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.
This 2007 North East US fall tour is a continuation of their ongoing creative explorations as composers and performers. This extraordinary improvisational duo will include new music for gongs, mbiras, balaphones, trumpet, voice, bamboo, wood, metal, drums, found and handmade instruments.
Tonight’s line up includes a collaborations between C. Spencer Yeh and minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad, Cincinnati-based trio Emeralds and Carlos Giffoni. Plus a performance by Sam Goldberg.
Kenneth Goldsmith will be singing the classics of theory, accompanied live by Tianna Kennedy, Alan Licht and friends.
Alessandro Bosetti, Brandon LaBelle, and Jarrod Fowler will present new sound and video performances celebrating, commenting, betraying and re-interpreting the original African Feedback idea. A discussion and party will follow.
For their final concert as resident artists with ISSUE Project Room, KIOKU, will be collaborating with two artists: instrument-maker and inventor of the pencilina, Bradford Reed, and percussionist Ravish Momin.
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by KI and Holy Floors with accompanied visuals by Tesuji.
Special OptoSonic Tea event, fundraiser for ISSUE Project Room.
Since the early 1980s Ned Rothenberg and Robert Dick have concertized internationally with J.D. Parran and later Herb Robertson as the trio New Winds. This concert will feature a new third member, the brilliant trumpeter Peter Evans.