Haeyoung Kim w/Kathleen Supové ................................................................... Live visuals by Adam Kendall

Experimental electronics composer Haeyoung Kim (a.k.a. Bubblyfish) joins forces with the versatile contemporary music pianist Kathleen Supové and video artist Adam Kendall for a performance of Kim’s new piece, Hidden, Lost, Forgotten, for piano, computer, and gameboys, accompanied by live
video. The piece is a suite composed of 4 movements, derived from a lullaby that Kim’s parents used to sing for her when she was sick as a child. Based on the rhyme and the gesture of a hand rubbing a child’s stomach, the piece consists of a piano solo, sound collages of voice samples, a piano and gameboy duet, and gameboy improvisation.

Kim creates lo-fi 8-bit sound pieces and minimal electronic compositions. Her work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, the New Museum and the Lincoln Center Walter Reed Theater and has been heard on WNYC radio and Spongefork Radio on the web. She is a recent recipient of the
Van Lier artist’s residency at Harvestworks media art center. Her work has been featured in Art Forum magazine, on MSNBC and in the NYFA Interactive online magazine. Check out: www.bubblyfish.com


Supové is an award-winning pianist whose concert series, The Exploding Piano, incorporates performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She has received grants from Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and American Composers Forum, among others and has appeared with The Philip Glass Ensemble, in the Bang On a Can Marathon, at Music at the Anthology, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs.

Adam Kendall is a video-artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He improvises and composes video, drawing from his background in traditional and alternative composition and performance techniques, and he incorporates his computer-programming background by writing Max/MSP/Jitter applications. He
performs regularly in New York City and presents pieces in national and international festivals. His extracurricular activities include co-curating the a/v performance series {R}ake. http://www.hellbender.org

Commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation.

Mike Vargas

Veteran improvising pianist Mike Vargas presents his work, Houdini, for solo piano. Come listen as Vargas wriggles out of his own self-imposed structures and limits. His music is often shaped by procedural rules such as STRIPES (specified number of notes at a time,) THE WIND (50%
not-playing,) ZONES (limited register,) and AMOEBA (soft, no fingertips.) He gives the listener lots of space between the sounds, densely-packed rhythms and harmonies and his 47 years of experience on the instrument. Of his performing, EAR Magazine reports, "...one left the concert more awake than before."
From cocktail lounges in Indonesia to New Music America, to National Geographic, to cancer wards, Vargas' work has been heard in many places. He's composed over 100 commissioned scores for choreographers, and he's performed worldwide since 1980. He has released 5 CDs, three of them solo piano (@ EMF.)

Yuko Fujiyama Quartet

"Keyboardist Yuko Fujiyama brings her ensemble to Roulette, with Jennifer Choi on violin, Tomas Ulrich on cello and Reggie Nicholson on drums. The show will feature colorful improvisation and compositions, ranging in mood from lyrical quiet to stormy darkness. Born in Sapporo, Japan, Fujiyama studied music in college and moved to the U.S. in 1987, after being touched by the music of Cecil Taylor. Since 1993, she has been an active performer of her original music in concerts, clubs and festivals in and around New York City and overseas. She has performed as a leader with musicians such as William Parker, Mark Dresser, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra, Billy Bang, Mark Feldman and Roy Campbell, among many others. She is featured on a number of CDs, including two releases with her ensemble on the CIMP label. In the words of the Village Voice, "she¹s created her own pass."

Simon Hostettler

CODES by Simon Hostettler is a series of 7 miniatures for 2 pianos and a pump organ inspired by paintings from the Italian-Swiss painter, Eugenio Corradi. This minimalist piece is composed with very dense and sparse moments with room for improvisation.
performed by Anthony Coleman and Simon Hostettler.

Simon Hostettler is a musician who defies all stylistic restrictions, experimenting over many years with a wide variety of styles. He has made a name for himself in Switzerland and abroad as a freelance composer for the stage, free theatre groups and contemporary compositions.

Drew Krause

Composer/pianist Drew Krause presents a mix of new and recent solo, electronic, and chamber works that include Krause on piano and other surprise guests. Krause writes compositional algorithms that discover musical forms ranging from the poised and benign to the intricate and
uncanny. He has written over 50 works for instrumental and electronic media. His music is published by Frog Peak and has been recorded by Innova, New Ariel, Frog Peak, and Bonk Records. He has received grants from Harvestworks, The MacDowell Colony, The Wurlitzer Foundation, and Meet the Composer, and has held residencies at Stanford University and Brooklyn
College.

