Formed in NYC in 1993, the improvising collective No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK) favors anonymity, autonomy, and obfuscation. Alongside founding member Keith Connolly (2016 AIR), they return to open ISSUE’s Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.
ISSUE presents the first commission from Eden Girma (2026 AIR). Part dreamscape and part summoning circle, an intimate diasporic familial archive is pieced together through the eyes of a five-year-old child.
In partnership with Franklin Furnace as part of their 50th anniversary commemoration and November release of "Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace" ISSUE presents an evening of performance and conversation.
Incorporating elements of noise, trance and minimalism, Sergei Tcherepnin (2012 AIR) presents new work for Serge Modular synthesizer.
Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity is an extraordinary new collaboration between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker and guitarist Jim Jarmusch. The two perform together in celebration of the album's release.
Iktus Percussion performs works for amplified triangle and 100 metronomes, among other instruments, by Ron Ford, Michel Van der Aa, Hugo Morales Murguia, Yannis Kyriakides, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Ensemble MAE will return to perform work by other composers, including Robert Ashley's "in memoriam ... Esteban Gomez."
Yannis Kyriakides, winner of the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for his piece conSPIracy cantata, is currently based in Amsterdam. Ensemble MAE will join with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to perform a number of works by Kyriakides, as well as other Dutch composers Peter Adriaansz and Michel Van der Aa.
January 26 will feature Dutch electronic musician Wouter Snoei, an authority on 192-channel “wave-field” synthesis techniques. NY-based electronic artist Matthew Ostrowski will also perform, as well as the duo R WE WHO R WE, a collaboration between New York composer-performers Philip White & Ted Hearne.
Composer-performance collective Wet Ink Ensemble kicks off Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York with the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi's "Départ dans..." Wet Ink will also play works by Ted Hearne, Chris Trapani and Richard Barrett along with works by Wet Ink members Alex Mincek and Kate Soper.
Join us for a farewell to the Old American Can Factory! ISSUE Project Room is moving permanently to Downtown Brooklyn, and closing the Can Factory ane celebrating the release of Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room. With Talibam!, Jonathan Kane's February, and MV Carbon with Tony Conrad.
a canary torsi's Five Performers Demonstrate a Field is an investigation of how movement in a particular room affects a simple sound environment: specifically through Hemisphere speakers in the sanctum of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Choreographed by Yanira Castro, with music by Benjamin Bernstein.
