Interpretations

Oliver Lake Big Band / Joe Giardullo

Oliver Lake Big Band
Lake and his compatriots will perform Lake’s “new and newer compositions.” "It's all about choices," states modern Renaissance Man Oliver Lake to explain his expansive artistic vision. An accomplished poet, painter and performance artist, Lake has published a book of poetry entitled Life Dance, has exhibited and sold a number of his unique painted-sticks at the Montclair Art Museum, and has toured the country with his one-man performance piece, Matador of 1st and 1st. But it's his extraordinary talents as composer, saxophonist, flautist and bandleader that have brought him world-renown. Although his greatest reputation exists in the world of jazz, Lake's amazingly eclectic musical approach is best expressed by his popular poem SEPARATION: “put all my food on the same plate!”

“The modern big-band sound funnels directly back to the Count Basie band from the 1950's, with its pinpoint blending of reeds and brass and dynamic drumming. Not Mr. Lake's. He mixes blues and gospel, funk and free; but his free jazz is never maundering. He likes players with a sense of humor and style; his pieces explode with bursts of chaotic energy but don't lose direction.” — Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Featuring: Oliver Lake, alto sax; Erica Lindsay, tenor sax; Jason Marshall, bari sax; Bruce Williams, alto sax; Peck Allmond, Nabate Ilses trumpet; Al Paterson, Aaron Johnson, trombone; Yoichi Uzeki, piano; Bob Sabin, bass; others TBA.

Joe Giardullo
Giardullo’s G2 ensemble performs TRIANGLE / CIRCLE / SQUARE: New G2 Compositions in Open Music. G2 is the result of “years of investigations” into George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Theory of Tonal Organization, creating an ensemble that explores large group dynamics and creativity via diverse instrumentation and improvisation. G2’s music is made of “independent ideas that, collectively, let emergent ensemble properties reveal themselves.

“Giardullo is willing into existence a music that occurs beyond his control. Giardullo is finding a way for musicians to be themselves while serving a larger cause.” — John Szwed, Signal To Noise

Featuring: Chris Chalfant- piano, Michael Snow- violin, Gwen Laster- violin, Larry Packer- viola,
Daniel Levin- cello, Harvey Sorgen- percussion, Joe Giardullo- soprano and sopranino saxophone

Vocalist Beth Griffith is joined by Andrew Bolotowsky (flute) and Bern Nix (guitar) for an evening of compositions by Mary Jane Leach, John McGuire, Noah Creshevsky, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, and Mauricio Kagel.

Beth Griffith was born in Texas. She made her European debut with Mauricio Kagel’s   solo theatrical work “Phonophonie”. She has made guest appearances with such ensembles as Sequentia, Musikfabrik, Ensemble 13, L'Art pour L'Art, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Nouvel Orchestra Philharmonique. Of special significance to Ms. Griffith has been her work with contemporary composers, among them John Cage, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the five featured composers in today’s program.

Andrew Bolotowsky has performed over three thousand concerts throughout the United States and with many orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the region, including the Pan American Orchestra, the Westchester Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Brooklyn Baroque, the SOHO Baroque Opera Company, Downtown Music Ensemble and the Wood Hill Chamber Players. He has performed live on numerous radio stations as well as WNYC, NBC, and CBS television. He has given premieres of countless new works for flute by composers such as Dave Brubeck, Alan Hovhaness, Frank Wigglesworth, Jackson MacLow and Beth Anderson and can be heard on many record labels including Newport Classics, 4Tay, Frog Peak, Stereo Society, New World Records, Orion, Quill Classics, Sonic Muse, and CRI.

Bern Nix has performed with artists such as, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Jemeel Moondoc, Ronald Shannon Jackson, James Chance, Jayne Cortez and Kip Hanrahan.
Hailed as one of the greatest jazz guitarists of our time, Bern was voted among the top ten jazz guitarists poll by Down Beat magazine. Most recently, Bern composed and recorded the score for the feature length documentary, A James Lord Portrait.  Tompkins Square Records recently released a solo album recorded by Bern Nix entitled Low Barometer.  Another recent composition, "Les is More", appears on "Art and Money", an album released by 1687, Inc. in 2006.
Beth,  Andrew and Bern also perform together regularly with Lenore von Stein in her 1687 Inc. concerts.

