Dancing to the Music of You is a multidisciplinary collaboration between a team of queer NYC-based artists and organizations including InfraSound, ChamberQUEER, and sound designer Alex Gray. Through improvisation, lighting, sound, and spatial design, and musical composition, Dancing explores life and work as a queer artist, how we conceptualize queerness through fashion, posture, and movement, and how we build community around our shared experience of queer embodiment. Curated works from ChamberQUEER and InfraSound will be performed throughout the morning, activating the space. The event will also incorporate the whole complement of artists welcoming the audience into an extended improvisation, culminating in a celebratory synthesis of artistic mediums.

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Dancing to the Music of You is a multidisciplinary collaboration between a team of queer NYC-based artists and organizations including InfraSound, ChamberQUEER, sculptor Jeremy Martin, sound designer Alex Ring Gray, and lighting designer Madeline Whitesell. It will be a synthesis of gallery exhibition, sound-art installation, and musical performance taking place on May 3rd, 2024 at The Lesbian, Gay, Bixsexual, and Transgender Community Center (The Center).

This project explores the concept of the queer body: what it means to live and work as a queer artist, how we conceptualize queerness through fashion, posture, and movement, and how we build community around our shared experience of queer embodiment. The collaborating artists will examine these themes through sculpture, lighting and sound design, and musical composition. 

Sculptor Jeremy Martin will install his JUSTAPOSE series at The Center, creating two new sculptures for this iteration. JUSTAPOSE is a set of ambiguous paper sculptures inspired by exaggerated fashion silhouettes, exploring ways humans pose in public spaces to feel seen, or upset conformity through their appearance and actions. JUSTAPOSE investigates how these liminal, paper objects mirror Martin’s own experience as a queer person of color through their ability to shape-shift or code-switch depending on the societal dictates of the environments they occupy. Martin will photograph participating artists’ poses, inspired by conversations about how they perform appearance and actions in society daily, which will form the basis for the new sculptures.

In collaboration with Martin, composer Alex Ring Gray will devise an interactive sound installation (CODE-SWITCH) to co-exist with the sculptures, featuring live processing manipulation of audience members voices. Lighting design by Madeline Whitesell will leverage her synaesthesia to translate the visual-sonic world of the performances in real time.

World premieres by composers Sam Kaseta and Alex Ring Gray (Sweet William (Child 106) for Luke Paulino and Daniel Schreiner) will be performed alongside curated works from ChamberQUEER and InfraSound, activating the space at 8:00 pm. The evening will conclude with the whole complement of artists in an improvisation upon the sculptures, soundscape, and lights culminating in a celebratory synthesis of artistic mediums.

Beltlines Bones (Cole Bartels, Justin Coyne, Zach Bethel, Adam Nissenbaum) perform an evening of electroacoustic works for Trombone Quartet, in support of their new album Audiogenica (cmntx records).

Program:
3200 Phaethon (Prelude) – Alex Ring Gray (b. 1996)
Geminids – Alex Ring Gray
a brief moment of panic – Cole Bartels (b. 1994)
Pump Music – Eve Beglarian (b. 1958)
Lo-fi Beats to Slide To – Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974)
Heart of Tones – Pauline Oliveros (1932 - 2016)
LOW – Isaac Mayhew (b. 1995)
Tacet 2.17cs – Cole Bartels
Technological Eclipse – Alec Love (b. 1999)
In and out of the game – Eve Beglarian
I witness and wait (Postlude) – Alex Ring Gray

Beltlines Bones (Cole Bartels, Justin Coyne, Zach Bethel, Adam Nissenbaum) perform an evening of electroacoustic works for Trombone Quartet, in support of their new album Audiogenica (cmntx records).

Program:
3200 Phaethon (Prelude) – Alex Ring Gray (b. 1996)
Geminids – Alex Ring Gray
a brief moment of panic – Cole Bartels (b. 1994)
Pump Music – Eve Beglarian (b. 1958)
Lo-fi Beats to Slide To – Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974)
Heart of Tones – Pauline Oliveros (1932 - 2016)
LOW – Isaac Mayhew (b. 1995)
Tacet 2.17cs – Cole Bartels
Technological Eclipse – Alec Love (b. 1999)
In and out of the game – Eve Beglarian
I witness and wait (Postlude) – Alex Ring Gray

Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/qGop859EWUo?si=vI1af-65NIkr_Zgx&t=818

Beltlines Bones (Cole Bartels, Justin Coyne, Zach Bethel, Adam Nissenbaum) perform an evening of electroacoustic works for Trombone Quartet, in support of their new album Audiogenica (cmntx records).

Program:
3200 Phaethon (Prelude) – Alex Ring Gray (b. 1996)
Geminids – Alex Ring Gray
a brief moment of panic – Cole Bartels (b. 1994)
Pump Music – Eve Beglarian (b. 1958)
Lo-fi Beats to Slide To – Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974)
Heart of Tones – Pauline Oliveros (1932 - 2016)
LOW – Isaac Mayhew (b. 1995)
Tacet 2.17cs – Cole Bartels
Technological Eclipse – Alec Love (b. 1999)
In and out of the game – Eve Beglarian
I witness and wait (Postlude) – Alex Ring Gray

The Tibet House Benefit Concert will return to NYC for its 37th annual edition February 26 at Carnegie Hall. Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson will serve as Artistic Directors, and the show will feature performances from Maggie Rogers, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Maya Hakwe, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, Jlin, Scorchio Quartet, and more to be announced. 2024’s honorary chairs are Uma Thurman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Arden Wohl.

Tickets are on sale now, and proceeds support the work of Tibet House US, “a non-profit educational institution and cultural embassy founded in 1987 at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to ensure the survival of the unique Tibetan civilization.”

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Appearing as conductor & arranger of ‘Gyallu’ with Tenzin Choegyal, Scorchio Quartet, and Shahzad Ismaily