Events

Aaron Siegel & Mallory Catlett's Rainbird

April 16-20, 2025

Mabou Mines Theater

122 Community Center

150 1st Ave, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10009

https://www.maboumines.org/

Rainbird is an adaptation of the novel Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by the celebrated New Zealand author Janet Frame that tells the story of a middle-aged family man in New Zealand named Godfrey Rainbird who gets hit by a car and is pronounced dead. After the funeral arrangements have been made and his belongings have been cleared from the house, he wakes up in the morgue. What ensues is the emotional struggle of the Rainbird family, not in accepting Godfrey’s death, but, rather, his resurrection. Now a symbol of death, he is ostracized by his community and his family destroyed. Rainbird mixes improvised arias over minimal loops, original folk songs, and textural spaces to create a sense of disorientation and emotional intensity. Music, text, and video build through this 90-minute work as Godfrey’s world splinters apart and exposes Frame’s chilling vision of one community’s violent response to the unknown.

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Cairns

Starts July 31, 2020

Ongoing

Green-Wood Cemetery - Sunset Park Entrance

Sunset Park Entrance

Fourth Avenue and 35th Street

Brooklyn, NY

https://www.green-wood.com/

A Soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery

Cairns is a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery that leads the listener on a solitary poetic journey. Written and narrated by HARP Artist Gelsey Bell with music by Bell and composer Joseph White, Cairns is being created for the social-distancing New Yorker to meditate on the land we inhabit, sink into an arboreal temporality, and unearth the stories of a few historic trailblazers.

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Meander

Starts January 29, 2021

Ongoing

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

990 Washington Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/gelsey_bell_and_joseph_white_meander

A Soundwalk for Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Meander is a site-specific sound walk created for Brooklyn Botanic Garden that guides listeners on a 20-minute meditative stroll into the natural landscape. Created by composers Gelsey Bell and Joseph White, the piece encourages listeners to watch, listen, and reset their clocks to pastoral temporality, inviting them to sink into the complex patterns and fine details of the natural environment.

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Past Events

2024

12.14.24 • Wet Ink Ensemble Mini-Festival • New York, NY
11.22.24 • Darius Jones: Samesoul Maker and fLuXkit Vancouver • New York, NY
11.16.24 • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] • Sarasota, FL
11.5.24 • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] • New Haven, CT
10.24.24 • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] • College Station, TX
10.17.24 • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] • Miami, FL
9.12.24 • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (Shortened Catacombs version) • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
8.20.24 • Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger's Skylighght at House Blend • Chatham, New York
8.15.24 • thingNY Natural Studies • Brooklyn, NY
7.24.24 • Darius Jones's Samesoul Maker • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
6.15.24 • Robert Ashley's "The Bar" from Perfect Lives • Dundalk, Ireland
6.15.24 • Robert Ashley's Crash • Dundalk, Ireland
5.15.24 • Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger's Skylighght Album Release • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
5.10.24 • Foreign Experiences • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
4.5.24 • The Lydian Gale Parr • Brooklyn, NY
3.1.24 • Pirate Utopias - Gelsey Bell, Chris Cochrane, Miguel Frasconi • Brooklyn, NY
2.25.24 • Jay Afrisando's [opera captions] • Santa Cruz, CA

2023

12.8.23 • Wet Ink 25th Anniversary Festival - Day One • New York, NY
11.30.23 • Crit Night - Gelsey Bell's Planetary Anamnesis • Brooklyn, NY
11.19.23 • Musicians for Gaza • New York, NY
11.16.23 • Noh-opera / Noh-tation • New York, NY
10.13.23 • Darius Jones' Samesoul Maker • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
9.19.23 • NYC Tapestry: Home as Refuge • New York, NY
9.9.23 • Touching Leaves Woman • New York, NY
8.16.23 • Chutneys in Time Square • New York, NY
5.26.23 • [opera captions] • HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
3.31.23 • Perfect Lives Knoxville at Big Ears
3.19.23 • Joe White's You Against Nature • Brooklyn, NY
3.12.23 • Varispeed and Peggy Weil: The Blurring Test • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2.12.23 • Super Bolus VI • Brooklyn, NY
1.7.23 • MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING] • HERE Arts Center, New York, NY

2022

9.26.22 • The 18th Annual NYC In C • New York, NY
9.4.22 • thingNY // Nick Brooke • Brooklyn, NY
8.28.22 • John King's OPERANT • New York, NY
7.16.22 • Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 18: FREEDOM • New York, NY
5.6.22 • Gelsey Bell at Joe's Pub • New York, NY
4.28.22 • Concert in the Catacombs: Gelsey Bell • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
4.27.22 • Cleek Schrey and Yasunao Tone: Anagram • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
4.14.22 • THE AOP Mixtape • New York, NY
3.30.22 • Erik Ruin's Ominous Cloud with Special Guests Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers • Philadelphia, PA

