Roulette Children's Concert (2pm)

Flutterbox

Neill C. Furio (electric bass) and Janine Nichols (voice) perform fun and playful songs ranging from current originals, to songs they wrote during his childhood and other charming chestnuts. Neill is an "architecturally cagey" songwriter and musician with a heady, only-he-knows-for-sure way about his instrument.   Janine, who draws the pictures in the air, has been called a lot of things, including "arrestingly plaintive" and a "black Marianne Faithfull."

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Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra Trio

featuring:
Jennifer Choi -violin
Angelica Sanchez- piano
Susie Ibarra- drumset & percussion

perform pieces from a new work  titled Dream Etudes

Susie Ibarra, percussionist and composer lives in New York City. She received a music diploma from Mannes College of Music and B.A. from Goddard College. Susie Ibarra studied Kulintang with Danongan Kalanduyan and drum set with Buster Smith, Vernel Fournier and Milford Graves.

As a percussionist, she has performed southeast Asian gong music, jazz, avant-garde, improvised and solo concert works. She has performed with many great artists such as John Zorn, Dave Douglas Pauline Oliveros, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, William Parker, Dr. L Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti, John Lindberg, Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Thurston Moore, Savath and Savalas, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, among others.

Susie Ibarra has taught across the U.S and attended. Artist Residencies including: The Walker Art Center, Mills College, Bard College, Swarthmore College, Fundacio Joan Miro, University of Michigan, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, The New School.

She was nominated "Best Drummer" in the Village Voice, Downbeat, Jazziz, The Wire. Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha, Paiste & Vic Firth Artist.

She currently performs solo works and with Susie Ibarra Trio with Jennifer Choi & Craig Taborn; Mephista, collective electro-acoustic trio with Sylvie Couvoisier & Ikue Mori; Shapechanger with poet Yusef Komunyakaa; Mark Dresser & Susie Ibarra Duo; Mundo Ninos children’s music; and Filipino trance music, with Roberto Rodriguez, Electric Kulintang.

Noa Guy

DROPS OF CONSCIOUSNESS – PART II

Drops of Consciousness is an audio-visual personal diary. These series of performances cover the story of recovering from a traumatic brain injury. It takes you through the tremors of being thrown beyond the limits of perception, emotions, feelings and reality.  The narrative is non-linear and to an outsider might seem surreal. A collaboration between Alon Leventon and Noa Guy resulted in a unique musical language. They improvise live, on stage, and use pre-recorded musical material.
Each performance represents one aspect of Noa’s recovery.

Part one, which was performed at Roulette in NYC on November 30, 2006, oscillated around the tunnel that connected breathing and sound. Part two is a quest of coherence, language and meaning. The audio shape of words and visual forms of letters are the building block of part two of Drops of Conciseness.

As in part one the performance is a collaboration between composer/performer Noa Guy, composer/sound artist Alon Leventon and video artists Kim and Lio Spiegler.

Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories

Book Launch

6-8pm

FREE

Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music.   While sound's increasing importance in the art world is evidenced by recent exhibitions and books devoted to the subject, sound art has yet to be accurately defined.   In this authoritative volume, author Alan Licht lays bear the origins of sound art, offering the reader the most thorough understanding of the field to date, and explores the genre's most important practitioners. A CD is included with six extraordinary sound works by a range of artists, including Jean Dubuffet and more recent pieces by Steve Roden and Mike Kelley's band Destroy All Monsters.

Kathleen Supove and The Exploding Piano (8pm)

Live taping for Roulette TV

From *Adrenaline Revival* to *Air Rights*. 
"Downtown piano queen" (New Yorker) Kathleen Supové will perform highlights from her commissioned repertoire for wired and enlightened piano---some classics, some brand new. 

"What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed." Anthony Tommasini, NY Times

"This was classical music played like the best rock'n'roll. It was passionate, earnest, loud and more complex than the gatekeepers of high culture would like to think. Brava." Ben Sisario, NY Press

“...the downtown piano queen Kathleen Supové...” The New Yorker

Pianist Kathleen Supové is not only one of the most acclaimed interpreters of contemporary music in this country, but also an artist who is continually evolving an answer to the question of what music gets presented and how it gets presented. She has commissioned, premiered and performed countless works by emerging and important composers and, in always being at the forefront of seeking out new voices, she has established herself as an integral part of recent music history.

