Childrens Concert w/ Matt Mehlan + Doron Sadja

Shinkoyo Art Collective, record label, and performance space (ParisLondonWestNile) founders Matt Mehlan and Doron Sadja present the Free Music FunHouse , an all ages, extraordinary extravaganza of wacky sounds, video clones, Frankenstein instruments, and guests galore!   Matt and Doron will lead the group in a free multimedia improvisation, discuss why music is fun, free and easy, and teach all in attendance how to use everyday items to annoy your parents.  

see www.shinkoyo.com for more info on Matt and Doron!

NED ROTHENBERG

Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Sync's Harbinger, Intervals, a double-cd of solo work,Live at Roulette with Evan Parker and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Chamber music releases include Inner Diaspora and Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World, along with The Fell Clutch on Animul. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi.

Clarinet Quintet #1 for Clarinet and String Quartet
Commissioned by Roulette with funds from the New York State Council of the Arts.

Ned Rothenberg, clarinet and bass clarinet
Jennifer Choi, 1st violin
Olivia De Prato, 2nd violin
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Alex Waterman, Cello

2 traditional worlds (Hassidim and the Puerto Ricans) collide and persist in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Roulette debuts the digital live mix of this cinepoem originally produced as a video short (Play Here/Schpilin Aqui) with a Voom HD Labs artist residency 2006.

Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance. Her current work draws from inspiration from nomadic cultures. Eng was born in San Francisco California. In 1993 she moved to New York City to pursue her career in the arts. During this time she became involved in the downtown electronic arts scene and has collaborated on numerous video performance projects. She co-founded The Poool a live video performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999.

Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Roulette Intermedium and Experimental Intermedia. Awards include: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts, Harvestworks, Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV Center. She recently received a NYSCA grant to develop a video installation on the socio-historical aspects of the water well/fountain.

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Octet

Adam Rudolph: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija) bendir, talking drum, thumb pianos, udu drums, cajon, gongs, percussion, sintir, vocal
Brahim Fribgane : oud, dumbek, vocal, udu, cajon, sintir, percussion
Graham Haynes : cornet, flugelhorn
Hamid Drake : trap drum set, bata, frame drums, congas, percussion, vocal
Kenny Wessel: electric and acoustic guitar
Ned Rothenberg : shakuhachi, bass flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone
Shanir Blumenkranz : contrabass, oud and sintir
Steve Gorn : bansuri bamboo flute, soprano saxophone, clarinet

This evening's concert coincides with the release of Rudolph's new CD "Dream Garden" on Justin Time records. Interpretations of the compositions from the CD will be performed, as well a newly commissioned works. The new compositions performed this evening were created with support from Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Program funded though the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

"The evening was transformed into an extraordinary and lyrical happening with music
of ethereal light"           - IL GIORNALE

The music of Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures heralds a new and vital direction in the evolution of American music. Grounded in the American improvisational tradition, the ensemble embraces music forms, languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora. Decades of performance and research into these music cultures have given the artists the background and experience to create a unique and unprecedented improvisational art form.

Since 1991 Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures has performed at many major festivals and concert venues in both Europe and the United States. In addition, each member has concertized extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia:   their collective background spans a wide range of musical experiences, including performances with world music ensembles, 20th century chamber groups and leading artists in the jazz and rhythm & blues fields. The concert repertoire consists of original compositions by Mr. Rudolph that serve as a basis for improvisational dialogue. About the Music Adam Rudolph writes: "I compose forms, which serve as thematic material to provide an orchestrated context for improvisational dialogue. Music materials consist, among other things, of original melodies, textural gestures, sound languages, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervallicaly generated harmonies, call and response, polyphony, dynamics, and the coloration of silences. Unique forms are generated through my concept of "Cyclic Verticalism", whereby polyrhythms, as used in African music, are combined with rhythm cycles, as used in Indian music. When combined with the above-described tonal materials, larger forms can be generated. In my compositions these materials are utilized to serve emotional coloration; what in India is called Rasa. Performers are given the freedom to use their imagination and listening ability to develop the compositions within their own individual motion and timing, while still relating to the overall form and to their aesthetic and musical functions. The concept is to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a non-linear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images.

Check out their review on allmusic.com!