The composers of Random Access Music present new works for the renowned Gotham Ensemble.

Gotham is a mixed instrumental ensemble based in New York City and led by the superb clarinetist Tom Piercy. The Gotham Ensemble premieres, performs and records a wide variety of repertoire, from the Classical to the avant-garde. A New York Times review of Gotham’s Merkin Hall, New York City, performance of a program of Olav Thommessen’s music specifically encouraged the public to go out and purchase the recordings. After a performance of Ned Rorem’s Ariel at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Rorem wrote of Gotham as one of America’s important chamber music groups performing new music today. Albany Records recently released Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem, a CD of Ned Rorem’s chamber music featuring the clarinet.

Please join us!

Friday, March 4th, 2011 @ 7:30pm
The Tank
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

http://www.thetanknyc.org/

Save the date. More details to follow soon.

$10 cover
Donations-accepted Bar

Brecht Forum
451 West St
New York, NY
(212) 242-4201

(On “Manhattan’s Left Bank” in West Greenwich Village between Bank & Bethune Streets on the West Side Highway. A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left.)

visit: http://www.nysoundcircuit.com/
For more info: info@nysoundcircut.com

Tuesday, Nov. 30th
7:00-11:30pm

Issue Project Room
(at the Old American Can Factory)
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 330-0313

Issue Project Room and the friends and artistic collaborators of Stefanos Tsigrimanis have mounted an evening of performance art and music in celebration of the diverse artistic list of the young Brooklyn-based musician, journalist, scholar and teacher whose life was cut short two months before his 30th birthday.

The evening will span genres and continents with live performances by musicians, performance artists and dancers including trumpeter/composer Peter Evans, multi-media singer-songwriter Joseph Keckler, and Greek punk rockers, Nifalia. New music ensemble thingNY will perform Rzewski and percussionist Cory Bracken will perform Xenakis. Dance/video partners Nicole and Rhys Daunic will perform a new work simultaneously in Brooklyn and Stockholm, and Gerry Visco will present photography and performance art.

The event is free, however, donations will be accepted on behalf of the Stefanos Tsigrimanis Memorial Fund at New York University.

Space is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.pfpinto.com/animalnudity.

RAM announces a call for proposals from new music ensembles or individual artists dedicated to performing new music to participate in RAM’s new concert series.

While RAM is NYC-based, our home neighborhood is located in the borough of Queens–and several of our member composers reside in Queens neighborhoods. The borough of Queens has a long reputation of being under-represented and under-served by the new music community.

RAM plans to change this.

In 2011, we will present live concerts of new music by some of the best ensembles and individual performers from New York by offering performance space and logistical help to ensembles and individual performers that would like to help RAM further our mission of bringing new music to new audiences.

WHERE: All the concerts will take place at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY. The Secret Theatre is just 3 blocks from the PS1 art museum and just a 4 block walk (or less) from the N, W, R, E, V, G and 7 trains. Long Island City has a burgeoning arts scene, with the Fisher Landau Center for Art , the Dorsky Gallery, the Noguchi Museum, the SculptureCenter, the Flux Factory and a dozen other flourishing arts groups all located nearby. The Secret Theatre is home to 2 performance spaces—a large space that seats 70+ and a smaller, more intimate space, that seats 30+.

The Secret Theatre will provide a box office with one attendant. They will also offer light refreshments for purchase by the audience.

WHAT: RAM is accepting proposals from all groups and all genres of new music. However, at this time The Secret Theatre does not own or have a performance-quality piano. Electronic or digital instruments may be used in the space, though.

The agreement between RAM, the performing ensembles, and the Secret Theatre will stipulate that The Secret Theatre will receive half of the proceeds from ticket sales while the performing ensemble receives the other half. RAM will take nothing. Secret Theatre must be guaranteed $75 for the performance, to meet their basic costs of lighting, sound, and box office staff. The use of the theater will be free. RAM will act as the curator of the series and will serve as a liason between the performers and The Secret Theatre. RAM will also offer logistical support and some web advertising via this website and social media such as facebook.

THE PROPOSAL: All proposals must be submitted via email to info@ram-nyc.org. The proposal should be no longer than 1 page long, should be submitted as a pdf document, and should include the following information:

* Name of the ensemble or individual artists
* Names of ensemble artistic personnel
* A short description (1 or 2 paragraphs) of the proposed concert
* 2-5 internet links to audio clips or videos of the performing ensemble. If links are not available, please submit 1 or 2 mp3s of performances—no more than 20 megabytes TOTAL
* Email address and name of contact person
* Any dates that cannot be scheduled by your ensemble (we have wide latitude for performance dates, so we can work closely with any group to provide an acceptable performance date)

Preference will be given to proposals with an entire concert program of 1 hour of music or more.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Sunday, November 14, 2010

We look forward to hearing from you!
Random Access Music Composers’ Collective

For more information, visit: www.RAM-NYC.org

CHICAGO SERIES Opener!  Featuring Kris Covlin, saxophone

Thursday, November 4, 2010     7:30pm
Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago
1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL

–FREE–

Dai Fujikura: Reach Out

Erin Rogers: Duluth

Urs Leimgruber: Pulsar (US Premiere)

Pablo Chin: Como La Leyenda de la Gran Muralla China (US Premiere)

Aristides Llaneza: The second time I have looked out the window (US Premiere)

RYOT PROJECT with new music by Philippe Leroux, Lee Hyla, Aaron Einbond, Thierry Alla, Robert Lemay,
Etienne Rolin, Urs Leimgruber, Marcos Balter, David Reminick   (World Premiere)

For more information, visit http://www.anubisquartet.com/

ADDDDDDDDD

ADDDDDDDDD
an opera by thingNY

Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 – 8pm

Part of the Joan Chambers Concert Series
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Campana Chapel
150 Finoli Drive
Greensberg, PA 15601

FREE and open to the public

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 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.