2021

12.9.21 • shuffleyamamba: Yamamba as a Bear • Yokohama Nigiwaiza Theater, Yokohama, Japan
10.7.21 • Aaron Siegel and Mallory Catlett’s Rainbird • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
8.9.21 • MGM's God Knows Where • Sebastopol, CA
8.8.21 • MGM's God Knows Where • SAFEHouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
8.7.21 • MGM's God Knows Where • La Selva Beach, CA
8.6.21 • MGM's God Knows Where • Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA
8.4.21 • MGM’s God Knows Where • Venice Beach , CA
7.30.21 • Cairns • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
7.8.21 • Gelsey Bell’s mɔːnɪŋ (RAW - solo developmental workshop) • HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
5.16.21 • Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger’s Skylighght at Breadths of Listening at Twilight • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
5.4.21 • Gelsey Bell//Justin Hicks: VER • Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
3.31.21 • Sonic Gathering XLIV • Live on Zoom
3.18.21 • Gelsey Bell on Musical Ecologies • Broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM
1.28.21 • Meander • Brooklyn, Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY

2020

12.09.20: Sonic Gathering XXXII, live on Zoom
11.02.20: Darius Jone’s We Can Change This Country, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
10.17.20: Gelsey Bell’s “Murmuration” for String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
10.10.20: Gelsey Bell’s “Murmuration” for String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
10.9.20: Chris Cochrane’s How Will We Recognize Each Other, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
9.16.20: Sonic Gathering XXII, live on Zoom
8.26.20: Sonic Gathering XIX, live on Zoom
8.23.20: The Chutneys, Malonny, Marijampolė, Lithuania
7.10 & 11.20: thingNY’s A Series of Landscapes, live on Zoom, hosted by Here Arts Center
6.11.20: Experimental Zoom #12, with Miguel Frasconi and Matthew Ostrowski, live on Zoom
5.22.20: Gelsey Bell and Joan La Barbara, New School CoPA Remote Happy Hour, live on Facebook Live
5.13.20: Sonic Gathering VIII, live on Zoom
5.6.20: Sonic Gathering VII, live on Zoom
4.24-26.20: thingNY’s SubtracTTTTTTTTT, live on YouTube Live and Facebook Live
4.1.20: Sonic Gathering III, live on Zoom
3.5.20: MoMA Listening Session #3: Collective Listening Lying Down, MoMA, New York, NY
2.25.20: Work-in-Progress Showing of Gelsey Bell’s mɔːnɪŋ, RAW, Here Arts Center, New York, NY
2.20-23.20: Richard Alston’s Shine On, Richard Alston Dance Company, Peak Performances, Montclair, NJ
2.13.20: VOICES: Odeya Nini/The Chutneys, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2.6.20: MoMA Listening Session #2: Collective Listening in the Concert Hall, MoMA, New York, NY
2.5.20: Terry Riley’s In C, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
1.19.20: Varispeed’s The Blurring Test, the Brick, Brooklyn, NY
1.11.20: Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger’s “Building Canyons” from Skylighght, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
1.9.20: MoMA Listening Session #1: Collective Listening Around the Table, MoMA, New York, NY

2019

12.18.19: thingNY, Hello, My Name is thingNY, Areté, Brooklyn, NY
12.12.19: Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11.24.19: Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers, Selections from Skylighght, Pineapple Reality, Brooklyn, NY
11.16.19: Chutneys Album Release, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, NY
11.15.19: Mallory Cartlett and Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird Work-in-Progress Showing, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
11.2-3.19: Gelsey Bell and Yasuko Yokoshi’s shuffleyamamba, Bird Theater, Tottori, Japan
10.20.19: Gelsey Bell and Yasuko Yokoshi’s shuffleyamamba, UrBANGUILD, Kyoto, Japan
10.5-6.19: Gelsey Bell and Yasuko Yokoshi’s shuffleyamamba, Izushi Eirakukan, Toyooka City, Japan
8.30.19: Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger’s Skylighght, Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
8.25.19: Anaïs Maviel’s “Be” and Megan Schubert’s “Late Duck,” the Tank, New York, NY
7.31.19: Andrew Livingston’s News from the Oort Cloud, the Mothership, Philadelphia, PA
7.29.19: Andrew Livingston’s News from the Oort Cloud, Sunnyvale, Brooklyn, NY
7.27.19: Meeting Point Benefit for Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY
7.20.19: Solo set, Buttonwood Tree, Middletown, CT
6.24.19: Benefit for JACK, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
5.5.19: Dave Ruder’s You Must Read A Lot of Jung, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
5.4.19: Dave Ruder’s You Must Read A Lot of Jung and Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger’s Skylighght, Artefix, Woodside (Queens), NY
5.3.19: Dave Ruder’s You Must Read A Lot of Jung and Gelsey Bell and Erin Roger’s excerpt from Skylighght, Hamden, CT
4.26-27.19: Bell and Varispeed, Unwellness Center, New York, NY
4.16.19: Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY
3.03.19: Gelsey Bell/Anaïs Maviel/Megan Schubert QUARTET, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2.20.19: Terry Riley’s In C, Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
2.12.19: EiO’s Off the Ground: Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird, the Flea, New York, NY
2.7-16.19: Robert Ashley’s Improvement, Kitchen, New York, NY
1.20.19: Varispeed/the Witches, Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY
1.6.19: Excerpts from Wealth from the Salt Seas with Anna Sperber, In the Works, La MaMa Great Jones, New York, NY

