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.
ISSUE premieres Owl Movie, a cinema work by multimedia composer Lary 7 exploring arcane film equipment. Running for two nights, the piece is his first-ever fixed media film following decades of ephemeral multimedia performances. Opening the evening, the “Ensemble of Seven” reunites for one-night only.
NYC-based composer and performer Aki Onda and Yokohama-based sound practitioner Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in New York as an Asian Cultural Council grantee. Thursday, November 10th, Nishihara returns to New York to further develop their sonic and spatial exploration.
Active since the 1970s, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhys Chatham altered the DNA of rock and created a new type of urban music by fusing overtone-drenched minimalism with relentless, elemental fury. He returns to ISSUE’s 22 Boerum theater for a rare solo performance on Thursday, November 3rd.
Saturday October 29, producer Fred Warmsley premieres $uccessor, his debut studio album under the Dedekind Cut moniker set for release on November 11 on NON Worldwide and Hospital Productions. Juliana Huxtable performs a unique DJ set exploring divergent sounds culminated from her poetry and deconstructed textures.
In 1995-96 David Tudor collaborated with Sophia Ogielska on a visual language for representing David’s music compositions. This event combines a panel discussion, the exhibition of their selected visual works Toneburst Maps and Fragments, and a performance using Tudor’s original electronic circuits.
ISSUE’s After 9 Evenings programs culminate in the LAB GALA on Wednesday October 19, 2016 marking the anniversary of the events that took place during October 1966.
Due to popular and terrifying demand, Cecilia Corrigan returns to the ISSUE ballroom Oct 8th. Serving as Corrigan's yearly reminder of her eventual decay and death, the evening anticipates the premiere of Motherland, a theatre and video-based narrative exploring the American electorate's psychotic mommy issues.
After 9 Evenings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
Ed Bear performs a newly-commissioned interpretation of John Cage’s infamous "Variations VII.” First performed at “9 Evenings” (1966), the stochastic piece included only technologically-produced or electrically-amplified sound from a variety of sources, transmitted or picked up live in the performance space.