CHIARA GIOVANDO & JESSICA RYLAN @ ROULETTE: experimental music/noise
Dates:
Thu Mar 15, 2007 00:00 - Wed Mar 14, 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
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, March 15th
Chiara Giovando / Jessica Rylan
Chiara Giovando
(voice, violin, electronics)
Chiara Giovando was born in northern New Mexico in 1976. She moved to Baltimore in 2002 in order to participate in a community of musicians and artists involved in transgressive consciousness. Her musical psyche is an amalgamation of intuition and critical thought. This can be a tumultuous union, at times leading to rash judgments, at other times to the detailed expression of sensed truths. She uses empathic prejudice in order to communicate her music. She has toured to several cities in America as well as performing in Berlin, Hong Kong, Tai Wan and Rome. Her career has been jarred by abrupt periods of self-imposed isolation, leaving her with an indispensable quality of passage. The Baltimore City Paper named her work the Best Performance Art of 2005, calling her “excruciatingly tense”.
Jessica Rylan
Simultaneously high-energy and contemplative, sound artist/electronic musician Jessica Rylan will be singing, dancing, playing home-made synthesizers and performing compositions from her forthcoming Important Records CD, Interior Designs. Rylan builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance, her designs influenced by plants … and the historically outmoded. She maintains an active alter ego as Can’t, a one-woman noise band.
Rylan has performed across the United States, eastern Canada, Scandinavia and western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Rylan has presented sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Berwick Research Institute. She received an MFA from Bard College and has been awarded grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Her recordings are available on Ultra Eczema and RRRecords. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
Her performances have been called “some of the most unarmoured and awkwardly intimate noise music ever … a revelatory marriage of avant garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style, folk documentation.” (The Wire) www.irfp.net
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, March 15th
Chiara Giovando / Jessica Rylan
Chiara Giovando
(voice, violin, electronics)
Chiara Giovando was born in northern New Mexico in 1976. She moved to Baltimore in 2002 in order to participate in a community of musicians and artists involved in transgressive consciousness. Her musical psyche is an amalgamation of intuition and critical thought. This can be a tumultuous union, at times leading to rash judgments, at other times to the detailed expression of sensed truths. She uses empathic prejudice in order to communicate her music. She has toured to several cities in America as well as performing in Berlin, Hong Kong, Tai Wan and Rome. Her career has been jarred by abrupt periods of self-imposed isolation, leaving her with an indispensable quality of passage. The Baltimore City Paper named her work the Best Performance Art of 2005, calling her “excruciatingly tense”.
Jessica Rylan
Simultaneously high-energy and contemplative, sound artist/electronic musician Jessica Rylan will be singing, dancing, playing home-made synthesizers and performing compositions from her forthcoming Important Records CD, Interior Designs. Rylan builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance, her designs influenced by plants … and the historically outmoded. She maintains an active alter ego as Can’t, a one-woman noise band.
Rylan has performed across the United States, eastern Canada, Scandinavia and western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Rylan has presented sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Berwick Research Institute. She received an MFA from Bard College and has been awarded grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Her recordings are available on Ultra Eczema and RRRecords. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
Her performances have been called “some of the most unarmoured and awkwardly intimate noise music ever … a revelatory marriage of avant garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style, folk documentation.” (The Wire) www.irfp.net
Shelley Hirsch & Zoe Beloff @ Roulette: experimental music & film
Dates:
Sun Mar 11, 2007 00:00 - Sat Mar 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
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
An Evening to Benefit Roulette!
Shelley Hirsch - singing to film soundtracks by the late great Bernard
Herrmann
Zoe Beloff - presenting her film "Charming Augustine"
Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist,
composer, and performance artist" (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses
story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations,
collaborations, installations and radioplays, which have been presented on
5 continents...
She can be heard on over 50 CDs, including her solo and duo CDs, her
storytelling CD "O Little Town of East New York" (Tzadik), "Haiku Lingo"
(No Mans Land) and the LP "Singing" (Apollo), and on cds by Jim Staley,
John Zorn, Butch Morris, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Richard Teitelbaum,
Alvin Curran, Raz Mesinai, David Watson, Robert Dick, Joseph Celli/Jin Hi
Kim and with the groups X-Communication and September Band ... and many
more. www.shelleyhirsch.com
Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic
projection performance, interactive media and installation. Her projects
are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more she finds
herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that "are not there". Her work
investigates the space where technology intersects with unconscious
desire. Zoe’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including
The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rotterdam
Film festival, Pacific Film Archives and the Pompidou Center.
www.zoebeloff.com
Tonight she will screen her film, "Charming Augustine", with original
music by Miguel Fransconi. "Charming Augustine" was inspired by series of
photographs and texts on hysteria published in the 1880s. It is an
experimental narrative exploring connections between attempts to document
varying mental states and the prehistory of narrative film. The work
conveys a fragile, spectral, “what if” … a moment in time when the moving
image was on the brink of existence in a form not yet standardized.
"Charming Augustine"
Stereoscopic 16mm B/W Film Sound 40 minutes.
Cast: Tea Alagic, Greg Mehrten, Josh Stark, Steven Rattazi, Kevin Maher,
Eileen White, Eliza Fernbach
Original music: Miguel Frasconi
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
An Evening to Benefit Roulette!
