ROULETTE IS MOVING TO BROOKLYN
509 Atlantic Ave
At the Corner of Atlantic & 3rd Ave in Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR
Visit www.roulette.org/newroulette to find out more about our new space!
$10 General Admission
$10 Students/Seniors
Free for All Roulette Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass
DANCEROULETTE, a five night festival of performing artists working within movement, sound, spatial design, visual cacophony, choreography, improvisation, ephemeriality, and theatrical re-imagining.
Tess Dworman - Bear Enters, Scoffs
Clarinda MacLow- Tribute- short improvisation scores from dance luminaries Jennifer Monson, Yvonne Meier, and Linda Austin, and one score from a surprise guest.
Melanie Maar - Same Selves
$10 General Admission
$10 Students/Seniors
Free for All Roulette Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass
DANCEROULETTE, a five night festival of performing artists working within movement, sound, spatial design, visual cacophony, choreography, improvisation, ephemeriality, and theatrical re-imagining.
Julie Alexander - From nothing real
Megan Byrne - Untitled dance for Stephanie Waddell
Biba Bell - Mouth (w/ objects)
From nothing real
Choreography and Performance by Julie Alexander
Vocal Composition and Performance by Gelsey Bell
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
Free for All Roulette Members
U.S. Premiere performances of pieces written for Petr Kotik's 70th birthday by Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Alex Mincek, Pauline Kim, and Jaroslav Stasny, performed by members of the S.E.M. Ensemble. SEM will also perform Petr Kotik's own duo for piano and cello, "For Arianne," and violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris will perform Kotik's "There...(more)
$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors
Thomas Buckner’s 24th annual concert of commissioned works for baritone voice! Composers featured on this evening include his long-time collaborators, esteemed composers Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, along with New York premieres by Anne Guthrie, Narong Prangcharoen, and Kit Young. Featuring, Thomas Buckner (voice) Theodore Mook (cello), Chris Nappi (percussion), Jill Van Nostrand (french horn), Sun Ying (guqin), and Kit Young (piano).
$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors
Roulette presents Grammy nominated trombonist Roswell Rudd and his highly acclaimed quartet featuring Ken Filiano - bass, Lafayette Harris - piano; Sunny Kim, vocals. One of the most imaginative players, Rudd is known for his work with groundbreaking groups and musicians like Herbie Nichols, the New York Art Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, and Steve Lacy. Rudd has worked extensively in...(more)
ROULETTE KIDS presents: Your voice, my violin
February 11th 2012
$5 Kids and Adults (Children under 3 Free)
Call to Reserve Your Spot Today! 917-267-0365 or email amanda@roulette.org
Your voice, my violin
Speaking, sighing, laughing, crying, growling, grunting, whispering, shouting: these are just some of the sounds you can make with your voice. Violinist/composer Tom Swafford, along with singers Amirtha Kidambi and Gelsey Bell, will lead you on an exploration of vocal sounds. Together we will make...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students/Seniors
Free for All Roulette Members
Sound Artists activate the unique acoustics of Roulette's newly renovated 1920s Art Deco theater with multichannel spacialized sound. With speakers set up throughout the entire Roulette space, visitors are invited to wander freely during the event, creating their own sonic and spacial narrative.
Featuring work and performances by:
Daniel Neumann
Maria Chavez
Alfredo Marin
Zeljko McMullen
Doron Sadja
Tristan Shepherd
Mario Diaz de Leon
Ben Vida
Sabisha Friedberg
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
Free for All Roulette Members
Free For Kids Under 16
FACE THE MUSIC returns to Roulette! This time, spinning renditions in the new theater. The exuberant
teens will present works by Angelica Negron, Kenji Bunch and Philip Glass.
