ISSUE is pleased to stream With Inner Sound, Truth, a new work by drummer and composer Savannah Harris. The piece, curated by Sami Hopkins (ISSUE’s 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow), is a continuation of the With Womens Work series and responds to Ruth Anderson’s composition Silent sound.

ISSUE and The Poetry Project present the official launch for composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis' The Clearing. The piece asks how stuttering, blackness, and music can be practices of refusal against hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter.

For the third and final program of her ISSUE Project Room Residency, violist Joanna Mattrey presents an evening of World Premieres written for Mattrey by Leila Bordreuil, Nick Dunston, Weasel Walter, and Lucie Vitkova.

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.

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 & 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.

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.

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.

2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Sami Hopkins presents her second program in Propositions from the deadWIP, featuring composer and Argentinian pianist Leo Genovese in collaboration with bassist John Lockwood and percussionist Nat Mugavero.

Composer, poet & performer JJJJJerome Ellis presents Impediment is Information, his second work as a 2021 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. In his second presentation, Impediment is Information, JJJJJerome Ellis continues to use music, poetry, and video to contemplate intersections between blackness and disability.

Sound/visual artist, improviser, and performer Austin Sley Julian presents Helio-Grave, his second commissioned work as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. This piece is performed as a quartet with sound artist/engineer Riley, vocalist/saxophonist Carolyn Hietter, and improviser/composer Gabby Fluke-Mogul.