The Exponential Festival & The Brick present
Natural Studies
by thingNY
January 18-20, 2024

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.

You Against Nature is the first opera from White and is based on the French decadent classic, Against Nature. It is a tale of modern day self-isolation, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths.

Mouthful is situated in the orbit of a large communal table and explores ancestry, lineage, and linguistic transmission through food and digestion, through blood, and through community and family structures.

You Against Nature by Joseph White
Mouthful by thingNY

performed by alejandro t. acierto, Gelsey Bell, Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, and Dave Ruder

Showtimes:
Thurs, Jan 18, 8pm
Fri, Jan 19, 8pm
Sat, Jan 20, 3pm
Sat, Jan 20, 8pm

Tickets

The Exponential Festival & The Brick present
Natural Studies
by thingNY
January 18-20, 2024

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.

You Against Nature is the first opera from White and is based on the French decadent classic, Against Nature. It is a tale of modern day self-isolation, attempts at life-hacking, and nihilistic indulgence taken to extraordinary lengths.

Mouthful is situated in the orbit of a large communal table and explores ancestry, lineage, and linguistic transmission through food and digestion, through blood, and through community and family structures.

You Against Nature by Joseph White
Mouthful by thingNY

performed by alejandro t. acierto, Gelsey Bell, Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, and Dave Ruder

Showtimes:
Thurs, Jan 18, 8pm
Fri, Jan 19, 8pm
Sat, Jan 20, 3pm
Sat, Jan 20, 8pm

Tickets

As Co-Artistic Director of Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music, my colleague Matt Ward and I will present 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.

Mon, DEC 4 | 7:30 PM

Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music
Featuring Students of Manhattan School of Music + Special Guests

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Matthew Ward and Erin Rogers, Artistic Directors

Program to feature works by:
Rebecca Saunders
Ryan Carter
Flutronix
Caleb Burhans
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

Free, More Information HERE

Greenfield Hall
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027

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OUT OF THE BOX!

Wed, Nov 15, 2023 // 8pm
Popebama performs an evening of experimental music, presented by The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

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.

Mon, NOV 6 | 7:30 PM

Tactus Contemporary Chamber Music
Featuring Students of CPP + Manhattan School of Music

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Matthew Ward and Erin Rogers, Artistic Directors

PROGRAM to feature works by:
Brittany J. Green
Felipe Lara
Steve Reich
Nicole Lizée
Reiko Füting
Joseph Schwantner
Alex Mincek
Wang Lu

Free, More Information HERE
Livestream LINK

Greenfield Hall
Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027

Follow Tactus Ensemble on:
Instagram
Facebook

CubeLab premieres! November 11 & 12, 2023

Hypercube’s 2023 Composition Lab culminates in the virtual premieres of 14 new works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion by a talented cohort of composers. Free & viewable online. Join us chat-side!

Concert #2:
Sunday, Nov 12, 4pm (virtual)
Streaming Link

Learn more about the Hypercube Composition Lab

CubeLab premieres! November 11 & 12, 2023

Hypercube’s 2023 Composition Lab culminates in the virtual premieres of 1 new works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion by a talented cohort of composers. Free & viewable online. Join us chat-side!

Concert #1:”Choreographies” Premieres by CubeLab5 Composers
Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 // 6pm EDT (virtual)
Streaming Link

Program:
Choreographies iX.3 by Matt A. Mason
dredge ii by James May
Ghazaliyât No. 2 by Hesam Abedini
3×4 by Efraín Rozas
The Spare Room by Blake Opper
Climate of the Market by Austin Gray Williams
unbroken passion by Indigo Knecht

Hypercube: Erin Rogers, saxophone Jay Sorce, guitar Andrea Lodge, piano/accordion Chris Graham, percussion

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts. Thank you to Adelphi University for its support of the Hypercube Composition Lab.

Learn more about the Hypercube Composition Lab

Honored to have built the music for Leslie Freeman Taub’s solo work: David’s Lotus Sutra for “And yet”- a festival curated by choreographer Heidi Latsky. This beautiful and thought-provoking celebration of disability and dance features three disabled choreographers-Mark Travis Rivera, Nicole Marquez,  and Leslie Taub. Each with distinctive voices that bring a raw vulnerability and fierceness to the stage.

Sat 10/28 & Sun 10/29 @6:30 & 8:30pm
Studio 3R
12 St Marks Pl, NYC
Tickets 2:00pm / 4:00pm

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Honored to have built the music for Leslie Freeman Taub’s solo work: David’s Lotus Sutra for “And yet”- a festival curated by choreographer Heidi Latsky. This beautiful and thought-provoking celebration of disability and dance features three disabled choreographers-Mark Travis Rivera, Nicole Marquez,  and Leslie Taub. Each with distinctive voices that bring a raw vulnerability and fierceness to the stage.

Sat 10/28 & Sun 10/29 @6:30 & 8:30pm
Studio 3R
12 St Marks Pl, NYC
Tickets 6:30pm / 8:30pm

More Info