2018

12.17.18: Andrew Livingston’s News from the Oort Cloud, C’Mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY
12.7&8.18: An Evening with Dave Malloy and Ghost Quartet, Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
11.5.18: Darius Jones’ For the People at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11.2 & 3.18: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet in Beacon, NY
10.28.18: Ethan Philbrick’s Choral Marx: Manifesto for the Communist Party in Eight Movements at the NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY
10.16.18: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Anais Marviel, and Megan Schubert at Areté Venue & Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
9.23.18: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
9.22.18: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song at Trumbleplex, Detroit, MI
9.21.18: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song at Play House, Detroit, MI
9.20.18: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song at CCNDC Community Center, Detroit, MI
9.19.18: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song at the Lightbox, Dertroit, MI
9.13.18: Gelsey Bell at Resonant Bodies Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
8.15.18: Molly Rice’s Angelmakers, 54 Below, New York, NY
7.20.18: Gelsey Bell’s arrangement of “Love is a Good Example” by Robert Ashley for Sonic Arts Union, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
7.4.18: Gelsey Bell solo songs and group improvisation with thingNY, Patriots Album Release, Wonders of Nature, Brooklyn, NY
5.30.18: thingNY and Varispeed: Musical Voices Around a Table, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
5.27.18: Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, Midway Studios, Boston, MA
5.25.18: Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, Rhizome, Washington, DC
5.24.18: Rick Burkhardt’s Passover, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Philadelphia, PA
5.18.18: John King’s Micro-Operas, the Stone at the New School, New York, NY
3.21-31.18: Wealth from the Salt Seas with Anna Sperber, the Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY
3.4.18: Varispeed’s arrangement of “The Bank” from Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
3.3.18: Robert Ashley’s Crash, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2.24.18: Songs from Rolodex, Home Audio, Brooklyn, NY
2.18.18: Songs from Rolodex at Women Between Arts, the New School, New York, NY
1.19-28.18: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Seattle, WA

2017

11.30.17: Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11.24.17: The Chutneys, The Stone, New York, NY
10.5-11.5.17: Ghost Quartet, New York Theater workshop NextDoor, New York, NY
4.10.17: Fast Forward: Octopoda + Music for Solos and Ensembles, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
4.3.17: Rick, Dave, and Alec’s Annual Schubertaid, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
02.27.16: Cast Members of The Great Comet, 54 Below, New York, NY
01.01.17-09.03.17: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Imperial Theater, New York, NY

2016

10.18.16-12.31.16: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Imperial Theater, New York, NY
9.20.16: thingNY album release of minis/Trajectories, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
8.5-28.16: Ghost Quartet, Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland
7.29.16: Ghost Quartet in the Park, Maria Hernandez Park, Brooklyn, NY
7.28.16: Ghost Quartet in Concert, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY
7.18.16: thingNY, Selections from Gelsey Bell’s Rolodex and works by Rick Burkhardt, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
7.8.16: The Chutneys, iBeam, Brooklyn, NY
6.6.16: Yasuko Yokoshi’s BELL Solo Unplugged, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
4.24.16: Collaborative Duets, Gelsey and Biba Bell’s BUOY and Gelsey Bell’s Airs and Interruptions with John King’s EVENTangoes, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
4.7-9.16: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, Life in Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX
3.20.16: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song, La Casa, Washington, DC
3.19.16: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song, Baltimore, MD
3.18.16: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song, Bowerbird, Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA
3.5.16: Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
2.27.16: John King’s Micro-Operas, Avant Media Festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
2.4.16: David T. Little & Friends, New York Festival of Song, National Opera Center, New York, NY