Made up of twenty students, ages 10 to 15, Face the Music was founded in the fall of 2005 by Special Music School Music Director Jenny Undercofler and composer Huang Ruo. In January of 2008, the group helped to re-open Merkin Hall with the premiere of Ira Mowitz's Kol Aharon for violin, digital soundtrack, and ensemble. Face the Music has also performed works by John
Adams, Louis Andriessen, Caleb Burhans, and others.

The April 6th concert at Roulette marks the group's first solo show outside of the Kaufman Center.

for more info visit www.myspace.com/smsfacethemusic

La Belle Usine a.s.b.l.

Shades of Jazz on Noir

The Shades of Jazz on Noir film presents excerpts from the classic film noir works of the 1940s and 1950s crafted to express the fatality, passion, and danger created by directors who pioneered the lively lighting techniques and psychologically expressive approach to classic noir. Shades of Jazz on Noir is projected onto a large screen as documentary and is the second instalment of a film noir and jazz series created for Luxembourg European Cultural Capital 2007. The first film, A Touch of Noir was a view from the wounded male perspective ala James Dean and has been performed in Europe (Luxembourg, Netherlands). Shades of Jazz on Noir is viewed from the Femme Fatale of those classics creating a fresh and unusual media experience. Shades of Jazz on Noir will combine the passion and despondency of classic film noir with the texture and dynamism of modern improvisation, resulting in a unique, growth oriented experience for students of film, jazz
and new music. This highly original project features Herb Robertson & Matt Darriau with special guest who will literally plate jazz on Noir. Film by Ana Isabel Ordonez.

Herb Robertson is internationally renowned as an innovative instrumentalist, composer and arranger in both traditional and avant-garde jazz idioms and new music. In 1981, Robertson became one of the original members of saxophonist Tim Berne's ensemble and shortly after joined bassist Mark Helias's band. It is with these two artists that Robertson first began receiving enormous critical acclaim on tour throughout the United States and Europe and on subsequent recordings documenting his original brass concept incorporating extended mute technique. Herb was trained at the Berklee College of Music and has performed in many formations throughout USA, Canada and Europe. Robertson has collaborated and recorded with Paul Smoker, Tim Berne,   Mark Helias,   Bill Frisell, Lindsey Horner, Joey Baron, Anthony Braxton, Barry Guy, Anthony Davis, Bobby Previte, David Sanborn, George Gruntz, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Evan Parker, Agustí Fernandez, Frank Gratkowski, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen, Phil Haynes, Joe Fonda, Michael Stevens, Michael Moore, Terry Jenoure, Andy Laster, Judi Silvano, John Lindberg, Gerry Hemingway, Satoko Fujii, Marc Ducret, Simon Nabatov, Mark Feldman, Pierre Dorge, John Zorn, Roswell Rudd, Elliot Sharpe, Klaus Konig, Rashied Ali, Ray Anderson, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, Günter Schuller, Michiel Braam, Wilbert De Joode, Wolter Wierbos, Steve Potts, Matthias Schubert, Mack Goldsbury, Ernst Bier... Robertson has released abundant music material. Since 2005 he co-owns Ruby Flower Records, record label which promotes and produces avant-garde jazz and art as well as new music in its most extreme forms.

Matt Darriau, saxophonist, clarinettist, ethnic-woodwind specialist and composer, Darriau has made several innovative contributions to the New York music scene. His background in the fertile and eclectic milieu of the New England Conservatory of Music's Third Stream Program in the 80's, and the continued practice of Balkan, Klezmer and Celtic folk idioms, have helped shape his aesthetic and passion for creating new and unusual music. He has been awarded grants and commissions from the NEA, Chamber Music America (2005/7) and is a Grammy winner (2007) with his Klezmatics band. He is considered as one of the 150 most influential jazz musicians of the last fifteen years, for the impact he has had in bringing Balkan and world rhythms to jazz with his band Paradox Trio. He is active as composer-musician in his band, Ballin' the Jack, the Klezmaticks, Desastro Totale and Yo Lateef. Darriau plays with Roberto Rodriguez Septet, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and his recently formed and the Recycled Waltz Orchestra. He has recorded and performed with Gunther Schuller, David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Ken Butler, Ben Folds 5 and many others on the NY scene. Paradox Trio has written and performed live music scores for the silent films Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel/Dali) and Isaac Babel's Benya Krik.

Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Sanchez moved to New York in 1995 and has since played with: Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Trevor Dunn, Mark Dresser, Ed Schuller, Judy Silvano, Greg Tardy, Reggie Nicholson, George Schuller, Jeff Williams, Daniel Carter, Mike Sarin, Tony Moreno, Ben Monder and many more. Sanchez leads her own groups, a trio with Chad Taylor & Chris Lightcap and a quintet featuring Marc Ducret, Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Her debut recording "Mirror Me" was chosen as one of the "Best New Releases for 2003" in All About Jazz and made the top ten JazzTimes Critics' Picks list 2003. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Chamber Music America French/American Jazz Exchange. Her new quintet recording will be released on the Clean Feed label in the Fall of 2008.

Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez, biologist, jazz editor, music and art promoter was born in Colombia and educated in Europe. A self-taught Victorian patchwork maker, she has worked on this art since the early 90s and has presented her craft in France and Luxembourg. She is also an accomplished scientist who began training on insect pathology and biological control research at the age of eighteen and has lectured and cooperated in miscellaneous capacities throughout South America, Europe, Africa, East- Europe, Japan, China and New Zealand. Ana Isabel Ordonez is an Agronomic Engineer with Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Genetics, Forestry and Animal Biology. She was awarded by the Colombian Society of Entomology with the national prize “Hernan
Alcaraz-Viecco”. In 2004 she published a book which enlightens integrated pest management strategies in Luxembourg and numerous articles on the value of nature. She has been a recipient of multiple grants from Ecole National des Eaux et For?ts France, Mus?e National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Marie Curie European Union Research Grant, Minist?re de la Culture Luxembourg. She was recently granted by the Dutch Embassy Luxembourg, the American Embassy Luxembourg and Ville de Dudelange for her film projects on film noir and jazz. Besides her work as scientist and director of BioProDev S.C, she is Jazz Editor at Jazzreview.com, the manager of famous jazz musicians and is chairperson of a non-profit association dedicated to promote art, musicians, crafts, culture and literature-noir. Since 2005 she co-owns Ruby Flower Records, a music label based in the USA and Europe which promotes and produces avant-garde jazz, art and new music in its most extreme forms.

Lotte Anker, soprano, alto, tenor saxophone instrumentalist and composer was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied classical piano and took up the saxophone and improvised music very early, primarily influenced through the music of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter but also the more experimental jazz scene in Scandinavia at that time. Lotte was trained at the Copenhagen University, the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen and has participated in courses and workshops lead by Joe Henderson, David Liebman, John Tchicai, Marilyn Mazur, David Murray, Bob Brookmeyer, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgren, Svend Hvidtfeldt-Nielsen, and Hans Abrahamsen. Lotte Anker has performed in many formations throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Africa.   She has collaborated and recorded with Two Bass-Hit, Saxmachine (saxophone quartet), Jazzgroup 90, Art-Out, "New Music Orchestra", Pierre Dorges "SubwayMusic", Barry Guy +Av-Art Orchestra, Composers Biennale 96, NUMUS Festival 97, Toneart Composers Biennale 2000, Peter Brotzman, Miya Masaoka, Thomas Lehn, Per Jørgensen, Michael Formanek, Tim Berne, Marc Ducret, Dylan van der Schyff , Paal Nilssen-Love, Herb Robertson, Arve Henriksen, Anders Jormin, Andrew Cyrille, Jorge Holguin Dance theatre, "Transient Minds" Ricketts Dance Co., "Roberto Zucco", The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, "Up against the Wall", the Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Mette Petersen, Nils-Petter Molvær, Hasse Poulsen, Peter Friis-Nielsen,   Ture Larsen,   The Zapolski Quartet, Mats Gustafsson, Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin, Arve Henriksen,   Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver, et a... Lotte Anker is the recipient of several working grants, commissions from the State Arts Council, the DJBFA compositional prize 2002, BG-Foundation Artist in Residence 2005 (New York) and the Danish Jazz Launch 2006-8. Lotte Anker teaches arrangement, composition and improvisation at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen and has released amazing musical material.

