For this anniversary season, Haela Hunt-Hendrix presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano. Drawing from the Liturgy oeuvre, the evening also features new compositions presented at ISSUE for the first time.
Noveller (2009 AIR) debuts selections from her latest album, I Am The Weather, alongside music drawn from across her catalog. Axine M (2024 AIR) performs with fretless guitar, voice, and computer
Developed throughout sánchez’s residency, Caminos provides a framework for musical ideas to emerge and unravel through improvisation, extended technique, and lighting design. sánchez is joined by friends and collaborators che ali, Nava Dunkelman, and Henry Fraser.
ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On this special evening, join your hosts as they make a rare visit to the material plane at MITU580.
Webb Crawford presents that passed away, this also may. For their culminating residency commission at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, Crawford and collaborator Emma Mistele will play the organistrum in trio with Sam Boston performing on his self-built electric duochord with wheel.
Issue Project Room's second benefit art auction, hosted at Industria Superstudio. Featuring works by Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Marina Zurkow, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Vitiello, James Franco, Jo Andres, and more, and performances by A^CTION (Kim Gordon, Tony Conrad, John Miller), and Steve Roden.
Volume (IV) is an improvising quartet featuring electroacoustic harpist Shelley Burgon, turntablist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Moore and electroacoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe. Volume (IV) present a new work for ISSUE's hemiespheric 15-speaker sound system, with nightly contributions from installation artists.
Frolic Architecture is the third and newest collaboration from poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs. It follows Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007) and Thiefth (2005), both of which appeared in the Records of the Year lists in The Wire.
Cellist, improvisor, and 2011 ISSUE Artist-in-Residence Okkyung Lee performs with dancer Michelle Boulé. In long white shadows the performance space is explored by performers who constantly change their relationships within and towards to it. The audience is faced with unusual ways of perceiving the music and movement.
Saxophonist/flutist/singer Arthur Doyle has carved a singular path along the outskirts of jazz, performing in a style he calls "free jazz soul." He is joined by Robert Peterson and members of the band NYMPH. Additional performances by composer and improvisor Loren Connors, double bass player Margarida Garcia, and En.
Duo performances by John Bischoff, best known for his work in computer-driven synthesis and performance, with Mark Trayle, a multimedia artist working in live electronic music, installations, and composition; and by electro-acoustic saxophone performer John Butcher, with electronic music composer Thomas Lehn.
Issue Project Room partners with TEDxFort Greene to present a salon featuring stories of creativity and innovation. Speakers include curator Ingrid LaFleur, bassist Melvin Gibbs, Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler, and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.