6/15 Friday
8:30 pm
Hypercolor & New Thread Quartet
Lukas Ligeti (drums) James Ilgenfritz (electric bass) Eyal Maoz (guitar) Geoffrey Landman, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers, Zach Herchen (saxes)
Brand-new music by Hypercolor PLUS World Premiere for New Thread Quartet.
THE STONE is located in
The New School
Glass Box Theatre
55 west 13th street
near 6th ave
Event listing HERE
Re:Sound is an annual new music festival that brings together and showcases pioneers in the arts with diverse programming at venues throughout Cleveland.
Stephan Haluska
Nick Zoulek
Ben Willis
Popebama
By connecting local and visiting artists, the festival further propels the innovation and artistry flourishing in Northeast Ohio.
Check out the incredible lineup for Re:Sound 2018 here!
Three works of vocal chamber music performed around a communal table. thingNY premieres a new music-theater work by Rick Burkhardt and a selection of songs from Gelsey Bell’s work-in-development Rolodex. Varispeed, with additional members from thingNY, performs their new arrangement of Kenneth Gaburo’s masterpiece Maledetto from 1968.
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
thingNY gives a taste of its opera-in-development with a short selection of songs from Gelsey Bell’s Rolodex, in which the ensemble surrounds the interrogation table to investigate a crime, calling on witnesses from a rolodex that doubles as a musical score.
Finally, thingNY is joined by Varispeed to celebrate the semicentennial of Kenneth Gaburo’s 1968 cult-classic Maledetto with a new homespun arrangement. Maledetto is a fusion of taxonomy lecture, absurdist inner dialogue, Dadaist choral music, and your uncle’s dirty jokes for seven “virtuoso speakers.” It is the masterwork for Gaburo’s theories of compositional linguistics. Varispeed’s arrangement updates the piece for the twenty-first century by splitting up the original authoritative voice among the collective and passing the seven roles around the table, like a dinner platter, in an attempt to uncouple patriarchy and heterosexuality from the piece’s incredible exploration of the vocalist as singer, storyteller, and orchestra.
May 30, 2018 – 8:00pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets HERE
($20 ONLINE $25 DOORS)
Rick Burkhardt – Passover*
Gelsey Bell – Songs from Rolodex*
Kenneth Gaburo – Maledetto**
*premiere performance
**world premiere arrangement
“Doctor” Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew “Doc” Livingston – voice, bass
Paul “Tor” Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin “Doc Tor” Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave “Tordoc” Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey “Rot Cod” Young – voice, violin
Brian “Cod Rot” McCorkle – voice
Aliza “The Fist” Simons – voice
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
May 27, 2018 – 7:30pm
Midway Studios
15 Channel Center St
Boston, MA
Free Admission
Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew Livingston – voice, bass
Paul Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey Young – voice, violin
Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, commissioned for thingNY, is a performance-ritual for six singing/speaking instrumentalists seated at a dinner table on which there lies a double bass. Each performer relates the story of a friend’s escape: from a bad marriage, from an unfair situation at work, from a run-in with a traffic cop, from an ethically compromising opportunity, from an awkward family dinner. Ultimately, it becomes clear that all of these friends form one collective identity. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Presented by Sonic Circuits
Also on the program:
dálava (vocalist Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian)
The Witches (flute, violin and vocals)
May 25, 2018 – 8:00pm
Rhizome
6950 Maple Street NW
Washington, DC
$10
Gelsey Bell – voice, percussion
Andrew Livingston – voice, bass
Paul Pinto – voice, percussion
Erin Rogers – voice, saxophone
Dave Ruder – voice, clarinet
Jeffrey Young – voice, violin