Upcoming Events

Liturgy

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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 / Axine M

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Caminos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

Past Events

SKELETON$ usual quintet is expanded here for a night of new compositions, arrangements and ideas. The band will explore the outer limits of their work, with a large ensemble drawn from the wide spectrum of New York's underground music scene.

Frances-Marie Uitti

Cellist and composer Frances-Marie Uitti pioneered a revolutionary cello technique. Using two bows in one hand, she plays four-part sustained chordal passages and is able to execute intricate polyphony. Kurtag, Nono, Scelsi, and Andriessen among other composers have written for and dedicated works to her.

Acid Birds + Charles Gayle Trio

Acid Birds includes members from Peeesseye and Gold Sparkle Band, and released their self-titled LP in 2009 (QBICO). Andrew Barker formed the trio to perform his composition (also titled “Acid Birds”) and in early 2009 the band gave the piece’s second performance at ISSUE Project Room.

Seaven Teares + Build

Seaven Teares, led by New York composer Charlie Looker, presents new work drawing influences from ancient European music, post-industrial folk and simple pop. Brooklyn-based indie-classical band, Build, led by composer Matt McBane, also sharing new work.

Mia Zabelka's "M"

Mia Zabelka's new solo project, focuses on the development of experimental improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls "automatic playing." She explores the relationships among the body, gesture, sound, machines and space using live electronics to expand the electroacoustic sonic spectrum.

Emerging Artists Commissions 2011

Michelle Nagai: Tree Set

Michelle Nagai presents new work for the MARtLET, a handsome, wearable hunk of tree bark that's been fitted with light-sensing circuitry, machine learning software, and sound synthesis algorithms.

The Rat Bastard Experience is led by free jazz drummer Marc Edwards (Cecil Taylor Unit), who appears here with a motley crew of free jazz “anti-fame nihilists.” NO MOR MUSIK’s punk jazz fuses the highest and lowest brows with no intermediary.