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MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL: new and unusual uses of technology in music and art


Dates:
Thu May 14, 2009 00:00 - Thu Apr 09, 2009

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15, Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10, MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
www.roulette.org

MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL
Roulette's annual June festival focusing on new and unusual uses of technology in music. Presenting work that builds upon the interactivity of sound and image made possible through such programs as MAX, JITTER, and LISA, and goes beyond the prescribed frameworks of the software to explore the possibilities of technical and artistic improvisation. Sound activates and morphs image; image transubstantiates sound; they manipulate, describe, and metaphorize each other.

HARVESTWORKS INSIDE: Pamela Z / Elliot Sharp
Thu May 14 - 8:30 PM
The 2009 edition of Harvestworks' Spring performance series ‚"Harvestworks Inside" with three exceptional programs exploring gesture and physical computing in live performance. Pamela Z will present new work for voice, electronics, video, and gesture controllers. Elliott Sharp will perform new works as part of his ongoing Tectonics project.

HARVESTWORKS INSIDE: Zach Layton / Sawako
Fri May 15 - 8:30 PM
Zach Layton performing new works exploring synaesthesia, geometric forms and minimal surfaces, kinetic visual patterns and sonic gestures. Sawako: a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who explores the virtual and actual world through sound.

HARVESTWORKS INSIDE: Bill Hsu & James Fei / Sha Xin Wei
Sat May 16 - 8:30 PM
Bill Hsu and James Fei perform a new work for reed instruments and electronics, using an interactive system that tracks timbral and gestural information. Sha Xin Wei: “Ouija, New York” an open rehearsal event that explores movement and collective intentionality experiments with dancers in responsive media.

MIKEY IQ JONES
Wed May 20 - 8:30 PM
Vocalist/percussionist/composer Mikey IQ Jones (of Brown Wing Overdrive) presents an evening of new songforms, improvisations, and compositions centered around Jones's bodily & technological manhandling. His kitchen-sink collusionist aesthetics will center around the real-time manipulation and structuring of raw vocal, idiophonic, membranophonic, and domestic materials into thickets of rhythm and harmony via an assortment of samplers. In English: He'll be singing, banging on an assortment of drums, percussion, and household junk, sampling (and sometimes looping) the elements live, and in essence performing new pieces which are to be released sometime in late 2009. There will also be costumes and props, because it's Mixology time, and that's just the way he rolls.

MATTHEW OSTROWSKI
Thu May 21 - 8:30 PM
New York based Matthew Ostrowski has been active since the early 1980s, working in improvised music, music theater, electroacoustic composition, and audio installations. An unreconstructed formalist with a continuing interest in density of microevents and rapid change, he has wasted much of the last ten years developing interfaces for real-time musical performance, attempting to emulate the multidimensionality and flexiblity of acoustical instruments in the electronic domain. Tonight Ostrowski will perform a new multichannel work, "Patterns of Changing Light", in which he will try to come to terms with various poles of electronic music: texture and gesture, sampling and synthesis, acousmatics and diegesis. In addition, he will play some old chestnuts, and special guests are definitely possible.

HAHN ROWE
Fri May 22 - 8:30 PM
Drawing from his background in a wide field of genres including rock, classical, film, theater, improvised, and electronic music - composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe has developed a uniquely personal sonic language, creating atmospheric, sensual, and polymorphic soundscapes. He has shown a keen ability to bridge and meld acoustic sounds with the infinite textures available through analog and digital processing into a strangely organic and emotional sonic realms. Hahn has performed and/or worked with artists such as Hugo Largo, Glenn Branca, David Byrne, Hassan Hakmoun, Foetus, Mimi, and Antony and the Johnsons among many others. Tonight’s performance will feature solo, digitally de/re-constructed violin - fluidly transforming from sensual-textural microsonics to the lush and quasi-symphonic.

EVIDENCE WITH BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE: LOSPERUS
Sat May 23 - 8:30 PM
Losperus is a new performance paradigm for sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood’s duo, Evidence, in which they leave behind their laptops and software - placing commonplace electrical devices and found objects into unstable relationships with each other, and using friction and gravity to build humming, whirring, rattling contraptions on the fly. Tonight they are joined by visual artist Benton-C Bainbridge who will be making live visuals in much the same spirit, taking an 'acoustic' approach to visuals and spatially amplifying the Losperus devices through light and shadow with hacked slide and film projectors.

