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From New York’s Roulette:

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

http://www.roulette.org/

November 1st @ 8:30pm
Neil Rolnick
Neil Rollnick, a pioneer in computer performance, creates unexpected and unusual combinations of media and material in his work. Tonight, Neil is joined by pianist Kathleen Supove and violinist Jennifer Choi for the presentation of Fiddle Faddle for violin & computer, Digits for piano & computer, Hammer & Hair, a large scale acoustic piece for violin and piano, Uptown Jump, with trio MAYA (Sato Moughalian, flute, Jacqueline Kerrod, harp, John Hadfield, percussion) as well as solo laptop pieces.

November 10th & 17th @ 8:30pm
Adam Rudolph: GO Organic Orchestra
Composer Adam Rudolph returns this fall with another concert series for Go: Organic Orchestra. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

November 13th @ 8:30pm
Kenta Nagai / Jenifer Walshe
Guitar/Shamisen (traditional Japanese string instrument) player Kenta Nagai works with acoustic and electronic sound, visual media and live performance. A frequent collaborator with artists working in dance, theater and film, the boundaries of Nagai’s sound work erode, allowing a deep exploration of audience/performer relationships, orientation of audiences in the space and distribution methods of sound.

Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin in 1974 and studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes, Kevin Volans and most recently in Chicago, where she is still based, with Amnon Wolman. An internationally renowned composer and vocalist, her hybrid musical theater blends wit, intellectual prowess, and political critique in the form of operas for Barbie dolls, ceremonies to placate dead drum solos, pieces for passive-aggressive choir, and indexes of hundreds of pop songs discharged in just a minute.

November 14th @ 8:30pm
Andrew Lamb
“Andrew Lamb couples notes the way storytellers spin words into spellbinding tales, weaving visions and dreams the way visual artists blend pastel and neon hues.” Jazz saxophonist and flautist Andrew Lamb has been a driving force in New York City’s avant-garde community since the 70s, performing with such large ensembles as the Composer’s Workshop Ensemble, Alan Silva Sound Vision Orchestra, Cecil Taylor Vision Orchestra, and the Roy Campbell Ensemble. His music rises out of the African–American church, blues, and jazz traditions, and is deeply spiritual, profoundly emotional, and easily accessible.

November 15th @ 2:00pm
Gloorf! Dafna Naphtali Children’s Concert
$5
Dafna Naphtali, sound-artist/improviser-composer who has worked with everyone from Jin Hi Kim, to Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, and Fred Frith presents: Gloorf! an interactive kids show introducing the kids to all kinds of wacky and historical concepts in new music, sound art and digital performance. Gloorf!, invites children of all ages to participate as we make music out of kitchen appliances, electronic instruments, Theremin, samplers and voice processing, animal sound, electronic toys and various body parts and other surprises.

November 15th @ 8:30pm
Clocked Out Duo “Foreign Objects”
“Clocked Out Duo are ready and willing to expand your musical horizons” (Splendid). Piano and percussion become sculptural installation in the newest works by Clocked Out Duo. Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson use bowls, bottles, tiles, recycled materials, a grand piano, and toy instruments to create intricate sound textures that pay homage to two of their musical heroes: Terry Riley and Morton Feldman, both masters of intricate pattern and expanded space. In perhaps the most striking visual and sonic work of the program, Lavender Mist, an array of objects litter the floor – approaching the performance like an action painter, Tomlinson whips two nylon ropes in a chaotic dance, striking an array of plates, bowls and other detritus, accompanied by Griswold’s prepared piano.

November 20th @ 8pm
INTERPRETATIONS: JB Floyd: New Music for Yamaha Disklavier™
Raphael Mostel: Intimate, Acoustic
JB Floyd is a masterful pianist in his own right, but this concert features his works for the Yamaha Disklavier™, a MIDI-powered player-piano, which enables Floyd to take his pianistic virtuosity to new compositional and improvisational heights. This program will feature a piece with the setting of a new poem by Daniel Abdul-Hayy Moore. Working exclusively with acoustic and deliberately spare means, Raphael Mostel has been described as “one of New York’s original composers”. Mostel will present a rare solo performance of intimate works for piano and spoken word, featuring previews of his “Letter to Benoit Mandelbrot” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bela.”

November 21st @ 8:30pm
Rolf Julius: “Music for a longer Time”
Since 1979, Rolf Julius (Berlin) has been producing works straddling the borderline between music and art. Interested in the surface of a sound – its physicality and its relationship to time, Julius uses simple instrumentation coupled with precomposed recordings and live mixing to create symbiotic relationships between the sound, space, and the situation of the audience.

November 22nd @ 8:30pm
Stephen Gauci “Basso Continuo” / E.R.A
The name “Basso Continuo” refers not to early music but rather to the double double bass backbone Mike Bisio and Ken Filiano provide to Stephen Gauci’s quartet. On this remarkable group these sub-sonic kindred spirits interweave to form a lattice work that supports the multitude of sounds that tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci and trumpeter Nate Wooley draw from their instruments and imaginations. Somehow the pair squeeze their oversized axes into every nook and cranny the music creates. These two teams —the pair of provocative horn players and the contemporary basso continuo — make a fantastic and unexpected combination.

The E.R.A. is a septet with the power of a trio dealing with a subtle sensibiliy, silence, harmony and texture. Since 2005, these seven musicians have each performed and recorded in various duos, trios, and quartets. Inspired by these smaller combinations, Chris Welcome, Johnathan Moritz, John McLellan and Shayna Dulberger composed and arranged music for this unique instrumentation. They released their first album, ‘Introducing…The E.R.A.’ in may of 2008. It is available at Downtown Music Gallery and emptyroommusic.net.

November 23rd @ 8pm
Sarah Weaver & Mark Dresser: Spectral Syn
Internationally acclaimed bassist, improviser, and composer, Mark Dresser, teams up with composer/conductor Sarah Weaver for the presentation of Spectral Syn, a new work for large ensemble exploring multiplicity, distributive resonance, and musical expression. With Spectral Syn, Weaver and Dresser have developed a form that translates metaphor into specific musical materials, which are then modulated through the conducted language, Soundpainting.

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