The May schedule for NY’s Roulette is available.
For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
ROULETTE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MOVE INTO OUR NEW HOME: 20 GREENE
STREET in SOHO. With this new space, Roulette will be expanding activities
to include over 100 concerts, sound installations, longer runs of music
theater and other large productions such as the “Avant Jazz – Still
Moving†festival and the annual “Festival of Mixology.†For our expanded
events calendar go to: http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, May 3rd
Kim Young / Jessica Feldman
Kim Young
Choreographer/dancer Kim Young will collaborate with dancer Krista Nelson
and composer/sound artist Stephan Moore in a new work that pairs exacting
unison, improvisation and vibration-based movement with a live sound
score.
Jessica Feldman – “Final Statement”
Feldman presents “Final Statement”, a political, delicate, violent and
interactive sound sculpture that explores oral history, recording
technology, the privatization of sounds and communal decisions about
preservation and destruction. The piece involves technologies that execute
these decisions and requires audience participation for its ultimate
realization: a short circuit that electrocutes an original and singular
recording. Feldman is an intermedia artist working with sound, sculpture,
installation, insteractivity and technology.
Friday, May 4th
Michelle Nagai with Ursula Scherrer – Synthetic Hand Holding
Composer Nagai, joined by video artist Scherrer, sends a wired audience on
an intimate audio-visual journey through the revolving door of
mind/matter, deep into the land of mists and vapors.
Saturday, May 5th
Pulse Jazz Composers – Sihr Halal: Music of Praise and Celebration
[AJSM Event: “AVANT-JAZZ – STILL MOVING†FESTIVAL]
Sihr Halal features the premiere of six compositions by the Pulse
composers that meld improvisation, contemporary classical and world music
in a modern re-imagining of Western and non-Western musical traditions.
Music by: Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Darcy James Argue, Jamie Begian, JC
Sanford, Joshua Shneider, and Yumiko Sunami, performed by: Ben Kono
(saxophones, clarinets, oboe, English horn, flute, chinese flutes,
shakuhachi), Dan Willis (saxophones, clarinets, oboe, English horn, flute,
Armenian Duduk, Zurna), Meg Okura (violin & erhu), William Martina
(cello), Jacob Garchik (laptop), Yumi Kurosawa (koto), Luke Notary & TBA
(percussion).
Sunday, May 6th
The Bill Horvitz Expanded Band in Tribute to Philip Horvitz
Jazz, funk, folk, improv, spoken word & more come together in a night of
compositions created in memory of the composer’s brother. Featuring Jason
Hwang, Vincent Chancey, Marty Ehrlich, Steven Bernstein, David Sewelson,
Wayne Horvitz, Sara Schoenbeck, Marcus Rojas, Ken Filiano, Joseph Sabella,
Steve Adams, Harris Eisenstadt, Katie Harlow, Robin Eschner, Robin
Holcomb, Kyle Bruckman, Darren Johnston, Omid Zoufonoun & Brian
Thorstensen.
Friday, May 11th
Dave Dove & Pauline Oliveros — Deep Syrup without the Sentiment: H-Town
Oozing Upward
Renegade stirrings and outbursts from the Houston musical underground.
With: Pauline Oliveros, Maria Chavez, Chris Cogburn, David Dove, Sandy
Ewen, Juan Garcia & Jason Jackson
Sunday, May 13th [8 pm]
Second Annual Mother’s Day Concert [curated by Gisburg]
Roulette celebrates Mother’s Day with a program of extraordinary
superwomen, all of whom are composers, artists and mothers. Including:
Beth Griffith, Janene Higgins, Kyoko Kitamra & Ursel Schlicht.
Thursday, May 17th
Kris Davis / Lindha Kallerdahl [AJSM Event]
Kris Davis
Pianist and composer Kris Davis has been tearing up the New York jazz
scene for the past five years at venues such the Knitting Factory and the
Cornelia Street Café. Known for her expansive lyricism that easily shifts
to radical energy, tonight she plays solo.
Lindha Kallerdahl
Award-winning jazz vocalist Kallerdahl has collaborated with the likes of
Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, William Parker & Okkyung Lee. Based in Sweden,
tonight she brings her most recent project to NYC in a rare appearance.
Friday, May 18th
Ned Rothenberg – Benefit for Roulette [all tickets $15]
Exhaustively adventurous composer/reedist Ned Rothenberg presents solos,
duo and trios with Markas Rojas, John Zorn and others TBA.
Saturday, May 19th
Matthew Welch and Wayang Kontemporer
Composer/bagpiper Welch presents two multimedia works inspired by Balinese
shadow play, and the premiere of Borges and the Other, an opera performed
by Welch’s ensemble Blarvuster with Balinese dance by Desiree A. Seguritan
and Borges’s texts. Also a performance of Bhima Swarga, with Ikue Mori
(electronic sound & animations of traditional Balinese paintings) &
Gamelan Dharma Swara performing Welch’s bagpipe inspired compositions for
Balinese gamelan semara dana. Borges and the Other has been commissioned
by Roulette with the support of the Jerome Foundation.
Sunday, May 20th
Janis Mercer / Cyrus Pireh with Anthony Jay Ptak
Janis Mercer – “While Away/On Friendship”
“While Away/On Friendship” is a series of tape and piano & tape pieces
influenced by travel, language, culture and friendship. Painter Tammy
Nguyen collaborates with paintings for two works, “Sound Portraits” and
“Citytudes”.
Cyrus Pireh with Anthony Jay Ptak
Cyrus Pireh is the world’s greatest living electric guitarist. Anthony Jay
Ptak is an experimental thereminist, artist, and composer. Their sounds
explore the relationship between electricity, touch and non-touch in a
context of extreme sonic density.
Thursday, May 24th
Bernadette Speach — Steppin’ out and movin’ on…
Award-winning & multifaceted composer Speach presents a night of premiers,
performed by Gustavo Aguilar, Anney Bonney, Anthony de Mare, Lauralyn
Kolb, Andrea La Rose, Margot Leverett, Jeffrey Schanzer, Ricardo Souza and
the composer.
Friday, May 25th
Matana Roberts — “Black Man” [AJSM Event]
Saxophonist Roberts pays homage to the positive role of black manhood in
her life and music. Based on the works of J.A. Rogers and on her own
personal research into the minds of men of the diasporic persuasion, her
work is a celebration in sound for mini brass band, wordspeak & movement
master.
Saturday, May 26th
Rocco Di Pietro with Kathleen Supové
Di Pietro is a composer/interdisciplinary artist whose work had toured the
world, performed by everyone from the Kronos to the Brooklyn Phil. Tonight
by the versatile and explosively experimental Supové (piano).
