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.
Ne(x)tworks performs works by Joan La Barbara, Cornelius Dufallo, Kenji Bunch, Chris McIntyre, and Earle Brown.
Tim Barnes and Mattin are both major components of the global improv scene. Not only do they constantly collaborate with musicians from all over, but they are also both activists of sorts, with their record labels making sure that the music of the peers is available to whomever seeks it out.
Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, as he discusses the life and work of Rudolf Steiner.
In a dark enclosed space using eight audio speakers, controlled by software clocks that are projected, are ever changing electronic sounds, measuring different timelines, meeting for an instant then drifting away. And a single automatic piano-preparation-unit is playing almost silently above a silent piano.
Dorit Chrysler performs on theremin, voice and laptop, with visuals by Lary 7.
"The Project Room presents a rare performance of Tenny's Postal Pieces (1965-71). Written during a brief tenure in the earliest days at CalArts, Postal Pieces is a remarkable series of eleven works printed on postcards.
New York based composer and hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph will lead his chamber ensemble in a program of his recent ensemble works.
Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002).