Listening to Negron's "El Gran Caleidoscopio" is like looking straight into the sun and feeling the
polychrome consume your bones. Negron, who hails from Puerto Rico, assembles...(more)
Andrea Parkins - electric accordion, laptop electronics, amplified objects
Hans Tammen - endangered guitar, analog modular synth
Edward Perraud - percussion, electronics
Didier Petit - cello, voice
I.R.I.S. is Andrea Parkins, Hans Tammen, Edward Perraud, and DIdier Petit: sonic innovators who each have explored a wide and deep range of approaches to composition and improvisation in contexts ranging from avant-jazz to chamber music to improvised electro-acoustic music. The band's electic instrumentation - electronically-processed accordion, laptop...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
$10 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass XPRMNTL <3 FSTVL Pass purchasers click HERE
Roulette's Five Night Festival of Love <3
Tonight includes work by:
Terri Hanlon's Meringue Diplomacy
featuring a live enhanced soundtrack with:
David Behrman, Gisburg & Eric Barsness
The Chutneys: Fast Forward, Chris Cochrane & Gelsey Bell
Meringue Diplomacy
Terri Hanlon, 2010, 57 min.
Meringue Diplomacy is a fantasy...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
$10 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass XPRMNTL <3 FSTVL Pass purchasers click HERE
Roulette's Five Night Festival of Love <3
Tonight includes work by:
Gabrielle Herbst
John Leland
Eyebodega
GABRIELLE HERBST
Hot and cold spaces in nature and fantasy, born at Robert Wilson’s The Watermill Center and developed in Brooklyn. Composed by Gabrielle Herbst (voice) in collaboration...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
$10 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass
Roulette's Five Night Festival of Love <3
Tonight includes work by:
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Jim Staley & Zeena Parkins
Sam Mickens' Micropatronage
Sam Mickens
Debut performance of Sam Mickens' "Micropatronage" (Ten New String Quartets)
Performed by:
Patti Kilroy-Violin
Tom Swafford-Violin
Erin Wight-Viola
Clarice Jensen-Cello
...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
$10 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
$35 For 5 Night Pass
Roulette's Five Night Festival of Love <3
ESP TV taping hosted by Sam Mickens featuring Little Women, Grasshopper, MV Carbon w/ C Spencer Yeh, and Amanda Long (curated by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie)
E.S.P. TV is a showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance produced by...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
Free for All Roulette Members
AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in...(more)
$10 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
Free for All Roulette Members
IDR is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco Cappelli and Jim Pugliese, whose mutual reverence for the villages’ ritual music brought them to the following statement: reflect the process of memory’s distortion of the second/third immigrantes generation, living in the New Yorker cultural melting pot with a strong traditional background; give back to the...(more)
A program of music and remembrances honoring musician, composer and filmmaker Richard Lainhart (Feb 14, 1953–Dec 30, 2011). The program will be followed by a 30 minute screening/performance of Richard's last film work 'History of the Future' with a live improvised soundtrack by the 'Orchestra of the Future.'
History of the Future
The film, 'History of the Future' is sourced entirely from technical, medical, and instructional animations from the 30s through the 70s, all of it public-domain...(more)
$15 General Admission
$10 Students With Valid ID
$10 Seniors Over 65
$10 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
An evening of two innovative women in music on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Chinese-American composer Bun-Ching Lam presents premieres of her new works “Five Songs From Cold Mountain” (for baritone, flute, viola & harp) and “…Like Water” (for violin, piano & percussion). Trombonist Monique Buzzarté presents the world premiere of “Tracing”...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first NYC appearance in over 20 years with piece Two Huts. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first NYC appearance in over 20 years with piece Two Huts. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for...(more)
Adults:$20
Students with ID:$15
Seniors 65 and over:$15
Members:$15
Free For All Access Members
Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first NYC appearance in over 20 years with piece Two Huts. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for adventurous work precedes her while her unique...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first NYC appearance in over 20 years with piece Two Huts. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for adventurous...(more)
From its early settlement through present day, Brooklyn remains a village of workers and artists bursting with creativity, passion and rebellion; a community where the famous and the faceless make history together.
Join us for a groundbreaking musical and multimedia experience, as we journey through time to connect Brooklyn's past and present with a program of classics and stunning world premieres.
From its early settlement through present day, Brooklyn remains a village of workers and artists bursting with creativity, passion and rebellion; a community where the famous and the faceless make history together.
