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Storied improviser Eugene Chadbourne performs original songs and excavates a broad catalog of covers important to his musical development and buried in collected memory on April 5th at 55 Walker.

Japanese artists Takahiro Kawaguchi and Makoto Oshiro have collaborated for years as the live performance and installation trio The Great Triangle. These unconventional artists experiment with self-made sound-making devices and everyday objects to create configurations of sound with discrete relationships to performance spaces.

Pioneering Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki has created improvised and transitory performances since the 1960s, investigating the acoustic qualities of selected locations. He presents four pieces from the Conceptual Soundwork series in an acoustic solo performance

Pioneering Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki has created improvised and transitory performances since the 1960s, investigating the acoustic qualities of selected locations. He adopted the title Conceptual Soundwork for this rule-based series of works, in which he replaced his existing instruments with found materials.

Cellist Okkyung Lee and trumpeter Amir ElSaffar perform in their first collaborative duo at ISSUE's 22 Boerum Theater.

Following the start of construction on our Downtown Brooklyn theater in February, ISSUE took its programs on the road, presenting hundreds of artists in more than 20 venues across the city. We celebrate the close of the season with a look back at video some of our favorite performances.

Áine O’Dwyer gives a live improvisatory performance for pipe organ at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn Heights on November 20th, 2015.

Excerpts from Yoshi Wada's "Earth Horns with Electronic Drone", recorded November, 2015 at the Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC. Wada performs on four original “pipe horn” instruments with a group of local New York players including Dan Peck, Joe Moffett, and Sam Kulik, and is accompanied on organ and electronics by his son, composer Tashi Wada.

ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Lea Bertucci performs solo on alto saxophone and electronics with visuals by Bradley Eros.

Artist and improviser Lonnie Holley performs an intimate performance at Artists Space Books & Talks on October 6, 2015 organized by ISSUE Project Room.

The final moments of Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda's live performance October 1, 2015 at the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York as part of their "ke i te ki" US Tour, organized by ISSUE Project Room.

ISSUE Project Room presents the New York debut of Oakland-based electro-acoustic unit Black Spirituals, in collaboration with new Ridgewood venue The Sump and Poppers Locarno bar on September 22, 2015.

Sound artist crys cole & Australian composer, keyboardist, and violist James Rushford's perform their collaborative project Ora Clementi at Artist Space Books & Talks on August 11, 2015, organized by ISSUE Project Room.