thingNY is looking for comic artists, illustrators, designers and other imagicians to illustrate the comic book libretto (liner notes) to our upcoming album, ADDDDDDDDD.
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.
Chicago-based saxophonist Ryan Muncy graces New York City for an evening of Luciano Berio, Aaron Cassidy, Dai Fujikura, Erin Rogers, Lee Hyla, et al.
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
IKTUS Percussion Quartet joins thingNY for a night of some old favorites and freshly penned works by exciting young composers.
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
@ THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
232 3RD AVE. BROOKLYN, NY
8:00PM
$10
By request, thingNY’s producing it’s experimental opera again. We’re also excited and pleased to announce that we’re working on our first studio album. Visit the ADDDDDDDDD website for tour dates, media and lamps: www.thingNY.com/opera.
With a bag of old favorites, and works submitted from composers around the world, thingNY makes its way down the Jersey Turnpike to the great city of Philadelphia.
Saturday, Feb. 6th @ 7:00pm
Eris Temple Art Space
602 S 52nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143
ticket link coming soon!
Join us for a concert of old favorites, and works submitted from composers around the world.
Friday, Feb. 5th @ 7:30pm
French American School of Music – 244 W 54th St, Manhattan
More details to come.
By popular demand, we’ll perform our SPAM program again. This time, sans blizzard.
Details to come.
thingNY will be playing a set along with some other great bands in an effort to save and preserve this 43-year-old Lower East Side cultural institution. Tickets are available now and include all-night admission + food and drink. We’ll play some of our favorite works, plus some of our favorite SPAM and a selection from our opera that was and will be again: ADDDDDDDDD. Check out the Preservation page for a listing of the other artists.
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