A composition graduate of Juilliard and the University of Illinois, his principal teachers were Herbert Brun, Salvatore Martirano, Vincent Persichetti, Bernard Rands, and Stuart Smith. Also active as a conductor, Krause has conducted works by Boulez, Xenakis, Braxton, Varese, Webern, Stravinsky, and others. He has performed the piano music of Cage, Messiaen, Finnissy, Lachenmann, Stockhausen, Feldman, Andriessen, Kagel and numerous European modernists; dozens of commissioned works, and collaborations encompassing music theatre, improvisation, and live electronics with the Thump Piano Duo, the Performer's Workshop Ensemble, and many others.

From 1988 through 1995 he led seminars in computer music and experimental composition at the University of Illinois. He has served as resident pianist for the Bonk, ThreeTwo, New Music Miami, and SubTropics festivals, and was musical director of FUNMusic in Urbana from 1993 to 1996. Recent performance venues include Roulette, Diapason Gallery, the International Computer Music
Conference, the SCI National Conference, FOCUS!, and the Ought-One festival. Krause lives and works in New York City.

Myra Melford

Pianist/composer Myra Melford presents a solo piano program of old and new compositions/improvisations, including the New York debut of her new live electronics and "extended piano" piece, created at UC Berkeley¹s CNMAT (center for new music and audio technologies.) Melford¹s playing recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her hometown Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde stylings she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training. Melford currently leads or co-leads four groups <http://www.myramelford.com/projectsbebread.html> , all of which have recorded in the past several years. In addition, Melford has recorded with Jenny Scheinman, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins and Butch Morris. She is currently Assistant Professor of Improvisation and Jazz in the Music Department at the University of California at Berkeley.

She has performed in more than 30 countries and has won major awards for composition and piano performance. Francis Davis calls her "the genuine article, the most gifted pianist/composer to emerge from jazz since Anthony Davis." Her approach to her instrument is characterized by Coda Magazine: "Myra Melford is at once a dancer, a romantic and a savage suckerpuncher at
the bench . . . beating all hell out of the piano and making it beautiful."

Robin Holcomb

Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb gives a rare solo performance of new and old music for piano and voice including selections from her upcoming Tzadik Oracle series release. Holcomb has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia as a solo artist
and the leader of various ensembles. Recent performances include appearances at Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Carnegie Hall, The Verona Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival among others. She is a founder and co-director of The New York Composers Orchestra, an ensemble for which she is also a conductor, pianist and principal composer. The New York Times describes her style as ³a new American regionalism, spun from many threads - country, rock, minimalism, Civil War songs, Baptist hymns, Appalachian folk tunes, even the polytonal music of Charles Ives. The music that results is as elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful." The Village Voice describes her sound: "Satie goes to Appalachia, Morricone goes to the Knitting Factory, and you, dear art-folk fan, die and go to heaven."

David Borden and Mother Mallard Ensemble w/ Kathleen Supové

Composer/pianist David Borden and Mother Mallard (Borden¹s all-synthesizer ensemble, consisting of Borden and keyboardist Blaise Bryski) are joined by avant-pianist Kathleen Supové for the premire of Borden¹s new evening-length electroacoustic composition, Heaven-Kept Soul. The title Heaven-Kept Soul is an anagram derived from the name Kathleen Supové, for whom this piece was composed. Known for her boundary-breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience.

David Borden founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. in 1969 with the generous support of Robert Moog. The group became the world's first synthesizer ensemble. As a composer, his work spans both worlds of "high and low" culture. Borden's music is available on the Cuneiform, New World Records, Lameduck and Arbiter labels. He recently retired after eighteen years as Director of the Digital Music Program at Cornell University. He has received commissions from Tafel Music, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the Duo Cristofori and Daniel Goode, among others. With Mother Mallard, he has performed at a variety of venues ranging from the Barbican Centre in London, the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen to many of the downtown avant-garde concert spaces in New York City including The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, the Intermedia Foundation, the Alternative Museum, the Dance Theater Workshop, Danceteria and the Paula Cooper Gallery. He has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the New York State Arts Council and Meet the Composer.

Supové is an award-winning pianist whose concert series, The Exploding Piano, incorporates performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She has received grants from Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and American Composers Forum, among others and has appeared with The Philip Glass Ensemble, in the Bang On a Can Marathon, at Music at the Anthology, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs.

No Concert Tonight..

Connie Crothers / The Crothers-Manley Duo

"Piano Resonance/Room Resonance"

Connie Crothers, pianist, will improvise solo and duo with Ben Manley, electroacoustic improviser. The duo, through the expression of their respective instruments, will create ambient resonance in the performance space. The piano will be situated in the center of the room. Speakers will be arranged around the circumference of the room. Crothers, the visual, as well as the aural center, will converse spontaneously with Manley¹s continuously shifting, resonating ambient sound resulting in a dynamic musical environment, interspersed with solos throughout.

