Date/Time:
Fri, Sep 5, 2014
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location:
Barrow Mansion
83 Wayne Street, Jersey City, NJ
FREE
New Thread is collaborating with Iktus Duo (Chris Graham, percussion and Hristina Blagoeva, flute) to present a double bill concert for Con Vivo Music in Jersey City.
We’ll be performing a classic piece by Caryl Florio, a recent work by Marcelo Lazcano, and two great electroacoustic pieces: Erin Rogers’ new work Mother Earth and Daniel Wohl’sMicrofluctuations in Plainchant.
NTQ Set:
Florio: Quartette
Lazcano: Ser
Rogers: Mother Earth
Wohl: Microfluctuations in Plainchant
It’s been since The Bunker recording sessions on one of the worst, train-stopping, road-ramming, snow-piled winter days I’ve ever seen in New York City, that I last played in Scott Stein’s Well Groomed Orchestra. I’m excited to reunite with the crew, this time in the middle of summer, with special guest Amy Regan.
Wed, July 30th, 9:30pm
The Duplex
New York, NY
TICKETS
By the way, if you haven’t checked out the recordings from that memorable session last January, here are the digital releases:
Back to Babylon
New Amsterdam
I am delighted to take part in MakeMusicNY’s New York City premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s La bocca, i piedi, il suono for over 100 saxophones! Joined by the awesome players of Project Fusion, saxophone players from all over New York City will join forces to perform this masterwork in honor of Adolphe Sax’s 200th Birthday. This performance is being presented in partnership with Miller Theatre at Columbia University and will take place in the center of at Columbia’s historic Low Memorial Library.
Saturday, June 21, 2pm
Low Memorial Library
Columbia University
New York, NY
FREE
Thursday, June 19
Immediacies Series 2.5: Piads
The Firehouse Space
8:00pm. 246 Frost St. Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, June 22
thingNY and Face the Music… In Space!
@ The Queens Museum
12pm and 4pm. Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Queens, NY
Over the course of three weeks, thingNY and Face the Music (the world’s only teen new music ensemble) will team up to create a short music-theater work for the Queens Museum exploring the concept of “space”. Using some of the compositional techniques from two existing works, Private Time and Endurance Exercises (both from the theater piece Time: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts), the intergenerational ensemble will develop this work through instrumental, vocal and movement improvisation, layering independent tasks and gestures into a larger musical structure. We’re really looking forward to this crazy adventure. This project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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
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!
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
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
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