In celebration of thingNY’s 10th anniversary, the theatrically-charged new music collective is collaborating with the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center technical audio team to present a multi-channel sound and visual installation on the theme thingNY: 10 years in the (music) making, featuring a combination of lo-fi and hi-fi speakers in an immersive, interactive environment of sensory under- and overload. In the style of thingNY’s first experimental opera,ADDDDDDDDD, the installation simulates our activity-saturated daily life, with a deliberate range of audio quality as exists in the physical world.
The members of thingNY have compiled hours upon hours of group-specific audio/video over the course of the past 10 years, not limited to performances and studio recordings, but rehearsal audio, downtime, life deliberations, and one-offs. thingNY is using this compiled material in two ways: as a foundation for new electronic compositions and in an interactive installation, where the audio fabric is manipulated by members of the public.