Upcoming Events

Distant Pairs: Eden Girma & Maryana Klochko

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.

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Distant Pairs: Oleksii Podat & Suzanne Thorpe

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.

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Axine M / Amelia Heintzelman

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE is proud to present a release event for Bored Giant Engine Sputter, the latest EP by Axine M, out this May via anno records. Featuring a new work by choreographer Amelia Heintzelman.

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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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Past Events

Charlemagne Palestine / Joe McPhee / Steve Dalachinsky

Charlemagne Palestine, best known for intensely performed piano with unique physical "symbols of identification", performs solo joined by composer and improvisor Joe McPhee– a watershed player of the creative jazz scene– and the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who has long occupied a unique role in the jazz firmament.

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Omar Souleyman / Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders / 75 Dollar Bill / Steve Gunn

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain opens with Syrian musical legend Omar Souleyman in Red Hook. The all day event includes from cult psychedelic rock band Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Rick Brown and Che Chen's duo 75 Dollar Bill, and discursive blues from Steve Gunn with John Truscinski and Jason Meagher.

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Wolf Eyes / The Men / Amen Dunes / PC Worship / KHF

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

ISSUE and Pioneer Works' collaboration continues with an all-day indoor/outdoor party of frenzied electronics, post-punk noise, and lo-fi experimental rock in Red Hook. Michigan noise legends Wolf Eyes headline, joined by The Men, Amen Dunes, PC Worship, and KHF.

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Toshiya Tsunoda

Yokohama based artist and composer Toshiya Tsunoda has produced innovative works of field recording and collage for 15 years, carefully concentrating the lyrical power of the world we inhabit. Tonight he plays two live sets with field recordings, vibration-plates, and sine waves, and premieres two new short videos.

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Deceh (US Debut) / Total Life

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

The US debut of Deceh features members of Eleh and Srines. Deceh use analog modular synthesizers to reveal and utilize the harmonic content in acoustic instruments. Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria, founding member of the dronegaze band Growing.

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TEN YEARS ALIVE: Preview night with Tony Conrad & Yasunao Tone

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and supporter Robert Bielecki present a special preview night for Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain with performances by pioneering artists Tony Conrad and Yasunao Tone. This event is open exclusively to supporters of our Ten Years Alive Campaign. To receive your invitation, join or renew your membership now.

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Rene Hell / Kevin Drumm / Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.

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