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New York’s Roulette in October

avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp

Source: Roulette.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Evolver Records Presents: Matthew Shipp, Lola Danza, Fung Chern Hwei, George Spanos and Ben Stapp Evolver Records presents a festival of music with special guest Matthew Shipp and Evolver Record Artists: Violinist Fung Chern Hwei presenting his project Lisao, Vocalist Lola Danza presenting her project Korean Shamans, George Spanos’ Quartet and Ben Stapp & the Zozimos Myrrah’s Red Book Act II…

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Source: SLM Ensemble Album Release Concert The SLM Ensemble will perform music from “Source”, the new album release on the Liminal Music label. Featuring experimental works written for an ensemble of renowned and diverse musicians, “Source” awakens networks of interconnection and synthesis….

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Neil Rolnick – Silicon Breath: New Solos with Computer Neil Rolnick premieres two new pieces, Silicon Breath, for alto sax and computer, and Cello Ex Machina, for cello, that both exploits the ability of the computer to take a single line of a melodic instrument and transform it into an orchestral-sized sound world….

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 A Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80 pays tribute to composer-pianist Terry Riley’s enduring impact with an evening of new solo piano pieces written in honor of his eightieth birthday by Pauline Oliveros, Samuel Carl Adams, Evan Ziporyn, Gyan Riley, Christine Southworth, Luciano Chessa, Dylan Mattingly, Danny Clay, and Elena Ruehr, combined with Riley’s own Keyboard Studies from 1964 and Fandango on the Heaven Ladder from 1994….
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS

[RESIDENCY] Gelsey Bell: Prisoner’s Song Prisoner’s Song is a performance created by composer Gelsey Bell and visual artist Erik Ruin about the prison experience. Using shadow puppets and projections alongside a variety of musical idioms, the piece draws on historic ballads, poetry, audio interviews with people who have spent time in prison, and other primary sources to create a fragmentary encounter with the states of mind and heart prison engenders. …

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
2015 SONiC Festival: wild Up (New York debut) // AfterHours New Sounds – New Moves: Composers & Choreographers SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) is a festival of 21st century music by more than 60 composers age 40 and under.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Robin Holcomb: Solo An evening of solo performances by Robin Holcomb who returns to Roulette with new compositions, improvisations, original repertoire and engagements with the music of Stephen Foster, the Mississippi Sheiks and the poetry of Nazim Hikmet. The evening offers a glimpse of the “deep strangeness” (Alex Varty, Georgia Straight) haunting the work of this acclaimed composer-performer….


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