2015

12.6.15-1.3.16: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, A.R.T., Cambridge, MA
11.13.15: Julius Eastman’s “Stay On It,” Advent Library Concert Series, Advent Church, Boston, MA
10.23-31.15: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, the Curran, San Francisco, CA
10.14.15: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
10.11.15: Gelsey Bell’s Bathroom Songs, PS1, Greater New York exhibit, Long Island City, NY
09.30.15: Bell/Frasconi/Schrey Trio, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
09.24-27: thingNY’s This Takes Place Close By, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY
09.19.15: Varispeed’s Perfect Lives Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ
09.09-12.15: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, Oberon, A.R.T., Cambridge, MA
08.10.15: Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin’s Prisoner’s Song, Work-in-Progress Showing, Everett, Providence, RI
08.02.15: Gelsey Bell, House Concert, Los Angeles, CA
07.29-30.15: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, CalArts, Valencia, CA
07.24-25.15: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY
07.05.15: Gelsey Bell’s “Unhuman Steps,” CATCH Takes The Hudson, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
07.04.15: The Chutneys, The Stone, New York, NY
06.04-14.15: Anthony Gatto’s Wise Blood, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
05.07.15: Gelsey Bell’s Airs and Interruptions and John King’s EVENTsongs and Fast Forward, the Stone, New York, NY
04.15-18.15: Robert Ashley’s Crash, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
04.12.15: Gelsey Bell’s WIFE, as part of Vocal Trio, Avant Media Music Festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
04.02.15: Gelsey Bell’s Rolodex, Story Binge, Experiments in Opera, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
03.18.15: A Solo Voice Works by Odeya Nini and Gelsey Bell, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
03.15.15: thingNY at the 6th Annual New Music Bake Sale, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
03.10-15.15: Event: Choreography by Merce Cunningham with Compagnie CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston, music by Gelsey Bell (Airs and Interruptions) and John King, the Joyce, New York, NY
02.20.15: Helado Negro & thingNY, Advent Library Concert Series, Advent Church, Boston, MA
02.18.15: Helado Negro & thingNY, Ecstatic Music Festival, Merkin Hall, New York, NY
01.05-05.18.15: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, the McKittrick Hotel (Home of Sleep No More), New York, NY

2014

12.20.14: Gelsey Bell with the thingamajigs and Dyemark, Bolinas, CA
12.18.14: Gelsey Bell with the thingamajigs and Ann Dyer, Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley, CA
12.11.14: Fast Forward’s TEN, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
11.11.14: thingNY at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
11.9.14: thingNY at <fidget> Experimental Music Festival, Philadelphia, PA
10.8-11.8.14: Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
10.26.14: Ne(x)tworks New Works by Paul Pinto, Gelsey Bell, and Miguel Frasconi, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
9.5-13.14: Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, Dixon Place, New York, NY
9.2.14: Gelsey Bell, Resonant Bodies Festival, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
8.9.14: Rooftop films at Storm King, New Windsor, NY
7.26.14: PPL’s Institute_Institut for Gold Bolus Records, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
7.25.14: Merce Cunningham’s Windows (1995) with Emanuel Pimenta’s Microcosmos, City Center, New York, NY
7.24.14: Summer Street Dinner Theatre, Providence, RI
7.13.14:thingNY, This Takes Place Close By (concert version), Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
5.31.14: thingNY at Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
5.30.14: Abigail Levine/Gelsey Bell, this departing landscape, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
5.22.14: Varispeed, Perfect Lives Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
5.15.14: SCALING, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
5.8.14: Varispeed, Sound Bites: Celebrating 35 Years of Roulette, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
5.2.14: Chutneys, Spectrum, New York, NY
4.26.14: thingNY’s This Takes Place Close By, New Music Edmonton, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Edmonton, Canada
4.24.14: thingNY, Bug Incision, Emmedia Screening Room, Calgary, Canada
4.10-13.14: Robert Ashley’s CRASH, Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
3.23.14: Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody, Gelsey Bell’s Bathroom Songs, and Robert Ashley’s Love is a Good Example, VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
3.20.14: Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick, Part III: The Ballad of Pip, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY
3.20.14: Dave Ruder with thingNY and Jonathan Zorn, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
3.10.14: Afternoon concert with Tilt Brass & New Threads Quartet, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
2.26-3.1.14: Kimberly Bartosik’s You are my heat & glare, New York Live Arts, New York, NY
2.22.14: John Cage’s Variations IV, Avant Media Festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
2.8.14: thingNY, Uncertainty Music Series, Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT
1.11&12.14: Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, Dixon Place, New York, NY
1.11.14: Live Artery: You are my heat & glare, New York Live Arts, New York, NY

