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C. Spencer Yeh with Andrew Smith

String Theories, a joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, commissions innovative artists to create new works for string orchestra. Here C. Spencer Yeh speaks with Andrew Smith about the transition from solo and ensemble improvisation to composing for orchestra.

Wine and dust: Francisco López

Wine and dust: Purposeless memory scraps [and some of their consequences] of a passionate drifter / An essay by Francisco López, who performs March 24 and 25 as part of the Floating Points program.

Can Factory farewell with Jonathan Kane’s February

From our farewell to the Old American Can Factory, with Jonathan Kane's February on January 10th, 2012. Video by Damian Calvo.

Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY

Ongoing Series

Since 1945, Netherlands-based festival Gaudeamus Muziekweek has presented groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. In partnership with Gaudeamus, ISSUE presents, for the first time in the US, a festival highlighting the extraordinary talent that has emerged from Gaudeamus.

Emerging Artists Commissions 2012

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce Emerging Artists Commissions for 2012: Michelle Boule, Che Chen, Jen Rosenblit and Jules Gimbrone, Matthew Papich, and Cauleen Smith.

Wall Street Journal: A New ISSUE Arises

Raising a New ISSUE in Downtown Brooklyn: Steve Dollar on Issue's relocation to 110 Livingston in The Wall Street Journal on December 21, 2011.

James Ilgenfritz: The Ticket That Exploded

Video excerpt from the 2011 premiere of Artist-In-Residence James Ilgenfritz' "The Ticket That Exploded: an Ongoing Opera" on October 29, 2011.

Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2011

Ongoing Series

The Darmstadt Essential Repertoire festival highlights cherished works from the experimental music canon. This year's program features Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, and Terry Riely.

Laura Vitale / We Are Your Friends

A capella group We Are Your Friends sings an original composition, directed and composed by Laura Vitale on October 20, 2011. Commissioned by ISSUE as part of the 2011 Emerging Artists Commission program.

Robert Ashley's "Vidas Perfectas"

Ongoing Series

Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, a new Spanish-language production of his ground-breaking opera Perfect Lives (1983), will premiere at Irondale Theater in Brooklyn, directed by Alex Waterman. Starring Ned Sublette, with Elio Villafranca, Elisa Santiago, Abraham Gomez Delgado, and music produced by Peter Gordon.

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