Source: Roulette.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Joel Harrison and Infinite Possibility: Premiering 7 new works for 18-piece jazz orchestra
This music is a follow up to Joel Harrison’s first large jazz ensemble recording from 2013, Infinite Possibility. Each of the six pieces explores the intersection of dance grooves with unusual orchestration, improv, and surprising compositional twists and turns. It aims to cajole, inspire, provoke, entertain, and enlighten….THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Tristan Perich: Three Improvisations Tristan Perich will perform three improvisations using piano and 1-bit electronics.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
beyond: a video and sound performance by Ursula Scherrer with MV Carbon and Shelley Hirsch
Video artist Ursula Scherrer together with Shelley Hirsch (voice) and MV Carbon (cello and synthesizer) will stretch, pull, distort and expand the boundaries of image, sound and space to reach to that which is beyond….WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Special Twindrums Project with Yoshimio and Ikue Mori
Yoshimio and Ikue Mori met in the 80’s in Osaka, and have been involved together with different projects throughout the decades. Twindrum is project that started in Brooklyn in 2013, and performed in Japan in 2014….THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Interpretations presents AACM50: Wadada Leo Smith // Douglas Ewart & Quasar
New works from two renowned composers from the AACM: Wadada Leo Smith presents “Voice, Strings, & Vibraphone Looking For the Most Refined Beauty” and “Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience 1849, Six Ideas”, featuring A Secret Quartet (Corneilus Dufallo, Jennifer Choi, Lev Zhurbin, Yves Dharamraj), Bobby Naughton, Thomas Buckner, and others. Douglas Ewart presents new music for a new ensemble….FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Bérangère Maximin presents Siklon Sound objects, microphonics, digital chimeras. Bérangère Maximin’s music engages the listener in considerations of space and textures. Since her debut album, Tant Que Les Heures Passent on Tzadik (2008), she has gradually developed a hyper-personal style, creating sensual, hypnotic, sultry pieces with immediate impact. The electroacoustic composer’s repertoire is marked by encounters that have inspired her writing in various degrees….MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Two Nights December 14th- 15th Henry Threadgill’s Double Up Ensemble
Roulette presents two nights of Henry Threadgill’s Double-Up ensemble as he personally honors the 50th Anniversary of the AACM.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Two Nights December 14th- 15th Henry Threadgill’s Double Up Ensemble
Roulette presents two nights of Henry Threadgill’s Double-Up ensemble as he personally honors the 50th Anniversary of the AACM.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2015 @ 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
[RESIDENCY] Fire Breathing: David Byrd-Marrow, Peter Evans, Steve Lehman, Anthony Orji
Peter Evans has convened a new quartet of wind players for a premiere performance of collaborative music. Steve Lehman (saxophones), David Byrd-Marrow (french horn) and Anthony Orji (bass clarinet) will work with Evans, composing new structures for improvisation and sonic exploration. The all-wind instrument format is a rare one; the group will seek to both explore and break the limits imposed by breath sustained instruments, with each member of the group contributing his own unique voice and timbral approach to create a hybrid and ultra dynamic music….MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015 @ 5:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Phill Niblock: Winter Solstice
As the longest night of the year unfolds, and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, join us for Phill Niblock’s annual Winter Solstice concert: six sublime hours music (acoustic and electronic) and mixed media film and video in a live procession that charts the movement of our planet and the progress of ourselves through art and performance at is maximal best….
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