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: Preview night with Tony Conrad & Yasunao Tone

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and supporter Robert Bielecki present a special preview night for Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain with performances by pioneering artists Tony Conrad and Yasunao Tone. This event is open exclusively to supporters of our Ten Years Alive Campaign. To receive your invitation, join or renew your membership now.

PAN_ACT

Rene Hell / Kevin Drumm / Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.

PAN_ACT

Jutta Koether / New Humans / rESPetc2.rSonel / C Spencer Yeh

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.

PAN_ACT

GOETHE TALKS: James Hoff & Mathew Dryhurst

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.

PAN_ACT

Terrence Dixon / Sensational & Koyxen / DJ Call Super / DJ Richard

285 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, 11249

Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.

Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.

PAN_ACT

GOETHE TALKS: Joseph Hammer / Jutta Koether / Heatsick + more

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, NYC 10003

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.