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 (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
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.
ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On this special evening, join your hosts as they make a rare visit to the material plane at MITU580.
Webb Crawford presents that passed away, this also may. For their culminating residency commission at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, Crawford and collaborator Emma Mistele will play the organistrum in trio with Sam Boston performing on his self-built electric duochord with wheel.
Composers and multi-instrumentalists Miguel Frasconi & Gina Leishman join forces to explore the unique and varied qualities of glass. They will perform compositions and improvisations on found & home-made instruments involving rubbing, striking, and breaking all forms of glass objects.
This event celebrates both the participating musicians of the Relay - NYC and local improvising musicians, by offering them and the public an opportunity to meet, play music, eat and drink in the beautiful ISSUE Project Room.
The Aura Electric, Opus Three will be performed by the Mat Maneri / Randy Petersen Duo, two of the most innovative and distinctive artists on the downtown improvised scene; The Project One Ensemble performing works for electric string quartet (George Crumb’s Black Angels and a world premiere by Michael Spassov).
Tony Buck’s return to our shores offers a rare opportunity to reconvene and ISSUE’s wonderful room offers the place…
Pianist Jenny Lin, violinist Cornelius Dufallo and cellist Loren Dempster, acclaimed stalwarts of new music in New York, will present chamber works by two of today's most celebrated composers.
Though the history and relationships amongst these three players goes back a long time and are quite intertwined, this performance is the first outing for this exact combination. Expect playful and unexpected strategies and a finely wrought exploration of sonic space.
Video work YAMATO-TAKERU (2005) is part of the in-progress trilogy work "Kojiki," an experimental video story on the spirit and consciousness of the present. The story's background is the earliest Japanese literature work, "Kojiki" (The Book of Ancient Matters), written in the 8th century.