Distant Pairs Series

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration between Poughkeepsie-based Joe McPhee and Tokyo-based composer Taku Unami. Despite having never worked together previously, both artists share a similarly liberated approach through their expansive individual discographies and various collaborations.

ISSUE streams new collaborative work between London-based pianist and composer Veryan Weston & New York-based experimental saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock—a film “Art and Life in Self-Isolation" reflecting on new working methods.

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaborative presentation of New York-based multidisciplinary artist Dreamcrusher & Berlin-based producer and DJ Dis Fig. Often expressing dystopian visions through powerful sound, both artists conjure unique styles of confrontational, revelatory, intense music.

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new work from legendary artists and cult punk icons Ana da Silva and Phew. Composed through files exchanged files via email, both artists are familiar with working across distance with a sense of poetry and inquisitiveness, of intuition and invention, of new languages taking shape.

Having collaborated only once before, Sofia Jernberg & Tomeka Reid embark from two respectively vast performative histories of composed and improvised music—from Jernberg’s standing collaborations with Fire! Orchestra, to Reid’s shortlist of collaborators that include Anthony Braxton & George Lewis.

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration between Diné composer, performer & installation artist Raven Chacon and New Zealand Maori composer, improvisor & anthropologist Rob Thorne. Both have extensive histories using various high-pitched Indingenous wind instruments from their respective territories.

ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present the debut collaboration between Viola Yip & Laetitia Sonami. Communicating between Berlin and Oakland, Yip and Sonami—both who have long standing approaches to instrument building—explore collaboration through the creation of a virtual electronic instrument.

Carmen Baliero & Cecilia Lopez met around 1999 when, as a 16-year-old conservatory dropout, Lopez started taking composition classes with Baliero. Both born in Buenos Aires, the pair have an expansive collaborative history that spans decades. ISSUE is pleased to present a new work AEROSILLA (el turismo posible)

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration of London-based multidisciplinary artist, producer, composer, and singer/songwriter Louis Carnell (Visionist) and South Korean cellist, composer, and improviser Okkyung Lee.

ISSUE and AvanTokyo present the debut collaboration of Berlin-based composer & musician Rashad Becker and Japanese sound artist Fuji||||||||||ta. “not to be or not not to be” is their words it is “a scrapbook of sensitivities in scarcity of acumen (a tiny cycle of 8 visual scores for supervised soliloquy)."

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Puce Mary, the solo moniker of Danish-born experimental sound artist Frederikke Hoffmeier, and Brooklyn-based Scottish industrial and experimental pioneer Drew McDowall.

ISSUE Project Room and AvanTokyo are pleased to present a new collaboration between Japanese improviser, composer, and koto player Michiyo Yagi and Norwegian musician, record producer and professor Jan Bang.

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Italian Turin/Berlin-based visual artist, writer and sound producer Francesco Cavaliere and Japanese Paris-based musician and artist Tomoko Sauvage.

ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to stream a new collaboration between interdisciplinary artists Devin Kenny and E. Jane. Both Kenny & Jane approach work across disciplines including the production of digital images, video, text, performance, installation, and sound design.

For two nights, ISSUE & Anthology Film Archives will screen these works—which originally premiered online and were experienced in disparate home screen & sound system arrangements. ISSUE is taking the opportunity to present the works back-to-back in a cinematic environment.

Wednesday, October 19th at 8pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Irmin Schmidt—legendary German pianist, conductor, composer and co-founder of experimental rock band Can—and NYC-based writer and visual artist Leah Singer.

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaborative presentation between New York-based producer and composer Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) and London-based sound artist and writer Flora Yin Wong. This commissioned work will be the first ever collaboration between these two artists.

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Oakland, California-based composer, synthesist, saxophonist and electronic musician James Fei and Chinese musician and poet Yan Jun, who is based in Beijing.

ISSUE is pleased to invite Members to a reception and presentation of the first ever collaborative piece between cellist and composer Lucy Railton and intermedia artist Max Eilbacher. The installation of the commissioned collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.