This Saturday I’ll be in California for one day only, to perform Jay Afrisando‘s [opera captions] with thingNY at Indexical in Santa Cruz. I also have two major life updates to share! Read on for more.
thingNY show Friday in NYC; city planning master’s achieved!
This Friday marks my first performance since October, when I’ll join thingNY to perform Jay Afrisando‘s [opera captions] at HERE Arts Center in Manhattan. I’ve also just completed my Master of City and Regional Planning degree! Read on for more.
Two album releases plus Lincoln Center and Philly shows!
This week and next, I’m releasing records with Picard & Picard and thingNY, with record release shows in Philly at 2223 FISH and in NYC at the brand new David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center! Plus, this year at Rutgers, I’m a Graduate Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Read on for more!
This Thursday at 7:30pm is Picard & Picard’s album release show in Philly on the longstanding Fire Museum Presents series at 2223 FISH! We’ll be sharing the bill with Cecila Lopez/Joe Moffett duo & Ben Bennett/Michael Foster/Jacob Wick trio. Carlos and I are playing first, so please come on time if you can. Facebook event here.
On Friday, our album, Hold Music for a Space Rescue, officially drops on Gold Bolus Recordings. The album is conceived as a set of music a futuristic space rescue company provides a crashed space explorer to listen to while awaiting rescue. We created the music from improvisations over Zoom recorded in late 2020, and Carlos’s sister, Marina Z. Cotallo, created a wonderful poster to accompany the release, designed to look like spacecraft safety instructions. I hope you’ll preorder the music and poster on our new Bandcamp page! Want a preview? David Weinstein will be playing a good chunk of the album tomorrow on his show on WFMU from 5-7pm.
Then next Friday, October 28, thingNY is finally releasing our recording of Rick Burkhardt’s ambitious Passover! The piece, which we premiered in 2018 and recorded in 2019, is loosely structured around a Passover seder and features a sextet of speaking instrumentalists relating stories of escape. The album is our first on Innova Recordings, and you can preorder it via Bandcamp, as a download or a CD with beautiful artwork by Jason Tseng.
On Saturday, October 29, thingNY will celebrate the album release with a free show in an upstairs space in the new David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center! We play at 8:30pm as part of an Open House Weekend celebrating the reopening of the NY Phil’s main hall after an extensive renovation. For the occasion, the group has cooked up a hot new program of loops and melodies.
We’ll continue to celebrate the album online with a watch party at 8:30pm on Friday, November 4th. Engineer extraordinaire Zach Herchen not only recorded the album’s audio but video of us recording it too. He’s assembled a cut that perfectly corresponds to the takes on the album. Watch it with us on YouTube here!
Finally, in addition to my planning school coursework, this year at Rutgers I’m honored to be a Graduate Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. This means that in the spring, I’ll be working 15 hours a week in the NJ State Senate Majority Office. Read more about me and my fellow Fellows here.
Meows from me, Evie, and Grba,
Jeff
thingNY in Brooklyn on Sunday, two October record releases!
This Sunday at 7pm in Brooklyn, I’m playing my first public in-person show since before the pandemic! I’m also releasing records next month with both Picard & Picard and thingNY, with accompanying shows in Philly and NYC. Plus, I’m going into the second year of a masters in city planning at Rutgers. Read on for more!
This Sunday’s show will feature new spatial acoustic works by thingNY band members Andrew, Gelsey, Isabel, and Paul alongside Pamela Z’s Twenty Answers, composed in 2007. Besides a couple private or invite-only performances, it’s my first in-person show since March 1, 2020. I’m looking forward to hopefully seeing some familiar (masked) faces in the crowd! Following thingNY’s set, Nick Brooke and “The Cabinet” will perform new Transcendental Etudes for physical vocalists and samples, in which some members of thingNY will take part.
In October, I’m looking forward to two album releases that have been a long time in the making! On Friday, October 21, my duo with Carlos Cotallo Solares, Picard & Picard, will release our first album, Hold Music for a Space Rescue, on Gold Bolus Recordings. The album is conceived as a set of music a futuristic space rescue company provides for a crashed space explorer to listen to while awaiting rescue. We created the music from improvisations over Zoom recorded in late 2020. To celebrate, we’ll perform an album release show in Philly on Thursday, October 20 on the longstanding Fire Museum Presents series at 2223 FISH, sharing the bill with Cecila Lopez/Joe Moffett duo & Ben Bennett/Michael Foster/Jacob Wick trio. Facebook event here.
