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 |