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

PROFILES
Three world premiere commissions by three young composers, including thingNY’s own Andrew Livingston and Jeffrey Young, and Philadelphia’s prolific Joseph Hallman.

Hallman – tritticothingo
Livingston – Blessed?
Young – Travels with Fascists and Pure-Hearted Souls

LEARN MORE: Following the performances, there will be a reception and Q&A with the composers.

For more information, visit thingNY.com

Anubis Saxophone Quartet
Saturday, 6 November 2010, 8:00 P.M.
Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square Northwest

Admission $20 (adults) and $10 (students and seniors)

works by:
E. Rogers, I. Crutchley, D. Fujikura, P. Grella-Możejko, B. Hjertmann, F. Lévy, A. Llaneza, C. Stolte

performed by:
Anubis Saxophone Quartet (Allison Balcetis, Ryan Muncy, Sean Patayanikorn, David Wegehaupt)

http://tonusvivus.com/concerts/power-horns-concert/

RAM is proud to announce that our first associate member will be composer Gilbert Galindo.  Gilbert will join RAM on an open-ended basis, composing for and working with at least one of our collaborating ensembles in 2011 and beyond.

Click here to read up on Gilbert. His sound clips will be posted soon.

For more information on Random Access Music, visit www.ram-nyc.org.

check it out!

http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6500

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 album (co-produced by thingNY and Brendan James) 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 accompanying comic book libretto features artwork from various artists and musicians, including some of the band.

To purchase the album, visit:
www.thingNY.com
www.thingNY.com/opera

We are all ADDDDDDDDD!

Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe:  Review by Ellen Freeman click here

Boston’s Weekly Dig:  Review by Blsterner click here

Join us for drinks, laughs, a video spectacular, Jeff rocking out on violin (maybe),next season’s sneak preview, highlights from our upcoming album release/East Coast tour and some great prizes! It’s a party,  so stop by whenever you can.

Tuesday, May 18th  from 6-9pm
Aspen Social Club, Bubble Lounge
157 West 47th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave)
New York, NY

Donation Levels:
$20-50 Groupie (complimentary ticket to the opera)
$51-100 Storn Child (2 complimentary tickets to the opera)
$101-200 Elitist (2 tickets and a copy of the album)
$201-500 Opera Star (4 tickets to the opera and a copy of the album)
$501+ Better Than An Opera Star (6 tickets to the opera, 2 copies of the album, t-shirt and a group hug from thingNY)

Please RSVP by contacting Erin Rogers at thingNY@gmail.com

If are unable to attend, but would still like to make a tax-deductible donation, visit:
http://www.thingNY.com/support