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.
The Noisy Mediation Band lead by Peter Zummo perform at ISSUE Project Room featuring performers Ernie Brooks, Michael Evans, David First, and Yvette Perez.
his evening celebrates the release of Force of Light. Written by Dan Kaufman, the series of songs interweave the words of Romanian-Jewish Holocaust poet, Paul Celan with instrumental music performed by Brooklyn’s avant-cabaret pioneers, Barbez.
Neptune’s origins trace to 1994 as a student art project by sculptor/musician Jason Sanford, who, in order to create a new music medium, forged heavy, menacing-looking guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings and miscellaneous scrap metal found in the trash.
Interdisciplinary collaborations between Marc Zegans with Edwin Torres and Wanda Phipps with Joel Schlemowitz.
Keith Rowe and Julien Ottavi meet for a very rare and special two-night program. Each will play solo and then they will play only their second duo set ever.
Keith Rowe and Julien Ottavi meet for a very rare and special two-night program. Each will play solo and then they will play only their second duo set ever.
Yellow Swans play a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that intends to be both physically arresting and psychically liberating. Support by Brooklyn-based “off-rock” duo Mouthus have perfected a method of acid rock, harsh noise, industrial and free music.
As part of its artist-in-residency at ISSUE Project Room, KIOKU will be hosting and collaborating with Daniel Levin and saxophonist Rob Brown.