The Music of Jerome Kitzke

Music at First presents: The Music of Jerome Kitzke
A concert celebrating the pre-release of his new CD, The Paha Sapa Give-Back on the Innova Label and presenting the New York City premiere of an excerpt from Buffalo Nation (Bison bison), a theatrical musical historical survey of The Bison in North America with a libretto by Kathleen Masterson.

I have been highly connected to Kitzke’s Buffalo Nation, having engraved and edited the parts of this work (published through Peermusic Classical). On the 23rd I will be performing as part of the Sound Effects Chorus, a “herd” of vocalists/body percussionists. This piece is not to be missed! Also on the program is ETHEL and The Mad Coyote.

Friday, May 23rd, 2014
7:30pm
Admission: $10

First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
124 Henry Street (near Clark)
For more information call: 212-567-1520
www.musicatfirstsite.com

CD release Concert May 2014

May 14, 2014

Second Saturday Staten Island – Snug Harbour

We’re playing outdoors!

thingNY performs Paul Pinto’s minis and scenes from This Takes Place Close By as part of Second Saturday, at Staten Island’s Snug Harbour Cultural Center.

More details to come!

April 30, 2014

thingNY presents Quince Vocal Ensemble, Immediacies Series 2.4

The Immediacies Series continues with an evening of contemporary vocal music from the Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and thingNY’s Gelsey Bell. Quince previews their upcoming album, Realign the Time, with Amanda Feery’s “Squarepushers” and solos, duos, and trios by David Lang, Giacinto Scelsi, Lisa Bielawa, and Monte Weber.

Gelsey Bell presents her 2011 song cycle SCALING, which explores the relationship between vocal performer and piano, with fellow thingNY compatriot Paul Pinto. Both groups of artists offer diverse approaches to contemporary music anchored in the voice.

Thursday, May 15, 8pm

The Firehouse Space
246 Frost St, Brooklyn, New York 11211

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April 21, 2014

thingNY in Calgary – Bug Incision!

Bug Incision presents thingNY in Calgary, Alberta:

This Takes Place Close By is a new theatrical work-in-progress from New York experimental music collective, thingNY. Developed and performed by thingNY’s composer-performers, Gelsey Bell, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, Dave Ruder and Jeffrey Young, This Takes Place Close By is a set of operatic meditations on the difficulty of talking about natural disasters from a geographical and temporal distance. In this concert version, the work explores the eerie and the absurd through instrumental and sonic soundscapes, song and whispered speech, disjointed sentences and linguistic play, and offers a look at the mediating technologies that enable us to spectate as other parts of the world are destroyed, as well as a critical perspective on how those technologies shape and separate us. Scenes revolve around the themes of darkness, quietness, and loneliness, exploring the private terrors of those trapped in wreckage, the confusion of loved ones and spectators, and the cynicism of those who see the destruction as romantic desolation. The piece will be developed over the next year, leading to a theatrical run in New York in 2015. This is thingNY’s first time performing in Canada.

Thursday, April 24, 2014
Emmedia Screening Room
351 11 Ave SW #203 (enter from 11th ave side, 2nd floor)
Doors at 8:00, show 8:30
$5

April 16, 2014

Bang on a Can’s Summer Festival Benefit Party

Date/Time
Wed, Apr 30, 2014
8:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Location
JACK
505 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY

New Thread Quartet is excited to be performing at Bang on a Can’s Summer Festival Benefit Party! We will be performing Microfluctuations in Plainchant for sax quartet and electronics, a piece by Summer Festival alumnus Daniel Wohl.

Learn more and grab your tickets here:http://bangonacan.org/give/summer_festival_benefit_party_2014

April 16, 2014

New Thread Quartet – Outreach Event

Date/Time
Wed, Apr 30, 2014
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location
Learning Community Charter School
2495 John F Kennedy Blvd W, Jersey City, NJ

New Thread Quartet is headed to the Learning Community Charter School in Jersey City to present an outreach program for middle school students.

April 12, 2014

thingNY 2014 Season Party – Standard Toykraft, Brooklyn

Saturday, April 5th! from 6:00 to 10:00pm, my five esteemed colleagues of thingNY and I will be throwing a party at Standard ToyKraft (722 Metropolitan Ave, L train to Graham). We’ll have your standard party fare – all you can eat grits, booze a-plenty, digital and physical games designed just for the occasion, and best of all, performances:

– Mike Doughty (formerly of Soul Coughing), featuring thingNY’s own Andrew “Scrap” Livingston on cello
– Dave Malloy (creator and star of off-Broadway sensation “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812”, which featured thingNY’s Gelsey & Paul)
– Levy Lorenzo (inventor of the Air Marimba and percussionist extraordinaire)
– and of course thingNY, performing excerpts of what we’re spending all our time on!

The party also functions as a benefit for our 2014 activities. We got a grant from the NYC DCA, and we’ve almost matched it! We need one final push to get us over the edge so we can keep their funding: IndieGoGo campaign

Admission for the event this weekend is on a sliding scale, starting as low as $10. We’ll also have game & auction tickets available at the door.

Our auctioned items include:
– on-site profesh recording services at a place of your choosing
– wedding cake
– a year’s membership to Issue Project Room
– free admission to 2 events at Roulette
– cab rides from thingNY members
– swag from a variety of labels, gear companies, and the like and MUCH MORE

This party is part of our week-long residency at STK. We’ve been working all day & night on a big new piece that we’ll take to Canada at the end of the month and then bring back to the States later this year.

For more info or to RSVP, go here. If you can’t make it but are still interested in supporting us in these future ventures, please check out our IndieGoGo campaign. (Also great prizes!)

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April 4, 2014

Sax it to the Max! presented by Panoply Performance Laboratory

A night of saxophonist-composer-artists will present sets to ripple your earholes and blind the basement rats. Green lightbulbs! Extended techniques! New compositions!

Panoply Performance Laboratory
104 Meserole St
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Tamio Shiraishi
http://www.shiraishitamio.info/

Curt Oren
http://curtoren.bandcamp.com/
Erin Rogers
http://www.erinmrogers.com/

Brews lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery
$5-15 pay-what-you-can for the artists

RSVP to the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/227280640813336/

March 24, 2014

Another Sky – St. Paul, Minnesota; Colin Davin (gtr)

Minnesota Guitar Society presents Colin Davin, Guitar

Sundin Hall, Hamline University
1531 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota, 55104

For more information/tickets, visit: http://www.mnguitar.org/

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February 21, 2014

Colin Davin performs Another Sky, Minnesota Guitar Society

Crossings at Carnegie presents Classical Guitarist, Colin Davin

Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:30pm
320 East Avenue
Zumbrota, Minnesota 55992

$14 in advance /$16 at the door

Online sales close at 4pm, day of show.
You may also call the box office to reserve seats: 507-732-7616
doors open at 7pm

For more information, click here.

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February 21, 2014