Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

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

ARTISTS STUDIO: GEORGE LEWIS / AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS

Monday, December 18, 2023 // 7:00 PM
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, NYC

On the first half of the program, the International Contemporary Ensemble will present the US premiere of George Lewis’s Blombos Workshop (2020) for piano, which engages an overarching concern of Jamaican critical theorist Sylvia Wynter—the promise and potential of the human. This is followed by his Assemblage (2013) for nonet, which presents the sounds of contingency, heterogeneity, nonlinearity, emergence, and bricolage.

More Info HERE

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.