David Chevan - was musically active from an early age. Although much of his performing method on the double-bass has been self taught, Chevan credits the master bassist, Lisle Atkinson with showing him the pathway to self-education. As a composer Chevan has primarily focused on works for improvisors. He has written works for a wide range of artists and ensembles, including several collaborations with dance and film. In addition to performing regularly in a duo with pianist Warren Byrd and leading their group, The Afro-Semitic Experience, Chevan has had the opportunity to perform and record with a wide range of creative musical artists, including Ali Ryerson, Joe Beck, Jaki Byard, Harold Danko, Ellery Eskelin, Giacomo Gates, Frank London and Andrea Parkins. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.

Umami: Food Music Theater Festival

Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch "Orphic Memory Sausage"

Help us make Orphic Memory Sausages!

Bring anything that evokes a memory of place or time or experience that you wish to transform into sausage – a souvenir that can be chopped up into tiny pieces – an old CD or cassette tape, a cracked plate, a worn-out article of clothing, a broken chair, an old shoe, a bouquet of wilted flowers, a diary, a telephone book, photographs of old lovers, harvested hay, dried fish, yesterday’s newspaper, a painting, an obsolete appliance, a dead computer, hair from a haircut, a stuffed toy, etc…and together we will smash, chop and pulverize everything, mixing all of it into a great pulp to be stuffed into pig intestines and hung to dry or perhaps even smoked.

Everyone will thus be able to take home a link of collective memory sausage at the end of the day.

Umami: Food Music Theater Festival

Fast Forward "Muisque a'la Mode"

Composer Fast Forward will create a new music piece for Umami in which every instrument is derived from the common day kitchen. A culinary composition for the modern day.

Umami: Food Music Theater Festival

Gastronomic Interactive Installations
with Miwa Koizumi and Annie Lanzillotto

Umami: Food Music Theater Festival

Gala Event w/ Performance

Miklat209 (Tamar Raban, Guy Gutman, Efrat Ben-David, Alia Meyer, and Hili
Fridberg) "the kitchen/the stew" performative poetry

A performance based around words derived from the linguistic milieu of food and cooking and begin with the letters that make up the term PERFORMANCE. During the course of the piece the performers create a rich text comprised of action, object, image, word and the sounds that emanate from them. The letters of the word PERFORMANCE are represented on 11 work surfaces on which the participants "cook" the event. The surfaces, as well as food products, dishes, and cooking utensils change their place and role throughout the piece to create a new "dish." In Hebrew, "foodies" often equate exquisite gourmet food with poetry. In this performance, the poetic structure and poetic nature are indicators of the dish and its cooking/writing as poetry, only here the result is unusual.

This is part of a larger project titled L.E.P.P.:

Lesson on Performance in English
English Lesson on Performance
Performance in English on Lesson
Performance on English Lesson

During 2006 Tamar Raban began to create a series of exploratory performances as the foundation of a kind of living dictionary of actions and images. The random selection of words (each time different words) starting with letters that make up the term "performance" acts as the stimulus for building a performative syntax.

Rules:
Rule no. 1: to compose l.e.p.p performance, use coincidental words starting with the letters of the word p e r f o r m a n c e.
Rule no. 2: make a wide research about each word to discover its role in the specific performance.
Rule no. 3: for each performance use different words and choose a different structure.

Peter Brotzmann + Han Bennick + Peter Evans + Tom Blancarte

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED and moved to

les gallery, clemente soto velez, 7pm
107 suffolk st.
visionfestival.org

Jewels and Binoculars / Michael Moore, Lindsey Horner, Michael Vatcher play music of Bob Dylan

 
Some consider Bob Dylan to be one of the most influential musicians of our era. His materials are traditional-song forms inherited from the blues and the music of the British Isles, and imagery inspired by the greatest writers of our culture. He has, however, found some very personal ways of combining sound and text: indeed, a great poet.
 
Jewels and Binoculars was born out of Lindsey Horner and Michael Moore’s mutual love of Dylan’s music. Starting in the late 90's, New York bassist Lindsey Horner would get together with reedist Michael Moore and percussionist Michael Vatcher, longtime residents of Amsterdam, Holland, to explore that repertoire.
 
Interpreting the songs instrumentally, the trio uses the power of the tried and true folk song forms as the starting point for their improvisational flights, all the while keeping the power of the words and images fresh in mind.
 
Rather than guitar, voice and harmonica, the instrumentation relies primarily on the clarinet, bass clarinet or alto saxophone for the melody, the acoustic bass for the harmony, and Michael Vatcher’s wide variety of percussion instruments for textural variation.
 