On October 28, thingNY will release our recording of Rick Burkhardt’s musically and narratively ambitious Passover, which we premiered in 2018 and recorded in 2019. The album is our first on Innova Recordings, who along with American Composers Forum selected it to be released as part of their recent national call and new model. In part to celebrate the album release, we’ll be performing a set of new work on Saturday, October 29. We can’t announce the details yet, but save the date!
Meanwhile, I am days away from starting my second year pursuing a Master of City and Regional Planning degree at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University. The first year was challenging but rewarding – if you’d like a small sample of what I’ve been working on, I’ve featured a couple projects on my LinkedIn page. You can also read a profile of me featured on the Bloustein School site.
I am also finishing up my first paid position in the city planning field, an internship with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). My job there has been to develop a paper assessing the state of the practice of long-range planning among Metropolitan Planning Organizations. MPOs such as DVRPC are federally designated regional transportation planning agencies, and to inform my paper I interviewed staff at 14 of them. If you’d like a window into my time there, you can read a short profile of me DVRPC did on Instagram.
Further ahead, I have an exciting fellowship position at Rutgers this year, which will culminate in a spring 2023 internship in the NJ State Legislature! More on that later.
Greetings from my new home for the school year, in Highland Park, NJ,
Jeff
thingNY mail piece, Picard & Picard at OME Festival
Sign-up went live just a few days ago for thingNY’s third piece of the pandemic, Dear Nancine, but only about 10 spots remain! On April 15, Carlos Cotallo Solares and I will open the Oh My Ears Festival in Phoenix, AZ as Picard & Picard – from our homes in Philadelphia. Also, I bought a house! Read on for more.
thingNY’s third piece of the pandemic, Dear Nancine, is a free-of-charge, at-home, month-long multimedia piece delivered by USPS and presented by the Look + Listen Festival. Our new piece is for US-based audience members to experience alone or share with your household/pod. You’ll be asked to do tasks such as writing, drawing, listening, playing games, sending mail to loved ones, downloading an app, going on sound walks in your neighborhood, and more. Expect 7-9 little gifts in your mailbox during the month of May. In order to offer this active experience, we’ve capped the audience at 100 participants, and only about 10 spots remain. You can sign up for this and other festival events at http://www.lookandlisten.org. Or, if you prefer a more passive audience experience, please check out our previous pandemic-era pieces, SubtracTTTTTTTTT and A Series of Landscapes!
At 5:30pm Arizona time on Thursday, April 15, Carlos Cotallo Solares and I will open the Oh My Ears (OME) Festival in Phoenix, AZ as Picard & Picard. We’ll be performing live from our respective homes in Philadelphia through the magic of Zoom. Expect improvised electronic music for violin and guitar with atmospheric visuals courtesy of Snapchat filters. More info at OME’s site.
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Also, since my update in mid-September, Picard & Picard performed live to open for Bedlam‘s Zoom reading of Romeo and Juliet; watch our performance on YouTube. In October, thingNY was featured in The Wire Magazine, and we shared an exclusive preview of our upcoming album Passover on their site. On Halloween, I drove up to NYC for a socially distanced treasure hunt organized by World/Inferno, in which I performed an original song and improvised with a fire performer on the streets of Williamsburg. An online version of the treasure hunt exists, including video of my performance – send me a message and I’ll see if I can get you login credentials. In December, Picard & Picard presented new improvisations on Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka’s Austrian radio show Kopfkino; listen to an archived version here. In February, I helped launch an anti-racist pledge created by New Music Equity Action, an online organizing group in the contemporary classical sphere I’ve been participating in since June.
Looking ahead, the big news is that I’m planning to go back to school this fall for a masters in city planning! If you’re in the planning field, please drop me a line, I’d love to hear about your experience.
And if you’re in the new music field – I hope you’ll sign the Pledge!
