Upcoming Events

Liturgy

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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 / Axine M

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Caminos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

Past Events

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

Marc Ribot / Matana Roberts / Cian Nugent

Guitarist Marc Ribot, who helped organize and performed in the first ever ISSUE Project Room concert, returns tonight for an evening featuring the dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser Matana Roberts, and the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, whose striking instrumental folk draws on acoustic Americana traditions.

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

Richard Youngs / Anthony Coleman

Tonight, as part of Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, ISSUE brings Glasgow-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs to Brooklyn for his first US performance in decades. Renowned composer and improvising keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs two recent works for solo piano.

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

Charlemagne Palestine / Joe McPhee / Steve Dalachinsky

Charlemagne Palestine, best known for intensely performed piano with unique physical "symbols of identification", performs solo joined by composer and improvisor Joe McPhee– a watershed player of the creative jazz scene– and the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who has long occupied a unique role in the jazz firmament.

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

Omar Souleyman / Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders / 75 Dollar Bill / Steve Gunn

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain opens with Syrian musical legend Omar Souleyman in Red Hook. The all day event includes from cult psychedelic rock band Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Rick Brown and Che Chen's duo 75 Dollar Bill, and discursive blues from Steve Gunn with John Truscinski and Jason Meagher.

Wolf Eyes / The Men / Amen Dunes / PC Worship / KHF

Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, 11231

ISSUE and Pioneer Works' collaboration continues with an all-day indoor/outdoor party of frenzied electronics, post-punk noise, and lo-fi experimental rock in Red Hook. Michigan noise legends Wolf Eyes headline, joined by The Men, Amen Dunes, PC Worship, and KHF.

Toshiya Tsunoda

Yokohama based artist and composer Toshiya Tsunoda has produced innovative works of field recording and collage for 15 years, carefully concentrating the lyrical power of the world we inhabit. Tonight he plays two live sets with field recordings, vibration-plates, and sine waves, and premieres two new short videos.

Deceh (US Debut) / Total Life

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

The US debut of Deceh features members of Eleh and Srines. Deceh use analog modular synthesizers to reveal and utilize the harmonic content in acoustic instruments. Total Life is the solo project of Kevin Doria, founding member of the dronegaze band Growing.