Upcoming Events

Liturgy

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

For this anniversary season, Haela Hunt-Hendrix presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano. Drawing from the Liturgy oeuvre, the evening also features new compositions presented at ISSUE for the first time.

Noveller / Axine M

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Noveller (2009 AIR) debuts selections from her latest album, I Am The Weather, alongside music drawn from across her catalog. Axine M (2024 AIR) performs with fretless guitar, voice, and computer

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Caminos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Developed throughout sánchez’s residency, Caminos provides a framework for musical ideas to emerge and unravel through improvisation, extended technique, and lighting design. sánchez is joined by friends and collaborators che ali, Nava Dunkelman, and Henry Fraser.

Past Events

Totem + blackberg/Hernandez/evans/lipton

Old American Can Factory

ISSUE Project Room presents Totem, a noise rock free improvisation trio that ventures from walls of sound to exploring microscopic sound worlds with Blacksberg/Hernandez/Evans/Lipson, a collective ensemble that plays improvised music.

the trojan pony tour

Old American Can Factory

The Trojan Pony Tour, presented by Specific Recordings, features films and live music by artists and musicians from the fabled city of Troy, New York.

jim pugliese’s phase III

Old American Can Factory

Join Jim Pugliese’s Phase III with many special guests celebrating the release of their newest CD on the Italian label Improvvisatore Involontario.

shawn onsgard + maguire, clearvor, halvorson

Old American Can Factory

Shawn Onsgard presents fresh selections from his avant jazz compositions arranged for solo piano and Hammond organ. Joined by Maguire, Cleaver, and Halvorson; an unbalanced trio of drums, electric guitar, and exposed Rhodes integrates extended sections of exact notation with improvisation.

MV & EE

Old American Can Factory

ISSUE Project Room presents MV & EE augmented with Samara Lubelski, Willie Lane and John Moloney

Tony Conrad + MV Carbon

Meeting as they do with violin and cello above a unifying drone, Conrad and Carbon explode the space we normally think of in connection with string quartets, waltz music, and country fiddlin’. Chaotic parameters are bent and rigorously sculpted using techniques that have been revealed through enduring experimentation.