Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Rupture: Material Landscape consists of a single video channel, presenting a moving image piece originating from treated and processed 16mm film. Accompanying the moving image presentation, Garet prepares an aleatoric sonic system based on sounds recorded from processed and modified audiocassette tapes.
Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2010
Program includes: Tom Johnson, An Hour For Piano (1971) and Philip Glass, Knee Plays from Einstein on the Beach (1976). Line-up includes: Joseph Kubera (piano); Mary Rowell (violin, arrangements); Geoff Burleson and Joseph Kubera (organs); Eve Beglarian and Ekmeles vocal ensemble (voices).
The S.E.M. Ensemble demonstrates Stockhausen's role and influence in music of the late 50s and 60s, via the performance of three works from the early periods of John Cage, Christian Wolff and Petr Kotik.
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56), in four-channel version prepared by Columbia's Computer Music Center, Kontakte (1958-60), and Mikrophonie (1964-65). Including a pre-concert recorded lecture (from 1960) by Stockhausen on his approach to electronic music.
This year’s Essential Repertoire festival kicks off with an evening of Luciano Berio’s first ten Sequenzas for solo instrument, noted for their virtuosic implementation of extended technique, performed by a generation-defining group of players in New York’s booming new music community.
Interdisciplinary artist Richard Garet presents AREAL, a new work for active listening, with further emphasis on physical reception by utilizing light and fog to activate ISSUE Project Room's environment. This presentation anticipates the publication of Richard Garet's AREAL by the West Coast media label 23Five Inc.