The latest recording, the third from this collective trio, is entitled Ships With Tattooed Sails on Horner's Upshot Records label. It has found its way onto several critics’ “Best of 2007 “ lists and it is available through www.lindseyhorner.com <http://www.lindseyhorner.com> , downtownmusicgallery.com or cdbaby.com.

The previous two releases, Floater and Jewels and Binoculars were released on Moore's Ramboy Recordings label.
 
 
**PLEASE NOTE: There have been misperceptions that Jewels and Binoculars is led by Michael Moore or that it is Lindsey Horner’s project. Neither is accurate.
 
Jewels and Binoculars/Michael Moore, Lindsey Horner, Michael Vatcher play music of Bob Dylan is a collective trio and always has been since its inception in the year 2000. All three members share equally in the responsibilities and artistic direction of the group.
 
Please keep this fact in mind when writing about the band, this recording or any previous release.

Daniel Levin Quartet

The music we are playing tonight places the cello in the lyrical front and center. It unabashedly embraces the traditional voice and timbre of the cello as found in Brahms and Schubert, while including jazz-informed articulation and phrasing, as well as a variety of extended techniques. What makes this group special for me, more than the unusual instrumentation of cello, trumpet, vibes, and bass, is the individuality and ingenuity of Nate Wooley, Matt Moran, and Peter Bitenc. They are exceptional musicians and I am very fortunate to have their support in realizing this music.

*Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to
 aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional
 concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves
 to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a
 mark in improvisational music.*
     --John Kelman, All About Jazz  Magazine

Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont.  He began playing
the cello at age six.  He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang,
Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark
Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, and
others.  Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and as a leader, for Riti Records, HatHut, and Clean Feed.

“He's gotten an incredibly personal trumpet and voice vocabulary together in recent years, including a range of deliciously abstract and quiet sounds that put him in a pretty elite  category of innovative acoustic instrumentalists. ....expect to really FEEL something when he plays, something new, serious, sublime, para-human, perplexing, something EMINENTLY MINDFUL”.- Philadelphia Ambient Consortium.

 Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon, a finnish-american fishing and timber town. He has spent most of his musical life whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same.  Nate’s trumpet playing is considered an organic mixture of new music, free jazz, and noise improvisation traditions. In the context of trumpet improvisation, he has worked diligently to keep one musical foot firmly planted outside of the recognized lineage.

Matt Moran "is the most astonishingly progressive vibraphone player to come along since the Hoggard/Naughton generation of the '70s... Whether playing angular runs at lightning speed or laying out Webern-esque chords with the intense scrutiny of a chess master, Moran blazes any number of new trails for his instrument." (Steve Smith, Jazzcorner.com).  <http://jazzcorner.com/> Moran plays regularly with the Claudia Quintet and the Daniel Levin Quartet, and leads the brass band Slavic Soul Party! and the recording project Sideshow, which interprets the songs of Charles Ives.

 Peter Bitenc grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was gigging in local clubs not long after taking up the bass at age 15. Peter attended the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Steve Lacy, Cecil McBee, and Jerry Bergonzi and graduated with a degree in Jazz Studies in 2004. Peter moved to New York City in 2005 where is currently active in the Jazz, Rock and Bluegrass scenes. Peter has played on various albums such as Casey Dienel's "Wind Up Canary" and Heather & the Barbarians' "Tell Me Tonight." He is also a member of the Daniel Levin Quartet, Holus Bolus and Cat Show Snapshots.

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Interpretations: Christian Wolff Sextet

Curated by Dan Joseph

"Melody and Counterpoint"
Esteemed American composer Christian Wolff will lead this exceptional group of experimental musicians in a program which re-examines the fundamental aspects of melody and counterpoint in music. The program will include a complete performance of Wolff's recent Micro Exercises, and the World Premiere performance of a new work by Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey.

Featuring: Christian Wolff, Fender Rhodes electric piano, melodica; Jürg Frey, clarinet; Larry Polansky, electric guitar; Craig Shepard, trombone; Jeremy Lamb, cello; others TBA.

