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

Jutta Koether / New Humans / rESPetc2.rSonel / C Spencer Yeh

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.

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GOETHE TALKS: James Hoff & Mathew Dryhurst

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.

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Terrence Dixon / Sensational & Koyxen / DJ Call Super / DJ Richard

285 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, 11249

Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.

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Ben Vida / Helm / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson

Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.

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GOETHE TALKS: Joseph Hammer / Jutta Koether / Heatsick + more

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.

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Joseph Hammer / Jar Moff / Thomas Brinkmann

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe present solo sets by two abstract sound artists who work with aural collage techniques, Joseph Hammer and Jar Moff, and by renowned German minimal techno producer Thomas Brinkmann.

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Eli Keszler: Archway

Archway under Manhattan Bridge between Anchorage Pl. and Adams St., DUMBO

"Archway" is a massive outdoor installation by Eli Keszler, presented as part of Make Music New York. Tuned and extended piano wires up to 380 feet long will be stretched around a massive space, overlapping to form sculptural shapes and a mechanically driven, intense harmonic resonance.

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