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.
Andy McGraw, Shahzad Ismaily and Sharma Swara team up for an evening of experimental gongs, rare, sacred and contemporary seven-tone gamelan and Indonesian-inspired duets for vibes and electronics.
The Robert(a) Beck Memorial (Mercurial) Cinema will celebrate its 10th anniversary during ISSUE Project Room’s month of ecstasy! An ouroboric event organized by Bradley Eros, Brian Frye & Joel Schlemowitz.
Play and joyful freeform acoustic/electronic music by dane Emil de Waal and the great artists of the evening. Accompanying artists will make improvised music interplaying with Emil and his prerecorded material, a.o. adding improvisations and backing to the preliminary (live) recordings from his laptop.
Tonight Handelman will open the evening with some new three-channel works that re-animate, re-play and orchestrate excess with a glamorous loss of control.
Jonathan Kane's February preforms at ISSUE Project Room.
Gabrielle Senza and Marc Zegans share their collaborative project, Pillow Talk. Plus a performance by Ecstatic Quartet featuring MV Carbon, Lucian Buscemi, Michael Evans, and Anthony Ptak.
Sound artist and vocalist, Liz Tonne collaborates with percussionist, Sean Meehan + a performance by the Brooklyn-based composer, Duane Pitre.
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by MV Carbon and Hahn Rowe.