ISSUE presents the premiere of three audiovisual compositions by Matt Mottel (2010 AIR). These works bring Mottel’s distinct artistic sensibility into dialogue with formative figures in his life and in New York’s avant-garde, tracing a lineage that is both deeply personal and central to ISSUE’s history.
Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
ISSUE Project Room and Darmstadt "Essential Repertoire" present Ne(x)tworks Ensemble performing music of the New York School.
ISSUE Project Room and 12k presents performances by FourColor (Tokyo), Moskitoo (Tokyo/Sapporo) and Sawako (Japan/NYC).
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by Peter Evans, Josh Sinton and Matt Bauder.
Wobbly (a.k.a. Jon Leidecker) creates laptop-free, multi-sample polyphonic music, while the violinist, electronic composer and registered veterinary nurse, Blevin Blectum, shares clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves. The two artists will perform solo and collaboratively this evening at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room presents Japanese electronic musician, composer and photographer Aki Onda and the award-winning vocalist/composer Shelley Hirsch.
Evan Parker has developed the possibilities of unpremeditated music more deeply than almost anyone, creating a personal vocabulary that is simultaneously instantly recognizable and adaptable to the most varied of situations.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present: The Independents. Featuring: Table of the Elements record label, Jonathan Kane’s February, Tony Conrad and Neptune.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes a performance of Poure by cellist Arne Deforce and by the Nelly Boyd Ensemble.