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.
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE streams a new hybrid piece from multidisciplinary artist & 2018 Artist-In-Residence James K. "This piece is a mediation on the layers that surround isolation. It moves through emotion & constructed history, processing and dissecting them, as an attempt to fully dissolve into the ether and become one."
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE is pleased to present I Have Been Alive. And I Intend to Live., a recording from writer Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. The piece presents the excavatory explorations and efforts at autobiographical inventory of a Black female writer born in the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE is pleased to stream Hard Exit, a new piece from multimedia producer Voice Training, working at the imagined intersection of trans poetics, game theory and digital synthesis
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE is pleased to stream THE BIG SHARE, a new piece from artist, improviser, and composer C. Spencer Yeh. “Perhaps the best way I’ve been able to describe THE BIG SHARE is as a series of rough draft chapters from an unfinished novel that probably will never, nor should really, get finished."
ISSUE returns to the Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente in the Lower East Side to present American composer and musician Kali Malone, Puce Mary (Frederikke Hoffmeier) performing solo work, as well as Tongue Depressor, the New Haven-based duo project of multi-instrumentalists Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey.
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE is pleased to stream Tracking My Packages, a new collection of home studio productions, recordings, slideshows, scenes, and video from composer and trombonist Peter Zummo. "Decisionmaking, doing the logical thing, and going back to make changes, improvements. Try not to have a bad attitude about anything.
Isolated Field Recordings Series
ISSUE is pleased to stream Cher Sylvère, a new piece from musician, writer, and philosopher Rachelle Rahmé. "I refuse ‘art as necessary labor’ – what I aimed to make was a collection that defended the unessential; the ‘creative no’ of isolation that moves across zones and mediums."
Isolated Field Recordings Series
Thursday, June 11th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream Things Mother Used To Make, a new piece from interdisciplinary artist and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Dawn Kasper. Kasper across genres of performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and sound.