ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.
BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.
ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Josephine Foster, celebrated for her timeless and arresting voice and songs, several widely acclaimed albums, and the magnetic nature of her live performances. A self-proclaimed opera school dropout, her unusually imaginative work unites a wide musical spectrum and forms a truly singular body of songwriting.
Composer-lute player Jozef van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the renaissance and baroque lute. Chen uses stringed, wind, reed and percussion instruments, tape machines, film projectors and other objects in works that explore his interests in perceptual phenomena and folk and ritual musics.
The Brooklyn-based 10-piece group TILT Creative Brass Band, directed by trombonist Chris McIntyre, presents a full evening of adventurous and unconventional brass music. This concert is the second installment of TILT's on-going series "To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass."
NewBorn Trio, formed to perform in Kosovo on NewBorn Day, showcases work with handmade instruments, traditional Asian flutes, and plucked strings to create unimaginable musical textures. Michael Sperone performs "Harmonic Symbols", a series of pieces written for large cymbal and computer.
Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."
Winsome Brown at ISSUE Project Room performs "Monologues in Stereo."
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto explicate Sebastian Brant's 1458 novel "The Ship Of Fools" in a contemporary spirit, using a dreamlike world of electro-acoustic sounds, intricate projections, and magnificent singing to emphasize astonishingly up to date medieval themes.
ISSUE presents Rachel Bernsen performing two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.