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.
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris conducts a chorus of poets and string ensemble at ISSUE Project Room.
Kate Valk & Andrew Schneider perform together at ISSUE Project Room.
Album release party for Stephen Moore's To Build a Field with performances by Stephan Moore, Evidence, video artist RoseRose and a special guest.
Artist-in-residence Duane Pitre works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonally, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships. He is joined by seminal experimental musician and artist Tony Conrad.
Mark Stewart’s Sublime & Ridiculous Noises for Traditional & non-Traditional Soundmakers comes to ISSUE Project Room.
The Andrea Belfi, David Grubbs, Stefano Pilia Trio perform new material at ISSUE Project Room. Accompanied with a performance by Scott Haggart, further expanding his DISKONO 017 record.
Elliott Sharp performs Octal followed by a performance of SyndaKit by All-String Orchestra Carbon.