In 2026, ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Artists-in-Residence program. We’re proud to announce the 2026 Artists-in-Residence Webb Crawford, Eden Girma, and rocío sánchez, and invite audiences to join us in celebrating the next generation of boundary-pushing artists.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Isabella Thorpe-Woods as 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Thorpe-Woods will present a curated series of events that explore the idea of letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyday Experimental draws its inspiration from commonplace activities and inconsequential sounds of the everyday. With a special focus on the contributions of women to sound art, ISSUE Presents works by Alison Knowles, Moniek Darge, Annea Lockwood, and Olivia Block.
A Gala Honoring William Basinski, featuring an exclusive New York premiere of music from Robert Wilson's "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic," with William Basinski, and Marina Abramovic.
Through extended engagement with new forms of electronic technology, the works of Oliveros, Radigue and Spiegel exhibit innovative and intuitive processes that rethink concepts of musical perception and redefine the traditionally hierarchical roles of performer/listener, professional/amateur, and musician/non-musician.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group , these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
We are pleased to announce our Artists-in-Residence for 2012: Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Aki Onda, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Yarn/Wire. ISSUE's residency program has provided a support structure for musical ensembles, composers and sound artists since 2006.
The Floating Points programming explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s house speaker system. Designed by sound artist and Floating Points curator Stephan Moore, this fifteen-channel installation of Hemisphere loudspeakers re-imagines the concert experience for both performer and audience.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the Darmstadt Institute 2011 festival. This year's festival welcomes the first U.S. performance by groundbreaking performance duo John Moran . . . and his neighbor, Saori since 2007, among a host of other adventurous artists and veritable giants of the avant-garde.
Since 1993 the record label Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise, intending nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century, and beyond. Its projects have focused on musicians whose light shimmers outside the frames of convention.