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.
Join us for a three-course dinner of Portuguese stew over wild rice, baked savory apples and cheese plate, homemade breads and pumpkin ice cream.
A very special evening featuring actors Steve Buscemi with Aida Turturro & John Ventimiglia, dynamic performer/directors working in independent theater and film today.
Inspired by the resonant sound of arched spaces and bridges, UNDERPASS combines field recordings and video, found footage, theremin, feedback guitar and live computer processing into a concerto of sound and vision in three movements.
Steve Berson and Sean McCaul will perform in duos together and with cameos by a number of special guests; including prepared guitarist Ben Miller (known for his work with Destroy All Monsters, Dirty Old Man River, M3, Third Border, etc.)
Charlotte Hug (viola & electronics) and Jane Rigler (flute & electronics) join forces for the first time in New York City.
Decoupage is a chamber quartet led by trombonist and composer Curtis Hasselbring. The group has been performing ever since September of 2004, when Curtis taped some pictures of Brittany Spears and some monkey-shaped cocktail stirrers to music staff paper for the band to play at CBGBs Gallery.
The performers enter the stage empty and build an evening length work from the first moments and gestures. Terman and Koga play in a highly physical realm that includes sound/music and language to explore an often surreal and dreamlike, yet utterly immediate world together.
Brian Wilson, Yuko Fujiyama and Dominic Duval celebrate the release of their CD "things heard unheard" on the Deep Listening Label.