Events are at 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
$15: General Admission
$10: Students, Under 30s & Seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members
FREE: Roulette Members (Become a member today!)
Adam Rudolphs Go Organic Orchestra Mon Mar 15 - 8:30 PM Unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting, Go: Organic Orchestra utilizes a composed non-linear score consisting of sound and motion elements. These include tone rows, synthetic scales, melodies, linguistic shapes, intervallic patterns, textural gestures, modes, ragas, maqams, and plainchant. The score serves to provide material for both the improvisations and the orchestrations. Motion and forms and are generated through the application of the composer’s rhythm concept “Cyclic Verticalism” whereby polymeters are combined with...(more) |
Mary Halvorson Quintet (Van Lier Fellowship) Thu Mar 18 - 8:30 PM Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson premieres a set of new pieces for the Mary Halvorson Quintet as well as material from her upcoming release on Firehouse 12 Records. Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own band, The Mary Halvorson Trio, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea.
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Listen to sample music -> Fri Mar 19 - 8:30 PM Lately violinist/composer Tom Swafford has felt adrift in a sea of musical genres, each one with its own set of aesthetic criteria and performance practice. Tom has reached the point where he wants to define exactly what his compositional voice is. This concert uses this well-worn cliché (The Real Me) as a unifying theme for the variety of his compositions presented.
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Childrens Concert with David Grollman Listen to sample music -> Sat Mar 20 - 2:00 PM Sock puppets converse and intermingle with the sounds of drums, trumpet and cello. Balloons, toys and voices will add to the musical conversation.
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Deviant Shakti: LaDonna Smith & Michael Evans Listen to sample music -> Sat Mar 20 - 8:30 PM Dedicated music moving in the moment.
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Adam Rudolphs Go Organic Orchestra Mon Mar 22 - 8:30 PM Unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting, Go: Organic Orchestra utilizes a composed non-linear score consisting of sound and motion elements. These include tone rows, synthetic scales, melodies, linguistic shapes, intervallic patterns, textural gestures, modes, ragas, maqams, and plainchant. The score serves to provide material for both the improvisations and the orchestrations. Motion and forms and are generated through the application of the composer’s rhythm concept “Cyclic Verticalism” whereby polymeters are combined with...(more) |
INTERPRETATIONS: Sean Heim / Chinary Ung Thu Mar 25 - 8:00 PM Challenging and deeply personal contemporary solo and chamber music from a distinguished and renowned elder composer and an acclaimed former protégé. Chinary Ung is the first American composer to win the highly coveted International Grawemeyer Award (sometimes called the Nobel prize for music composition). The evening’s works include Ung’s Seven Mirrors and Heim’s In The Between (Reflections On The Six Bardos), both for solo piano. Other works include Sean Heim’s Holomovements, for oboe, violin, viola,...(more) |
Sat Mar 27 - 8:30 PM William Hooker presents: The Keys, a multi media piece using music, video and word. Inspired by "A Father's Law" by Richard Wright, the compositions all represent major characters in the novel through diverse timbre and sonic abstraction.
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CHILDRENS CONCERT with Ivan Rodriguez $5 Listen to sample music -> Sat Mar 27 - 2:00 PM Bronx native Ivan Rodriguez presents a concert for Kids including original and standard instrumental Latin and Jazz compositions by a quartet lead by multi-percussionist Rodriguez. The program will conclude with an audience participation percussion jam session. Hand percussion instruments will be provided.
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Adam Rudolphs Go Organic Orchestra Mon Mar 29 - 8:30 PM Unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting, Go: Organic Orchestra utilizes a composed non-linear score consisting of sound and motion elements. These include tone rows, synthetic scales, melodies, linguistic shapes, intervallic patterns, textural gestures, modes, ragas, maqams, and plainchant. The score serves to provide material for both the improvisations and the orchestrations. Motion and forms and are generated through the application of the composer’s rhythm concept “Cyclic Verticalism” whereby polymeters are combined with...(more) |
Corridors: Works for Improvised Guitar Feedback Thu Apr 1 - 8:30 PM This performance will feature works for electronics and improvised guitar feedback using a multi-channel audio system as well as videos created while in residence at HotelPupik in Austria (www.hotelpupik.org).
