2012

04.06&08.12: Vinko Globokar’s Un Jour Comme Un Autre, thingNY, Chasama, LIC, NY
03.25.12: Composer’s Voice Concert Series, Jan Hus Church, New York, NY
03.11.12: Gelsey Bell’s SongFix at CultureFix, New York, NY
02.23.12: Gelsey Bell at Super Coda, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
02.14.12: The Chutneys at the Experimental <3 Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
02.11.12: “Concert for Piano and Orchestra” in Cage Unlocked, Avant Music Festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
02.11.12: ROULETTE KIDS: Your Voice, My Violin with Tom Swafford, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
02.05.12: DanceRoulette with Julie Alexander, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
02.02-04.12: Georges Aperghis’s Sextour: l’origine des especes, Joria Productions, New York, NY
01.23.12: “First Aid Kit” in Box, Box, Box: two composers and two performance artists transcend medium, traditional performer-audience relationships, and expectations for the use of familiar cubic objects, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
01.19.12: thingNY at the Launch of the Compedium, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
01.16.12: Excerpt of Georges Aperghis’s Sextour: l’origine des especes in Experiments in Opera, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
01.13.12: “This is the Real Me” and improvisation with Jeff Young, Paul Pinto, and Broadcloth, 756 Chapel St., New Haven, CT
01.12.12: SCALING and Beasts of Improvisation on Parade, Nave Gallery, Somersville, MA

2011

12.22-23.11: Dance and Process with Julie Alexander, the Kitchen, New York, NY
12. 4.11: Varispeed at Performers Forum, Exapno, Brooklyn, NY
11.30.11: Stefanos Tsigrimanis Memorial Fund and Concert, Performance Studies, NYU, New York, NY
11.19-11.21.11: Robert Ashley’s That Morning Thing, the Kitchen, New York, NY
11.06.11: Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives arranged by Varispeed, New York, NY
11.05.11: SCALING at the Vital Vox Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
10.21.11: The Chutneys with Fast Forward and Chris Cochrane, The Stone, New York, NY
10.01.11: Experimental Voice in 3 Acts, iBeam, Brooklyn, NY
09.11.11: Jay Vilnai’s Shakespeare Songs with Mivos String Quartet, Barbes, Brooklyn, NY
07.16.11: John Cage’s Song Books, Merce Fair, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
06.26.11: thingnY’s IN HOUSE, private home, Brooklyn, NY
06.25.11: thingNY’s IN HOUSE, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
06.23.11: thingNY’s IN HOUSE, University of the Streets, New York, NY
06.21.11: John Cage’s Litany for the Whale with Megan Schubert, Make Music New York, Central Park, New York, NY
06.18.11: thingNY’s IN HOUSE, Queen’s Historical Society, Historic Kingsland Homestead, Flushing, NY
06.04.11: Coco Karol’s pericardium (re) beat with Coco, Andrew Livingston, and Luke Gutgsell, Bushwick Open Studios, The Morgan, Brooklyn, NY
05.08.11: Tom Swafford’s “This Is The Real Me,” The Stone, New York, NY
05.04.11-05.14.11: thingNY and PPL’s TIME: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts, The Brick, Brooklyn, NY
04.15.11: thingNY and PPL’s TIME: Part One, Dixon Place, New York, NY
03.06.11: Bathroom Songs, SITE festival, Northeast Kingdom, Brooklyn, NY
03.05.11: Bathroom Songs, Performancy Forum, SITE festival, Surreal Estate, Brooklyn, NY
02.25.11: thingNY’s SPAM: v.2.o, La Guardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
02.18.11: Georges Aperghis’s Sextuor: L’origine des Espèces (New York premiere), Wild Project, New York, NY

2010

12.22.10: Gelsey Bell, Coffee Catz, Sebastopol, CA
12.19.10: thingNY, Profiles, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY
12.04.10: Philip Glass, Knee Plays from Einstein on the Beach, Darmstadt Essential Repertoire, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
11.30.10: thingNY, A celebration of the artistic life of Stefanos Tsigrimanis, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
11.22.10: Gelsey Bell, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
11.09.10: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
11.08.10: Gelsey Bell, Googie’s, New York, NY
10.06.10: John Cage’s Song Books, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
10.03.10: Detour’s Election Music, with Tom Swafford, the Tank, New York, NY
09.16.10-10.10.10: Murder in the Cathedral, dir. Alec Duffy, Church of St. Joseph, Brooklyn, NY
09.12.10: Gelsey Bell, CD Release Party for In Place of Arms, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
08.10.10: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
07.05.10: Gelsey Bell, Comformer Perposer One-Year Anniversary, New York, NY
07.02.10: Stationary, Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NY
06.12.10: Bathroom Songs, University of Toronto for PSi#16, Toronto, ON
06.07.10: Gelsey Bell, Comformer Perposer, University of the Streets, New York, NY
05.22.10: Earth Celebrations: Hudson River Pageant. Original music with Paul Pinto. Charles St. Pier, New York, NY
04.18.10: ThingNY, SPAM v1.2, The Tank, New York, NY
03.20.10: ThingNY, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
03.19.10: This Is the Real Me with Tom Swafford, Roulette, New York, NY
02.28.10: Quarterly Arts Soirée, Webster Hall, New York, NY
02.05.10: ThingNY, French-American School, New York, NY
01.14.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, The Slipper Room, New York, NY
01.14.10: ThingNY, University of the Streets, New York, NY
01.12.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, Arlene’s Grocery, New York, NY
01.10.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, Piano’s, New York, NY
01.09.10: Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, The Living Room, New York, NY

