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.
"It feels time to explore my sense of solo playing, and The Project Room is a great place to do it. Some new works for solo woodwinds. And it is always time to continue my long love of playing in a duo with bass players. I'm honored to be joined by Greg Cohen for various and varied duets." - Marty Erlich
Amy Annelle & Dimestore Danceband, a New York trio plus wildcard melodicists, is an ongoing group-composing and improvising conversation based around guitarist Jack Martin's succinct, affecting melodies, complimented by bassist Jude Webre and drummer Scott Jarvis.
A rare meeting between two musicians who have created together in many situations over the years including the seminal 80's Downtown power trio Semantics (with Ned Rothenberg).
Robert Dick & Jane Rigler (flutes and electronics) plus the premiere of Plateaus
London-based Michael Rodgers returns to New York, joining together with David Daniell, Ateleia (James Elliott) and Tim Barnes in an evening of mixed duos, trios and quartets.
After an extensive tour in Japan, Australia, and Europe, The Project Room is extremely pleased to welcome back composer Aki Onda, who will preform his highly personal work dealing with his own memories, or rather, a trace of memories captured with a handheld tape recorder.
Trombonist and composer, Christopher McIntyre (CJM) introduces two newly-formed projects of comprovisative electro-acoustic music.
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Elliott Sharp is not usually associated with the world of jazz even though it was an important influence for him. His decades-long love of the music of Thelonious Monk is here manifest for the first time in an evening of Monk classics.