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.
Wobbly (a.k.a. Jon Leidecker) creates laptop-free, multi-sample polyphonic music, while the violinist, electronic composer and registered veterinary nurse, Blevin Blectum, shares clanking, creaking grooves and anti-grooves. The two artists will perform solo and collaboratively this evening at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room presents Japanese electronic musician, composer and photographer Aki Onda and the award-winning vocalist/composer Shelley Hirsch.
Evan Parker has developed the possibilities of unpremeditated music more deeply than almost anyone, creating a personal vocabulary that is simultaneously instantly recognizable and adaptable to the most varied of situations.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present: The Independents. Featuring: Table of the Elements record label, Jonathan Kane’s February, Tony Conrad and Neptune.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes a performance of Poure by cellist Arne Deforce and by the Nelly Boyd Ensemble.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes a set by Phill Niblock, mixing his sound works, and Katherine Liberovskaya's live video. In addition to performances of Pan Fried and Sethworks.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes performances of Didjeridoos and Don'ts, Five More String Quartets, and Summing II.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes performances of Tenor, 3 to 7 - 196, Four Arthurs, and A Third Trombone.