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.
David and Gisela Gamper’s See Hear Now is a real-time music and video collaboration that seeks to merge the sonic and the visible, and to transport the performers and audience to a transcendent experience. For their Floating Points performance they design a unique projection installation for ISSUE's "ceiling of sound."
Betsey Biggs performs Ton Yam I (For Brian Wilson), a live improvisation deconstructing and reshaping fragments of the Beach Boy's God Only Knows into a sea of floating harmonies, feedback, and glitch: destruction and reconstruction. Shelley Burgon performs "Mirrored Ceiling," a new composition by Stephan Moore.
Liz teaches Iyengar-based vinyasa yoga and pilates.
Alan Licht and Loren Connors have been performing improvised guitar duos since 1993. Tonight Licht will add piano to the mix.
Floating Points Festival 2009
Tonight's performance marks a new instance of 'Archegram', the ongoing collaboration between musician James Elliott, aka Ateleia, and visual artist Sadek Bazaraa.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in academic studios in Europe straight on through contemporary bedroom “digital music.”
David Linton presents an extended time solo audio visual performance with special guest visitations and words in the air.
Darmstadt Institute and ISSUE Project Room are proud to present an exciting music workshop for young children.