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.
Members of TILT Brass perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels, as well as works by Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo and Chris McIntyre.
Since 2007, New York performance-duo John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori have created a quiet sensation among presenters across European touring-circuits.
The DownTown Ensemble performs sound/text pieces by Robert Ashley, Daniel Goode, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos. Featured performers include Bill Hellermann, and downtown stalwarts Peter Zummo, Alex Waterman, Andrew Bolotowsky, and Daniel Goode. Songs by David Garland round out the evening.
In partnership with Make Music New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Darmstadt presents a performance of Louis Andreissen's "Hoketus," performed on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange by Yarn/Wire, a unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists.
Trumpet player and 2011 Artist-in-Residence Nate Wooley will premiere "Atemwende" by Yugoslavian born composer Bojan Vuletic, in a performance with the MIVOS string quartet. Following this premiere performance, Nate Wooley & Peter Evans will celebrate the release of their new amplified trumpet duo record.
Red Light New Music presents a concert of music by Earle Brown, Bruno Maderna, and premieres by Scott Wollschleger and Vincent Raikhel. The ensemble, started in 2004, presents repertoire of composers rarely performed, as well as their own music. Joined by composer/multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Loen.
Terre Thaemlitz's "Soulnessless" is composed from an openly non-spiritual and anti-religious perspective that sees atheism not as a solution or alternative to religious organizing, but as an act of self-defense entwined with the hopelessnes of life amidst an unstoppable onslaught of spiritual dogma and superstition.
