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.
A performance of Dutch/American electro-acoustic improvisation.
An evening of collaborative, improvisational video and music. Joining Kendall are musicians he's worked with in the past -- Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai), o.blatt (Keiko Ueinishi) and Bradford Reed & Bill Bronson -- plus pianist Anthony Coleman and his Hellbender Film Projekt video-partner Al Griffin.
A performance of improvised music conducted with the use of graphic scores. The scores are maps containing cells with written word directions/suggestions taken from my glossary of terms that I use to describe subtle, and not-so-subtle approaches to sound, rhythm, dynamics, form, groupings and thematic material.
Don't miss the launch of Stephan Moore's sixteen-channel hemispherical speaker system. ISSUE Project Room will host Moore's unit as a long-term installation designed to allow interested composers the opportunity to experiment, present and create new works specifically for these components.
Longtime collaborators Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone, laptop) and Wayne Horvitz (keyboards, electronics) team up with mutual coconspirator Jim Black (drums, laptop) for a golden evening of spectacular noise and audio sweetness.
My new record "solo-solo bass" is the ultimate challenge for bassplayers, the one-track/one bass challenge, trying to stay interesting for the course of one CD's length of music or a whole evening of a live-concert. Having realised, that I cannot do that all alone, I have asked fellow bassplayers to write pieces for me
Spati0silo will consist of a single long duration performance/installation utilizing a 16 channel sound system designed and built by Stephan Moore.