You Against Nature [world premiere] by Joseph White
Performed by:
Paul Pinto Gelsey Bell Dave Ruder
Andrew Livingston Erin Rogers
Mouthful [world premiere] Written and performed by:
alejandro t. acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston Gelsey Bell
thingNY returns to the Brick with a double bill made up of Joseph White’s You Against Nature and their latest collectively written opus, Mouthful, as part of the eclectic Exponential Festival.
You Against Nature is a new opera from the genre-fluid librettist and composer Joseph White who the Times calls “magical… mulchy… ribald… outlandish…” You Against Nature is based on the French decadent classic Against Nature, and situates a self-isolating aesthetic explorer in the present day. Expect forty minutes of homilies on modern-day alone time, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths, performed by five singing, storytelling instrumentalists.
Mouthful is the latest collaboratively composed experimental opera from thingNY. Situated in the orbit of a large communal table, the ensemble explores digestion and excretion: of food, of blood, of ancestry and linguistic transmission. Each performance is different. With switching roles, in-ear monitors and instruments, the performers act as transmitters of each other’s songs, languages and choreography: reckoning with various degrees of appropriateness and appropriation, comprehension and (mis)translation.
You Against Nature [world premiere] by Joseph White
Performed by:
Paul Pinto Gelsey Bell Dave Ruder
Andrew Livingston Erin Rogers
Mouthful [world premiere] Written and performed by:
alejandro t. acierto
Isabel Castellvi
Dave Ruder
Paul Pinto
Andrew Livingston Gelsey Bell
thingNY returns to the Brick with a double bill made up of Joseph White’s You Against Nature and their latest collectively written opus, Mouthful, as part of the eclectic Exponential Festival.
You Against Nature is a new opera from the genre-fluid librettist and composer Joseph White who the Times calls “magical… mulchy… ribald… outlandish…” You Against Nature is based on the French decadent classic Against Nature, and situates a self-isolating aesthetic explorer in the present day. Expect forty minutes of homilies on modern-day alone time, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths, performed by five singing, storytelling instrumentalists.
Mouthful is the latest collaboratively composed experimental opera from thingNY. Situated in the orbit of a large communal table, the ensemble explores digestion and excretion: of food, of blood, of ancestry and linguistic transmission. Each performance is different. With switching roles, in-ear monitors and instruments, the performers act as transmitters of each other’s songs, languages and choreography: reckoning with various degrees of appropriateness and appropriation, comprehension and (mis)translation.
Lessons, Masterclasses & Workshops by:
Melinda Wagner | David Sanford | John Aylward | Hassan Anderson | Curtis Stewart | Special Guest Popebama More Info
Floor 3, Theater
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St
New York, NY More Info & Tickets
As part of the performance program organized by guest curator Taja Cheek for Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Sarah Hennies presents Motor Tapes, a one-hour work for a large ensemble. Taking its name from neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás’s characterization of the human brain as containing innumerable “tape loops” that run continuously within the mind, Motor Tapes is composed of densely overlapping patterns of sound, with musicians representing synapses that both fire independently and work together to achieve complex activities. Llinás’s description of this phenomena is strikingly musical: “The activity in the basal ganglia is running all the time, playing motor patterns and snippets of motor patterns amongst and between themselves […] they seem to act as a continuous, random, motor pattern noise generator.” “I am interested in the motor tapes theory,” Hennies has said, “because it suggests that alongside lived experience there is a mysterious biological basis for our inclinations, talents and identities.”
Motor Tapes will be performed by Lauren Cauley, Laura Cocks, David Friend, Madison Greenstone, Judith Hamann, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Hannah Levinson, Christopher McIntyre, Erin Rogers, Brendon Randall-Myers, Bill Solomon, and Nate Wooley.
New Thread Quartet presents Electric Sax Vol. 2: Terrain and Barriers, the saxophone quartet’s second annual concert of electroacoustic works for saxophone. This year’s program explores the literal and metaphorical paths across landscapes, through music about terrain, barriers, and the interconnectedness of things.
