April at Roulette

Upcoming shows next month at NY’s Roulette.

For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: doron@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, April 4th
GRAHAM HAYNES + HARDEDGE 8:30pm
The music that Graham Haynes (cornet, electronics) and Hardedge (sound
design) create explores the inner-workings of sound and synthesis through
dense musical soundscapes, unrestricted freedom of movement, and vibrant
sonic constructions rich in textural designs with a structural foundation
that’s philosophically clear. Their music becomes a surrealistic
construction that defies the imagination, a stunning chemistry between two
uncompromising artists rarely found in today’s art of sound.

Saturday, April 5th
BETH GRIFFITH 8:30pm
“Beth Griffith is a musician of such versatility the word “singer” is
totally inadequate.”(The Cue, Grahamstown,South Africa). Vocalist Beth
Griffith is joined by Andrew Bolotowsky (flute) and Bern Nix (guitar) for an
evening of compositions by Mary Jane Leach, John McGuire, Noah Creshevsky,
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, and Mauricio Kagel.

Sunday, April 6th
Children¹s Concert w/ JENNIFER UNDERCOFLER
“Face the Music: New Works Played by Teens and Tweens” 3pm $10
“Made up of twenty students, ages 10 to 15, Face the Music was founded in
the fall of 2005 by Special Music School Music Director Jenny Undercofler
and composer Huang Ruo. In January of 2008, the group helped to re-open
Merkin Hall with the premiere of Ira Mowitz’s Kol Aharon for violin, digital
soundtrack, and ensemble. Face the Music has also performed works by John
Adams, Louis Andriessen, Caleb Burhans, and others.

Sunday, April 6th
LA BELLE USINE a.s.b.l. 8:30pm
La Belle Usine a.s.b.l. presents Shades of Jazz on Noir, a combination of
the passion and despondency of classic film noir with the texture and
dynamism of modern improvisation, resulting in a unique, growth oriented
experience for students of film, jazz and new music. Tonight¹s highly
original project features Herb Robertson, Matt Darriau, Angelica Sanchez,
and film by Ana Isabel Ordonez.

April 8th & 9th
Food Music Theater Festival: MIMI OKA & DOUG FITCH 8pm
Help us make Orphic Memory Sausages! Bring anything that evokes a memory of
place or time or experience that you wish to transform into sausage ­ a
souvenir that can be chopped up into tiny pieces ­ an old CD or cassette
tape, a cracked plate, photographs of old lovers, dried fish, yesterday¹s
newspaper, etcÅ and together we will smash, chop and pulverize everything,
mixing all of it into a great pulp to be stuffed into pig intestines and
hung to dry or perhaps even smoked. Everyone will thus be able to take home
a link of collective memory sausage at the end of the day.

April 11th / 12th
Food Music Theater Festival: FAST FORWARD
11th @ 7pm, 12th @ 8pm
Composer/Performer Fast Forward presents “Muisque a’la Mode”, a new music
piece for Umami in which every instrument is derived from the common day
kitchen. A culinary composition for the modern day!

April 14th / 15th
Food Music Theater Festival: Miwa Koizumi, Annie Lanzillotto
Gastronomic Interactive Installations

April 17th / 18th
Food Music Theater Festival: ENSEMBLE 209
17th @ 7:30pm ($100), 18th @ 8pm ($20)
A performance based around words derived from the linguistic milieu of food
and cooking and begin with the letters that make up the term PERFORMANCE.
During the course of the piece the performers create a rich text comprised
of action, object, image, word and the sounds that emanate from them. The
letters of the word PERFORMANCE are represented on 11 work surfaces on which
the participants “cook” the event. The surfaces, as well as food products,
dishes, and cooking utensils change their place and role throughout the
piece to create a new “dish.” In Hebrew, “foodies” often equate exquisite
gourmet food with poetry. In this performance, the poetic structure and
poetic nature are indicators of the dish and its cooking/writing as poetry,
only here the result is unusual.

Sunday, April 20th
PETER BROTZMANN + HAN BENNINK + PETER EVANS 8:30pm
German free jazz virtuoso Peter Brotzmann, recognizable by his fierce,
high-impact sonic assault style saxophone and clarinet playing and best
known for his seminal album, Machine Gun, is joined by longtime collaborator
Han Bennink (percussion) and rising star of the New York scene,
trumpeter/composer Peter Evans.

Wednesday, April 23rd
DANIEL LEVIN QUARTET 8:30pm
The music of the Daniel Levin Quartet places the cello in the lyrical front
and center. It unabashedly embraces the traditional voice and timbre of the
cello as found in Brahms and Schubert, while including jazz-informed
articulation and phrasing, as well as a variety of extended techniques.
Daniel Levin is joined tonight by Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes),
and Peter Bitenc (bass).

Saturday, April 26th
THE PAVONES 8:30pm
“The Pavones” is the result of a life long (29yrs.) of musical influences.
An avid fan of new music and improvisation who grew up a kid of the 80’s
90’s, string instrumentalist/composer and founder of Peacock Recordings,
Jessica Pavone is searching to find a way to merge influences of the
different sounds she has ever loved through her own voice as a composer.
>From the first study of Beethoven’s Violin Romance in F, to the highly
influential adoption of her father’s old vynyl collection as a young
teenager; growing up with the Four Seasons and Murry the K compilations as
well as “formal” study of classical viola and composition. She now learns
and grows from being a working musician amongst others a vast city of
creativity, and other influential interests include folk rock, free
improvisation, William Primrose, Jeffry Hyman, soul, the hopes of returning
as Florence Ballard in the next life, visual arts and the grace of the human
body.

Sunday, April 27th
MARY O’DONNELL FULKERSON 8:30pm
Mary O’Donnell Fulkerson, a major influence in the development of New Dance,
presents an evening of three videos with dance: One Man, Arctic Fox, and Her
Words. For More info on Mary O¹Donnell Fulkerson please visit
http://www.releasedance.com.

Tuesday, April 29th
JOHN ZORN: Roulette Benefit Concert Cobra 8:30pm All Tickets $20
Written and premiered in 1984, “Cobra” is a classic in the circles of new
music, having been performed innumerable times. In fact, composer and
“prompter” John Zorn says in the liners that it his most-often-performed
composition — no mean feat considering his prolific output. It is no
wonder, though: There is a mischievous, cartoonish quality to it that
epitomizes Zorn’s style but also makes for continually fascinating
listening. Based on the composer’s secretive “game pieces,” “Cobra” is a
fun-filled, mystical, blindfolded ride down a dark alley that circles back
every few yards. (Steven Loewy, All Music Guide). Come support Roulette
with this performance of Cobra! All-star lineup to be announced soon…