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.
Laughter is on sale. Reduced price for the evening, pay what you can: $5, 10, 20, 100, 1000, 10,000.........
Only on this special occassion will psi/pee-ess-eye bends pitchforks and fold time while applying stoppages to underwater incoherance. For further evidence of the hoe dug deep, absorb the brutal silences of Sean Meehan and semi-delinquent spazzcore of Talibam!
"Back in 1978 Jandek's first album, Ready for the House introduced the kind of blasted interior landscapes that dominate his recordings, with an expiring guitar, apparently tuned to the movements of the stars, coiled like barbed wire around a distressed, semi-articulate vocal that conflated eschatological blues..."
Composer-keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs, records and inspires throughout the world. Whether as a bandleader, a sideman, or solo pianist, the work of Anthony Coleman forms an important contribution and has helped to shape and influence the course of New York's Downtown Music scene over the last two decades.
Music is essentially invisible. But could it be visible as well? Aki Onda's Invisible Ensemble takes you on a journey through imaginary landscapes like Marco Polo describes imaginary cities to Kubla Khan in Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities.
This presentation is an inaugural event for ISSUE: Deep Listening - a new adventurous educational program of creative music making co-sponsored by Deep Listening Institute and ISSUE Project Room.
The inscrutable J.G. Thirwell was dropped on this planet some time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth. This evening he will do so as deejay.
Kato Hideki and Marco Cappelli perform their own materials as well as rediscovered songs from Europe and Asia.