For four years, new music ensemble thingNY has fused fluxus-esque experimentation with theatrically-charged chamber music. For its first album, this “creative new music cabal” [Time Out New York] has chosen to release a comic book + CD package of their experimental opera, ADDDDDDDDD.

With influences from Robert Ashley, Berg, Boulez, Braxton and Bjork, thingNY’s collaboratively-composed ADDDDDDDDD is an opera exploring the sweet sounds of excess. In a poetically verbose blend of noise, song, and spoken word, the five composer/performers highlight the everyday excesses of our lives as told through chants, rants, and advertising jingles.

The opera opens with the both earnest and absurd prologue, “Stories by Interesting People” but quickly becomes a montage of numbers, appointments, peeves, dreams and commercial interruptions in five-part harmony.

The album is now available, and its accompanying comic book libretto features artwork from various artists and musicians, including some of the band.

The New Yorker’s Alex Ross listed thingNY as part of the city’s burgeoning avant-garde classical music scene “striking an attitude of resistance to mainstream culture.” Comprised of composer-performers from the NYC metro area, thingNY revels in creating and performing unrelenting experimental new works with passion and enthusiasm, oscillating between the “sweeter sounds” and the “punishingly loud.” Since its first performance in October 2006, thingNY has produced four seasons of experimental music including a radio play by Beckett, a collaboratively-created opera and over a hundred premieres.

http://www.thingNY.com/opera

For more information, please contact Chris Bartley,
Music Director, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
clb200@pitt.edu
(724) 836-7120

SAT. JUNE 18  2:00PM  QUEENS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Located in the Historic Kingsland Homestead
Weeping Beech Park 143-135 37th Avenue Flushing, NY 11354

In House

A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.

For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/

GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.

It is our sad responsibility to announce to you that our dear friend, Stefanos Tsigrimanis (musician, educator, scholar and journalist, and one of thingNY’s founding members) passed away earlier this month, after a bicycle accident in Brooklyn. Stefanos was a very energetic and intelligent man, with an incredibly curious mind and a love of experimental and improvisational music. Some of our most memorable (and by far our loudest) moments on stage involved the banged-up guitars and percussive toys of Mr. Tsigrimanis, and we’ll miss our good friend and collaborator. Stefanos’s last performance with thingNY was a jam session after the release of our opera in June 2010. You can hear Stefanos singing and playing on the final track of our demo album, available free below. There will be a concert celebrating his life on November 30 at Issue Project Room in which thingNY and his other collaborators will perform.

thingNY DEMO
http://www.last.fm/music/thingNY/thingNY+Demo
FREE. Works by thingNY, Baumgardner, Snow, Morneau, Ghiradella, Pinto and Hammerstein/Kern

thingNY & Panoply Performance Laboratory present:

TIME: a complete explanation in three parts

Performances May 4, 5, 6 and 7 at 7pm and May 12, 13, and 14 at 9pm

The Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue
NY 11211
(L to Lorimer/G to Metropolitan)

tickets: $18 (not on sale until April)

A new theatrical multimedia work collaboratively written and performed by thingNY and the Panoply Performance Laboratory. The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is a performance co-operative formed by Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle. PPL creates music-driven, documentary-based performance works with a diverse array of collaborators, from all disciplines, fields, and walks of life. Additionally, PPL is dedicated to sustainable practices such as the use of recycled and found materials in their production of portable, low-budget “educational” performance art for a diverse audience. Read more about PPL here.

Visit the TIME page! http://www.thingny.com/time/

SPAM v. 2.0

lpac lab residency

Feb. 25, 2011

7:30 pm
Little Theatre @ LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY
7 train to 33rd/Rawson or  E, G, V, R  trains to Queens Plaza.

“As avant-garde as anything I’ve seen recently” – Kyle Gann (PostClassical) Read Kyle Gann’s write-up of last year’s SPAM show here.

SPAM v. 2.0 is thingNY’s second-annual experimental variety show of commissioned compositions and nonpositions from composers, writers, video artists, friends, relatives, strangers, pets and any other mammals with internet access. SPAM v. 2.0 is more than the open and sincere exposition of hundreds of diverse images, notes and noises assembled into one theatrically driven performance. It is more than the rickety bridge, dangling above the canyon which separates participant and audience, composer and listener. More. Boldly, we proclaim this is the most prodigious commissioning project in the history of experimental music via email-submitted spam.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO SUBMITTED WORK! VISIT THE SPAM PAGE