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Her first-ever piece for trumpet, Annea Lockwood’s Becoming Air completely inhabits the concept of the FOR/WITH festival. It was composed through intimate collaboration with Wooley, using much of his improvising electro-acoustic vocabulary. And, yet, it is absolutely an Annea Lockwood composition: performative, shamanic, and with an attention to the naturalness of sound that makes the audience rethink their aural surroundings.

Brandon Lopez performs solo selections from his album “Quoniam Facta Sum Villis,’ recently released on Austin, Texas-based label Astral Spirits. Created, in part, as an answer to the musical "reason" of Bach cello suites, Lopez seeks to create the inverse of what's hailed as musical logic -- creating something florid and beautiful from the violent and erratic and to deny the supremacy of the written in favor of the intuitive.

Malediction is a piece for four players (Michael Foster on Saxophones, Nina Dante voice, Lucie Vítková on accordion and objects, and Lopez on double bass). The piece seeks to be reliant on quiet and violent sounds and to create a space where the incidental is fostered.

2008 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ashley Paul performs alongside longtime mentor and renowned pianist-composer Anthony Coleman. Both artists debut collaborative reinterpretations of songs by Paul, including works from her new album Lost in Shadows, as well as new compositions from Coleman.

ISSUE is pleased to present the world premiere of Episodes et Mutations, an immersive performance and light installation exploring perceptual intersections between sound and light by cellist, composer, sound artist, and former ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Leila Bordreuil.

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.

Claire Rousay is a Canadian-American improvisor, composer, and curator based in San Antonio, Texas. Drawn to improvisation by a desire to free their percussion practice from the constraints of conventional timekeeping, Rousay explores the emotional overlap of rhythm, speed, and texture as both a soloist and participant in creative partnerships that span the United States.

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.

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.

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

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.