BERANGERE MAXIMIN plays 'Stuck In a Nasty Little Film'
Tue May 26 - 8:30 PM
French composer/performer Berangere Maximin presents ‘Stuck in a Nasty Little Film’, a new piece for laptop, spoken word, and various objects with video by Anton Yakutovych. Performing first as a singer, Maximin later studied electroacoustic music with the composer Denis Dufour at the Perpignan Conservatoire. Interested in preserving the spirit of live music in the studio, she works out of her own Home Sweet Home Studio, shooting sounds in a dark silent room, recording soundscapes and acoustic sounds, using sampling, digital effects, and performing on a variety of objects.

JARRYD LOWDER & JULIE FOTHERINGHAM: "Stress Positions"
Wed May 27 - 8:30 PM
"Stress Positions", the newest of a series of short performances by the duo of Julie Fotheringham (dance/movement) and Jarryd Lowder (video/music/sound) evokes, conflates and confuses motifs of torture for the purpose of extracting information (as in the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques") and torture for the purpose of extracting pleasure/pain (a la BDSM). Jarryd Lowder is an artist working with electronic audiovisual media and is an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Julie Fotheringham performed as a dancer/acrobat in Cirque du Soleil before coming to New York to make her own work in contemporary dance/performance art.

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi): “A Large Gap at the Level of My Head”
Thu May 28 - 8:30 PM
"A Large Gap at the Level of My Head" is an experiment in composing with a series of specific cues to attendants. The original sound event won't yield, nor aim at a single common experience, but rather impose an unique auditory event to each listener. The piece is also a study of listening: not about the source of the sound, but about phenomena of perceived. o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is a Brooklyn based sound artist, social composer, and a core member of SHARE (http://share.dj) known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds in sociological, cultural, and/or psychological environments.

AARON SIEGEL ENSEMBLE
Fri May 29 - 8:30 PM
The Aaron Siegel Ensemble will be premiering two movements of a work for percussion and pianos entitled, "Preparing the Past." Drawing on tangled narratives of memory and anticipation, "Preparing the Past," juxtaposes the moment of observation with the trail of its reflections. Also on the program will be selections from Siegel's "Book of Notions," for piano and vibraphone. Aaron Siegel writes experimental music that lies at the intersection of abstraction and intuition. His work ranges from solo compositions and chamber music to improvised ensembles and collaborative theater pieces. He has been hailed as an “evocative composer," with “meditative ease and grace” working at the “frontiers of sound research. The premiere recording by the Aaron Siegel Ensemble, "Every Morning, A History” was praised by Signal to Noise as being representative of the flowering DIY chamber music scene in Brooklyn.

DAVID ROSENBLOOM: Sound and Light I
Sat May 30 - 8:30 PM
Sound and Light I is an integration of sound and light: live music and recorded video, with the video image manipulated in real time, particularly in relation to color and saturation, and in turn acting as a score element for the musicians, David Rosenbloom, guitar; David Hofstra, bass; and Stephen Moses, drums. David Rosenbloom has been active as a musician, composer, and painter in New York since the late 70's no wave period. His projects have included the Electric Chorus & Orchestra, Chinese Puzzle, The Experimental Chorus, and the Outlanders; he performed, toured and recorded with Glenn Branca, and was a member of Rhys Chatham's early band Meltdown. His work tends to focus on sonic and structural experimentation with an emphasis on dense, melodic textures.

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EVENT

MORTON SUBOTNICK @ Roulette


Dates:
Sun Feb 22, 2009 00:00 - Tue Feb 10, 2009

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Under30/Seniors $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
http://www.roulette.org/

MORTON SUBOTNICK
Sun Feb 22 - 8:30 PM
Morton Subotnick is one of the foremost pioneers in electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Subotnick co-founded the legendary San Francisco Tape Center (now the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills) and his seminal work Silver Apples of the Moon [1966-7], marked the first time an original large-scale composition had been created specifically for the disc medium - a conscious acknowledgment that the home stereo system constituted a present-day form of chamber music. Tonight he presents works for laptop as well as debuting the latest version of his music software developed for children's classrooms and after school programs.


EVENT

SHINKOYO CIRCUS


Dates:
Thu Jan 22, 2009 00:00 - Wed Jan 07, 2009

SHINKOYO CIRCUS
www.shinkoyo.com/circus/

when?
JANUARY 22 - 24th
JANUARY 27 - 29th
8:30pm sharp
$10 under 30s & seniors, $15 all else

ROULETTE
20 Greene St btwn Canal & Grand
www.roulette.org

JANUARY 22-24
CIRCUS JERKUS (Curated by Doron Sadja)

CIRCUS JERKUS is a 3 day restructuring of chaos: music, video, film,
performance, experience. Roughly 2 hours each evening, Circus Jerkus
runs the gamut from improvised solo/ensemble performances and
simultaneous overlapping projects to live film projections, light
shows, ventriloquism and towers of tv surveillance monitoring. Open up
your bio-port and come into CIRCUS JERKUS.