"A lioness on the keyboard," (Jazz Nu) Crothers has been an active member of the New York jazz scene for over forty years. She has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Berlin Jazztage, the New Music America festival, the Vision Festival, the Village Vanguard and other such venues throughout the city. She has released recordings with the SteepleChase, Jazz Records, and New Artist labels, the last of which she co-founded with composer/percussionist Max Roach. Recently, her quartet with Richard Tabnik, Roger Mancuso and Sean Smith has been receiving rave reviews. In the January 2000 issue of Cadence, she was chosen for inclusion in the selection of the most important and influential musicians in the last twenty-five years.

Denman Maroney

Composer and hyperpianist Denman Maroney presents works of the seventies, eighties, nineties and aughties (including some world and New York premieres) with his brand new group consisting of himself (hyperpiano), Ned Rothenberg (reeds), Reuben Radding (bass), and Michael Sarin (drums). Maroney¹s music is inspired by the sound of crickets and power tools (among other things) and by the music of John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Thelonius Monk, Conlon Nancarrow and Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others. Maroney has made nineteen commercial recordings with everyone from Leroy Jenkins to Mark Dresser to Ned Rothenberg. He has received grants from: the NEA, ASCAP, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Meet the Composer on several occasions. Cadence Magazine describes him as
³one of the most unique pianists to emerge in the '90s... Utilizing an extreme prepared piano technique and a unique rhythmic sensibility, both instrumentally and compositionally, he has become one of the most intriguing composer/performers around." Check out: www.pipeline.com/~denman

Borah Bergman

Downbeat Magazine describes pianist Borah Bergman as "having the hands of an eccentric genius." As a teenager, Bergman saw the one- (left-) handed pianist Paul Wittgenstein perform, and he was inspired to develop his own left hand to make it the complete equal of his right in both strength and independence. Now completely ambidextrous, he improvises horn-like lines with both hands, sometimes crossed, in a contrapuntal and polyphonic, multi-layered dialogue that allows pieces to be turned upside down without loss of rhythmic intensity or aesthetic shape. For his Roulette appearance, Bergman will perform Dimensions in Direction, piano compositions and improvisations, which relate to the above description and which showcase his unique style of playing, which he calls "ambi-ideation."

Kirk Nurock and Kyoko Kitamura

"K2K"

Over some 30 years, the unpredictable composer/pianist Kirk Nurock has orchestrated for Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, and Meredith Monk, conducted live animals at Carnegie Hall, and innovated in duos with Theo Bleckmann and Jay Clayton. His prolific body of vocal works explore edgy terrains featuring settings of Dickinson and Joyce. This time he teams up with vocal improviser Kyoko Kitamura who has honed her craft as a sideperson with the likes of Reggie Workman and Steve Coleman. Sharing a penchant for risk and absurdity, Kirk and Kyoko present their music tonight as K2K... for the first time.

Margaret Leng-Tan

Margaret Leng-Tan performs rarities by John Cage, Philip Glass, Somei Satoh, and Hans Otte.

Tonight¹s program includes Cage's recently discovered "score-painting", Chess Pieces (1944,) and Glass' Minimalist classic, How Now (c. 1968,) not heard in New York since Ms. Tan first revived the work in the early 90s. Also, selections from Otte's 4-volume set of piano miniatures, Stundenbuch (1991-98,) in Ms. Tan's arrangement for string piano and toy piano. Satoh's epic Litania (1973) and transcendental A Gate into the Stars (1982) round out the program. Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano's conventional boundaries. Hailed by The New Yorker as"the diva of avant-garde pianism", she has inspired many composers to create performer-specific works for her. One of the leading performers of John Cage's music, she is also the world's first professional toy pianist who has transformed a toy into a bona fide instrument with a bona fide repertoire heard in festivals around the world. In March 2006 Mode Records releases Ms. Tan's long-awaited recording of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes and the first recording of Chess Pieces. Check out: www.margaretlengtan.com

Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern

Accordionists/composers Guy Klucevsek & Alan Bern present a program that will include Bern's Deep Blue C and Sideways, two suites written for Eliza Miller Dance Company, and the premiere of selections from Guy Klucevsek's on-going musical day book, Notefalls. Othermusic.com says:  "These two are at the absolute height of their profession … Together, they sweep you up, carrying you on hard currents of sound.”

Klucevsek has created a unique repertoire for accordion through his own composing and by commissioning over 50 works from composers such as John Zorn, Aaron Jay Kernis, Fred Frith, Alvin Lucier and Somei Satoh. He has performed his music internationally and throughout New York at Lincoln Center, the Bang on a Can Marathon, the Whitney Museum and Merkin Hall. He has also played with Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant and Pauline Oliveros. He has released 16 recordings as soloist/leader, including his latest solo CD, “The Well-Tampered Accordion," on Winter & Winter.