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.
Josephine Foster, celebrated for her timeless and arresting voice and songs, several widely acclaimed albums, and the magnetic nature of her live performances. A self-proclaimed opera school dropout, her unusually imaginative work unites a wide musical spectrum and forms a truly singular body of songwriting.
Composer-lute player Jozef van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the renaissance and baroque lute. Chen uses stringed, wind, reed and percussion instruments, tape machines, film projectors and other objects in works that explore his interests in perceptual phenomena and folk and ritual musics.
The Brooklyn-based 10-piece group TILT Creative Brass Band, directed by trombonist Chris McIntyre, presents a full evening of adventurous and unconventional brass music. This concert is the second installment of TILT's on-going series "To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass."
NewBorn Trio, formed to perform in Kosovo on NewBorn Day, showcases work with handmade instruments, traditional Asian flutes, and plucked strings to create unimaginable musical textures. Michael Sperone performs "Harmonic Symbols", a series of pieces written for large cymbal and computer.
Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."
Winsome Brown at ISSUE Project Room performs "Monologues in Stereo."
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto explicate Sebastian Brant's 1458 novel "The Ship Of Fools" in a contemporary spirit, using a dreamlike world of electro-acoustic sounds, intricate projections, and magnificent singing to emphasize astonishingly up to date medieval themes.
ISSUE presents Rachel Bernsen performing two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.