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.
In Scuttling around in the shallows, Winderen continues her investigation of the sound of shrimp, exploring how the smallest creatures of the ocean use sound for communication, orientation, and feeding. Hydrophones—originally a military development—are repurposed, inadvertently producing unexpected qualities.
As part of "The Sonic Unconscious" festival, ISSUE presents Yolande Harris's Scorescapes, a program including the pieces Tuning In / Spacing Out, a collaboration with Edward Shanken, Fishing for Sound, and S.W.A.M.P., with Kato Hideki, Jim Pugliese, and William Lang.
As part of The Sonic Unconscious, ISSUE presents two installations by Yolande Harris. Pink Noise uses sound recorded underwater. In Tropical Storm, sound and video recordings of a tropical storm evoke the multisensory experience of being immersed in a torrential downpour in a rainforest.
Chased around by the ghosts of a paved-over salt marsh and equipped with perverted botanists’ tools, voices of divination and herbal elixirs, explore the neighborhood of Gowanus on foot and onscreen. Gina Badger leads a field botany tour exploring the place of edible and medicinal weeds in ecologies of decolonization.
Irish composer Enda Bates' hexaphonic guitar is simply a standard electric guitar with a special pickup providing access to each individual string signal. This allows each string to be processed differently, and be routed to a different place in the room. This new work transforms his instrument sonically and spatially.
Esther Venrooy's works range from purely electronic composed music to improvised combinations of electronica with traditional instrumentation (piano, guqin, pipa and satsuma-biwa). Since 2006 she has created site-specific works, multimedia performances and installations. Joined by the anarchistic duo pygmy jerboa.
Haunted House, comprised of avant-blues guitarist Loren Connors, Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes and Neel Murgai reunite after a 10 year hiatus for a special performance. Joined by Che Chen and Robbie Lee, stoner-rock/goth lullaby songwriter Sondra Sun-Odeon, and Helena Espvall (of Espers).
Described as abstract analogue pointillism, ambiance for spaceports, or hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat, Frank Bretschneider’s detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfectly translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena. Belgian sound and visual artist Yannick Franck joins.