Join us for a groundbreaking musical and multimedia experience, as we journey through time to connect Brooklyn's past and present with a program of classics and stunning world premieres.
Scott Amendola – drums and electronics
Trevor Dunn – bass
Dohee Lee – vocals
Larry Ochs – saxophones and compositions
KIHNOUA is a term borrowed from ancient Greek that might have meant “the difference.” Or perhaps: “the unity of opposites” ...on the one hand oral traditions; on the other hand new-jazz spontaneity. A long-time fan of traditional Korean p’ansori folk-singing and of Korean sinawi improvisation, it is with great pleasure that Larry Ochs presents music that intermingles the thoughts,...(more)
Call to Reserve Your Spot Today! 917-267-0365 or email amanda@roulette.org
Doors Open at 12:45
To celebrate some of the most bizarre animals on the planet (as well as some of the most bizarre musical instruments), Michael Hearst has devised Song For Unusual Creatures. Together with his five-piece band (dressed in unusual animal costumes), the group performs instrumental songs inspired by such beastly oddities as the aye-aye, the magnapinna squid, the...(more)
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)
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)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
The Recipe Project
by One Ring Zero
With a special, live addition of The Food Seen on Heritage Network Radio, hosted by Michael Harlan Turkell.
A unique, recently published book and CD project presents recipes by top chefs scored by Brooklyn based, indie rock band, One Ring Zero. Lead by composer Michael Hearst, the band...(more)
"Featuring the colorful piano of Sylvie Courvoisier, the groundbreaking laptop electronics of Ikue Mori and the dynamic drumming of Susie Ibarra, Mephista is one of the most spectacular new music groups working today, a perfect blend of heart, fire and mind." ...(more)
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)
Eccentric Motions Dance presents Mr. Bear’s Furniture Testing Center, an exuberant encounter with dangerous objects and debris, directed by Pooh Kaye with music composed by percussionist Michael Suchorsky. Also on the same evening choreographers, Pooh Kaye and Sally Silver, make a heroic effort to deconstruct an impossibly difficult improvisational performance of theirs circa 1984. Pooh Kaye and Ms. Silvers will be joined by percussionist, Michael Suchorsky and his guest, vocalist, Shelley Hirsch. ...(more)
Circuitous Body
a collaboration of music and dance
choreography: Chris Ferris
composer: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
dancers: Melissa Brading, Grace DiLorenzo, Haley Hauglum, Kristen Mangione, and Alexandra Rose
musicians: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello), Leanne Darling (viola), and Helen Lee (violin)
Chris Ferris & Dancers is known for its fearless action, physical indulgence, and elegant design. Loren Kiyoshi Dempster’s music for Circuitous Body will be created by musicians moving in the space much as the dancers do, yet covering with sound...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Iconoclast composer Robert Ashley revisits his opera, Concrete, with eight new songs. Each evening's performance features four solo songs (Portraits) about ordinary people who did extraordinary things for which they'll never be recognized, alternating with ensemble sections (Meditations) with short solos sung by Ashley (as The Observer). This is story-telling in...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Iconoclast composer Robert Ashley revisits his opera, Concrete, with eight new songs. Each evening's performance features four solo songs (Portraits) about ordinary people who did extraordinary things for which they'll never be recognized, alternating with ensemble sections (Meditations) with short solos sung by Ashley (as The Observer). This is story-telling in...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Iconoclast composer Robert Ashley revisits his opera, Concrete, with eight new songs. Each evening's performance features four solo songs (Portraits) about ordinary people who did extraordinary things for which they'll never be recognized, alternating with ensemble sections (Meditations) with short solos sung by Ashley (as The Observer). This is story-telling in...(more)
$20 General Admission
$15 Students With Valid ID
$15 Seniors Over 65
$15 Roulette Members
Free for Roulette All Access Members
Iconoclast composer Robert Ashley revisits his opera, Concrete, with eight new songs. Each evening's performance features four solo songs (Portraits) about ordinary people who did extraordinary things for which they'll never be recognized, alternating with ensemble sections (Meditations) with short solos sung by Ashley (as The Observer). This is story-telling in...(more)
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)
Evocative and otherworldly, Kaija Saariaho's soundscapes are rich in textural and timbral detail. Known especially for her works for instruments with electronics, ICE presents this rare all-acoustic concert featuring Saariaho's chamber works up close and personal at Roulette.