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Richard Carrick - Flow Cycle (premiere) Fri Apr 2 - 8:30 PM This will be the first performance of the complete Flow Cycle; five pieces which have individually received significant attention including programming on the New York Philharmonic Ensemble Series, Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Awarded the 18th Annual Serbian Composition Prize in Belgrade, and have been picked up by numerous soloists and trios for performance throughout the US and Europe (Italy, Austria, Serbia, Germany, The Netherlands).
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Listen to sample music -> Thu Apr 8 - 8:30 PM A Tribute to Fausto Romitelli
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Listen to sample music -> Sat Apr 10 - 8:30 PM Michele Rosewoman and two of the most creative and multi-dimensional young artists of our time, Liberty Ellman and Tyshawn Sorey, collaboratively explore sound textures and nuances of time and space through their combined musical vision.
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Sun Apr 11 - 8:30 PM Reggie Nicholson Percussion Concept
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INTERPRETATIONS: "Blue" Gene Tyranny with Conrad Harris, and Miguel Frasconi with the JACK Quartet Thu Apr 15 - 8:00 PM Engaging electro-acoustic music performed on both traditional instruments and imaginative sound objects. Avant-garde composer and pianist “Blue" Gene Tyranny and Conrad Harris perform electro-acoustic works for piano and violin by Philip Krumm and George Cacioppo, including Cacioppo’s Cassiopeia and Krumm’s Four Nations, as well as world premieres by "Blue" Gene Tyranny and Paul Reller. Composer and improviser Miguel Frasconi premieres music for string quartet with glass & electronics, featuring the Jack Quartet. ...(more) |
Jennifer Stock: En Plein Air DVD Release Listen to sample music -> Fri Apr 16 - 8:30 PM En Plein Air, the first audiovisual release of Brooklyn-based video artist and composer
Jennifer Stock, combines a series of abstracted landscapes with found sounds and
instrumental music, creating an imaginary atlas of the imperfectly seen.
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K O N K P A C K : Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Roger Turner + Shelley Hirsch Sat Apr 17 - 8:30 PM KONK PACK brings together three major figures in contemporary music. For over ten years this group has amazed audiences at festivals and concerts all over the world with the sheer energy of its rapid-fire interplay, earning numerous critical accolades. Tonight KONK PACK will be joined by special guest Shelley Hirsch.
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Dog or God -- Robert Dick, Joshue Ott, Billy Gomberg: Multimedia large scale improvisations Sun Apr 18 - 8:30 PM Multi-flutist Robert Dick, visual improviser Joshue Ott and electronic musician Billy Gomberg create an immersive, improvised experience, unabashedly journeying from maelstrom to serenity via spontaneous emotional ports of call.
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Daniel Levin Quartet (Jerome Foundation Commission) Wed Apr 28 - 8:30 PM Daniel Levin (cello), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes), Peter Bitenc (bass)
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INTERPRETATIONS: Joan La Barbara / Yael Acher-Modiano with Irina Kalina-Goudeva Thu Apr 29 - 8:00 PM Two very different dramatic excursions into the theatrical side of contemporary music. Joan La Barbara and Ne(x)tworks will be performing excerpts from Angels, Demons and other Muses, her opera in-progress exploring inner secrets of the artistic mind. Inspired in part by the dreams of Joseph Cornell, intricate word turnings of Virginia Woolf, and psychological twists of Poe. With Kenji Bunch, Shelley Burgon, Yves Dharamraj, Cornelius Dufallo, Miguel Frasconi, Stephen Gosling, Ariana Kim, and Chris McIntyre....(more) |
Fri Apr 30 - 8:30 PM Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown experimental music scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight Jim will be joined by special guests.
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Wet Ink Ensemble Festival of New American Music, Part 1 Listen to sample music -> Sat May 1 - 8:30 PM Wet Ink presents a program of new American chamber music, including works by Erin Gee, Eric Wubbels, Amy Williams, Sam Pluta, Rama Gottfried, and Keith Moore. The program contrasts the intricate sound environments of Wubbels, Gee, Gottfried and Williams with the pulsating electro-acoustic sound masses of Pluta and Moore.