Jeff
Duo performance tomorrow on Zoom, thingNY in The Wire
Tomorrow at 6:30pm Eastern, I’ll play my first gig since July with Carlos Cotallo Solares, opening for Bedlam‘s Zoom reading of Romeo and Juliet and benefiting Communities United for Police Reform – sign up to watch here. thingNY is featured in the October issue of The Wire Magazine. Read on for more!
First, a recap since my last update: in July, thingNY had a great run of our new Zoom piece A Series of Landscapes, which is still available to watch until October 12 on HERE Arts Center‘s website for a small donation that will be shared between thingNY, Black Lives Matter, and Communities United for Police Reform. Carlos and I released an improvised music video on YouTube. Erin Rogers, Paul Pinto, and I contributed a short video segment to the 10th edition of HERE’s COVIDEO series. And thingNY has a full-page feature in the October issue of The Wire Magazine, where George Grella writes of us, “The expressive tone of thingNY’s work is universes away from Richard Wagner, but nothing surpasses their realisation of the gesamtkunstwerk ideal. Yet what they do is so earthy, so connected to experience, that they float free of historical context.” Read the full article by buying the issue here.
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Looking ahead, thingNY is starting to plan a new show for the fall, so stay tuned for more!
Watch thingNY’s new Zoom piece this Friday and Saturday!
thingNY’s new online piece A Series of Landscapes premieres on Zoom this Friday at 1pm and Saturday at 1 and 6pm EDT. Read on for details!
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You must buy tickets in advance (sliding scale $5-50) to receive a link to attend the show on Zoom.
Ticket links for each performance:
Friday, July 10 @ 1pm EDT
Saturday, July 11 @ 1pm EDT
Saturday, July 11 @ 6pm EDT
thingNY is dedicated to creating affordable performances and assisting our communities. Half of thingNY’s earnings from these performances will be redistributed to Black Lives Matter and Communities United for Police Reform.
In the near future, look out for a new short video by myself and Carlos Cotallo Solares, and a third motivational session with Paul Pinto!
Me (aka Aril the Tender) playing online game League of Legends (at which I am a n00b) with professional commentary,
Jeff
Motivational Session #2 with Paul Pinto tomorrow at 1pm
Tomorrow at 1pm, Paul Pinto and I will present the second in our series of short motivational sessions on Zoom. In mid-July, thingNY will premiere A Series of Landscapes, a follow-up to our online piece SubtracTTTTTTTTT. Read on for details!
First, a recap since last update: in May, Paul and I held our first motivational session, and I improvised with guitarist Carlos Cotallo Solares in the Open Improvisations: ONLINE edition Facebook group. Our live performance is still viewable there, but since we had some technical difficulties, we recommend this video of our dress rehearsal instead. SubtracTTTTTTTTT, which you can still watch at thingNY.com, received a great review in the July edition of The Wire (subscribe to read here), which wrote that “ThingNY make the virtual space their own.” Mine and Paul Pinto’s …Patriots… opera was featured in the New York Times on Friday as part of a grand history of small operas. Also on Friday, The World/Inferno Friendship Society premiered a video of our song Alibi as part of the Coping with Dystopia livestream series. Tomorrow’s motivational session with Paul will be a guided group meditation with song, mind-clearing and mind-filling exercises, a mantra, and another inspirational video. “Doors” open at 12:55pm, register by noon tomorrow at thingny.com/motivators to get a link to the Zoom session. Further ahead, on July 10 and 11, thingNY will premiere A Series of Landscapes, a new online work of opera-theatre set in the world of our dreams. As part of HERE Arts Center’s #StillHERE series, we invite you to join us on a Zoom call as we dive into the anxiety and serenity of this paradoxical moment, where yesterday’s action in the street, today’s paralyzing personal stasis, and tomorrow’s online wedding are all refracted through the bizarre filter of social and emotional distance. Listening to George Floyd’s music, Jeff |
Online improv tonight, Motivation Thursday with Paul Pinto
I’m performing online twice this week, and I hope you’ll attend! Tonight, I’ll be playing a ten-minute duo set with Carlos Cotallo Solares in the Open Improvisations: ONLINE edition Facebook group shortly after 9pm Eastern. Thursday afternoon, Paul Pinto and I will host the first in a series of motivational sessions with dialogue, inspirational video, and song on Zoom; RSVP at thingny.com/motivators. Details below!