2013

12.12.13: thingNY, Trajectories: Words and Music, Aurora Gallery, Astoria, NY
11.23.13: Gelsey Bell, “Cradle,” CATCH #58, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
11.21.13: Cleek Schrey’s Video Piece #1, Pioneer Works Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
11.15-16.13: thingNY, this takes place close by, Incubator Arts, New York, NY
11.10.13: thingNY, this takes place close by, Fidget, Philadelphia, PA
11.1.13: Gelsey Bell, Bathroom Songs, Performa Opening Night Party, Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York, NY
10.19.13: Please Mind the Door with Dave Malloy and Brent Arnold, the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
10.18.13: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Kazino, New York, NY
10.17.13: thingNY, Music by Erin Rogers, Firehouse Space, NY
9.19.13: thingNY, Music for Pianos, Pianists, and Anti-Pianists, Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, NY
9.7.13: Gelsey Bell, excerpts from Our Defensive Measurements, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
8.17.13: Varispeed, Perfect Lives Catskills, by Robert Ashley, Mount Tremper Arts, Catskills, NY
8.10.13: Varispeed, Adult Party Games from the Leisure Planet, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY
6.30-7.3.13: You, My Mother, with Two-Headed Calf & Yarn/Wire, River to River Festival, New York, NY
6.22.13: Gelsey Bell, Three Sirens at Home Audio, Brooklyn, NY
6.21.13: Paul Pinto’s Anyone’s Story, Make Music New York, Church of St John the Divine, New York, NY
6.16.13: Cleek Schrey and Gelsey Bell, Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts, Woodstock, NY
6.15.13: Locker Room Duet with Cleek Schrey, LUMEN Festival, Lyons Pool, Staten Island
6.13.13: thingNY, UNPLAY Festival, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
6.01.13: Gelsey Bell, Chantier(s) #8, Enspace En Cours, Paris, France
5.30-31.13: Kimberly Bartosik’s You are my heat and glare, Rencontres Choreographiques Festival, La Dynamo, Pantin, France
5.18.13: “Sibling” from work-in-progress Rolodex Opera, Sweat Lodge, Exapno, Brooklyn, NY
5.1-26.13: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812, Kazino, New York, NY
4.18.13: Imaginary People, Firehouse, Brooklyn, NY
4.2.13: Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Princeton Sound Kitchen, Princeton, NJ
3.17-23.13: Yasuko Yokoshi’s BELL, New York Live Arts, New York, NY
2.27.13: Personality Swap #3, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2.22.13: Our Defensive Measurements, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2.21.13: thingNY, Eavesdropping, the Tank, New York, NY
2.18.13: thingNY, SHOWDOWN @ JACK, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
2.16.13: John Cage: Percussion, Voice, and String, Avant Music festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
2.16.13: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776, Avant Music festival, Wild Project, New York, NY
1.16.13: Dave Malloy’s Songs from Comet, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY

2012

12.15.12: thingNY’s SPAM v.3.0, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
10.01.12-11.17.12: Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Ars Nova, New York, NY
10.21.12: John King’s Impropera, the Cell, New York, NY
10. 07.12: Bathroom Songs, The Loft, Brooklyn, NY
09.19.12: BEAT Sideshow, Coney Island Sideshow Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
09.18.12: You are my heat and glare, with Kimberly Barsotik, BEAT festival, Irondale Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
09.17.12: You are my heat and glare, with Kimberly Barsotik, BEAT festival, Flatbush Reformed Church, Brooklyn, NY
09.14.12: You are my heat and glare, with Kimberly Barsotik, BEAT festival, The Waterfront Museum, Red Hook, NY
09.13.12: You are my heat and glare, with Kimberly Barsotik, BEAT festival, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY
09.05.12: John Cage Variety Show Big Band, the Stone, New York, NY
09.01.12: Gelsey Bell, the Stone, New York, NY
08.03-04.12: Varispeed’s Empty Words by John Cage, Roulette and Exapno, Brooklyn, NY
06.29.12: Music & Música at BEA – Don Hagar & Jay Vilnai, Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY
06.24.12: Roulette Musicircus II, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
06.23.12: You Are My Heat and Glare, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY
06.02.12: Our Defensive Measurements, Facade/Fasad, Brooklyn, NY
05.31.12: thingNY & PPL’s TIME, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
05.24.12: No Collective & PPL’s The Music of Ellen C. Covito, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
05.20.12: Tom Swafford’s Becoming Human, PS217, Brooklyn, NY
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
12.06.05: 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