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.
New Music Organizing Caucus
New Music Organizing Caucus (NMOC) is a community of music workers who work in the contemporary, classical music-adjacent creative world of “new music.” We exist to advocate for decent working conditions and fair wages, provide support against discriminatory practices, share skills and knowledge, and fight for diversity, equity and inclusion in our field. We are allied with Music Workers Alliance, New Music Equity Action, Sing In Solidarity, Workers Arts Project, Local 802 AFM, and DANC.
During the summer of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, NMOC came together to begin long-overdue conversations about race, class, access and privledge in the new music world. Our goal is to use our collective power to address these systemic inequalities inherent in our field, and to create a more just, kind, and honest way of making music together. We are just getting started. Join us!
During the summer of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, NMOC came together to begin long-overdue conversations about race, class, access and privledge in the new music world. Our goal is to use our collective power to address these systemic inequalities inherent in our field, and to create a more just, kind, and honest way of making music together. We are just getting started. Join us!
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.
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 an anarchist podcast from a musicians perspective.
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.
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.
Union of Musicians and Allied Workers
The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) has mobilized thousands of music workers to take part in our first actions around the COVID crisis, and we will continue to organize around issues such as demanding fairer deals from streaming services, ensuring musicians receive the royalties they are owed, establishing more just relationships with labels, and creating safer guidelines for venues.
We believe that the only way to transform music is to collectively take resources and power from the few wealthy companies that dictate our industry. We invite all music workers, including musicians, DJs, producers, road crew, and others, to join us. We also aim to use our strength as music workers to join in the broader struggles of our fellow workers across the globe. We stand for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, destroying borders, the freeing of incarcerated people, and more. Music workers are workers, and it is time we get organized and join the fight.
We believe that the only way to transform music is to collectively take resources and power from the few wealthy companies that dictate our industry. We invite all music workers, including musicians, DJs, producers, road crew, and others, to join us. We also aim to use our strength as music workers to join in the broader struggles of our fellow workers across the globe. We stand for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, destroying borders, the freeing of incarcerated people, and more. Music workers are workers, and it is time we get organized and join the fight.
Music Workers Alliance
We are an organization of, by, and for independent musicians and DJs. We came together because we are fed up with unfair treatment and lack of benefits, contracts, as well as representation. We’re launching this alliance to improve our working conditions and amplify our voices in the political and economic decisions that affect our lives. We call on all independent musicians and DJs to organize, speak up and take action.
We’re close allies of the NYC Artist Coalition, the action group that advocates for the safety and preservation of grassroots cultural spaces. MWA’s members work in many genres — Jazz, Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Dance, etc. Our musician/DJ activists are affiliated with Arts for Art, Building Beats, Discwoman, Indie Musicians Caucus and the Jazz Committee of Local 802 AFM, MOMENT NYC, Musicians for Musicians, Sound Mind Collective, Underground Producers Alliance, and many other organizations.
We’re close allies of the NYC Artist Coalition, the action group that advocates for the safety and preservation of grassroots cultural spaces. MWA’s members work in many genres — Jazz, Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Dance, etc. Our musician/DJ activists are affiliated with Arts for Art, Building Beats, Discwoman, Indie Musicians Caucus and the Jazz Committee of Local 802 AFM, MOMENT NYC, Musicians for Musicians, Sound Mind Collective, Underground Producers Alliance, and many other organizations.
Workers Arts Project
The mission of the Workers Arts Project is to organize all unemployed, underemployed, and exploited artists and culture workers living in the New York metro region. Join us.
