Upcoming Events
27th Annual MATA Festival
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
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Member Event: Thomas Ankersmit
Computer Music Center
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
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Glory, Glory: Live Recording with JJJJJerome Ellis & STARR busby
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
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LISTENING THROUGH THE FIRE: A Town Hall with Matana Roberts & Friends
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
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Past Events
ISSUE in partnership with Smack Mellon are pleased to present the next iteration of 2023 Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea's ongoing project All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Continuum).
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Leila Bordreuil & Luke Stewart: New Works for Feedback Ensemble - Chris Corsano, Julia Santoli, Nina Garcia, Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh
Under the “K” Bridge Park
New works from Leila Bordreuil & Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses.
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Nina Garcia / Lee Ranaldo & Leila Bordreuil
Brooklyn Music School
ISSUE is pleased to present the debut U.S. performance from Parisian guitarist Nina Garcia, who performs solo. Leila Bordreuil & legendary guitarist Lee Ranaldo open, reprising their recent duo for an evening that transgresses boundaries between instrumental improvisation & noise.
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ISSUE Member Event: suzueri & Julia Santoli
Fridman Gallery
ISSUE and AvanToyko are pleased to invite members and special guests to a reception and presentation of the first live duo collaboration between multi-disciplinary artist and experimental musician Julia Santoli and Tokyo-based sound and visual artist suzueri (Elico Suzuki). The debut collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.
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51717 / Torn Hawk
The Emily Harvey Foundation
ISSUE is pleased to present new works from longtime friends Lili Schulder and Luke Wyatt, known through their far-reaching releases under the monikers 51717 and Torn Hawk, respectively. The performances will take place at The Emily Harvey Foundation’s space in SoHo, Manhattan.
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Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson: “Tête-à-tête” LP Release with Ergot Records
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
Join ISSUE & Ergot Records for a listening event in celebration of the release of Tête-à-tête, a new LP of tape pieces by Annea Lockwood & the late Ruth Anderson with drinks, an introduction from Annea Lockwood, an audio diffusion of the record, and a DJ set from Ergot Record's Adrian Rew.
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ISSUE in partnership with CPR - Center for Performance Research is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This, a commissioned work from interdisciplinary artist and 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea. The work will premiere at CPR’s space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “stuck at the office,” a durational office space installation featuring performances by Kate Mohanty & FRANK/ie CONSENT.