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.
This installment of io brings together choreographer Kim Brandt (2015 AIR) and Isabella Thorpe-Woods (2026 SFCF). Centered around never-before-released footage from Clear Night (2016)—Brandt's eight-day AIR commission at Pioneer Works—the project revisits a performance that has remained largely unseen for nearly a decade.
Acclaimed composer and musician Amy Denio and novelist/singer-songwriter Rick Moody trade spots reading and accompanying one another on a variety of experiments in text and music.
An evening of syncopated static.
Readings of the work of William S. Burroughs, Marquis DeSade & Edgar Allan Poe with Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Chloe Webb, Tom Davis, & special guests and music by Trevor Dunn, Yuka Honda, Sean Lennon, Doug Weiselman & Hal Willner.
American composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist, Eugene Chadbourne, performs at ISSUE Project Room.
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris conducts a chorus of poets and string ensemble at ISSUE Project Room.
Kate Valk & Andrew Schneider perform together at ISSUE Project Room.
Album release party for Stephen Moore's To Build a Field with performances by Stephan Moore, Evidence, video artist RoseRose and a special guest.
Artist-in-residence Duane Pitre works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonally, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships. He is joined by seminal experimental musician and artist Tony Conrad.