The Pavones

"The Pavones" is the result of a lifetime of musical influences. An avid fan of new music and improvisation who grew up a kid of the 80's 90's, Pavone is searching to find a way to merge influences of the different sounds she has ever loved through her own voice as a composer. From the first study of Beethoven's Violin Romance in F, to the highly influential adoption of her father's old vynyl collection as a young teenager; growing up with the Four Seasons and Murry the K compilations as well as "formal" study of classical viola and composition. She now learns and grows from being a working musician amongst others a vast city of creativity, and other influential interests include folk rock, free improvisation, William Primrose, Jeffry Hyman, soul, the hopes of returning as Florence Ballard in the next life, visual arts and the grace of the human body.


Brooklyn based string instrumentalist/composer Jessica Pavone, has been active in New York City for the past eight years. She is best known for her work performing all over the world with Anthony Braxton in his current Septet and Twelve+1tet and for her duo project with guitarist, Mary Halvorson, which has been described as “distinct and beguiling...its core is steely, and its execution clear.” (The New York Times).   As a composer, Pavone has received grants from the American Music Center and commissions to write chamber music from the MATA Foundation, and the chamber music collectives; Till by Turning and The Eastern Winds.  She has been noted as having "the   ability to transform a naked tonal gesture into something special" (The Wire).  She currently leads and plays bass guitar and viola in her 60's soul inspired band The Pavones , plays viola and composes for ... No Way to Say Goodbye (a string quartet that substitutes a second violin for a double bass) and a CD of her indeterminate works for solo viola was recently released by the Nowaki label in Paris, France.
As an instrumentalist, she improvises in bands led by William Parker, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts and has interpreted new music by Glenn Branca, James Fei, Butch Morris, David Grubbs, Matthew Welch, Aaron Siegel, Loren Dempster, and T ristan Perich.
Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label, Peacock Recordings, which was recently awarded a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, and her growing discography and list of works can be witnessed via her web site, Jessicapavone.com. 

Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson

On April 27th Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson will present three video works,
the first, "One Man," being without live dance. In this video the
dancer on screen is seen in a desert landscape, with his relationship to
this landscape drawing him to a mysterious unification. In the second
work, "Arctic Fox and the Map of Time" Mary dances Fox. Fox shuffles
and sniffs his way through a landscape of disconnected and not foxy
images. In the last work, "Her Words" are the text from the Gnostic
scripture, "Thunder, Perfect Mind" and the human body is seen to
resonate within natural land-and sea-scapes. Together the three form a
tryptich on the subject of the body in nature.

ONE MAN
Concept, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
Video, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson and Camille Fontaine
Dance on Video, Gaitán Chailly, David Brandstaëter, Malgven Gerbes
Music,  James Fulkerson
Fashion Advisor,  Hiroaki Kanai
Editorial Advisor,  Marco Zaaijer
AV Studio, ARTEZ

ARCTIC FOX
Concept and Live Performance, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
Video Concept, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
First edit of Video and Image Creation, Cecilia De Lima,  Attila Gonczi, Laura Della Longa, Maria Ramos, David Costa
Second edit of video, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
Music, Tom Hamilton
Fashion, Hiroaki Kanai
Editorial Advisor,  Marco Zaaier
AV Studio, ARTEZ

 
HER WORDS
Concept and Live Performance, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
Video Concept and editing, Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson
Video performance, Alexandra Waierstall, Arianna Economou
Music, Seung Hee Yang
Fashion, Hiroaki Kanai
Editorial Advisor, Marco Zaaier
AV Studio, ARTEZ

JOHN ZORN: COBRA

ROULETTE Benefit Concert

ALL TICKETS $20

Jim Staley
Ikue Mori
Sylvie Courvoisier
Mark Feldman
Okkyung Lee
David Watson
David Weinstein
Zeena Parkins
Shanir Blumenkranz
Kenny Wolleson
Eyal Maoz
Annie Gosfield

Written and premiered in 1984, "Cobra" is a classic in the circles of new music, having been performed innumerable times. In fact, composer and "prompter" John Zorn says in the liners that it his most-often-performed composition -- no mean feat considering his prolific output. It is no wonder, though: There is a mischievous, cartoonish quality to it that epitomizes Zorn's style but also makes for continually fascinating listening. Based on the composer's secretive "game pieces," "Cobra" is a fun-filled, mystical, blindfolded ride down a dark alley that circles back every few yards. (Steven Loewy, All Music Guide).  Come support Roulette for this rare performance with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Jim Staley, and more!