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.
Julia Santoli continues her 2018 residency with the premiere of a new work within her “Siren Sore” cycle: a mutant project of myriad form manifesting as visual project, recording album, and performance through genre-crossing collaborations. The evening premieres “burning body of love” with double bassist Zach Rowden.
During his 2018 ISSUE residency, choreographer and performer Will Rawls takes the multifarious figure of the cursor as a guideline to investigate his work that encompasses dance, writing, voice and objects. Cursor 2: Ditties is language gaming for a voice and body in motion.
With roots in industrial music, and a penchant for recording everything from rainforests to skyscrapers, López’ work concerns complex phenomenological referencing to the “substance of reality." Composer Beth Bradfish presents work brining the audience as close to sound as possible, with Diane Moser & Max Johnson.
ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López making a rare NY appearance, his first at ISSUE since 2014. The evening also features composer, performer, and kinetic installation artist Michael Theodore's “Sound Houses (i)”, the first in a series inspired by Francis Bacon.
ISSUE, in partnership with the Center for Italian Modern Art, presents an evening of experimental opera. The program features the first American re-staging of Alberto Savinio’ avant-garde operetta Les chants de la mi-mort and the NYC premiere of the latest scene in Nick Hallett’s serial opera, To Music.
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2018
For their second program as the 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, Queer Trash is elated to present Black Leather Jesus, (A)sex, Mad Recital, and Rachika S. Queer Trash turns to refuse in both senses of the word: refuse of discarded detritus, and refuse as in “no fucking way.”
ISSUE is thrilled to present a rare U.S. performance from celebrated Argentinian artist Horacio Vaggione, composer of electroacoustic and computer-assisted music and pioneer of micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound. The evening opens with a performance from 51717.
ISSUE presents slack-tuned, four-string wildman guitarist Bill Orcutt, unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji, and Poughkeepsian creative jazz originary Joe McPhee. All three are tireless improvisers & solo performers -- each possessing an enduring aesthetic that’s as independent as it is profoundly empathic.