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From New York’s Roulette:

20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

http://www.roulette.org/

Byron Westbrook – Works for Improvised Guitar Feedback
Thu Apr 1 – 8:30 PM
Byron Westbrook (b. 1977) is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound and images. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on energy distilled from sound and light. Tonights performance at Roulette 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.

Richard Carrick – Flow Cycle (premiere)
Fri Apr 2 – 8:30 PM
Richard Carrick is a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Tonight’s performance markrs the world premiere 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). Carrick’s Flow Cycle has been described as “intriguing, enigmatic and eloquent,” (Bruce Hodges, Music Web UK), and is based on an in-depth, musical adaptation of the Flow Theory of Csikszentmihalyi. Carrick’s unique approach focuses Flow theories into two areas of music, the techniques of composing (achieving a musical flow of musical ideas over time) and the realm of musical perception (how musical sounds are perceived and interpreted by listeners that are in flow).

Talea Ensemble – A Tribute to Fausto Romitelli
Thu Apr 8 – 8:30 PM
The Talea Ensemble will present a tribute to the late Fausto Romitelli that will include first American performances of works that draw from his influences ranging from psychedelic rock music to microtonality and spectralism. Conducted by Matthias Pintscher, the program will also present works by Romitelli’s supporters and colleagues from the electro-acoustic research center in Paris (IRCAM): Pierre Boulez and Mauro Lanza. Highlights on the program will include Romitelli’s Trash TV Trance for solo electric guitar as well as Romitelli’s Amok Koma for eight players.

Michele Rosewoman: Time In Textures: A Collaborative Experiment with Liberty Ellman and Tyshawn Sorey
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. Michele Rosewoman has collaborated with everyone from Oliver lake, James Spaulding, Billy Hart, and Cuban master drummer/ vocalist, Orlando ‘Puntilla’ Rios. As a leader, Rosewoman has released eight recordings, most with her critically acclaimed ensemble Quintessence, and was a founding member of the pioneering 14-piece ensemble New Yor-Uba, A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America.

Reggie Nicholson Percussion Concept
Sun Apr 11 – 8:30 PM
The Reggie Nicholson Percussion Concept – with Bryan Carrott, Don Eaton, Salim Washington, Reggie Nicholso – present an evening of new compositions as well as selections from “Timbre Suite” (Tone Colors). Continuing in the tradition of drummer bandleaders such as Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, and Paul Motian, Reggie Nicholson has firmly established his reputation in this great tradition. Since relocating to New York City from Chicago in 1988, Nicholson has performed and recorded with a wide variety of new music luminaries such as Henry Threadgill, Amina Claudine Myers, Muhal Richard Abrams, Charles Gayle, Myra Melford, Anthony Braxton, Wilber Morris, Yuko Fujiyama, Roy Campbell, Butch Morris, just to name a few. To date, Nicholson has recorded four albums titled, “Unnecessary Noise Allowed”, “Percussion Peace”, “Timbre Suite”, and “Surreal Feel”.

INTERPRETATIONS: Blue Gene Tyranny / Miguel Frasconi
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 uses glass objects, electronics, keyboards, and “de-evolved” instruments to create music from a uniquely imagined tradition.

Jennifer Stock – En Plein Air DVD Release
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. Interested in the sights and sounds of everyday landscapes, Jennifer integrates field recordings and videos with instrumental music via custom built software. Her work often correlates the patterns of video feedback with granular sounds. Recent projects include her noise/folk band Oliphant and video art for ensembles Threefifty Duo and Victoire.

K O N K P A C K : Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Roger Turner w/ Shelley Hirsch
Sat Apr 17 – 8:30 PM
“I can’t think of an improvising group more explosive than this European trio” (Chicago Reader) KONK PACK brings together three major figures in contemporary music – Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, and Roger Turner. 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. For this performance at Roulette, KONK PACK will be joined by special guest Shelley Hirsch.

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 come together for “Dog of God”, an immersive, improvised experience – unabashedly journeying from maelstrom to serenity via spontaneous emotional ports of call. “A flutist whose technical resources and imagination seem limitless” (NY Times), Robert Dick’s contributions to the development of the flute and its music are profound. With equally deep roots in classical music old and new, free improvisation and new jazz, he is known as the flute’s visionary. Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisational projections working from hand-drawn forms which he then digitally manipulates, composing evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance. Billy Gomberg is a musician and video artist who incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming that gives rise to electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their own abstraction.

Daniel Levin (Jerome Foundation Commission)
Wed Apr 28 – 8:30 PM
“Not since David Darling and Hank Roberts has there been a more exciting jazz prospect on the cello…..it leaves Levin very much the man to watch.” – Penguin Guide to Jazz
Daniel Levin 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, Ken Vandermark, and many others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART. His records as a leader are on Riti Records, Hat Hut, and Clean Feed. For tonight’s concert at Roulette, Daniel Levin (cello) teams up with Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes), and Peter Bitenc (bass).

INTERPRETATIONS: Joan La Barbara / Yael Acher 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. Yael Acher-Modiano (flute) and Irina Kalina-Goudeva (bass, and voice) present “Two – Walk”, a multimedia electro-acoustic performance which incorporates also drama, and movement.”

Jim Staley with Special Guests!
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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