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.
Interdisciplinary performance by playwright Donald Breckenridge, author Matthew Rohrer and experimental musician David Linton.
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described recently by the New York Times as “one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music,” is a chamber group comprised of dynamic a versatile young performers dedicated to the music of our time.
San Francisco Bay Area based improvisers Tim Perkis, Matt Ingalls, John Ingle, and Liz Allbee celebrate their upcoming vanity CD by coming to Brooklyn and checking in with New York based composer and koto performer Miya Masaoka and percussionist Aaron Siegel.
John Ingle/Dan Joseph duo New music for saxophone and hammer dulcimer.
Chicago bred A.A.C.M. saxophonist / composer Matana Roberts presents a new workshop of Gens De Couleur Libre, an in progress musical narrative which pays homage to her New Orleans, Cane River, Louisianan roots in a beautiful evening concert at Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room.
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and percussionist Ben Perowsky present new music.
Monsturo (David Kendall & David Rothbaum) are joined by Bryan Eubanks at ISSUE Project Room. Each will present their current solo work with their respective idiosyncratic instrumentation.