thingNY

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.
thingNY has performed in New York metro area concert halls, art spaces and DIY venues as diverse as
the Galapagos Art Space, Judson Memorial Church, the Tank, the University of the Streets, LaGuardia
Performing Arts Center, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Goodbye Blue
Monday, Secret Project Robot, the Loew's Jersey Theatre, the Yippie Museum Cafe and the Stone.

In its first three seasons, thingNY premiered thirty-two new works by emerging and established
composers including commissions from Barry Seroff, Rocco Di Pietro, Paul Burnell, Tarik Ghiradella and
others. In December 2009 thingNY reached a new level of community collaboration and visibility with its
mass e-mail commissioning project, called SPAM. Kathleen Supove, Kyle Gann, Doug Yule, Joseph
Nechvatal, Pauline Oliveros and William Brittelle were just some of the artists, composers and listeners
who submitted new works of music, text, emails, images and videos for the marathon performance of
over a hundred SPAM works.

In June 2009, five thingNY composers collaboratively composed and performed the multimedia opera
ADDDDDDDDD to a sold-out house at the 45th Street Theatre presented by the Tank. In June 2010,
thingNY will tour the opera and release a studio-recorded version on CD with a comic book libretto.
This year, thingNY opened its fourth season with new music and performance art as part of a 24-hour
theatre marathon at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. This performance was streamed live online
and broadcast to venues around the world, reaching an estimated 1000 viewers. Watching online,
composer Art Jarvinen wrote about the performance: “...truly a thing of great beauty, and wonder. Thank
god there are groups like thingNY (or maybe you're the only one)."