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New music ensemble thingNY and theatre performance co-operative the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) present TIME: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts, a devised, multimedia work that zealously attempts to communicate one of humanity's most important yet elusive concepts. Exploiting the diverse and virtuosic skills of thingNY's and PPL's composers, actors, and multidisciplinary artists, the piece examines the histories, cultural role, and science of time through print, video and the performance of experiments and sequences created collaboratively by the two ensembles working as one. This hybrid of experimental music, theatre and written work forms an intricately mechanized "timepiece" telling of time throughout time, in real time, and sometimes just in time.

TIME: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts will premiere at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY on May 4 with eight performances through May 14, 2011.

The work is influenced by the chance-based and aleatoric modes of the music of John Cage and Gerard Grisey, the durational modes of the performance art of Tehching Hsieh and Bas Jan Ader, the public theatre forms of the Berlinner Ensemble, the post-dramatic work of companies like KASSYS, and the philosophies and science of Nietzsche, Artistotle, Heidegger, Husserl, Einstein, and many others. Some sections and experiments occur before, during, and after the live performance at The Brick, extending in time through the “Performance Book” containing the program, the entire 60-page script, references, keys, diagrams, rules for participatory games, the musical score of the work, as well as instructions for durational experiments, photographs, visual pieces, footnotes and a complete bibliography.

Participating artists in this project include:

Alejandro Acierto, Gelsey Bell, Brian McCorkle, Esther Neff, Paul Pinto, Matthew Stephen Smith, and Jeffrey Young

thingNY is a 501c3 not-for-profit collective of composer-performers who create and perform theatrically charged experimental music, champion the work of avant-garde and contemporary classical composers, and collaborate across disciplines, media and genres. New Music Box hailed thingNY's first album, the eccentrically excessive opera ADDDDDDDDD, as "rapid-fire... pulseracing... all consuming.... packaged with a fun, quirky, comic book libretto. A lovely item that takes the album a step beyond the usual CD release, it makes the physical object in the digital age an interesting piece of art in and of itself, worthy of shelf space and providing plenty of additional visual stimulation."
More on thingNY here.

More on the project at PPL's blog post HERE

Performances are:
May 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th at 8pm
May 12th, 13th, and 14th at 8pm

The Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211