Upcoming Events
27th Annual MATA Festival
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
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Member Event: Thomas Ankersmit
Computer Music Center
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
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Glory, Glory: Live Recording with JJJJJerome Ellis & STARR busby
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
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LISTENING THROUGH THE FIRE: A Town Hall with Matana Roberts & Friends
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
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Past Events
Sold Out! George Lewis: Recombinant Works 2014 - 2019
Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente
ISSUE is pleased to present an evening of recent electroacoustic works from visionary composer, trombonist, and scholar George Lewis. At ISSUE, Lewis presents a “portrait concert” of four recent works performed by musicians Laura Cocks, Seth Parker Woods, Dana Jessen, Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim.
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ISSUE is pleased to stream With Inner Sound, Truth, a new work by drummer and composer Savannah Harris. The piece, curated by Sami Hopkins (ISSUE’s 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow), is a continuation of the With Womens Work series and responds to Ruth Anderson’s composition Silent sound.
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Annea Lockwood: Piano Transplants - Piano Burning, Piano Garden & Piano Drowning
Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo
ISSUE presents a free online program of renowned composer Annea Lockwood’s iconic Piano Transplants works: Piano Burning (1968), Piano Garden (1969-70), and Piano Drowning (1972). This streamed event features expansive documentation from three presented iterations of each piece.
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Anne Waldman with James Brandon Lewis & William Parker / Caroline Partamian
First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE is pleased to present acclaimed poet Anne Waldman joined by bassist William Parker and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis as part of the 2021 Brooklyn Book Festival. The program also features sound and visual artist Caroline Partamian.
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NOMADIC SIGNALS: Mirages / FRKTL & Tarkamt
Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo
Leyya Tawil (ISSUE Project Room’s 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) presents “Mirages/ FRKTL & Tarkamt,” her fourth program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series. Mirages is a program of sonic and visual illusory spaces composed and performed by FRKTL, British-Egyptian artist Sarah Badr, and Tarkamt.
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Sold Out! Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs, JT Lewis) / JJJJJerome Ellis & Holland Andrews
Weeksville Heritage Center
ISSUE & Weeksville Heritage Center are pleased to present acclaimed musical collective Harriet Tubman, formed by Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs & JT Lewis at Weeksville’s historic site in Crown Heights, BK. The performance also features a first time collaboration between JJJJJerome Ellis & Holland Andrews.
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Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo
ISSUE is pleased to stream a new piece by the legendary trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi. This online presentation is a streamed iteration of an in-person installation of the recording, taking place at ISSUE’s 2021 Fall Opening concert on September 9th, 2021.
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SOLD OUT! Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi (Remote Recording) / Tamio Shiraishi & Julia Santoli + Austin Sley Julian / David Watson & Ikue Mori / Manāt
First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE is thrilled to open its 2021 Fall season and welcome audiences for the first in-person program after nearly eighteen months. Returning to the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights, ISSUE presents an expansive gathering of alumni from cross the organization’s history.