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

PAN_ACT

Joseph Hammer / Jar Moff / Thomas Brinkmann

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE and Goethe present solo sets by two abstract sound artists who work with aural collage techniques, Joseph Hammer and Jar Moff, and by renowned German minimal techno producer Thomas Brinkmann.

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Eli Keszler: Archway

Archway under Manhattan Bridge between Anchorage Pl. and Adams St., DUMBO

"Archway" is a massive outdoor installation by Eli Keszler, presented as part of Make Music New York. Tuned and extended piano wires up to 380 feet long will be stretched around a massive space, overlapping to form sculptural shapes and a mechanically driven, intense harmonic resonance.

An evening with electronic music visionaries Rashad Becker and Valerio Tricoli, and a short film by Mark Fell. Becker creates precise, phantasmic sound designs encouraging audiences to focus their hearing. Tricoli explores music's ability to hover between the "here and now" of the event and the shady domain of memory.

This solo vocal performance by Catherine Christer Hennix marks the close of her installation Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis. On view in ISSUE's 22 Boerum hall June 15-19, this event is the last opportunity to see the installation, which is the composer's first 4-channel computer assisted work since 1969.

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GOETHE TALKS: Catherine Christer Hennix & Henry Flynt

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

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk with composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix in conversation with Henry Flynt. A new, expanded realization of “The Illuminatory Sound Environment” including works by both artists, is installed at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater June 15-19.

ISSUE presents a duo performance by celebrated singer-songwriter Josephine Foster with her husband and collaborator, guitarist Victor Herrero. Esteemed for her timeless and arresting voice, Foster’s rock and folk veiled work has reimagined a disparate spectrum of references in a distinctive body of songwriting.

NY Premiere: Friend of Essex

ISSUE Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

ISSUE hosts the NY premiere of Friend of Essex—a film homage to the prolific Black gay author Essex Hemphill. Written and Directed by Amir Dixon, the film mixes one-on-one interviews, group interviews, narrative pieces and poetry inspired by Hemphill’s writing and the 1989 film Tongues Untied.