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.
KENNY WOLLESEN MARCHING BAND live in Tompkins Square Park
participation = wordification = anticipation = musification = actification = beautification = whoification = youification.
THE FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC was founded in 2003 by Roy Campbell, Jr. and Dave Douglas. The amazing diversity of new compositions for trumpet inspired Mr. Campbell and Mr. Douglas to create FONT. Jon Nelson has joined FONT for 2004 to curate post-classical and other related repertoire.
From the archives, with The Festival of New Trumpet Music, 2nd annual Howl Festival, Cornelius Cardew's Great Learning, and performances by nmperign, Nabate Isles, The Ingrid Jensen Four, Stephen Haynes and Bugaboo, Taylor Ho Bynum, Russ Johnson and Save Big, Brian McWhorter, Jonathan Finlayson, Mark Gould, and more.
This tour marks a rare East Coast visit for Arizona based sound-artist and improviser Jeph Jerman, here joined by guitarist David Daniell and percussionists Tim Barnes and Sean Meehan. Each show will feature revolving duos.
Tonight will be Floriculture’s first performance of 2004. Inspired by Muhammad Ali and sexuality, they will perform several new compositions.