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.
The duo of James Fei and Kato Hideki moves fluidly between instrumental improvisation (on saxophones and electric bass, respectively) and live electronics.
Performance and readings: Ugly Duckling Presse celebrates the release of new issues of 6x6 magazine.
David Grubbs plus Presocratics & Ateleia
Words / Sounds / Serious Love & Resistance
Conduction workshops provide an excellent opportunity for students and professionals alike to get a glimpse into what has been described as curious, challenging, demanding, rewarding and fun: "something rare in real time - something new in pure sound."
Marco Cappelli, Federico Ughi, Daniel Carter