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 and Erstwhile present legendary guitarist Keith Rowe in a two-night residency hosted by TEMP. Rowe performs this opening night in duos with Michael Pisaro & Graham Lambkin. Originally trained as a painter, Rowe adopted the principles of the plastic arts, applying them directly to the electric guitar.
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Sergei Tcherepnin w/ Lucy Dodd: “Tropical Year Zero”
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn
Sergei Tcherepnin constructs temporary architectural interventions that push phenomena of the sonorous towards the haptic. For the final installment of his residency at ISSUE Project Room, Tcherepnin and artist Lucy Dodd present Tropical Year Zero, a sonic dramaturgy marking the end of the k’atun cycles.
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"Nervous Magic Lantern" unravels an unexpected film before our eyes, without actors, without a plot, without celluloid or video. Ken and Flo Jacobs present live projections in a hallucinatory three-dimensional watching experience, with sound by Artist-in-Residence Aki Onda.
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The second night of Swedish Energies includes Anastasia Ax, Erik Bünger, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Trepaneringsritualen, The Gagmen featuring Aaron Dilloway, Nate Young, and Joachim Nordwall, as well as a film by Lars Siltberg.
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The first night of Swedish Energies features Christine Ödlund, Mats Lindström, Vinyl Terror & Horror with guest JG Thirlwell, Rolf Enström, and a duo performance by Aki Onda, and Lise-Lotte Norelius.
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"In the Wan Light of Napalm and Moon" presents new research into the intersection of two old and ever-renewing histories: horror and capital. A collaboration w/ Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe AKA Lichens and an armoire, Williams sketches a secret hell of production and circulation, inspired by a Restoration Hardware catalog.
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Mind Over Mirrors with Zelienople + The Ashcan Orchestra
Actors Fund: 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn
Hailing from Chicago, Zelienople have been etching out a place for themselves in the Windy City for fourteen years. In a rare New York appearance Zelienople teams up with Mind Over Mirrors to perform a live soundtrack to Donald Prokop’s film Gone. P. Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra open the evening.
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Mind Over Mirrors, AKA harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly, performs with dancer and musician Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation and detritus as Sabotage and The Powerful People, this evening marks their first duo performance in eight years.