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 presents an evening of performances by Xu Fengxia, Min Xiao-Fen and Ned Rothenberg.
Composer/performer Elizabeth Brown and visual artist Lothar Osterburg join forces for two evenings of chamber music and art.
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.
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.
The New York City-based gamelan ensemble performs works by Laura Andel, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi and others.
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.
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.
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.