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.
SOLD OUT! A rare performance by this original, unrecorded Fushitsusha lineup from the 1970s with founding member, New York-based saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi. Known for its torrential walls of sound, Fushitsusha was formed by Haino in '78— initially with Haino on guitar and vocals, and Shiraishi on synthesizer.
SOLD OUT! Opening a three night festival, Keiji Haino gives his first ever solo vocal concert in NYC. Known for intensely cathartic sound explorations, Haino’s unaccompanied wordless screamed vocal performances mark the influence of Artaud’s obsession, with voice violently severed from the body.
Sabisha Friedberg presents Hoffe - Axiom, a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice. The work draws on extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones.
Frances-Marie Uitti + Carol Robinson in Residence
Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti are joined by Nate Wooley (trumpet) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion) for a series of improvisations.
Frances-Marie Uitti + Carol Robinson in Residence
Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti give a free lecture with music examples, a demonstration of their pioneering techniques that have expanded the fields of their respective instruments. "Composing with Random Generators" is led by Robinson, and "Strips, Tubes and Code", by Uitti.
Frances-Marie Uitti + Carol Robinson in Residence
Clarinetist Carol Robinson and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti have worked in parallel for years, originating from their work with Giacinto Scelsi. US Premieres by Robinson/Uitti, Eliane Radigue, Giacinto Scelsi, and Annie Gosfield open this two-night residency, plus a solo cello work by Jonathan Harvey.
Artists-in-Residence 2013
Jules Rosskam invites you to an exploration of a no-good-place. A performative lecture of research on utopia— presented as an open rehearsal for Rosskam's ‘live film’ in July— "No Place But Between Us" investigates utopia not as a distant, ever unreachable, ideal world, but as a force that exists in and between us.