Ms. Supové presents concerts under the name of The Exploding Piano. In recent seasons, she has developed The Exploding Piano into a multimedia experience by using electronics, theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Much of this has been developed during her years in residency at The Flea Theater in Tribeca. The Exploding Piano concerts have taken place these past two seasons in universities, conservatories, and performance spaces throughout the US. This past season, she was a featured artist at the Ussachevsky Memorial Festival in Claremont, CA, as well as the NIME 2007 Festival in NYC. During this upcoming season, she will be a guest artist at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco and the Pianists At The Edge series at University of Pittsburgh. Supové has also appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Music at the Anthology, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls such as Carnegie to theatrical spaces such as The Kitchen to clubs such as The Knitting Factory, The Stone, and The Cutting Room.

She has already commissioned a large body of works for piano and electronics, as well as works for the Yamaha Disklavier. In 2001, Ms. Supové became a Yamaha Artist. Her most recent CD, INFUSION, appears on the Koch International Classics label. Other recordings can be found on the Tzadik, CRI, New World, Innova, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, and XI labels. For more info, visit supove.com or myspace.com/supove.

Phoebe Legere (8pm)

SUITE
Transformation Suite is an ordered set of instrumental pieces for String
Quartet, Keyboards, Laptop and Transsoprano:
1.True Road
2 Jive Moon
3. Wild Red Morning Glory
4. Sentient Program

Joanna Frankel - violin
Erin Wight - viola
Victoria Bass - cello

Live taping for Roulette TV

Phoebe Legere is a composer, lyricist, and transmedia artist. She graduated from Vassar College, was the resident composer for the Wooster Group, studied with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, was signed to Sony Records, opened for David Bowie on his National Tour, received a NYSCA grant, wrote the book, music and lyrics for seven musicals, has sung with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, collaborated with the Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter Thompson, Don Cherry, Brian Eno, Bo Bo Shaw, Ikue Morie, Nana Vascolenos, Jack Smith,
Joakim Lartey, Jim Staley, Morgan Powell, Eric Mandat and Leo Abrahams, has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts and Charlie Rose, is in the Nickelodeon series,”The Naked Brothers Band,” and is head writer and host for Roulette TV, a show about experimental art and music. She is writing and scoring the music for “Sex, Death and Ukuleles, a futuristic musical that will open March 6th at the Theater for the New City. She records for Einstein Records and Mercury Records.

Inspired by an IBM software that moves information across business
processes and facilitates cross organizational collaboration, Legere’s
newest work, Suite, will cycle through compositional strategies, from Serialism
to Jazz to Romanticism to to Improvisation. Legere will sing
from her autobiography and conduct a string ensemble from piano, laptop
and accordion.

Okkyung Lee

then, there, that corner...

sylvie courvoisier - piano
cornelius dufallo - violin
alex waterman - cello
trevor dunn - bass
peter evans - trumpets
ned rothenberg - bass clarinet
david shively - percussion
satoshi takeishi - percussion/electronics
dj olive - turntables

inspired by rain, empty streets, 2 (korean) dead singers, memory, dawn, duke
jordan, home and goodbyes... and everything between now and memories that
can translate into sounds...

A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in
contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. Using her
solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds,
korean traditional music, and noise with extended techniques to create her
unique blend of music.

Okkyung has released her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with
Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series; and a solo
cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said... to be
released on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label in 2007.

Margaret Leng Tan (8pm)

THE STEEL QIN: New Asian Music for Piano

Live taping for Roulette TV

BITTER VEGETABLES, BITTER YINYIN (trad. Sichuan)
LITTLE SISTER LOVES A HARDWORKING MAN (trad. Sichuan)     Arr. by Erik Griswold  
prepared piano
WORLD PREMIERE

DEW-FALL-DROPS (1999)      Tan Dun (b.1957)
string piano

C-A-G-E (1993)    Tan Dun (b.1957)
In memory of John Cage
string piano

GU YUE (Ancient Music) (1986)     Ge Gan-ru (b.1954)
prepared/string piano

COSMIC WOMB (1975)     Somei Satoh (b.1947)
live and pre-recorded piano

Margaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force within the American avant-garde: a highly visible, visionary pianist whose work embraces theater, choreography, performance. She is regularly featured at international festivals, records for Mode, New Albion, ECM, and has appeared on PBS and at Carnegie Hall.    

Originally from Singapore, Tan was the first woman to earn a doctorate from Juilliard, but exploring cultural crosscurrents between Asia and the West led her to John Cage. An active collaboration ensued that lasted from 1981 to his death in 1992, establishing her as his pre-eminent interpreter.

