Tenth Intervention is equal parts music series and artist collective in New York City. As “ambassadors of modern music” (Interlochen Public Radio), we present a bold and progressive concert series that explores the intersection of performance, experiential art, and its potential to reflect social issues.
Founded in 2012 by violinist Hajnal Pivnick and composer/pianist Dorian Wallace, the group formed with the purpose of creating new work in a highly collaborative environment. Together with composers, musicians, visual artists, choreographers, dancers, and community organizations, Tenth Intervention has produced programs that expand the reach of music to be pioneering, diverse, and community focused.
Our programming has been recognized with foundational support from New Music USA, Lower Manhattan Community Council, the Earle Brown Music Foundation, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, and the Puffin Foundation. We have been presented as featured artists at National Sawdust, NPR's Science Friday, Rubin Museum of Art, Americas Society, Caveat, New Music Gathering, Interlochen Public Radio's In Studio A, Biome Arts/Swale, Bandits-Mages, Centre Pompidou, the Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR, Studio 360, Vox Hebraica and Videology for our Silent House live score to silent film residency.
Founded in 2012 by violinist Hajnal Pivnick and composer/pianist Dorian Wallace, the group formed with the purpose of creating new work in a highly collaborative environment. Together with composers, musicians, visual artists, choreographers, dancers, and community organizations, Tenth Intervention has produced programs that expand the reach of music to be pioneering, diverse, and community focused.
Our programming has been recognized with foundational support from New Music USA, Lower Manhattan Community Council, the Earle Brown Music Foundation, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, and the Puffin Foundation. We have been presented as featured artists at National Sawdust, NPR's Science Friday, Rubin Museum of Art, Americas Society, Caveat, New Music Gathering, Interlochen Public Radio's In Studio A, Biome Arts/Swale, Bandits-Mages, Centre Pompidou, the Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR, Studio 360, Vox Hebraica and Videology for our Silent House live score to silent film residency.
Music therapy is an evidence-based, clinical use of music to improve patients' health - physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, spiritual - and quality of life. A music therapist primarily aids patients to improve their health in several domains, including cognitive, motor, emotional, communication, social, sensory, and educational by using both active and receptive music experiences such as improvisation, re-creation, composition, and receptive methods and discussion of music to achieve treatment goals. There is a wide qualitative and quantitative research literature base for music therapy.
Social Ecology Project derives from the utopian philosophy of human evolution by social theorist and political philosopher Murray Bookchin. By combining the nature of biology and society into a third "thinking nature" beyond biochemistry and physiology, social ecology proposes ethical principles to replace society's propensity for hierarchy and domination with that of democracy and freedom, creating a more complete, conscious, ethical, and rational nature. Humanity is the latest development from the long history of organic development on Earth. With the use of physical, mental, and spiritual conditions, Social Ecology Project seeks to liberate musical expression, without being constrained by tonal limitations, rhythmic predetermination, or harmonic rules. Harmony, movement, melody, speed, rhythm, the placing and spacing of ideas, time and phrases all share the same value.
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
Formed by the merging of the disparate minds of composer-performers David Kulma and Dorian Wallace, Trystero is a duo brought together to perform Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives and other Awesome Music. Trysteropod is a podcast where we talk about music, and apparently politics.
The Free Sound Ahn-somble is an inventive and improvisational septendectet under the direction of composer and bandleader Dorian Wallace. Utilizing a roster of illustrious musicians from the New York City jazz community, The Free Sound Ahn-somble combines elements of classical avant-garde, spontaneous improvisation, and big band ensemble to offer a new take on creative and improvisational music for the 21st century.
Sing in Solidarity is a socialist movement choir in New York City that performs music from the international and domestic left.
Whether marching to “L’Internationale” on May Day, leading a picket line in “Roll the Union On,” or performing music from The Threepenny Opera in concert, members of the Sing in Solidarity chorus use their voices to strengthen the socialist community through song. The chorus has additionally fundraised for social justice organizations in support of the migrant caravans and anti-racist actions. Begun in 2017 by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the chorus draws its repertoire from the rich tradition of international revolutionary song: its mission to disseminate anti-capitalist music, build internationalism, and unite the struggles of working and oppressed peoples through culture and song.
The choir maintains an affiliation with NYC-DSA, though membership in NYC-DSA is not a prerequisite for membership in the choir.
Whether marching to “L’Internationale” on May Day, leading a picket line in “Roll the Union On,” or performing music from The Threepenny Opera in concert, members of the Sing in Solidarity chorus use their voices to strengthen the socialist community through song. The chorus has additionally fundraised for social justice organizations in support of the migrant caravans and anti-racist actions. Begun in 2017 by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the chorus draws its repertoire from the rich tradition of international revolutionary song: its mission to disseminate anti-capitalist music, build internationalism, and unite the struggles of working and oppressed peoples through culture and song.
The choir maintains an affiliation with NYC-DSA, though membership in NYC-DSA is not a prerequisite for membership in the choir.