First, a recap since my last update: thingNY premiered our collaboratively created online piece SubtracTTTTTTTTT over three evenings in late April. Co-presented by MATA, the piece was previewed in The New Yorker and featured in a Washington Post article. If you missed it, you can catch up on YouTube, either in a lightly edited version or exactly as performed on closing night, complete with the audience’s real-time comments. I also made a score for an experimental minute-and-a-half movie by Philadelphia-based theater artist Mark Kennedy, which you can check out here. Tonight, I’ll be playing a ten-minute set with Spanish-born, Philadelphia-based composer/guitarist/violinist Carlos Cotallo Solares in the Open Improvisations: ONLINE edition Facebook group, which has been holding online improv sessions every Sunday since late March! We’ll be the second of eleven acts; expect spacey, effected sounds and creepy digital masks. Join the Facebook group to watch, and I encourage you to comment during the live video – half the fun is watching the back-and-forth between audience members! Thursday afternoon, please join me and Paul Pinto for the first in a series of brief afternoon motivational sessions on Zoom featuring dialogue, inspirational video, and song. In early 2019, we began developing a new piece where we play motivational speakers, as a follow up to our …Patriots… opera. There’s some carry-over of the cheeky tone of that piece, but as befits the COVID era, we also examine the topic of motivation earnestly. “Doors” open at 12:55pm, register in advance at thingny.com/motivators to get a link to the Zoom session. Looking ahead, thingNY has begun work on a follow-up to SubtracTTTTTTTTT to premiere in mid-July, and Paul and I are already planning our second motivational session, so stay tuned! Star Trek Space Force, Jeff |
This weekend: thingNY’s new live-streaming performance!
This Friday-Sunday at 6pm, thingNY is very excited to present SubtracTTTTTTTTT, a new live-streaming performance we’ve created in the weeks since the quarantine began. Read a preview of the piece in The New Yorker, then watch us perform free of charge at http://thingNY.com or on thingNY’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. Scroll down for details, and I hope you’re doing ok out there!
First, a recap since my last update: I toured the West Coast for nearly two weeks in early February with the World/Inferno Friendship Society alongside tour mates Bridge City Sinners. We stopped by the Oakland headquarters of our label Alternative Tentacles, where we were interviewed on their bATcast podcast – listen here. Back home in Philly, my partner Evie and I performed as a music and storytelling duo for the second time, on Andrea Clearfield’s long-running salon series. Then I embarked on the five-city debut tour of my free improv duo Marbleous with Austrian bassist Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – watch part of our final tour show on YouTube. In the middle of that tour, I stopped by WNYC Studios with World/Inferno to record on John Schaefer’s Soundcheck podcast – listen here. Since the end of the Marbleous tour on March 1, there’s little to report, except that HERE Arts Center made public the full video of Paul Pinto’s Thomas Paine in Violence from our premiere run a few years ago – watch here. Now to this weekend’s premiere: SubtracTTTTTTTTT is a live-streamed series of isolation etudes, songs, scenes, and scenarios reflecting on how a process of subtraction is redefining our mundane. We were scheduled to be performing the tenth-anniversary revival of our experimental opera ADDDDDDDDD at Spectrum in Brooklyn this week, but when that was canceled, we decided to make a brand new online piece instead. I feel very lucky to have had an engaging, collaborative project to work on during this isolated time. Our new audio-visual work is designed to explore the strengths of live streaming as a distinct art medium, toying with the abilities, shortfalls, and comical inconsistencies of bandwidth broadcast. With me on the project are Gelsey Bell, Isabel Castellvi, Dave Ruder, Paul Pinto, and Erin Rogers, with video design by Eamonn Farrell. We’re excited that Isabel, a former stalwart member of thingNY, has rejoined the crew from her home in North Carolina – there’s no reason distance should be an obstacle in our online world! The piece is presented by Music at the Anthology (MATA), the new music organization that was to have co-presented ADDDDDDDDD. As for what’s next, I’m working on music for a podcast, and I’m planning to get back to developing some solo music too. I’m expecting World/Inferno’s July-August European tour to be canceled, but officially it hasn’t been yet, so…fingers crossed? And if any of you want me to record a little violin on my home recording setup, get in touch! Artist relief, Jeff |