​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.

​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.
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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
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August 30, 2019

​8pm

Arts at the Armory

191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers - Skylighght
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with Joe White's The Wagging Craze

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

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 second time in NYC.

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

http://andrewlivingston.bandcamp.com

Joining the bill: Holy Hell, Joseph White, Gospel of Mars

July 29, 2019

7:30pm

Sunnyvale
1031 Grand St
Brooklyn, NY

with Holy Hell, Joseph White, Gospel of Mars


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