Upcoming Events

Distant Pairs: Eden Girma & Maryana Klochko

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.

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Distant Pairs: Oleksii Podat & Suzanne Thorpe

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.

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Axine M / Amelia Heintzelman

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE is proud to present a release event for Bored Giant Engine Sputter, the latest EP by Axine M, out this May via anno records. Featuring a new work by choreographer Amelia Heintzelman.

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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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Past Events

Chris Brown, piano, Suzanne Thorpe, flute, and Nate Wooley, trumpet, perform improvised electroacoustic music using timbres and textures that emerge from extended instrumental techniques and live electronic transformation. Composer Alexandra Gardner presents two compositions for solo instruments and electronics.

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An evening exploring relationships of wind and electronics: Chicago's Coppice uncover sonic textures and compositional ideas peculiar to their unique setup of bellows and electronics. They are joined by Anne Guthrie and Richard Kamerman, a compositional collaborative whose long-form works emerged recently via ErstAEU.

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Charlemagne Palestine, solo organ

Plymouth Church: 75 Hicks St, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE is pleased to present the inimitable Charlemagne Palestine in his first-ever NY organ performance. A self-described “maximalist composer”, Palestine originally developed his organ technique in 1964. Tonight he performs on one of NYC's most distinctive instruments: the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Plymouth Church.

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Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities

Composers collective West 4th New Music and Contemporaneous join forces with MATA to create an evening-length oratorio inspired by Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick. With a libretto adapted from the original text, the composers of W4 collectively explore Melville's literary themes. With visuals by artist Andy Cahill.

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ISSUE is proud to present legendary folk artist Dave Bixby in his first ever NY concert. Absent from the scene after two haunting LPs in 1969, Bixby's whereabouts were rediscovered in 2006 with re-releases to follow. Tonight at ISSUE he performs iconic records “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” and “Second Coming" in full.

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