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.
After having spent the last 22 years climbing eternity and traveling the metaphysical byways together, uber multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond & super drummer Kenny Wollesen land at the Project Room.
Join us on for an amazing ensemble of sound and performance with various artists including Rebecca Moore, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Stephan Moore, Anthony Coleman performing Jelly Roll Morton, Jim Pugliese’s Phase 3 plus special guests, some big surprises and more…
Presented by the King Collision Collective.
F is always in speaker 5, A is always speaker 9, T is always 3… 42 phonemes, 16 speakers, one voice. the performance space as larynx.
Percussionist Billy Martin will perform his “Black Elk Speaks” compositions and other spontaneous pieces for bass drums, gongs, drum set, balaphones, mbiras and more. . .
Sean Meehan on snare drum with James Fei performing microphone feedback & live electronics
Tonight’s writers include Frederic Tuten, Sharon Wexler, Peter Wortsman, Quentin Rowanand and David Lefkowitz.