​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

thingNY is proud to present the three-show premiere tour of You Must Read a Lot of Jung, a brand new work written for the ensemble by member Dave Ruder, scored for voice, violin, clarinet, tenor sax, cello, and cymbal. Slow and spacious, Jung works over themes and ideas from previous thingNY pieces written by members of the group. Performances will take place in Hamden, CT, Queens, NY, and Philadelphia, PA on May 3-5, 2019.

At the New York stop on the tour, the ensemble is also very excited to premiere a new duo co-written and performed by members Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers, SKYLIGHGHT  for voice and saxophone. The piece is written to be performed in resonant spaces, and explores the acoustic properties of such spaces and of the voice and saxophone themselves.

May 3, 2019
7pm
​Waterhouse
(a house venue)
23 Woodbine St
Hamden, CT
Entry by suggested donation
​with Anne Rhodes and Adam Matlock
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May 4, 2019
8pm
Artefix
38-02 61st St, Woodside (Queens), NY
​$10
This show also includes the premiere of SKYLIGHGHT by Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers!
with softboarding

May 5, 2019
8pm
Vox Populi
319 N 11th St, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA
Presented by Fire Museum Presents
$8-10 sliding scale
with Erik Ruin’s Ominous Cloud Ensemble
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