely of Fan Letters in a nonlinear feedback loop of analog/digital chain reactions.
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ISSUE has invited musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland for an intimate artist talk, documentary screening, and short performance, accessible exclusively to ISSUE Members and all who support ISSUE during our Year-End Campaign.
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Charmaine Lee presents her third and final work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Laminals III, the last of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. The evening concludes with a trio of improvised music featuring Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) and Ikue Mori (laptop).
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ISSUE welcomes pioneering French composers Beatriz Ferreyra & Christine Groult, presenting new solo and collaborative work. The evening marks an exceptionally rare opportunity to hear the work of two major figures in the development of musique concrète, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music.