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 NY Phonographers Meetings are series of annual concerts presenting un-processed or raw location and field recordings in a collaborative immersive listening environment.
This performance is the premier of a combination of two duo projects: Bruckmann/Karel as EKG and Bosetti/Chen as themselves.
Sylvie Courvoisier, Jamie Saft and Ben Perowsky will present new music combining energetic improvisation, classical and groove all filtered through the lens of Downtown New York’s Lower East Side.
Ikue Mori (laptop), DJ Olive (turntable and laptop), Martin Baumgartner (laptop)
w/ Matt Davignon, David Linton, Ben Owen, Richard Garet, Sawako & Bruce Tovsky
+ Video Artists Shimpei Takeda and Chika