The New Yorker’s Alex Ross called new music uber-group thingNY part of the city's burgeoning avant-garde classical music scene "striking an attitude of resistance to mainstream culture". This collective of composer/performers revels in performing unrelenting experimental contemporary music, oscillating between the "sweeter sounds" and the "punishingly loud".
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The latest session of the podcast features experimental dadaist improvising chamber supergroup ThingNY in various groupings. They take the ideas laid forth by post-jazz groups like the AACM and composers like George Crumb, and use it to create forward thinking music with unique humor and power. Check it out, just follow the link and hit subscribe to get a new episode every week:
findlay_hunter_rennie emerge from Manchester's unsung experimental underground, with a debut album brimming full of razor sharp ideas, glistening soundscapes, soaring melodies and decomposed structures. All improvised, all live, always unpredictable. Cello meets guitar meets trombone meets laptop meets a lot of effects pedals.
Download includes 6-track album, pdf liner notes and exclusive cover artwork by Becca Smith.
Ensemble Thing is a band of escaped music-college students and teachers, who play a mixture of composed and improvised music. For this gig they'll be playing Terry Riley's seminal In C (credited by many as the first minimalist piece, its hypnotic repetitions an inspiration to Glass, Reich et al.), along with some passages from their own collaboratively-written Dante's Inferno, and some surprises. Their own composing styles give nods to European post-minimalism (Thing's de facto leader John De Simone was a pupil of the great Louis Andriessen), metal, 60s soundtrack music, plainchant, Eastern European folk, and free jazz, while not sounding too much like any of these.
a choped and sewed version of an improved battle amonst the arithmetically irrational animal nudity (guit,17), yours trully (banging) and thingNY mastermind paul pinto (screams,pianos,reeds) just uploaded. enjoy it or else
