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    Matana Roberts / Ben Vida with Sara Magenheimer

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    Saturday, July 18, 2026

    8:00 PM

    ISSUE Project Room

    22 Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11201

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Matana Roberts and Ben Vida, joined by collaborator Sara Magenheimer, perform at ISSUE Project Room. Roberts is a New York–based sound experimentalist, visual artist and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who composes and improvises; they have been associated with the AACM and the B.R.C. Vida is an artist and composer with an MFA from Bard who has worked in the international experimental music community for two decades.

    About the Artists

    Matana Roberts

    Matana Roberts

    free jazzavant-gardeexperimental jazzexperimental

    Matana Roberts is a New York City–based sound experimentalist, visual artist, and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who works as both composer and improviser. Their background includes ties to the AACM and the B.

    Ben Vida

    Ben Vida

    electroacousticexperimentaldronemusique concrète

    Ben Vida is a New York–based artist and composer with an MFA from Bard College. For roughly two decades he has moved through the international experimental music community, working across electroacoustic composition, drone, musique concrète, and other avant-garde forms.