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.
Mind Over Mirrors in Residence
Hailing from Chicago, Zelienople have been etching out a place for themselves in the Windy City for fourteen years. In a rare New York appearance Zelienople teams up with Mind Over Mirrors to perform a live soundtrack to Donald Prokop’s film Gone. P. Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra open the evening.
Mind Over Mirrors in Residence
Mind Over Mirrors, AKA harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly, performs with dancer and musician Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation and detritus as Sabotage and The Powerful People, this evening marks their first duo performance in eight years.
Littoral
Chimeras are integrated bodies that synthesize incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, finding common ground, or reducing one to the other. In this performance Florian Hecker uses psychoacoustics to compose such creatures from readings of a libretto by Reza Negarestani.
For his final performance of the 2012 AIR series, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix will present selections from the ever-in-progress libretto for the opera "OIOION", including the poem "Stations of the Arkwork", which follows in the wake of his controversial 2009 essay "Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism".
Floating Points Residencies
Over the last few years, Sébastien Roux has worked with the principle of translation, using a pre-existent artworks as scores for a new works. For his installation at REVERSE, Roux presents a 9-channel collection of pieces based on Sol LeWitt's wall drawings.
Floating Points Residencies
Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fundraiser! Ed Osborn's "Albedo Prospect" is video installation considering the polar imaginary and its characteristic spatial and geographic disorientation. Projected as a video triptych, the work is a study of glacial landscapes in the Svalbard archipelago with 8 channel sound.
Composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is the pioneer of Continuous Music— a piano technique he has developed since the 70s. Using extremely rapid notes and note-series to create a tapestry of sound, Continuous Muisic is based in the innovations of the minimalist composers, with its roots deeply planted in harmony.
Percussionist Owen Weaver presents works for found objects, intensified and complemented by electronics and non-musical artistic disciplines. New works from Ian Dicke, Lisa Coons, Steven Snowden, and Christopher Cerrone, plus collaborations with Tigue Percussion Trio, dancer Rosalyn Nasky and photographer Lucas Foglia.