Tan is fascinated by the artistic potential of toy instruments and her groundbreaking 1997 CD, The Art of the Toy Piano (Philips/Universal), made her the world's first professional toy piano virtuoso. Favoring music that confronts the piano's normal boundaries, like-minded composers have written for her such as Somei Satoh, Tan Dun, Ge Gan-ru, Michael Nyman and Toby Twining. She is also a favorite of composer George Crumb. Filmmaker Evans Chan's documentary, Sorceress of the New Piano: The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan, has been screened at numerous international film festivals. While currently available in the Japanese Uplink edition, Mode Records will release Sorceress internationally on DVD in Spring 2008.

In Chinese nomenclature the piano is classified as a “steel qin ” or zither. For her Roulette event, Margaret Leng Tan performs startlingly original works by Tan Dun, Ge Gan-ru and Somei Satoh on and inside the giant "steel zither". Also Erik Griswold's prepared piano arrangements of Sichuan folksongs.

"The diva of avant-garde pianism"  - The New Yorker

David Behrman Turns 70! (8pm)

Long Throw

Live taping for Roulette TV

John King and David Behrman, performers

David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as compositions for performance in concerts.

Unforeseen Events, My Dear Siegfried, Leapday Night, QSRL, On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Smalltalk, Homemade Synthesizer Music with Sliding Pitches, Figure in a Clearing, Cello with Melody-Driven Electronics, Useful Information, Protests 1917—2004 and Long Throw are among Behrman's works for soloists and small ensembles. Recordings of his works are published by XI, Lovely Music, Alga Marghen and Classic Masters.

Behrman's sound and multimedia installations have been exhibited in New York, Massachusetts, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Cologne, Berlin, Linz, Paris and other places. Among the installations are Cloud Music (1977, a collaboration with Robert Watts and Bob Diamond); In Thin Air (1997), Pen Light (2002), and View Finder, most recently exhibited at Stanford University in March 2005.

Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. Sonic Arts performed extensively in North America and Europe from 1966 till 1976. He toured as composer/performer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1970 till 1976 and also worked with John Cage during that time on several projects. His association with the Cunningham Company has continued intermittently to the present and he has created music for several of the Company's repertory pieces. He is currently a member of the Music Committee at MCDC.

Behrman has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA and NYFA, and residencies from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the D.A.A.D. in Berlin. From the Foundation for Performance Arts he received an Artist's Grant in 1995 and the John Cage Award in 2004. In 2005 he was a recipient of the Henry Cowell Award from the American Music Center. He has been a member of the faculty at the Avery Graduate Program in the Arts at Bard College since 1998.

His most recent CD release: “My Dear Siegfried" (2-CD set on XI, 2005) with performers Eric Barsness, Thomas Buckner, Jon Gibson, Maria Ludovici, Ralph Samuelson, Peter Zummo, and others.

Long Throw was one of three works by three composers commissioned by the Cunningham Dance Company as music for the 2007 dance, eyeSpace. Around the time of the commission, in 2006, I was listening to a vinyl double album called "John Cage: Music for keyboard 1935—1948" which I had produced in 1969 for Columbia Records. I was listening to it again because New World Records had expressed interested in re-issuing the recording as part of their Anthology of Recorded American music.

Hearing that music again after almost four decades was a fresh re-discovery. I felt close especially to "Music for Marcel Duchamp," a spare, elegant piece for prepared piano which John Cage composed in 1947.

It occurred to me that the "eyeSpace" music that I was working on would be premiered in 2007, the sixtieth anniversary of "Music for Marcel Duchamp."
I reflected on the close relationship among Duchamp, John Cage and Merce Cunningham over the decades; on the long, distinguished trajectory of Merce and his Company; and also remembered that my own first music commission for the Company, "Walkaround Time" in 1968, had involved the art of Duchamp.

Long Throw has a piano part which includes John Cage's preparations for his 1947 piece and evokes something of the quality of that music. It also makes use of 21st Century digital technology — music software and sound sensors — and has performance roles for the core musicians of the Company in 2007: Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi, John King and Stephan Moore.

In the style I am working with, partially-notated and partially based on interactive relationships between performers and laptop software, my pieces tend to continue to change and develop after they are first made. This version for Roulette is partially pared-down (two performers only) and partially newly extended, with features developed in the last several months.