Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear.
Oren Ambarchi opens ISSUE's 2016 fall season, showcasing his highly refined sonic work ethic that is at once nuanced and cerebral -- sonically sublime and intelligently constructed.
Pioneering harpist and multi-instrumentalist Zeena Parkins performs a duo set with composer and drummer Brian Chase, two performers who share a focused intensity and immediate physicality. As an ensemble, their music crafts hyper-vivid portraits-in-sound which integrate the detail and subtlety of classical composition with the energy and urgency of improvisation.
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works are pleased to present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
The solo guise of multifaceted artist Ren Schofield, Container recalls the likes of D.A.F., Surgeon, and Legowelt in a set of massive sound, presented on July 30th, 2016 at Pioneer works.
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer have worked together since 1991 with film and music in a live setting, performing work that explores how sound and image interact, with elements of chance embraced. On June 30th, Sight Unseen used image and sound, the drone of a guitar string, the flash of a film frame set up as an open installation activated by performance.
For her third and final show as a 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Lea Bertucci premieres new works for voice, tape and electronics at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. Developed over the course of 2015/16, these new works embody her recent approaches to composition and recording technique. Environmental sound sources and manipulated instruments/objects form an ominous sound-world, where states of alienation, ambiguity and transcendence are examined.
Japanese-American artist, writer, theorist, and composer Yasunao Tone premieres new work embracing artificial intelligence (AI) at ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater.
Celebrated pianist Chris Abrahams appears in a rare New York solo performance Wednesday, May 18th, 8pm at ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Place theater. Perhaps best known as the piano player with the long form trio the Necks, Abrahams has developed a formidable reputation as a solo pianist.
Storied improviser Eugene Chadbourne performs original songs and excavates a broad catalog of covers important to his musical development and buried in collected memory on April 5th at 55 Walker.