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We've assembled some of the year's highlights in video, including a rare appearance by legendary Ethiopian pop singer Mahmoud Ahmed to an audience of over 800, "maximalist" icon Charlemagne Palestine's first-ever organ concert in New York, new commissions by Pat Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra and Artist-In-Residence devynn emory, and excerpts from international festivals Tectonics, Ultima, and Unsound.

Malcolm Goldstein improvising on violin with tape, recorded live at ISSUE Project Room in October 2014 as part of a two-night festival highlighting Graham Lambkin's Kye imprint.

Yarn/Wire/Currents returns with a newly commissioned experimental work by composer Ann Cleare. Performed by the celebrated percussion and keyboard quartet Yarn/Wire with an assemblage of acoustic, modified, electronic, and handmade instruments.

Composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada performs accompanied by his son, composer Tashi Wada, recorded live at ISSUE Project Room on September 13, 2014. They are joined by two New York performers, David Watson on bagpipe and Jim Pugliese on bass drum.

Kyle Eyre Clyd & Samara Lubelski perform duo in August 2014, part of ISSUE Project Room's Summer Concert Series at Pioneer Works in Red Hook Brooklyn.

Mahmoud Ahmed live at Pioneer Works, recorded July 26th, 2014.

Daniel Carter, Charles Waters & Andrew Barker perform at Pioneer Works on July 24, 2014 in Brooklyn, NY.

Recorded June 27, 2014 at ISSUE Project Room, composer Pat Spadine’s of Ashcan Orchestra premieres his two-act chamber opera "Apollo's Accidental Answer" in it's entirety for the first time.

Recorded live at ISSUE in June 2014, click through for additional songs. A combination of folk chanteuse and noise maven, Chicago-based Circuit des Yeux’s sound vacillates seamlessly between lo-fi and effortless-sounding songwriting sophistication.

Video from William Basinski's June 2014 performance of "Cascade" at ISSUE, produced by The New Yorker to accompany Sasha Frere-Jone's feature on him in the November 10th issue.

Taylor Deupree and Stephen Vitiello, label-mates and collaborators, perform a unique duo featuring modular synthesizers, field recordings and guitar at ISSUE Project Room in June 2014.

Video excerpts from the inaugural Tectonics Festival New York in May 2014, featuring an array of emerging and iconic voices in contemporary composition. Including Eyvind Kang, performed by Oren Ambarchi, Jessika Kenney, Hildur Guonadottir & Stephen O’Malley; Eric Richards performed by Alan Zimmerman; Harley Gabor’s magnum opus string quintet; Crys Cole; Alvin Lucier by Jenny Lin; and Ilan Volkov with Eli Keszler.

Recorded May 12th, 2014, ISSUE Project Room presents Graham Lambkin, a multidisciplinary artist based in upstate New York, who first came to prominence in the early 90's through the formation of his music group The Shadow Ring. Following the group's dissolution, Lambkin embarked on a series of striking and highly original solo releases.

Acclaimed piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire premiere Writing Against Time, a commissioned work for the ensemble by Christopher Trapani, as part of Yarn/Wire/Currents.