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Experimental Music at Roulette: Phill Niblock


Dates:
Thu Oct 18, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Thursday, October 18th - Saturday, October 20th
Phill Niblock

Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who also runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in SoHo, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music guaranteed to mess with your head. The works are constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change their timbre and pitch characteristics. Niblock's big microtonal drones develop without melody or rhythm, according to an almost imperceptible, geographically slow notion of movement. His recent films are painstaking studies of manual labor, giving a poetic dignity to the sheer grueling slog of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and other backbreaking toilers. Beyond the stunning sounds and hypnotic images, Niblock deliberately designs systems wherein his materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations to which the audience can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.

Thursday, October 18th
Program includes: Guitar too, for four: Version Three (Rafael Toral, Robert Poss, Susan Stenger, David First on guitars played with E-bows) and Stosspeng (2007) for two guitars in stereo (Susan Stenger and Robert Poss on electric guitars and electric basses).


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Experimental Music at Roulette: Joseph C. Phillips & Numinous - Children's Concert


Dates:
Sat Oct 27, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Saturday, October 27th
Childrens Concert: Joseph C. Phillips & Numinous

Joe Phillips and his music have been praised or performed by such notable artists as Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, Mike Abene, and Manny Albam. By arranger/performers Rufus Reid, Kate McGarry, John Hollenbeck, Tom Varner, John McNeil, John Abercrombie, Howard Johnson, Christian Howes, Steve Bernstein, Chris Vadala, Grady Tate, Bob Curnow, John Ruocco, and jazz writers Dan Morgenstern and Burt Korall, Wouter Turkenburg of the Royal Conservatory, Jan van Kranenburg of the Jazz Center, choreographer JoLea Maffei and many other musicians and listeners.
His music has been performed in New York City at the Merkin Concert Hall, the Renee Weiler Concert Hall at the Greenwich House Music, the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, the John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Auditorium, the Cutting Room, Triad, the Pink Pony Cafe, and the Brooklyn Spring Jazz and Pop Festival. In addition his music has been performed at the 2003 Steve Reich Festival at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) convention in New York City, the Monterey Jazz Festival in California, Jazz Alley, Tula’s, and Patty Summers in Seattle and by ensembles at St. Olaf College, Eastman School of Music, and University of Wisconsin-Eau-Claire.
Joe founded and has conducted Numinous since the fall of 2000. In September 2003 Numinous released its’ first CD-The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (Numen Records) to critical and popular praise. A unique ensemble of some of New York City’s finest jazz and classical musicians, Numinous has performed Joe's music throughout New York City in various music venues and clubs and has been featured on numerous radio programs around the country, including WNYC’s New Sounds. Joe and Numinous are also featured in Gary Evans’ book Music Inspired by Art: A Guide to Recordings (Scarecrow Press; 2nd edition).
Joe was a composer and performer with Seattle’s Young Composer’s Collective and the prestigious BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop in New York City, where he was a BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Composition Award Finalist. He has also been a music archivist for the manuscripts of composers Gil Evans and Manny Albam and a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory (Koninklijk Conservatorium) in The Hague, Netherlands and at the St. Olaf College of Music in Northfield, Minnesota. Presently he is the founder and artistic director of the New York City composer’s federation, Pulse.


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Experimental Music at Roulette: Ari Yoshioka & Sylvia Smith: the Department of Hearts


Dates:
Fri Oct 26, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, October 26th
Department of Hearts: The Violin Music of Stuart Saunders Smith

The Department of Hearts (Airi Yoshioka and Sylvia Smith) performs a retrospective concert of the violin music of Stuart Saunders Smith, a composer associated with rhythmically complex, finely wrought music. Our program features Hearts, a seven-movement work for unaccompanied violin, commissioned by Airi Yoshioka. Each movement creates a poetic expression of the ambivalent, deep regions of the heart. Hearts combines subtle theatrical elements with a hyper-expressive use of the violin and voice.
Violinist Airi Yoshioka has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed annually in Juilliard’s FOCUS! Festival and is currently a member of Continuum, ModernWorks!, Son Sonora, and Azure Ensemble. A graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, she is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Dr. Yoshioka has been actively commissioning new works for solo violin. Hearts, a highly virtuosic solo in seven movements by Stuart Saunders Smith, was written for her. In recent years she has been interested in exploring the different ways in which violin can be combined with other mediums and sounds while retaining the independent quality of the instrument. “The Violin Music of Stuart Saunders Smith” is a program that pursues this idea through the interactions of violin and voice and violin with percussion.
Sylvia Smith is the founder, owner and editor of Smith Publications/Sonic Art Editions, publishers of serious American art music. She is extremely rigorous in her selection of music and therefore her publishing house is looked to as a leading source of new American music. The recipient of six Paul Revere Awards for graphic excellence, her publications are thought of as particularly handsome editions. Her scholarship includes publishing several articles on music notation, and curating many concerts of John Cage’s music.
As a percussionist, Sylvia Smith is active as a new music specialist, performing at Merkin Hall in New York, and with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has received repeated invitations to appear at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. She tours North America with the Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo, specializing in percussion with spoken text and percussion theater. Her performances are recorded on oodiscs and 11 West Records. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Smith was awarded the American Music Center Letter of Distinction in 1988.
Stuart Saunders Smith (born 1948 in Portland, Maine, USA) is a confessional composer who focuses on revealing in his music the most personal aspects of his life, in the belief that the revelations of the particular speak to the universal.
Stuart Saunders Smith’s music is performed regularly on an international basis. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Pittsburgh Film Forum, as well as the Hartt College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Percussive Arts Society Citation for Distinguished Editorship.
Stuart Saunders Smith’s music is recorded on 11 West Records, Centaur Records, oodiscs, Cadenza, BV Haast, and GAC Sweden. He has authored two books: Twentieth Century Scores, Prentice-Hall; Words and Spaces, University Press of America; as well as many articles published in Perspectives of New Music, Percussionist, IS Journal, Percussive Notes, Ear Magazine, etc.

