Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre
Wed 15 Apr, 2026, 8pm
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its Artists-In-Residence (AIR) program throughout 2026 with performances by current residents and returning alumni. This anniversary season highlights AIRs whose work reflects the ongoing evolution of a much broader community of experimental artists who have helped shape ISSUE for over twenty years.

Wednesday, April 15th, at 8pm, ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci. Written for master flutist, early music scholar, and member of the legendary early music group Sequentia, Norbert Rodenkirchen, this work reaches back through the spans of history and catapults ancient music into the present. Bertucci’s friend and colleague Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening. As recurring collaborators at ISSUE over many years, Bertucci and McIntyre have contributed to the organization’s programs in multiple capacities as both performers and curators.

Steeped in folkloric influences, The Days Pass Quickly is a haunting contemplation of time, duration and memory that evokes the primeval and futuristic simultaneously. It premiered in November 2025 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe Germany and was commissioned for their Gigahertz Prix. Crystalline, minimal and dissonant, pre-recorded sustained pitches and abstracted melodic fragments generated from five of Rodenkirchen’s flutes (Medieval Traverso, Swan Bone, Sheep Bone, Renaissance Tenor and Renaissance Bass) are sampled and deployed across an 8-channel speaker array. Rodenkirchen plays with minimal amplification, in effect expanding and contracting the instrument from its point of live origin to a diffused, spatialized sonic environment. The piece contemplates the depths of human history through the lens of our contemporary upheavals.

Almost exactly 20 years ago, Chris McIntyre presented a multi-channel sound work in ISSUE Project Room’s silo space on the Gowanus Canal. This was opening night of the ensemble Ne(x)tworks’ run as ISSUE’s first Artists-in-Residence. Two decades later, McIntyre returns to summon a fundament of sounds with trombone, voice, synthesizer, and ZOIA box, momentarily suspending and refracting time within the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. He notes: “ISSUE’s residency program afforded me the opportunity to expand my artistic research in a career-altering way. It is still offering me safe haven to try new things, to shine light on new growth in my creative rhizome.”