2009

12.09.09: ThingNY, SPAM, University of the Streets, New York, NY
11.19.09: Avant-Garde-Arama with enemyResearch, PS 122, New York, NY
11.15.09: This is the Real Me with Tom Swafford, Douglass Street Music Collective,Brooklyn,NY
11.07.09: ThingNY, part of The Internationalists – Around the World in 24 Hours, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
05.31.09: ThingNY, Yippie Museum Cafe, New York, NY
04.02.09: ThingNY, Nuyorican Poets Café, New York, NY
02.14.09: ThingNY, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
02.04.09: ThingNY, The Stone, New York, NY
01.06.09: Gelsey Bell, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY

2008

10.16.08: ThingNY, thingNY does Berio, Secret Project Robot, New York, NY
06.21.08: ThingNY, Make Music New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
06.09.08: Gelsey Bell, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
04.22.08: RINDR with Urisov, Dixon Place, New York, NY
04.17.08: Gelsey Bell, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
04.05.08: ThingNY, The Tank, New York, NY
02.17.08: ThingNY, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
02.14.08: ThingNY, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
01.15.08: Gelsey Bell, Turf Club, St. Paul, MN

2007

04.23.07: Prism with Urisov, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
04.06.07: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.25.07: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.17.07: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY

2006

11.16-18.06: Performance (career ender) with Claude Wampler, The Kitchen, New York, NY
10.21.06: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Café, Bethlehem, PA
10.19.06: Telephone Songs, AUNTS, The Events Center, Brooklyn, NY
04.28.06: Gelsey Bell, ArtsLehigh, Bethlehem, PA
02.17.06: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
02.11.06: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
01.13.06: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY

2005

12.08.05: Gelsey Bell, Sidewalk Cafe, New York, NY
12.?.05: Plastic Bag, Dixon Place, New York, NY
11.30.05: Plastic Bag, AUNTS, some loft, Brooklyn, NY
10.29.05: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
10.19.05: TCITCW duet with Urisov, AUNTS, The Events Center, Brooklyn, NY
10.09.05: Gelsey Bell, Caffe Vivaldi, New York, NY
09.09.05: Gelsey Bell, Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
04.22.05: Song Cycle in Time/Space, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
03.16.05: Gelsey Bell, Benefit for Habitat for Humanity, Lamberton, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
02.05.05: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Café, Bethlehem, PA
01.05.05: Peacocks with Urisov, Abode Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

2004

12.30.04: Gelsey Bell, Koffee Katz, Sebastopol, CA
12.24.04: Gelsey Bell on “Curtain Call,” KRCB Radio, Rohnert Park, CA
11.20.04: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
11.19.04: Gelsey Bell, Raubsville Inn, Easton, PA
11.13.04: Gelsey Bell, Benefit for Good Scholar Election, Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA
11.06.04: Gelsey Bell, Raubsville Inn, Easton, PA
10.02.04: Gelsey Bell, Indian Rock Inn, Bucks County, PA
09.25.04: Gelsey Bell, The Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA
08.13.04: Kinderglow with Urisov, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA

COMING UP

By admin | Published: March 15, 2010

Sun. May 20, 2012, 3pm
Tom Swafford‘s Becoming Human Concert
PS217 Auditorium
1110 Newkirk Ave., Brooklyn
$15 Suggested Donation
New stuff from composer Tom Swafford, also includes performances by Cadillac Moon.

Thurs. May 24, 2012, 7:30pm
The Music of Ellen C. Covito
Presented by the No Collective and Panoply Performance Laboratory
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn
$7
This is the first concert of the Argentinian composer/improviser Ellen C. Covito outside Buenos Aires. One of the most radical composers of her generation, Covito’s work focuses on modulating the problematic dichotomy between composition and improvisation in highly inventive, lucid and humorous ways.

Thurs. May 31, 2012
thingNY’s Seven Immediacies Series v. 4
featuring thingNY and PPL’s Private Time and Endurance Exercises
from TIME: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts
as well as Jason Anastasoff and Odeya Nini
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn

Sat. June 2, 2012, 6pm
Vocal Movement
Facade/Fasad
Red Hook
I’ll show a new song cycle. Odeya Nini and Melinda Myers will also be showing work.

Sat. Sept. 1, 2012, 8pm
Gelsey Bell
The Stone
Corner of Ave C and 2nd St.
New York, NY
$10

Wed. Sept. 5, 2012, 8pm
The John Cage Variety Show Big Band in the Cage100@Stone Festival
The Stone
Corner of Ave C and 2nd St.
New York, NY
Directed by Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi (flute, electronics). Daniel Goode (clarinet), Gelsey Bell (voice), Kathleen Supove (piano), Chris McIntyre (trombone) & TILT Brass, Cristian Amigo, Richard Carrick (guitars) David Watson (bagpipes), John Zorn (sax) and many others.
Celebrating the composer on the day of his birth, 100 years ago. Pieces will include Sonata for Clarinet (1932), In a Landscape (1948), Fontana Mix (1958), Aria (1958), Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960), Variations II (1961), Solos from Song Books (1970), Child of Tree (1975), c Composed Improvisations (1990), and an ensemble performance of 4’33″ (1952).

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