Media 2018

Lorene Bouboushian works within dance, experimental music/noise, and performance art. They build a rhizomatic practice through visible forays into performances and workshopping, and less visible forays into writing, dialogue, modes of care and support, and resource sharing.

Crystal Penalosa is an American artist & interdisciplinary designer based in New York. Their work focuses on queer identity, utilizing modular electronics and voice.

Sarah Hennies is a composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, NY. Her work utilizes an often grueling, endurance-based performance practice in a subversive examination of psychoacoustics, queer identity, and performance art.

Derek Baron is an artist working mostly with sound and music. Their solo work assembles pre-recorded sound in an attempt at documentary realism. Their recent written and audio work has tried to engage with questions of whiteness and the audiovisual complex.

Jules Gimbrone performs live syllabic utterances, the resonance of a metal object, and miscellaneous materials and electronics through two large glass vessels filled with salt water and organic detritus.

Interdisciplinary artist and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Dawn Kasper performs part two of a new improvisation titled A, B, C : 0, 1, 2, 3.

ISSUE presents an evening with legendary composer-performer Charlemagne Palestine performing alongside stalwart NYC poet Steve Dalachinsky as a part of the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival, co-presented with BOMB Magazine.

ISSUE presents, at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights, legendary experimental free jazz artist Milford Graves, performing alongside renowned multi-instrumentalist and ISSUE Art Advisory Board Member Shahzad Ismaily.

Improvising vocalist Charmaine Lee showcases her unique style that tensely balances piercing, rapid-fire free improvisation with the sober austerity of Japanese onkyo. Often heavily amplifying the guttural manipulations of her otherwise unaffected voice, Lee approaches elements of ASMR, drone, jazz, and noise all sewn together into a musical language simultaneously lucid and severe.

James Fei performs Sine of Merit III, a solo electronics piece with transducers and feedback. Fei's setup consists of a mix of old modular equipment and homebrewed circuits. The system is driven by multiple feedback loops, often on the brink of instability with signals recursively routed through microphones, spring reverb, and converted between audio and control voltages.

David Behrman’s Runthrough is performed by Behrman, crys cole and Cleek Schrey (who recently performed alongside Behrman in April of this year). Behrman describes Runthrough as a piece that requires no special performance skills other than the ability to turn knobs and aim flashlights, making this early work of interactive live electronic music as playable by non-musicians as musicians.

ISSUE presents the world premiere of Alvin Lucier’s Double Helix for four guitars, his second ever piece written exclusively for the instrument. The piece is performed by composer and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi and doom-metal legend of Sunn O)))) Stephen O’Malley, who together gave the NY premiere of Lucier’s Criss-Cross at ISSUE in 2014, and additionally features Ever Present Orchestra director Bernhard Rietbrock and sound studies lecturer Jan Thoben to complete the quartet.