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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Glockenspiel performer Trevor Saint follows his exceptional performance of Lucier’s Richochet Lady at ISSUE in 2017 with the premiere of Tilted Arc, a new piece written by Lucier this year featuring bowed glockenspeil and pure wave oscillators.

David Behrman performs Long Throw with Joseph Kubera, John King and Cleek Schrey. The piece was one of three works by three composers commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as music for the 2007 dance, “eyeSpace.” Long Throw makes use of 21st Century digital technology -- music software and sound sensors -- and has performance roles for the core musicians of the Company in 2007: Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi, John King and Stephan Moore.

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.

Julia Santoli continues her 2018 residency with the premiere of a new work within her “Siren Sore” cycle: a mutant project of myriad form manifesting as visual project, recording album, and performance through genre-crossing collaborations. The evening premieres “burning body of love” with double bassist Zach Rowden.

Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, and cultural producer Nick Hallett presents his opera-in-process, To Music, a dark comedy that looks at the nature of inspiration and originality through the cautionary tale of a fictional composer’s behavior on social media—a portrait of the artist on Facebook.

Originally staged in the offices of Apollinaire’s review Les Soirées des Paris on May 21st, 1914, where it was performed in French and Italian, Savinio’s Les chants de la mi-mort centers around a family drama during the period of the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento. Savinio intended this intermedia work, which combined music, literature, theatre, set design, and costumes, as a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk: a total work of art

Harsh and minimal, BLJ performances are anti-music rituals of entropy and sonic decay, informed by both religion and sadomasochistic gay male sexuality.