Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

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

Buy tickets here!
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7950605

For four years, new music ensemble thingNY has fused fluxus-esque experimentation with theatrically-charged chamber music. For its first album, this “creative new music cabal” [Time Out New York] has chosen to release a comic book + CD package of their experimental opera, ADDDDDDDDD. Join them for their New York production of the opera, followed by an album release party at Littlefield on Tues, June 15.

With influences from Robert Ashley, Berg, Boulez, Braxton and Bjork, thingNY’s collaboratively composed ADDDDDDDDD is an opera exploring the sweet sounds of excess. In a poetically verbose blend of noise, song, and spoken word, the five composer/performers highlight the everyday excesses of our lives as told through chants, rants, and advertising. The album (co-produced by thingNY and Brendan
O’Brien) opens with the both earnest and absurd prologue, “Interesting Stories from Interesting People” but quickly becomes a montage of numbers, appointments, peeves, dreams and commercial interruptions in five-part harmony. The
accompanying comic book libretto features artwork from various artists and musicians, including some of the band.

New York Performance and Album Release Party
Tue. June 15, 2010
Doors 7:00pm
Littlefield
322 Degraw St.
Brooklyn, NY
+guest artists Lapis Lazuli and others

visit: 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.

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

THINGNY WANTS YOUR SPAM

Dear Friend,

We are thingNY, a collective of composer-instrumentalists based in New York City. On Saturday, December 19, 2009, we will be presenting a concert called SPAM, based on responses we get to this very email. Congratulations! If you’re reading this email, you’ve been selected to write us some music – even if you’ve never written music before. It could be a few words, a notated score, a set of instructions, a drawing, a video of your dog, your favorite photo of Leonard Nimoy, or anything else you can imagine. It could even be something that takes a second or two to perform.

Please send your new work to thingNY@gmail.com or post on our blog and be sure to include your name and where you’re from. Any reply that we receive by Saturday, November 19th has the potential to be included in whole or in part. You are, of course, welcomed and encouraged to attend the performance, which will be held at the University of the Streets in New York City. Please forward this email to your friends, family, and acquaintances – let’s make this a great show! We look forward to receiving your composition, and we promise we will do our best to satisfy your artistic desires.

Best wishes,

Paul, Jeff (violin), Isabel (cello), Gelsey (vocals), Erin (saxophone), Alejandro (clarinet)