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.
Pitreleh— a new collaboration of Duane Pitre & Eleh— make their live debut tonight. The duo come together to excavate shrouded nuances of sound, using precision tunings to uncover the depths of the harmonic series. Composer Tashi Wada presents a new piece written for and performed by cellist Charles Curtis.
An internationally acclaimed cellist Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation. He has worked extensively with pioneers of new music including Christian Wolff, Alison Knowles, and Éliane Radigue, whose works— among others— he plays tonight.
Pauline Oliveros has left a profound imprint American music through her decades of work in improvisation, electronic music, teaching, and meditation. Tonight Oliveros returns to ISSUE with the large ensemble work "Primordial Lift". Olivia Block premieres "Dissolution", a solo meditation on communicative disruption.
Guitarist Marc Ribot, who helped organize and performed in the first ever ISSUE Project Room concert, returns tonight for an evening featuring the dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser Matana Roberts, and the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, whose striking instrumental folk draws on acoustic Americana traditions.
Tonight, as part of Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, ISSUE brings Glasgow-based guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs to Brooklyn for his first US performance in decades. Renowned composer and improvising keyboardist Anthony Coleman performs two recent works for solo piano.
Charlemagne Palestine, best known for intensely performed piano with unique physical "symbols of identification", performs solo joined by composer and improvisor Joe McPhee– a watershed player of the creative jazz scene– and the poet Steve Dalachinsky, who has long occupied a unique role in the jazz firmament.
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain opens with Syrian musical legend Omar Souleyman in Red Hook. The all day event includes from cult psychedelic rock band Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Rick Brown and Che Chen's duo 75 Dollar Bill, and discursive blues from Steve Gunn with John Truscinski and Jason Meagher.
ISSUE and Pioneer Works' collaboration continues with an all-day indoor/outdoor party of frenzied electronics, post-punk noise, and lo-fi experimental rock in Red Hook. Michigan noise legends Wolf Eyes headline, joined by The Men, Amen Dunes, PC Worship, and KHF.