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.
ISSUE is pleased to present a conversation and performance from renowned musician and author David Toop alongside free improviser and composer Tania Caroline Chen -- both artists’ debut appearance at ISSUE. The evening celebrates the publication of Toop’s autobiography Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound.
Experimental hodgepodge-ist & 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ying Liu premieres an ambitious new movement work utilizing swivel stools (deconstructed office chairs). Distilling a year-long process into an hour, a cast of dancers have adapted to these chairs as extensions of their bodies.
ISSUE Project Room's 2019 Fall season opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with renowned Texan electronic minimalist composer J D Emmanuel, auteur composer James Ferraro, and mutli-instrumentalist Eve Essex. Join as an ISSUE Project Room Member at any level and receive a free ticket.
ISSUE presents a special “end of season” program gathering three singular artists working across avant-garde rhythmic music. The evening showcases new work from iconic electronic musician Actress, composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra, and "rhythmanalyst" Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.).
ISSUE & Harvestworks present a second showing of Michael Morley's Music for The Never Quartet + 2019 Harvestworks Resident artist Ursula Scherrer & Michael Schumacher premiering Exotica, a new piece that subverts the sonic and visual tropes of the city -- sirens, alarms, jackhammers, and more.
ISSUE & Harvestworks present acclaimed musician Michael Morley presenting Music for The Never Quartet + 2019 Harvestworks Resident artist Natacha Diels premiering Sad Music for Lonely People a series of works involving a step-by-step guide to using heavy machinery in healing rituals.
Rena Anakwe continues her residency with Fast Forward to Silence, an immersive sound and body collage that honors the air around us. Focusing on sequences shifting between the minute and the rigorous, the piece explores the duality that air possesses through a duet with Jonathan González + lighting from Kelley Shih.