Stuart Saunders Smith has been on the faculty of the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Darmstadt Musikinstitut (Germany), and Percussion Workshop Poland. Residencies include University of California -San Diego, Yale University, Documenta 1992 (Kassel, Germany), and the University of Gothenberg (Sweden).


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Experimental Music at Roulette: Lois V Vierk with Gold-Kato-Klucevsek-Lancaster-Polansky-Redhage (Live Taping for Roulette TV)


Dates:
Sun Oct 21, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Sunday, October 21st
Lois V Vierk with Gold-Kato-Klucevsek-Lancaster-Polansky-Redhage (Live Taping for Roulette TV)
Solo and Ensemble Music with Matthew Gold, marimba, Sachiko Kato, piano, Guy Klucevsek, accordion, Margaret Lancaster, flute, Larry Polansky, electric guitar, Jody Redhage, cello

Lois V Vierk, from Lansing Illinois, in suburban Chicago, was born in 1951. She studied composition at California Institute of the Arts with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick. For ten years she studied Gagaku (Japanese Court Music) with Mr. Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years she studied in Tokyo with Mr. Sukeyasu Shiba, the lead ryuteki flutist of the emperor's Gagaku Orchestra.

Ms. Vierk has spent most of her career in New York City. Her music has achieved an impressive international reputation. Recently it was presented in "composer’s portrait" concerts at German Radio, Cologne and by other German and Swiss ensembles. Commissions include Silversword for the Lincoln Center Festival, where it was performed by the Reigakusha Ensemble of Tokyo, River Beneath the River, commissioned by the Barbican Center, London, for the Kronos Quartet, which has played it many times. Among the many performers and presenters who have commissioned her are pianists Ursula Oppens, Frederic Rzewski, Aki Takahashi, and Margaret Leng Tan; accordionist Guy Klucevsek, cellist Maya Beiser and percussionist Steven Schick, Ensemble Modern, the Kitchen, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Bang on a Can Festival, L'Art Pour L'Art, and Music from Japan. Co-creations with tap-dance choreographer Anita Feldman have been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer and others.

In July 2007 the feature length film "Everywhere At Once" feautring Vierk's music premiered at Canne, France, in an off-festival venue. (Filmmakers are Holly Fisher and Peter Lindbergh with narration by Jeanne Moreau.) Ms. Vierk's music has been performed at major venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Glasgow (by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Darmstadt, Radio Bremen, the Huddersfield Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Edmonton New Music Festival (Canada), the Suntory Festival (Tokyo), and the Adelaide Festival (Australia). Her music is available on Tzadik Records, XI Records, oodiscs, Sony Classical, Starkland Records.


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Experimental Music at Roulette: Kyoko Kitamura & Valerie Vasilevsky


Dates:
Fri Oct 05, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, October 5th
Kyoko Kitamura & Valerie Vasilevsky
ok|ok - Mike McGinnis: reeds, Khabu: guitar, Kyoko Kitamura: voice and laptop.

Several Japanese silent animations from the 1920's and 30's will merge with live performance by ok|ok. ok|ok will honor the original content and add English translation as well as original music both composed and improvised.
Theater director/writer Valeria Vasilevski and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura first started exchanging creative ideas informally (at a cafe in Brooklyn) in the beginning of 2007. The purpose: to come up
with ideas, no matter how strange or unrealistic, for multi-media projects which incorporated music, visuals, and Japan. Since then, the meetings have given birth to several possible projects, from
small and light to big and heavy, based on classic Japanese animation from the 20's, 30's and 40's. The first of these ideas will be realized in October 2007 at Roulette.