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
Anthology Film Archives screens the films of Jon Wozencroft as part of Touch.30 Live in NYC: The Suffolk Symphony (audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen), and Liquid Music (audio by Fennesz). Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
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Comprised of field recordings by Chris Watson and Mike Harding with a vocal arrangement conducted live by Marcus Davidson, The Bee Symphony explores the vocal harmonies between humans and animals. Harding also presents Watson’s Forest Floor, and a new work by Watson and Davidson.
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ISSUE presents Eleh’s first ever US performance. Eleh create highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog electroacoustic music with emphasis on tonal juxtapositions, bass tones and various acoustic phenomenon. Joined by Lary 7.
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Turntablist Philip Jeck performs live with Ted Riederer on electric guitar and vinyl lathe. Riederer records and cuts the performance straight to vinyl as it happens, handing these records instantly to Jeck. The process repeats continuously as the music evolves. Ken Montgomery will perform “8-Track Magic”.
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Tom Carter Benefit: Chelsea Light Moving, Steve Gunn, White Out + Dave Shuford
285 Kent in Williamsburg
Chelsea Light Moving, the new project from Thurston Moore, Keith Wood, Samara Lubelski and John Moloney give their New York premiere in support for Charalambides’ Tom Carter. Guitarist Steve Gunn and White Out with Dave Shuford round out the bill. All proceeds go directly to Tom Carter.
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Arnold Dreyblatt: Turntable History / Spin Ensemble
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, 113 Remsen St, Brooklyn
Composer Arnold Dreyblatt presents two works, including "Turntable History / Spin Ensemble", created from deconstructed recordings of a radiological imagining scanner which he treats as a giant Tesla coil. He also performs "Nodal Excitation", a 1979 work for amplified 'excited strings' bass.
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Rucola Restaurant in Boerum Hill pairs with ISSUE to present a special benefit event: a midsummer tasting with wine pairings by the Chefs of Rucola. Savor the night with performances from MV Carbon and Steve Gunn in ISSUE's historic jewel box theater, NY's only European-styled chamber hall of it's kind.