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.
From the archives, with Raz Mesinai, Eyvind Kang, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Eugene Chadbourne, Marc Ribot and more.
The Project Room invites you to an intimate evening of music and film curated by composer/musician Rebecca Moore. Joined by her all-star ensemble Prevention of Blindness, the band will play a mixture of new songs and instrumentals while Joel Schlemowitz’s films cover the surrounding walls.
This marks the first live performance from Mesinai’s cult classic recording on BSI “The Unspeakable”.
A re-interpretation of French poet Blaise Cendrars’ Les Paques a New York
Music of Battle is a new self-contained revisiting of the score to the acclaimed play Battle of Black and Dogs as it was performed at the Ohio Theatre in May 2003 as part of the Koltes NY 2003 Festival.
From the archives, with Michael Attias, Rebecca Moore, Raz Mesinai, Shelley Hirsch, Trevor Dunn and more.
During the 2004 New York Guitar Festival, Issue Project Room proudly presents the premiere US performance of The Extreme Guitar Project featuring Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli.