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.
Charlotte Hug (viola & electronics) and Jane Rigler (flute & electronics) join forces for the first time in New York City.
Decoupage is a chamber quartet led by trombonist and composer Curtis Hasselbring. The group has been performing ever since September of 2004, when Curtis taped some pictures of Brittany Spears and some monkey-shaped cocktail stirrers to music staff paper for the band to play at CBGBs Gallery.
The performers enter the stage empty and build an evening length work from the first moments and gestures. Terman and Koga play in a highly physical realm that includes sound/music and language to explore an often surreal and dreamlike, yet utterly immediate world together.
Brian Wilson, Yuko Fujiyama and Dominic Duval celebrate the release of their CD "things heard unheard" on the Deep Listening Label.
A performance of Dutch/American electro-acoustic improvisation.
An evening of collaborative, improvisational video and music. Joining Kendall are musicians he's worked with in the past -- Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai), o.blatt (Keiko Ueinishi) and Bradford Reed & Bill Bronson -- plus pianist Anthony Coleman and his Hellbender Film Projekt video-partner Al Griffin.
A performance of improvised music conducted with the use of graphic scores. The scores are maps containing cells with written word directions/suggestions taken from my glossary of terms that I use to describe subtle, and not-so-subtle approaches to sound, rhythm, dynamics, form, groupings and thematic material.
Don't miss the launch of Stephan Moore's sixteen-channel hemispherical speaker system. ISSUE Project Room will host Moore's unit as a long-term installation designed to allow interested composers the opportunity to experiment, present and create new works specifically for these components.