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.
London-based Michael Rodgers returns to New York, joining together with David Daniell, Ateleia (James Elliott) and Tim Barnes in an evening of mixed duos, trios and quartets.
After an extensive tour in Japan, Australia, and Europe, The Project Room is extremely pleased to welcome back composer Aki Onda, who will preform his highly personal work dealing with his own memories, or rather, a trace of memories captured with a handheld tape recorder.
Trombonist and composer, Christopher McIntyre (CJM) introduces two newly-formed projects of comprovisative electro-acoustic music.
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Elliott Sharp is not usually associated with the world of jazz even though it was an important influence for him. His decades-long love of the music of Thelonious Monk is here manifest for the first time in an evening of Monk classics.
Antiopic Records Presents Nicedisc, David Daniell, Ateleia