ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.
BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.
ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Rucola Restaurant in Boerum Hill pairs with ISSUE to present a special benefit event: a midsummer tasting with wine pairings by the Chefs of Rucola. Savor the night with performances from MV Carbon and Steve Gunn in ISSUE's historic jewel box theater, NY's only European-styled chamber hall of it's kind.
Composer Rhys Chatham performs his now-classic Guitar Trio (1977), presented at ISSUE Project Room in partnership with Northern Spy Records as part of the second annual SPY MUSIC FESTIVAL. This performance will feature Rhys Chatham with nine guitarists, one bassist, and one drummer.
Man Forever is the composition project of drummer John Colpitts aka Kid Millions. This evening serves as a portrait of Kid’s work for Man Forever; in addition to works for tuned drums, Kid will present new ensemble pieces for guitar and voices.
Either/Or performs the world premiere of Public Works by composer, poet and compositional linguist Chris Mann, on a program with new work by Andrew Byrne and Thomas Meadowcroft. Object Collection presents New York Girls, an exercise in extremes, and a fanfare for the dispersed.
Founded in 1976, Gamelan Son of Lion is a repertory ensemble based in downtown New York specializing in contemporary music written for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. The ensemble performs founding member Barbara Benary's "Braid Pieces" and other works.
Iktus Percussion perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1975 music-theatre work Musik Im Bauch for six percussionists, at the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park. Preceding the Stockhausen, New York Virtuoso Singers, directed by Harold Rosenbaum perform Danish choral composers.
Kaufman Center’s Face the Music is an “alt-classical” ensemble of more than seventy unusually talented teenagers from in and around New York City. Face The Music performs works by Osvaldo Golijov and Angélica Negrón, followed by electro-acoustic pop outfit, Balún.
Composer and visual artist Tristan Perich will present an introductory workshop on hardware programming, providing a basic understanding of Assembly, a low-level programming language that drives most hardware at the lowest level.