Ten Transcendental Etudes is premiering at Mass MoCA and at HERE in NYC! It’s our biggest production yet, an evening-length piece with a fabulous cast. You can read more & get tickets at our SHOWPAGE, which says: “ In an arena, six performers belt, twirl, seesaw, and croon through a mashed lexicon of love songs. Over ten etudes, they learn to speak in tongues, in a meditation on language and learning to fall.”

While the performers are warming up for this decathlon, I’m sweating it too-- to fund it. While the beautiful folks at MoCA and HERE help a bunch, productions of this size are always funded on a song. And we try to pay the fabulous cast and creative team equitably. So, I’m like the peeps above on a seesaw, out on a ledge.

We’re trying to raise $10K, or “Ten transcendental Gs”. That’s $1K for each etude. It’s a modest amount, less than a quarter of the total budget. Give what you can—and on Givebutter you can donate anonymously if you wish.

Until March 1 (the premiere at Mass MoCA), we have a matching donation of $10K to spur givers on!

There will be some bennies too, in giving! We’re not kickstarter, but there are gifty bags below. And be sure to keep tune for The Friends Without Benefits party in SoHo in early February. It’s not a benefit (those never seem to raise money). It’s just a party, because I just turned an age that’s a famous speed limit in most states but Montana.

$500 Personal earworm exorcism—Nick composes for you!

Tell me what tune is stuck in your head. I’ll make a 10-30 second mash-up of it. Then I might get you to perform it. I swear, it’ll mess with your earworm for years! 100 of these exorcisms formed my piece Decameron

$75 My 2 CDs to date, mailed to you with a bow. Plus, a copy of Regina when it comes out on LP. CDs are the new vinyl, Gen-Zers tell me. They’re retro chic--Be a trendsetter!

$50—An ample pour of Bennington-distilled Bonfire, served in a plastic cup @ HERE or MoCA. Whiskey helps my medicine show go down!

$25—Love. Grammatically, it’s an uncountable noun, so I’ll just waft some of it your way.

Ten Transcendental Gs

By Nick Brooke/The Cabinet

Ten Transcendental Gs

Nick Brooke & The Cabinet present "Ten Transcendental Etudes"