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.
Jim Pugliese and Grady Gerbracht will perform an improvised set with the intention of discovering and dialoging with the inner rhythms and frequencies of the architecture itself.
The first time merging of music composed by Simon Ho and Shelley Hirsch, based on their kooky autobiographical stories.
In celebration of The Dan Joseph Ensemble’s “Archaea,” now available on Mutable Music.
The Trio of Hemingway, Rothenberg and Waterman waves in and out of rhythmical harmonicities filling out a range of dynamics and fast flying multiphonics and overtones.
An evening of film and poetry collaborations.
A night of music, poetry and film, to keep the fires of rebellion and action lit and burning, featuring…