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

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!