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Susie Ibarra’s “Rhythm Cycles” is a set of pieces that examine rhythm through shifting melody, texture, tempo, polyrhythms, while maintaining cycles. It is both a study and a meditation in rhythm. A virtuosic composer, percussionist and improviser, Ibarra is known for her innovative style and exquisitely global essence, coupling a profound respect for indigenous musics with a unique sense of the avant-garde

ISSUE & Harvestworks present acclaimed musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet, a new piece exploring the sonic possibilities of the acoustic guitar as a pure resonant amplifier of sound.

ISSUE presents the debut NYC collaborative performance from vocalist and composer Jennifer Walshe and San Francisco-based musician Wobbly (Jon Leidecker). The artists perform works ranging across their shared interest in the idiosyncrasies of digital sound and the outer reaches of online culture.

DeForrest Brown Jr. (2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) returns to curate “Okonkwo Weeps In Exile,” a new rhythmic opera featuring producer Nicholas Dawson (Bookworms), drummer Donald Sturge Anthony Mckenzie II, poet and "enlightened educator" Rafael Sanchez, with text from Guerilla essayist and Pan-African Black separatist His Triumphant Blackness: The Negro Subversive.

ISSUE presents the New York City debut of Japanese quartet SAICOBAB, consisting of avant vocalist YoshimiO of Boredoms/OOIOO (celebrated as a battler of Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips) and instrumentalists Yoshida Daikiti (sitar), and Motoyuki “Hama” Hamamoto (percussion, gamelan).

Jack Callahan presents a new iteration of 106 Kerri Chandler Chords for voice and computer, a work derived from his project Housed, an archive of (currently) 850 chords from classic House tracks Callahan collected in 2016, which was released on NNA Tapes and is currently being turned into an online archive. The piece is a primary example of Music Art.

Jeff Witscher’s Surviving Sound Music is a new work which presents an unhinged narrative using musical elements and spoken texts. Raiding all genres to create sound disorientation and communicate everyday thoughts in tandem with each other, the piece continues Witscher’s identification with radio art -- for its techniques, using music, sound and voice to assert hybrid narrative. This piece also specifically references Witscher’s “Sound Music,” his term for the overlap between electronic composition, computer music and sound art

ISSUE presents guitarist, bagpiper, and organizer David Watson in collaboration with percussionist, improviser, and producer Tony Buck, best known as a member of The Necks and for his far-reaching improvisational collaborations.

Multidisciplinary artist and 2010 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Laura Ortman presents new solo work “from the rosined-out beast of her tough-stained violin -- where deranged crumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess emerge.”

Drag performance artist and musician Reagan Holiday performs high femme harsh noise for the apocalypse. Full on, full drag, full volume.

Max Hamel, known for their prolific output as Head Separating From Body, presents new work where the inputs and outputs of their modular synth are switchable, nonbinary, and fluid. Further, the sound is activated by touch, so the artist’s body completes the circuit.

The Daxophone Consort presents a new collaboration with NYC experimental vocalist and composer Judith Berkson.

The Daxophone Consort presents HARD WOOD, a new commission by the esteemed experimental composer Alvin Lucier (performed as a quartet with Trevor Saint)