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.
Featuring solos and various combinations performed by a wide-range of today’s skilled thereminists, including: Dorit Chrysler, Armin Ra, David Simons, Anthony Ptak and Rob Schwimmer...
Mark Stewart and David Cossin, two members of Bang on a Can All Stars, will grace our “circle” in an evening of music with rare & neglected instruments and their dulcet, surprising and powerful sounds.
From the archives, with Mark Stewart, David Cossin, Dorit Chrysler, Armin Ra, David Simons, Anthony Ptak, Rob Schwimmer, Sean Meehan, James Fei, Jeff Arnal, Briggan Krauss, Tomas Ulrich, Billy Martin, Chris Mann, Alessandro Bosetti, Nat Wooley, Ben Owen, MInoshima Osechi, Kenta Nagai, Phil Niblock and more.
Composers and multi-instrumentalists Miguel Frasconi & Gina Leishman join forces to explore the unique and varied qualities of glass. They will perform compositions and improvisations on found & home-made instruments involving rubbing, striking, and breaking all forms of glass objects.
This event celebrates both the participating musicians of the Relay - NYC and local improvising musicians, by offering them and the public an opportunity to meet, play music, eat and drink in the beautiful ISSUE Project Room.
The Aura Electric, Opus Three will be performed by the Mat Maneri / Randy Petersen Duo, two of the most innovative and distinctive artists on the downtown improvised scene; The Project One Ensemble performing works for electric string quartet (George Crumb’s Black Angels and a world premiere by Michael Spassov).
Tony Buck’s return to our shores offers a rare opportunity to reconvene and ISSUE’s wonderful room offers the place…
Pianist Jenny Lin, violinist Cornelius Dufallo and cellist Loren Dempster, acclaimed stalwarts of new music in New York, will present chamber works by two of today's most celebrated composers.