A pioneering Brooklyn-based performance nonprofit founded in 2003, ISSUE presents projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works spanning genres of music, dance, literature and film.

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Michèle Bokanowski / Paula Matthusen

Brooklyn Music School

ISSUE presents pioneering French composer of electroacoustic music, Michèle Bokanowski, for her East Coast debut at Brooklyn Music School. The evening will also feature two new works by composer Paula Matthusen that includes improvisations with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor, and video by Tom Snelgrove.

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NOMADIC SIGNALS: Journey from Gaza to Brooklyn featuring Huda Asfour & Farah Barqawi

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

This Summer, ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater provides an ideal laboratory for experimentation, where the audience can experience projects in-process. ISSUE partners with Arab.AMP and 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (SFCF) Leyya Mona Tawil to present the sixth installment in her NOMADIC SIGNALS series, featuring composer Huda Asfour alongside poet and performer Farah Barqawi.

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Artists-In-Residence 2024

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of interdisciplinary artists Axine M, Joni, Katie Porter and Kwami Winfield as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2024 season.

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Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2024

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Lina Azalea Dahbour as 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Next year, the artist will present Blind Date, a series of performances that bring together unlikely pairs of musicians and dancers.

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Axine M: Adriana

2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her first commission Adriana, a multichannel piece for voice, sampled corpus, and machine.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 006: Shelley Burgon

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Each year, ISSUE Project Room commissions and creates a limited edition Mixtape for the organization’s members. ISSUE is pleased to announce that our 20th Anniversary Member Mixtape will feature harpist, composer, sound artist, and longtime ISSUE collaborator Shelley Burgon. The Mixtape features performances from ISSUE’s archive with additional computer processing by Burgon. Each Mixtape comes with a digital download and a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 005: Vanessa Rossetto

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by composer, musician, artist, and philosopher Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix—known for her “transcendental black metal” project Liturgy. The tape is ISSUE's fifth physical mixtape with digital download and features Hunt-Hendrix performing a philosophical reading of the libretto for Liturgy's Origin of the Alimonies laid over a glitch soundscape composed of source material from Liturgy’s fourth album H.A.Q.Q. Each mixtape comes with a digital download and a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 004: Embaci

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci, our fourth physical Mixtape with digital download. The tape features remixes by Nidia Minaj, and Ashanti, acapellas by Missy Elliot, and features from Air Max '97, E+E, and more, plus a J-Card designed by the artist.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 003: Cory Arcangel

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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by multimedia artist Cory Arcangel, our third physical Mixtape. The tape features an unreleased recording of NYARTIST (2019). For the project, Arcangel composed an algorithmic score for pipe organ—located at nyartist.coryarcangel.com—and an iteration of this score was recorded by organist Hampus Lindwall. For this Mixtape, the pipe organ piece is surrounded by EDM tracks by Zoie Makes Noise, Xentia, DemonDubz & Crysus, Comasleep, and more.

ISSUE Member Mixtape 002: Lizzi Bougatsos

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ISSUE's second Mixtape is by sound artist Lizzi Bougatsos. The tape is issued in a limited cassette edition and features Lonnie Holley, Louis Farrakhan's eulogy to Dick Gregory, new unreleased music from her band Gang Gang Dance recorded specifically for this tape, and others + a J-Card designed by the artist.

Yarn/Wire and Pete Swanson: Eliminated Artist

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Known for his uncompromising tape and synthesizer work, Pete Swanson has pushed the limits of electronic music since the early 2000s. Since stepping down as half of formative underground duo Yellow Swans, he has subverted the genres of noise and electronic dance music as a solo artist.

Sabisha Friedberg with Peter Edwards: The Hant Variance

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Sabisha Friedberg’s double LP The Hant Variance was recorded at EMPAC with Peter Edwards in a custom-tuned environment using advanced multi-channel recording techniques to capture a configuration of spatialized sound sources. Combining granular synthesis, analogue synthesizers, tone oscillators and field recordings, the composition is comprised of three movements.

Sergei Tcherepnin: Quasar ⇔ Lanterns

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Sergei Tcherepnin’s Quasar ⇔ Lanterns was originally produced in 2009 as an 8-channel installation with Ei Arakawa at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Remixed to stereo for this release, Tcherepnin’s trio of works combine analog synthesizer recordings and other instrumental sources with field recordings captured during the artists’ travels to Turkey and Georgia.

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