PERFORMERS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Doron Sadja, Zeljko
McMullen, Mario Diaz de Leon, MV Carbon, Brown Wing Overdrive, Nickel
Emmet, Freddy Nightliker, Amrita Dang, Twisty Cat, Alfredo Marin, Jay
King, Fern Silva, Jessie Stead, Shiraishi Tamio, Anastasia Osipova,
Sergei Tcherepnin & Lisa Rafaela Clair, Nancy Garcia, Carla Rhodes,
True Primes, a few secrets, and a few more TBA....

Doron Sadja = founder of the Shinkoyo Collection/Records and the
Paris London West Nile performance space in Williamsburg - both
donations based explorations of experimental media and performance.
Doron performs in the ensemble Symbol as well as working solo in
sound, photography, and video.
www.shinkoyo.com & www.doron.sadja.com & www.shinkoyo.com/symbol/

JANUARY 27-29
IMPROV:COMP (Curated by Matthew Mehlan)

Wild groupings of some of the most intense players in the city and
beyond, from the fringes of all genres! Duos, trios, quartets by
people who often play on the same bill... but rarely make music
together. Including members of Zs, Excepter, Skeletons, Extra Life,
Talibam, Lake, Skint, Dynamite Club and many more... Plus world
premiers of new pieces written for each night's ensemble.

FEATURING:
Clare Amory, Peter Blasser, Nathan Corbin, Emily Dufour, Ben
Greenberg, Sam Hillmer, Darius Jones , Sam Kulik, Travis Laplante,
Okkyung Lee, Jonathan Leland, Charlie Looker, Matt Mehlan, Jason
McMahon, Cyrus Pireh, Mike Pride, Kevin Shea, John Fell Ryan, And a
few special guests...

Matt Mehlan was born in 1982. A co-founder of the Shinkoyo
Collection/Records, he sings and plays instruments in the band
Skeletons, video tapes things, and goes to work. Skeletons most recent
album "Money" is out now on Tomlab and they will be performing across
Europe this Spring.
http://skeletons.tv

SHINKOYO is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers,
visual artists, improvisers, instrument builders, thinkers, scholars
and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. We operate on
terms of collectivity and collaboration, while supporting the
individual voices of all Shinkoyos. Shinkoyo has launched its
SHINKOJUKO free jukebox and donation-based online music store,
showcasing our catalog of music releases from 2002 to the present.
www.shinkoyo.com

PARIS LONDON WEST NILE is Shinkoyo's donation-based center for
experimental performance and art located in NYC. Click on
ParisLondonWestNile for more info, upcoming shows, and archived
recordings/videos/photos. www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/


EVENT

Philip Glass, Jon Gibson, Zeena Parkins, Shelley Hirsch, Films by Henry Hills


Dates:
Sat Dec 06, 2008 00:00 - Wed Nov 05, 2008

ANNOUNCING:

PHILIP GLASS
JON GIBSON
SHELLEY HIRSCH
ZEENA PARKINS
HENRY HILLS

December 6th @ 8:30pm
ROULETTE BENEFIT CONCERT
All Tickets $25

Join Roulette for this special Benefit concert with performances by an
eclectic mix of some of the most important names in contemporary music
and rarely seen in such intimate settings - Philip Glass, Jon Gibson,
Shelley Hirsch, and Zeena Parkins, with films by Henry Hills. All
tickets are $25 - Call 212.219.8242 to reserve tickets.

ROULETTE
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
http://www.roulette.org/


EVENT

MEPHISTA: Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra


Dates:
Tue Oct 21, 2008 00:00 - Thu Oct 09, 2008

ROULETTE BENEFIT with:
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MEPHISTA (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori)
Tuesday, October 21st at 8:30pm

Three of downtown’s most dynamic performers join forces to form Mephista—one of the first all women supergroups (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Ikue Mori). Separately these three have worked with some of the most important musicians in new music (Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Dave Douglas, etc.)—together they have created a whole new kind of music spanning the worlds of rock, classical, jazz and electronica. Come down and support Roulette during our 30th anniversary with this rare performance!!

www.ROULETTE.org
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
ALL TICKETS $20
RSVP: 212.219.8242