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.
Music is essentially invisible. But could it be visible as well? Aki Onda's Invisible Ensemble takes you on a journey through imaginary landscapes like Marco Polo describes imaginary cities to Kubla Khan in Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities.
This presentation is an inaugural event for ISSUE: Deep Listening - a new adventurous educational program of creative music making co-sponsored by Deep Listening Institute and ISSUE Project Room.
The inscrutable J.G. Thirwell was dropped on this planet some time ago to bestow sonic majesty, chaos, violence & beauty and cunning linguistics on an unsuspecting earth. This evening he will do so as deejay.
Kato Hideki and Marco Cappelli perform their own materials as well as rediscovered songs from Europe and Asia.
Join the filmmakers for a Sneak Peek of indie feature film, LoSERS LoUNGE.
"from the unconscious to the uncanny, outdoors from dusk to starlight........... dream sequences, dance fantasy, erotic mystery, surrealism, silent films, animation, avant-garde, trance, nightmare, reverie, hallucination, desire..."
Raz Mesinai aka Badawi performs his series of haunting compositions drawing from ancient nomadic music and free improvisations for zarb and framedrum Resurrections for goatskin.