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.
The Susie Ibarra Quartet performs original music inspired by Filipino indigenous folklore.
Mivos String Quartet and the CNS Symphony Orchestra play works by Tony Conrad, Huang Ruo and Luke Dubois + Dave Soldier and Brad Garton
Lesley Falnigan performs with her Speaker Synth: a sculptural instrument she built to make music as she samples sounds from her voice and feedback to create a pallet of melodies and rhythms. Also featuring a performance by composer and performance artist, Connie Beckley.
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the experimental literature publisher, Exact Change.
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since.
Climax Golden Twins is a Seattle, WA based experimental collage outfit originally consisting of Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor, then picking up Scott Colburn in 1996. Tonight's program will feature screenings of "My Friend Rain", "Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan," as well as an excerpt from a work in progress.
Cellist, Francesco Dillon, and pianist, Emanuele Torquati, share a new work Simple Space.
Performance by Brooklyn-based ambient chamber band, Bing and Ruth joined by a performance from electronic music composer Elodie Lauten.