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Sun May 2 - 8:30 PM A composer and software designer, working in the intersection between image and sound using a hybrid of digital and analog media.
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MIXOLOGY: Backbreakerneckbrace: Mike & Dawn Haleta Mon May 3 - 8:30 PM Backbreakerneckbrace is Michael and Dawn Haleta. They have worked together for over a decade creating an elaborately designed and highly detailed body of audio visual based work.
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MIXOLOGY: Adam Savje & Madeleine Gallagher Tue May 4 - 8:30 PM Madeleine Gallagher (b.1977, Media, PA, USA) is a visual artist, educator and designer. Centered at the intersection of traditional object making, time-based media and performance, Madeleine uses her work as a means to investigate cultural filters and cognition in media perception. She thrives on the opportunity to make installations and objects that explore physical, visual and aural sensation, endurance and perceptual thresholds of the body. A large portion of her past work includes audio/visual performance,...(more) |
Thu May 6 - 8:30 PM Nancy Garcia is a New York based artist whose work engages various mediums, including dance, new media, performance, sound and visual art. She is interested in investigating how these and other mediums function as extensions of the body. Her work has been shown at and commissioned by several venues, including The Kitchen, Greene Naftali Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami), Tonic (NYC), The Cooler (RIP), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), Dixon Place (NYC),...(more) |
Fri May 7 - 8:30 PM Drew Krause has been composing with computer algorithms for over 20 years, often to transform traditional musical materials into unexpected and provocative contexts. This evening features first performances of some recent compositions.
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Sat May 8 - 8:30 PM The Eclipse Quartet is a new music ensemble dedicated to the music of late twentieth century and present day composers in addition to the creation of works of their own. This quartet is made up of four women with strong backgrounds in international and national chamber music performance, new music and recording. Their combined experience represents a wide range of musical styles and collaborations. "A ferociously good quartet" - San Francisco Classical Voice...(more) |
Bora Yoon w/ Luke DuBois: PHONATION Sun May 9 - 8:30 PM ( (( PHONATION )) ) is a multimedia solo performance by Bora Yoon with live video manipulations by Luke DuBois |
MIXOLOGY: Jesse Stiles, Chris Harvey & Olivia Robinson: The Harmonic Center Of The Universe Mon May 10 - 8:30 PM The Harmonic Center Of The Universe
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MIXOLOGY: Betsey Biggs: PERFORMANCE FOR CALVIN S. HALL Tue May 11 - 8:30 PM Betsey Biggs is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with music, sound, video, interactivity, installation and performance. Her work aims to expose the beautiful in the mundane, to actively engage the audience, and to transform the city into a creative interface through psychogeographic practice. Recent projects include a theatrical work with flutist and performer Margaret Lancaster, an outdoor mixer powered by people's shadows and a series of downloadable soundtracks meant for walkers to engage...(more) |
MIXOLOGY: Bioluminescence: Lesley Flanigan and Luke DuBois Wed May 12 - 8:30 PM Two performers, one singing and one processing, create a dense palette of sound and imagery derived entirely from voice.
