At ISSUE’s 2025 Gala, ISSUE Board Chair, R. Luke DuBois (@rlukedubois), announced that he will step down from the role at the end of 2025. We are pleased to announce that the incoming Board Chair is musician & composer Richard Kamerman (@rfkorp). Richard writes: “…As I look toward ISSUE’s next chapter, regardless of the diminished arts-funding landscape that has come about in the past year, we remain committed to the community and supporting the exploration of emerging practices through our core activities including the residency program, celebrating its 20th anniversary next year. This shift in funding is an opportunity to further innovate in our approach, not just sustaining but expanding a creative vision in service of artists and audiences alike.” 🏡 In recognition of Luke’s contribution, he will be performing alongside 2025 NYU Integrated Design & Media audio lab residents Dani Dobkin and Amir ElSaffar on Tuesday, October 28th at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. We look forward to gathering with the ISSUE community to thank and celebrate Luke. (fb)

David Behrman (@behrman.david) is a composer and artist active since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts. Most of his pieces feature flexible structures and the use of technology in personal ways; compositions rely on interactive real-time relationships with imaginative performers. Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. He had a long association with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as composer and performer, created music for several of the Company’s repertory pieces, and was a member of the Company’s Music Committee during its last years. Pictures, with its music Interspecies Smalltalk, won the Olivier Award in 1985. Tonight, ISSUE Project Room honors David at our 2025 Gala with presentations and performances by: Peter Gelb @gisburg @kingbee999 George Lewis @levi.lu1 Frankie Mann @cjm_bklyn @stringnoise @dogwaste @arg___art Carol Robinson @cleekschrey @zoshazosha Christian Wolff + rare archival footage courtesy of @mercetrust 📷: Installation for New Music America, Courtesy of David Behrman Archives (1981) @vidthink (fb)