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 (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
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.
ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On this special evening, join your hosts as they make a rare visit to the material plane at MITU580.
Webb Crawford presents that passed away, this also may. For their culminating residency commission at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, Crawford and collaborator Emma Mistele will play the organistrum in trio with Sam Boston performing on his self-built electric duochord with wheel.
Voices and Echoes
The first evening of “Voices and Echoes” brings together pioneering Japanese artists Akio Suzuki, performing on a range of unique instruments including an ancient stone flute, and experimental poet Gozo Yoshimasu in collaboration with guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshide.
Mariel Roberts premieres new works for solo cello from her debut album nonextraneous sounds, including compositions by Andy Akiho, Sean Friar, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, and Daniel Wohl.
Littoral
Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water” directs a dramatic reading of Brooklyn author Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel "Ride a Cockhorse", recently reprinted by NYRB Classics.
Littoral
Joseph Keckler is a musician, writer, raconteur, and performance artist known both for his musical output as well as for creating narrative monologues and collage-like performance and video works, often musical, that involve transformation through multiple characters. Playwright, author, and poet Mac Wellman joins.
Two of the most exciting innovators of the trumpet Nate Wooley and Mazen Kerbaj will present an evening of solos and duos. This will be Mazen Kerbaj’s first performance at ISSUE.
Touch.30 Live in NYC
Featuring: Marcus Davidson, Philip Jeck, Dave Knapik, Lary 7, Ken Montgomery, JG.Thirlwell and very special guest The Enchantress of Bioluminosity & others... Conducted by Mike Harding
Anthology Film Archives screens the films of Jon Wozencroft as part of Touch.30 Live in NYC: The Suffolk Symphony (audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen), and Liquid Music (audio by Fennesz). Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
Touch.30 Live in NYC
Comprised of field recordings by Chris Watson and Mike Harding with a vocal arrangement conducted live by Marcus Davidson, The Bee Symphony explores the vocal harmonies between humans and animals. Harding also presents Watson’s Forest Floor, and a new work by Watson and Davidson.