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
“bracing, illuminating, reassuring” - Financial Times
“brilliant” - New Yorker
“extraordinary” - New York Times
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by the New York Times as “one of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new...(more)
Toni Dove's Spectropia
performed by Toni Dove and R.Luke DuBois
A live-mix cinema event, a scratchable movie performed by Toni Dove and project software designer R. Luke DuBois: video DJs playing a movie instrument. Spectropia is a sci-fi hybrid featuring time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, following the Great Crash. Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through a mix of film,...(more)
Elliott Sharp and the '31 Band perform "Spectropia Suite"
with live video performed by Toni Dove and R. Luke DuBois, guest starring Debbie Harry
For the score to Toni Dove's Spectropia, an interactive media event set in a possible England in 2099 and in New York City in 1931 after the stock market crash, composer Sharp created two different noir sound-worlds: for the future, one of distressed computers and tortured guitars; for New York 1931, one...(more)
A modular dance opera for Blarvuster by Matthew Welch
for 2 Mezzo-sopranos, Baritone, Tenor, chorus, flute/piccolo, viola, 2 electric guitars, piano, bass guitar, vibraphone, drumkit
For some time now, I have been working on a series of short operas (or modular “Acts”) centered around the luminary Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, all to be played by an expanded version of my ensemble Blarvuster. In 2007, the first of these Borges mini-operas premiered and had a few...(more)
An evening of new electro-acoustic music from Earl Howard and Melvyn Poore. English tubist Melvyn Poore, member of MusiFabrik as well as the large ensembles of Barry Guy, Georg Graewe, and Wolfgang Fuchs, will present his works for tuba with electronics performed by Corte Lippe. 2011 Guggenheim Fellow Earl Howard, a pioneer in the development of live electronic processing, presents the premiere of “Superstring”, with Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Alan Jaffe (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto),...(more)
ImproTech is an event bringing together composers, performers and researchers coming from USA and France and specially interested by the use of technology for musical improvisation. Tonight's concert celebrates the begining of this festival which continues with conferences and workshops at NYU and Columbia University from May 17th to 19th.
Featuring performances by:
Roscoe Mitchel, Sax, David Wessel, electronics
Mari Kimura, violin & electronics, Steve Lehman, sax & electronics
Laurent Mariusse, percussions, Georges Bloch, electronics
Steve Coleman, sax,...(more)
"A spellbinding performance...like breaths taken, each unique, but from the same source" - LA Times
The Los Angeles based Eclipse Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to 20th century and present day composers. On the first night of their two night residency at Roulette, Eclipse will be joined by pianist Vicki Ray for the performance of Morton Feldman's 1985 epic Piano and String Quartet. The second night will feature an evening exclusively of...(more)
"A spellbinding performance...like breaths taken, each unique, but from the same source" - LA Times
The Los Angeles based Eclipse Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to 20th century and present day composers. On the first night of their two night residency at Roulette, Eclipse will be joined by pianist Vicki Ray for the performance of Morton Feldman's 1985 epic Piano and String Quartet. The second night will feature an evening exclusively of...(more)
Commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," (All Music) saxophonist Tim Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s. For this very special occasion, Tim Berne will be introducing a new 50 minute suite written for this new octet as well as some "extreme reworkings" of recent work for 6 person ensemble.
Erik Friedlander (cello), Matt Mitchell (piano), Ches Smith (percussion), Oscar Noriega (clarinets), Ryan Ferreira (guitar),...(more)
Jerome Kitzke and The Mad Coyote, with special guests ETHEL, actor Jennifer Kathryn Marshall, percussionist Barbara Merjan, pianist Sarah Cahill, and accordionist Guy Klucevsek, will perform a concert of Kitzke's music including the world premiere of Winter Count, an antiwar piece for actor, bass drum, and string quartet....(more)