Erin Rogers’ Fledge is a electroacoustic, quadraphonic companion piece to her 2023 work Foliage for saxophone quartet. cory ryan kasprzyk’s other transforms a physical barrier from an obstruction into something sonically intertwined to the environment. The composition is an exact transcription of a barrier resonance, performed through microtones and extended technique alongside audio and video playback. Matias Vilaplana Stark’s Senderos, leads the musicians in improvisation guided by a video score. The work is created with satellite imagery showing four landscapes from Chile. Karlheinz Essl’s colorado utilizes an interactive “particle accelerator” to superimpose live sound particles of the saxophones across a 4-channel sound projection. The electronic manipulation will be controlled live by Dennis Sullivan.
Electric Sax Vol. 2: Terrain and Barriers
Saturday, May 25, 7:30pm
The Cell – 338 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011
Tickets – Free, suggested $15 donation – available online and at the door
Reception to follow
Program
Erin Rogers – Fledge, for sax quartet and live electronics * #
cory ryan kasprzyk – other, for sax quartet with audio/video playback * #
Matias Vilaplana Stark – Senderos, for sax quartet with video score
Karlheinz Essl – colorado, for sax quartet with live-electronics and 4-channel sound projection +
* world premiere
+ North American premiere
# commisioned by New Thread Quartet
Hypercube returns to its home borough and the Queens New Music Festival on May 11th, presenting original works for ensemble by Farzia Fallah, Jessica Ackerley, Brandon Connors-Morrison, Seong Ae Kim and Eric Wubbels. The quartet will also be joined by Peruvian interdisciplinary artist and robotics maker Efraín Rozas for a world premiere performance of a new work featuring the composer as fifth member of the ensemble.
Curated by composer and pianist Teodora Stepančić, piano+ is a concert series dedicated to new and rarely heard music. An intimate listening experience, a space for sharing sounds, a place for open minds and ears.
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Sun May 5, 4pm
Spectrum 481 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn
new works by Laura Cetilia. Gabriela Areal. Teodora Stepančić. Germaine Sijstermans + Larry Polansky|LCollective|
Delighted to join the Canadian soprano Charlotte Mundy, as she presents music recently written for her and original compositions for voice and electronics and voice and saxophone.
7pm ET
AMERICAS SOCIETY
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Program
Raven Chacon: Ella Llora (2023)
Improvisation (with Erin Rogers)
Charlotte Mundy: Strange Moving Power (2024)
Christian Quiñones: My Voice is a Broken Chorus (2022)
Tactus Ensemble: Contemporary Chamber Music at Manhattan School of Music
As Co-Artistic Director of Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music, my colleague Matt Ward and I are thrilled to invite you to 6 concerts of chamber music this year featuring students of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program. All concerts are free. Please join us on the Upper West Side this season.
Fri, APR 12 | 7:30 PM
Tactus Ensemble features students of the Contemporary Performance Program (CPP)
CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PROGRAM Matthew Ward and Erin Rogers, Artistic Directors
PROGRAM: WESLEY THOMPSON Solar Sonata, Voyager, Op. 33 (2024) Tactus Commission Prize Winner 2023
STEFAN WOLPE Quartet (1950-1954)
VIVIAN FUNG Corona Morphs (2021)
ANTHONY BRAXTON Composition #142 (1988)
KATE GENTILE b i o m e i.i (2021)
Mon, Aug 19
PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance
Pavilion Theatre
2980 New York Route 66
Chatham, NY
PS21 HOUSE BLEND II: Konus Quartett. Konus performs Klaus Lang’s Drei Allmenden, for saxophone quartet and harmonium, which the quartet recorded for Cubus Records in 2020 with the composer as soloist. Paired with Skylighght, written and performed by Gelsey Bell (voice) and Erin Rogers (saxophone).
Center for Contemporary Performance is a state-of-the-art venue on 100 acres of unspoiled meadows, trails, and woodlands in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Performances in our open-air Pavilion Theater and 100 acres of orchards, meadows, and woodlands in the heart of the Hudson Valley