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MIXOLOGY: Clinker “On the Other Side….” Live Cinema Thu May 13 - 8:30 PM At Mixology, Clinker will reprise his Cohen inspired live-cinema “On the Other Side… ” for the city that was once the home to the author and chanteur. This work explores Cohen’s continued romance with the chiaroscuro of the human experience by creating a journey of sound and light that draws from the words and vocal chords of Leonard Cohen. The lush bass tones of Cohen’s voice provide a point of departure as Clinker deconstructs and...(more) |
MIXOLOGY: Mendi and Keith Obadike Fri May 14 - 8:30 PM Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art and literature. Their works include The Sour Thunder, an Internet opera (Bridge Records), Crosstalk : American Speech Music (Bridge Records), a suite of new media artworks, Black.Net.Art Actions (published in re : skin on M.I.T Press), Big House / Disclosure, a 200 hour public sound installation (Northwestern University), and a poetry collection, Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press). Their intermedia work has been commissioned by, exhibited at, and performed...(more) |
John King : 10 MYSTERIES : Tzadik CD Release Event Listen to sample music -> Sat May 15 - 8:30 PM Composer and violist John King celebrates the releases of his second CD on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, entitled 10 Mysteries. Featuring passionate and inspiring performances by the remarkable quartet Crucible with King himself on viola, the music on 10 Mysteries jumps from moment to moment with lightening speed and an organic sense of form. In his second CD on Tzadik he again embraces rock, jazz, blues and other popular styles in an energetic and colorful...(more) |
Seth Cluett: Three Forms of Forgetting, featuring Okkyung Lee and Liz Tonne Sun May 16 - 8:30 PM Seth Cluett's "subtle...seductive, immersive" (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as "rigorously focused and full of detail" (e/i) and "dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature" (The Wire). Using found objects, altered consumer electronics, home-made instruments, sine tone oscillators, room acoustics and psycho-physical phenomena, Cluett's performances construct a focused, attentive perceptual space and an elastic, malleable experience of time.
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Listen to sample music -> Mon May 24 - 8:30 PM The Dan Joseph Ensemble was founded in 2001 by New York-based composer Dan Joseph as a vehicle for his growing body of intricate, post-minimal compositions. With a unique instrumentation anchored by hammer dulcimer and harpsichord with a mix of winds, strings and percussion, the ensemble sound is harmonically rich and deeply resonant, evoking a musical world both old and new; ancient and modern. The ensemble includes Tom Chiu (violin), Loren Dempster (cello), Maria Ilic (harpshichord),...(more) |
INTERPRETATIONS: Yasunao Tone / Adachi Tomomi Tue May 25 - 8:00 PM Contemporary music from two generations of Japan’s experimental music community. Yasunao Tone became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moved to the United States in 1972. Tone will premiere his MP3 Corruption Piece, a new system for live performance, based on the real-time corruption of mp3 files to generate data that controls the playback of various audio materials. Adachi Tomomi is a performer/composer, sound poet, and installation artist living in Japan. He...(more) |
The Music of Missy Mazzoli (Jerome Foundation Commission) Listen to sample music -> Fri May 28 - 8:30 PM Missy Mazzoli joins some of her favorite collaborators in a night of her music. Tonight's concert will feature the world premiere of a new piece for Missy's ensemble Victoire (commissioned by Roulette), the world premiere of a new arrangement of her work A Thousand Tongues, a rare performance of her string trio Lies You Can Believe In, and solo performances by Nadia Sirota and Kathleen Supove. Original films by Jen Stock and Stephen...(more) |
Noa Guy w/ Thomas Buckner: Drops of Consciousness Part Three Tue Jun 1 - 8:30 PM Born in Israel in 1949, Noa Guy studied in the theory department of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and continued to evolve privately and compose original pieces along with composer Abel Ehrlich. In the early 70’s Noa studied composition and electronic music with Boris Blacher in the Hochscule fur Musik in West Berlin. She moved to Norway where she made two fantastic kids and continued her explorations. After returning to Israel in 1975 Noa worked...(more) |
Brenda Hutchinson: An Evening of Offerings Thu Jun 3 - 8:30 PM An Evening of Offerings |
Brooke Gillespie (Jerome Foundation Commission) Fri Jun 4 - 8:30 PM The Holy Experiment is the solo performance of Brooke Hamre Gillespie, who was born in Ely, Minnesota in 1979. She plays bells, Tibetan singing bowls, suling flutes, recorders, electric violin, electric guitar, and uses her voice to navigate the new worlds created through the sounds. Gillespie writes. “My work is intended to reach not only those in the immediate area who listen, but consciousness is given to the sounds and vibrations produced with insight into...(more) |
Carl Maguire: That Truly Happens (Jerome Foundation Commission) Listen to sample music -> Sun Jun 6 - 8:30 PM Stephanie Griffin, viola, Alex Waterman, cello, Dan Weiss, drums, Carl Maguire, piano
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