Deadline: Mar. 19, 2010

for more information, and to download the application package, visit: http://thingny.com/

Selected Artists will be contacted by Mar. 22 and final drafts will be due Apr. 1. We regret that we cannot pay volunteer artists for the work, however, selected artists will receive a copy of the finished product, credit and two tickets to the thingNY show of their choice.

The evening will feature guest appearances by Alejandro Acierto (bass clarinet) and Erin Rogers (saxophone), performing her own work, Shallow, for 2 saxophones and The Milliner’s Fancy by Jeffrey Mumford.

7pm, $10
The Tank
354 West 45th St. (between 8th and 9th Avenues), Manhattan

Saturday, Feb. 6th @ 7:00pm

Eris Temple Art Space
602 S 52nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143

ticket link coming soon!

Friday, Feb. 5th @ 7:30pm
French American School of Music – 244 W 54th St, Manhattan

More details to come.

Details to come.

6pm – 11pm

The University of the Streets – 130 E 7th Street (at Ave. A), New York, NY
Tax-deductible tickets start at $25 each, or  2 for $40. Get them here: http://www.universityofthestreets.org/preservation

Sat, Dec 19th

You’re invited to a very special event!
SAT. Dec. 19 @ 7pm
thingNY presents SPAM
University of the Streets – 130 E 7th Street at Avenue A (see below for subway directions)
Limited seating: get discount advance tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/88612
Ensemble thingNY boasts the largest commission ever in the history of email submitted SPAM. Hundreds of new works written specifically for thingNY by the likes of Kyle Gann, Kathy Supove, Pauline Oliveros, Joseph Nechvatal, Tania Leon, various peers, friends, fans, our moms, the Bloomberg Administration, our stalkers, unsubscribers and mailer-daemons.
$10/$15
http://www.thingNY.com

Time Out New York called us an “inventive new music cabal”

“If I was forty years younger I would run away and join you.” - Doug Yule (of the Velvet Underground)

“Truly a thing of great beauty, and wonder. Thank god there are groups like thingNY (or maybe you’re the only one)” – Art Jarvinen (composer/author)

subway directions to University of the Streets:
L train to 1st Ave, walk South to 7th St, East to Avenue A
6 train to Astor Place, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
R/W trains to 8th St, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
F/V trains to 2nd Ave, walk North to 7th St, East to Avenue A

PAIRINGS is a four-concert series of contemporary classical music produced by the Tank and curator Adam Mirza taking place each Tuesday night in November. More information about the series is available at www.pairingcomposers.org.

Ekstasis (Being Nothing Becoming)

Adam Mirza

• Body-Process : (Ritual) for tenor saxophone [Michael Ibrahim]
• LINE NOISE for electric guitar [Adam Mirza]
• Impulse to Breathe for accordion [William Schimmel]

Mikrophonie I

for large tam-tam, microphones, filters and controllers.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

• implementers [Russell Greenberg, Kevin Sims]
• microphonists [Levy Lorenzo, Ches Smith]
• filterers [Alexander Ness, Erin Rogers]
• engineer [Gregory Cornelius]

The Tank @ 45th Street
354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)