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.
Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since.
Climax Golden Twins is a Seattle, WA based experimental collage outfit originally consisting of Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor, then picking up Scott Colburn in 1996. Tonight's program will feature screenings of "My Friend Rain", "Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan," as well as an excerpt from a work in progress.
Cellist, Francesco Dillon, and pianist, Emanuele Torquati, share a new work Simple Space.
Performance by Brooklyn-based ambient chamber band, Bing and Ruth joined by a performance from electronic music composer Elodie Lauten.
An afternoon with legendary singer and composer Joan La Barbara as she demonstrates her signature extended vocal techniques and approach to singing, including the vocal warm-ups, stretches, tone production, resonance focusing, reinforced harmonics or overtone singing, and other techniques.
An evening of contemporary music for multiple electric guitars. Conceived and curated by composer Dan Joseph, the program explores the growing repertoire of multiple electric guitar compositions with works by a diverse group of composers spanning three generations.
This evening's program includes a pre-concert talk regarding music and dance, the work of John Cage, David Tudor and the current musical practice of MCDC. Followed by a concert featuring music for a MinEvent, Blues99, composed by John King for two performers.
A performance by the Søren Kjærgaard and Andrew Cyrille duo. Plus performance by Kjærgaard with collaborators including Kate Hideko, Zach Layton and Bruce Tovsky.