Skylighght is the duo project of vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers, both active figures of the New York City experimental music community who have worked together for 15+ years as part of the new music collective, thingNY. Composed collaboratively in 2019, Skylighght cultivates a minimalist music constructed upon the organic acoustic vibrations of interlaced resonances and a mutual performer sensitivity. An exploration of resonant properties, Skylighght has been performed over a dozen times in spaces of varying characteristics, from grain silos to living rooms, from concert halls to outdoor tunnels.

Gelsey Bell (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), commissioned by the HERE Arts Center and presented in the Prototype Festival; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn; the musical one-act “Archaeopteris” (2025), commissioned by Wet Ink; and thingNY’s collaboratively written opera Mouthful (2024). She is the Co-Artistic Director of thingNY and Varispeed. She has released multiple albums, including the recent mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Japan Foundation, NYSCA, and others. Performance highlights also include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Celestial Excursions and Improvement, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, Alaina Ferris’s The Lydian Gale Parr, Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird, and other works by Jay Afrisando, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Brent Michael Davids, and others. www.gelseybell.com

Based in New York City, Erin Rogers is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser dedicated to new and experimental music. Her music has been described as “radical and refreshing” (Vital Weekly), “crucial and fast-acting” (NY Times), and “a richly expressive display of stentorian brilliance” (The Wire). Her work ranges from chamber music to solo improvisation to individual and collaborative compositions that incorporate live electronics and theatre. Rogers’ music has been performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Roulette, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Celebrity Series (Boston), MATA Festival, Ecstatic Festival at Merkin Hall, Prototype Festival, Winspear Centre (Edmonton), Resonanzraum (Germany), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), and NyMusikk Bergen (Norway). Rogers is co-artistic director of NYC-based performance ensembles: thingNY, New Thread Quartet, Hypercube, Popebama, and core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and LA-based WildUp. “A consummate collaborator” (The New Yorker), Rogers crosses genres from music-theatre-to-dance-to-installation-to-silence in her work with Abilities Dance, Orange Theatre, L Collective, Harvestworks, Experiments-in-Opera, Decoder, and Music for Contemplation. 

TPG seeks to break new ground in durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration, and site work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo,and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art.

With a core ensemble featuring interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projectionist and sound artist Keith Evans, and musician composers Suki O'Kane, and Edward Schocker, TPG is reuniting with Dylan Bolles and guest artist Wayne Grim for a brief Bay Area tour in spring 2026. Past collaborations have featured Gelsey Bell, Alex Boyd, Kevin Corcoran, Ann Dyer, Sasha Hom, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Eric Kupers, Cheryl E. Leonard, Lisa Mezzacappa, Michael Meyers, Robert Moran, Megan Nicely, Pauline Oliveros, Stephen Ratcliffe, paige starling sorvillo, ThingNY, Zachary James Watkins, and Jeffrey Young.