Media 2021

Distant Pairs: Raven Chacon & Rob Thorne

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration between Diné composer, performer & installation artist Raven Chacon and New Zealand Maori composer, improvisor & anthropologist Rob Thorne. Both have extensive histories using various high-pitched Indingenous wind instruments from their respective territories.

JJJJJerome Ellis: Impediment Is Information

Composer, poet & performer JJJJJerome Ellis presents Impediment is Information, his second work as a 2021 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. In his second presentation, Impediment is Information, JJJJJerome Ellis continues to use music, poetry, and video to contemplate intersections between blackness and disability.

Joanna Mattrey: POV: Simulation with Dr. Graham Walker

Violist Joanna Mattrey continues her 2021 ISSUE residency with the premiere of POV: Simulation, a digital sound walk created with physicist Dr. Graham Walker. Using the frequencies of Mattrey’s soundscape, Dr. Walker generates a visualization that reveals the vibrational patterns formed in real-time.

With Womens Work: Audrey Chen

ISSUE streams a new work by musician and 2008 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Audrey Chen. The piece is the final work of the With Womens Work series, and responds to Beth Anderson's score "VALID FOR LIFE" included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.