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 |