Upcoming Events

Taraka / Joanna Mattrey

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Past Events

THE BROOKLYN SCHUBERT’S LIVING ROOM

Old American Can Factory

A night of great classical and contemporary chamber music with duets, trios, quartets and quintets. Works by Music by Boccherini, Cage, Henze, Krenek, Stravinsky, and more.

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HAYDN’S 7 LAST WORDS OF CHRIST

Old American Can Factory

The Transfiguration Ensemble will mark Good Friday with Joseph Haydn’s string quartet version of The Seven Last Words of Christ, with reflections by seven wide-ranging scholars and writers selected by Sam Haselby. The evening will also feature an original video work by the Canadian artist John Gurrin.

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Gamelan Son of Lion

Old American Can Factory

The New York City-based gamelan ensemble performs works by Laura Andel, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi and others.

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Together with very special guest Wolter Wierbos from Holland, Gerry Hemingway and Alex Waterman present a set of trio music. Coming out of work in the larger Quintet setting, tonight’s music will be more conversational and languid without holding back the virtuosic energy of these three musicians.

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Silent Music curated by Dan Joseph

Old American Can Factory

Tonight’s program focuses on so-called “silent music,” dramatically reductive chamber music that hovers on the edge of audibility. With strong roots in Cageian aesthetics, the principal exponents of this music are the members of the multi-national collective of composer/performer known as the Wandelweiser Group.

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til by turning + invert

Old American Can Factory

Working as performers, educators, improvisers, scholars, composers, and song-writers — Till by Turning performs new chamber music by established and emerging artists and develops creative educational programs.

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jenny lin + members of VERGE ensemble + daisy press

Old American Can Factory

VERGE ensemble hails from Washington, DC where it is the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Tonight's program features author Nick Antosca and cellist Collin Oldham, premiering his electronic instrument inventions, the Cellomobo and Radio Tape Knife.

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ensemble one + shelley burgon

Old American Can Factory

This evening Ensemble One presents new music utilizing both improvised and predetermined elements. Providing support is Brooklyn-based harpist, Shelley Burgon.

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