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.
Duo performances by John Bischoff, best known for his work in computer-driven synthesis and performance, with Mark Trayle, a multimedia artist working in live electronic music, installations, and composition; and by electro-acoustic saxophone performer John Butcher, with electronic music composer Thomas Lehn.
Issue Project Room partners with TEDxFort Greene to present a salon featuring stories of creativity and innovation. Speakers include curator Ingrid LaFleur, bassist Melvin Gibbs, Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler, and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Tyehimba Jess explores how the contrapuntal poem and poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history, and geometry in Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox; the Tracie Morris Band, feat. multidisciplinary poet, scholar, and performer Tracie Morris, with Val Jeanty, and Marvin Sewell performs.
The world premiere of Maxim Moston's live orchestration of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" at The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2011 Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama will transform ISSUE Project Room into a point of origins. They will construct a “sacred space” using gathered matter from off-site urban wilds of Brooklyn. Audience members will be invited to build their own instruments and utilize them in an extended jam session open to anyone.
