As a miniature prelude to our upcoming opera, thingNY will be performing at the Yippie Museum (Bowery) on May 31st at 7pm. Featuring some of our highlights from the past season, we hope to impress you to the point where you decide it necessary to purchase tickets to our opera, ADDDDDDDDD on June 20th. Do hope you can join us! (tickets $5 at the door)

Please join us May 26th from 5:30 to 9:00pm, as thingNY celebrates the completion of its 501c3 process. This event is a fundraiser.

Where: Mezzo Mezzo (upstairs)
3129 Ditmars Blvd.
Astoria, NY  11105
(take the N/W line to Ditmars Blvd, walk 2 blocks East)

When: Tuesday, May 26th, 5:30-9:00pm

Saturday June 20, 2009 – 7pm
The Tank – 354 W 45^th Street

$10 advance/ $15 at the door

A D D D D D D D D D

a 9Ds opera by thingNY

Written and performed by Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, Jeffrey Young

Focus. The composers of thingNY will tell you stories, sing you songs, scream in your face, try to sell you stuff and rant recklessly to themselves, filling your ears with the sweet sweet sounds of excess. This new experimental opera by NYC’s freshest avant-garde band highlights the everyday excesses of our lives (workaholism, the thrill of consumption, the joys of gluttony, the elation of libation) and turns them into a suite of attention-deficient songs, monologues and infomercials.

Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers and Jeffrey Young’s collaboration on this project began a year ago with the specific goal to create (and along the way, define) an opera together. The end result is a stream of poetically verbose scenes and songs (most in English, some in… well, Bizarre-Speak) and a musical score (for various instruments, electronics and toys) that is mentally engaging and heartfelt.

“How do you tell if it’s bleeding?

Put gauze on it……..

……….gauze.”

Random Access Music teams up with the Lost Dog Ensemble to present an evening of momentous new works by David Fetherolf, Jonathan Pieslak, Erin Rogers, Manly Romero and Allen Schulz, featuring guest artists Tadd and Erica Sipes, and a special presentation of Eco di un tempo perduto (fl, cl, vn, vc, pf) by Italian composer, Massimo Lauricella, winner of the 2009, RAM call for scores.

Tickets are $20 each ($15 for students/seniors) To order online, follow the link: (coming soon)

Hope to see you in the streets!

Saturday, April 25 at 8pm

University of the Streets
130 East 7th St (b/w 1st Ave and Avenue A), 2nd floor
East Village (SW corner of Tompkins Square Park)

subway directions:
L Train to 1st Avenue stop, walk south to 7th St, East to Avenue A
6 Train to Astor Place stop, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
R/W Trains to 8th St (NYU) stop, walk East to Avenue A, South to 7th St
F/V Trains to 2nd Ave stop, walk North to 7th St, East to Avenue A

at the stone
wed feb 4 2009, 10pm
licycle composed and performed by andrew paul & jeff (all alive)
paul pinto (1982- ) mini_004
performed by gelsey, alejandro and isabel. the minis are short songs that showcase musicians as performers of text. this is the first with a trained vocalist and there will be three more, if you’re interested.
luciano berio (1925-2003) sequenza VIII for solo violin
performed by jeff.

improvisation 1

gelsey bell (1982- ) postcards
performed by gelsey. from the album february, via the rpm challenge 2008, please at interweb.
chansons por m_m_re andrea la rose (1972- )
performed by andrea and alejandro. I wrote these pieces for me and my brother Jeremy to play at my grandmother’s funeral. My mémére, as we canucks like to call our grandmothers, was a sociable woman with a wonderfully pleasant disposition, who tempered the good-natured, snarky, wise-cracking, jokesters that the rest of the family were. I believe that funerals should be as happy as possible, so I wrote two pieces to reflect the bittersweet nature of losing the ones we love to ‘the other side.’
painted an improvisation for paint and musicians
ryo noda (1948- ) mai
performed by erin.
stay on it julius eastman (1940-1990)
performed by the whole band. many thanks to mary jane leach for help researching the score and to paul pinto for transcribing it.

thingNY is:
alejandro acierto, clarinet        andrew livingston, bass
gelsey bell, soprano            paul pinto, piano
isabel castellvi, cello            erin rogers, saxophone
andrea la rose, flute            jeffrey young, violin
come say hi.

freshhitsofthe70s,80s&today!

(visit http://www.thingny.bravehost.com/news/ for original posting)

sat. feb. 14 @ 7:30pm.

55 washington square south, manhattan (take the A,B,C,F or V trains to West 4th St) thingny warms your heart with the avant-garde of the 20th century. gently used works by composers tom johnson, bernard rands, mary jane leach and giacinto scelsi. plus george crumb’s vox balaenae, julius eastman’s stay on it and some tears for fears (why the hell not?)
$10

THINGNY STROKES THE MIGHTY CONCERTI
+ ANTI-SOCIAL MUSIC
Thu. Apr. 2 @ 7:00pm (starts on time, so get there early)
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 E 3rd Street (b/w Aves. B and C)
New York, NY
212-780-9386
$10

In a display of one-upmanship, the enfants terribles that make up thingNY are writing concertos for and against one another. What is a concerto? Is it something you can feel? Something you can touch? Or is it something greater than ourselves? Something almost unknowable? Answers to these questions and more when we present the following new works:

Jeffrey Young – Concertino [world premiere]
Paul Pinto – Concerto for Sax [world premiere]
Erin Rogers – Chronolinea    [world premiere]
Andrea La Rose – Concerto for Anybody
Isabel Castellvi – Concerto for Everybody   [world premiere]

Then at 8pm, the original New York punk classicists, Anti-Social Music, take the stage for some avant-garde debauchery by Hess, La Rose, Lasaga, Muchmore and Sankaram.

It’s a new music cage match! Hoo-wah.

chashama 217 e 42nd st. manhattan (take the 4,5,6,7 or S trains to 42nd st-grand central)a big fat concert with singers, dancers, painters and loads of big fat music by paul pinto, joseph hallman and jonah bloch-johnson. and of course, gloriously chubby improv of the non-pop persuasion. our fine cellist, isabel castellvi’s group, the ai ensemble, will do a set at 7:30, too! $10

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/48150
http://www.thingny.bravehost.com/news/

workshop 4:30pm

concert 8:00pm

more details to come