A slew of artists take to the stages, lobbies and crevices of the refurbished David Geffen Hall. thingNY will perform recent spatial experiments and improvisations including brand new work by Erin Rogers, Andrew Livingston, Isabel Castellvi and the ensemble.

Also, we've made a free sound walk you can download to your phone and listen to while you explore Lincoln Center's newly revamped campus:
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/oAEuJrHZ1IdwsRET

More info on the other artists that weekend at Lincoln Center's site:
https://www.lincolncenter.org/venue/david-geffen-hall/open-house-weekend

Oct. 29, 2022
8:30pm

The Music Box
David Geffen Hall
Lincoln Center
New York, NY

FREE
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Performances throughout the day 10am-10pm

Isabel Castellvi
Erin Rogers
​Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Jeffrey Young

Loop Etudes - Andrew Livingston and thingNY
Bishop - Andrew Livingston
Unravel Of Course - Isabel Castellvi
Music Box - Erin Rogers
a memory of Dear Nancine - thingNY
​Improvisations by the ensemble

New spatial acoustic works by thingNY band members and electro-vocal-wizard Pamela Z. Plus some of us join Nick Brooke and "The Cabinet" for some new Transcendental Etudes for physical vocalists and samples.

PROGRAM:

thingNY
Sport - Gelsey Bell
Bishop - Andrew Livingston
Unravel Of Course - Isabel Castellvi
Twenty Answers - Pamela Z
On Shallow Brown - trad. arr. Paul Pinto and thingNY


Nick Brooke and the Cabinet
Sampler
Exorcism Piece
Tombstone
Transcendental Etudes #1,2,3,8

Sep. 4, 2022

Coffey Street Studios
153 Coffey St.
Brooklyn, NY

Alejandro Acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Erin Rogers
Gelsey Bell
​Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston
Jeffrey Young

May 1-29, 2021

Dear Nancine
[world premiere]

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

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.

​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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