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dear Nancine

5/1/2021

Dear Nancine is thingNY's at-home, month-long series of multimedia gifts delivered to you through the U.S. mail. These gifts are yours to enjoy alone or with your household and close friends, and will offer you ways to engage on the page, online, on your phone, outdoors, and potentially… with your old friend Nancine.

Dear Nancine is being created for and because of the artistic and political reflections about "our land” and “our space," given that the past year has forced us to occupy the smallest sliver of those things.

Part of the Look + Listen Festival 2021: At home edition
Sign up at lookandlisten.org

May 1-29, 2021

Dear Nancine
[world premiere]

Created by

alejandro t. acierto
Gelsey Bell
Isabel Castellvi
Andrew Livingston
Paul Pinto
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
Jeffrey Young

CANCELED: [Daytrip]

3/14/2020

We're sorry to inform you that March 14th's Bronx Community College concert has been canceled as all CUNY schools close due to COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution, we've also decided to cancel our Saturday concert at Our Lady of The Cenacle Church in Queens. We hope to reschedule these concerts soon. Stay safe everyone!

thingNY presents a borough double-header in the Bronx and Queens, performing works for resonant spaces. All performances are free and open to the public.

Skylighght is a duet collaboratively composed and performed by vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers. The two performers move through space wordlessly, directing sound in pathways that dance across the walls, ceiling and floor, weaving through instrument and vocal caverns resulting in a rainbow of sounds and expressions. You Must Read a Lot of Jung by Dave Ruder brings all six members of thingNY to the floor. Slow, soft, and spacious, scored for voice, violin, clarinet, tenor sax, cello, and cymbal, Jung works over themes and ideas from previous thingNY pieces written by members of the ensemble.

Each program is approximately 70 minutes long.

CANCELED
March 14, 2020

12pm
Gould Rotunda
Bronx Community College
2155 University Ave,
The Bronx, NY 10453
FREE

7pm
Our Lady Of The Cenacle Parish
136-06 87th Avenue
Richmond Hill, Queens, NY 11418
FREE

Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers - Skylighght

Dave Ruder - You Must Read a Lot of Jung

Paul Pinto, percussion
Gelsey Bell, voice
Dave Ruder, clarinet
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Jeffrey Young, violin
Andrew Livingston, cello

hello. my name is thingny.

12/18/2019

Hello. My name is thingNY. (Me llamo thingNY.) I identify as _______. But I'm flexible about it. I'll be your performer this evening. We've probably met before. This is not the first concert. This probably won't be the last. [pause] Who here likes attention?

A night of audio-visual chamber music and sonic theaters. The program explores the sounds of language through its obscuration and translation. Rome Prize fellow Jessie Marino's multimedia The Whale Is a Capital Fish is part video lecture, part ritualistic absurdity, with instruments frenetically trying to keep up with rapid-fire translations and “incorrect” supertitles, and then Sam Scranton's meditative Baleen utilizes the mouth as a filter for digestion, language and harmony, with the skillful employment of decorative vases. A quartet of desperate job interviewers struggles to get words-in-edgewise in Paul Pinto's joyfully awkward mini_007, and Irish humorist Jennifer Walshe implores us to consider that Language Ruins Everything through tai chi, falsetto and mime. Finally, the bilingual oracular statements of Hector Berlioz, as played by Alvin Lucier imitating Dr. Chicago, “translated” into the creamy poetry and instrumental lilts of Robert Ashley, in his stunning, rarely performed work, Tap Dancing in the Sand.

Three (3) U.S. Premieres. Multiple (?) costume changes. One (1) night only.

Come early to take part in Arete's new audio-visual installation by thingNY.

Dec. 18, 2019

7pm doors
7:30pm music

Areté
67 West St.
Brooklyn, NY
doors 7pm
music 7:30pm

$15 advance
$20 door

Tickets: www.thingNY.com/hello

Jessie Marino – The Whale Is a Capital Fish
Sam Scranton – Baleen
Paul Pinto – mini_007
Jennifer Walshe – Language Ruins Everything
Robert Ashley – Tap Dancing in the Sand

Jeffrey Young
Dave Ruder
Erin Rogers
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Gelsey Bell

Skylighght @ Armory

8/30/2019

Skylighght is a duet collaboratively composed and performed by vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers. The two performers move through the space wordlessly directing the sound in pathways that dance around the room. The piece also involves a section called Building Canyons, where Bell sings into the bell of Roger’s tenor saxophone, exploring its inner chamber and sounding a rainbow of diverse multiphonics.

August 30, 2019

8pm

Arts at the Armory

191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers - Skylighght

with Joe White's The Wagging Craze

Oort Cloud in Philly @ The Mothership

7/31/2019

Andrew Livingston's News From the Oort Cloud is a psychedelic, spacey, chamber folk exploration of isolation and mortality. thingNY interprets the record as a live ensemble piece for the first time in Philly!

Expect reverbed-out synthy slow jams and swirling minimalist washes of colors and chords.

http://andrewlivingston.bandcamp.com

thingNY will be joined on the bill by West Philly bands Upholstery and On the Water, who will be playing a duo set.

July 31, 2019

8pm

The Mothership
602 S. 52nd St
Philadelphia, PA

with Upholstery,
On the Water (duo set)

Andrew Livingston - News from the Oort Cloud

Andrew Livingston - voice, cello, electronics, guitar, compositions
Jeffrey Young - violin
Dave Ruder - clarinet, guitar
Erin Rogers - sax
Gelsey Bell - voice, synth

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