Upcoming Events
27th Annual MATA Festival
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
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Member Event: Thomas Ankersmit
Computer Music Center
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
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Glory, Glory: Live Recording with JJJJJerome Ellis & STARR busby
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
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LISTENING THROUGH THE FIRE: A Town Hall with Matana Roberts & Friends
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
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Past Events
ISSUE Member Event: Conversation with Christian Wolff & George Lewis / “What If?” Open Rehearsal
Judson Memorial Church
ISSUE invites members, students, and special guests to experience an open rehearsal of the newly commissioned work “What If?” by String Noise Sounds composed by Christian Wolff.
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2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her first commission Adriana, a multichannel piece for voice, sampled corpus, and machine.
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ISSUE is pleased to present Malosma / 18 Flowers in a Row, the first commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. The clarinetist and composer presents new chamber music works inspired by microcosms and macrocosms of change: both in our personal narratives and the world around us.
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Just a few days before Valentine’s Day, 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow and interdisciplinary artist Lina Azalea Dahbour presents the first program in her “Blind Date” series—Tiny Conversation Hearts.
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Hiromichi Sakamoto / Kato Hideki & Zeena Parkins
Brooklyn Music School
ISSUE and AvanTokyo are pleased to present the solo US debut of Japanese cellist Hiromichi Sakamoto. The evening will also feature a duo presentation from musicians Kato Hideki & Zeena Parkins, which will take place at Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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Negativland: In Conversation
NYU Brooklyn, 370 Jay St, Room #325, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join ISSUE in collaboration with NYU Tandon School of Engineering for a special artist talk with Negativland, moderated by NYU’s Academic Director of Integrated Design & Media, Scott Fitzgerald.
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Negativland & SUE-C / VALISE
First Unitarian Congregational Society
Returning to the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights, ISSUE’s 2024 Winter Season Opening welcomes sonic outlaws and multimedia collective Negativland for the NYC premiere of their work WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE. Local vocalist and producer Maralie Armstrong-Rial as VALISE will present a multimedia project.
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An Improvisational Symphony: coordinated by Suzanne Langille
First Unitarian Congregational Society
A diverse array of twenty artists come together in An Improvisational Symphony to close ISSUE's 20th Anniversary Season, coordinated by vocalist and longtime ISSUE friend, Suzanne Langille. The celebratory concert is split into four movements, each representing a traditional element that will inspire groups of five musicians to present 20-minutes of improvised sounds.