Shelley Hirsch - singing to film soundtracks by the late great Bernard
Herrmann
Zoe Beloff - presenting her film "Charming Augustine"
Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist,
composer, and performance artist" (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses
story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations,
collaborations, installations and radioplays, which have been presented on
5 continents...
She can be heard on over 50 CDs, including her solo and duo CDs, her
storytelling CD "O Little Town of East New York" (Tzadik), "Haiku Lingo"
(No Mans Land) and the LP "Singing" (Apollo), and on cds by Jim Staley,
John Zorn, Butch Morris, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Richard Teitelbaum,
Alvin Curran, Raz Mesinai, David Watson, Robert Dick, Joseph Celli/Jin Hi
Kim and with the groups X-Communication and September Band ... and many
more. www.shelleyhirsch.com
Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic
projection performance, interactive media and installation. Her projects
are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more she finds
herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that "are not there". Her work
investigates the space where technology intersects with unconscious
desire. Zoe’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including
The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rotterdam
Film festival, Pacific Film Archives and the Pompidou Center.
www.zoebeloff.com
Tonight she will screen her film, "Charming Augustine", with original
music by Miguel Fransconi. "Charming Augustine" was inspired by series of
photographs and texts on hysteria published in the 1880s. It is an
experimental narrative exploring connections between attempts to document
varying mental states and the prehistory of narrative film. The work
conveys a fragile, spectral, “what if” … a moment in time when the moving
image was on the brink of existence in a form not yet standardized.
"Charming Augustine"
Stereoscopic 16mm B/W Film Sound 40 minutes.
Cast: Tea Alagic, Greg Mehrten, Josh Stark, Steven Rattazi, Kevin Maher,
Eileen White, Eliza Fernbach
Original music: Miguel Frasconi
MORTON SUBOTNICK w/ Vicki Ray: Electronic Music @ Roulette
Dates:
Sat Mar 10, 2007 00:00 - Wed Mar 07, 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
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, March 10th
Morton Subotnick
A pioneer if ever there was one, Subotnick has been an instrumental
innovator in the development of electronic music since its inception.
Tonight he presents three of his latest inventions-in-progress, including
a solo laptop work, an interactive work for children and The Other Piano,
a new piece for piano and surround sound electronics, performed with
pianist Vicki Ray. Ray is an award-winning player who is known for her
commitment to contemporary composers. She has been hailed by the Los
Angeles Times for "displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and
technical panache that puts a composer's thoughts directly before the
listener.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, March 10th
Morton Subotnick
A pioneer if ever there was one, Subotnick has been an instrumental
innovator in the development of electronic music since its inception.
Tonight he presents three of his latest inventions-in-progress, including
a solo laptop work, an interactive work for children and The Other Piano,
a new piece for piano and surround sound electronics, performed with
pianist Vicki Ray. Ray is an award-winning player who is known for her
commitment to contemporary composers. She has been hailed by the Los
Angeles Times for "displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and
technical panache that puts a composer's thoughts directly before the
listener.
Aki Onda, Alan Licht & Michael Snow: Sound Art @ Roulette
Dates:
Fri Mar 09, 2007 00:00 - Wed Mar 07, 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
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, March 9th
Aki Onda, Alan Licht & Michael Snow
A new trio that achieves the all-too-rare alchemy of strong separate
identities and shared aesthetics into an holistic unit, Onda
(electronics), Licht (guitar) & Snow (video/piano) fuse together
backgrounds in visual arts, underground rock, experimental music and free
improv. Each internationally acclaimed in his own right, the three come
together having worked with everyone and everything from Christian Marclay
to Tom Verlaine, field recordings to altered walkmans. Tonight they will
perform two sets of not-totally-indeterminate improvisations, using
synthesizer, shortwave radio, cassettes, electronics, guitar, piano,
guitar and bass amplifiers, glissandos, dynamics, hiss, electrical
interference, feedback, feedback loops and tools.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, March 9th
Aki Onda, Alan Licht & Michael Snow
A new trio that achieves the all-too-rare alchemy of strong separate
identities and shared aesthetics into an holistic unit, Onda
(electronics), Licht (guitar) & Snow (video/piano) fuse together
backgrounds in visual arts, underground rock, experimental music and free
improv. Each internationally acclaimed in his own right, the three come
together having worked with everyone and everything from Christian Marclay
to Tom Verlaine, field recordings to altered walkmans. Tonight they will
perform two sets of not-totally-indeterminate improvisations, using
synthesizer, shortwave radio, cassettes, electronics, guitar, piano,
guitar and bass amplifiers, glissandos, dynamics, hiss, electrical
interference, feedback, feedback loops and tools.
multi-channel sound installations at Roulette: Douglas Henderson
Dates:
Sat Feb 17, 2007 00:00 - Wed Feb 07, 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
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
2/17: Douglas Henderson
Saturday, February 17th
Douglas Henderson
Composer/performer/sound artist Douglas Henderson presents an evening of multichannel sound works. Pieces include "Giving up the Ghost (2004)", a layering of recordings of 200 cups of coffee made in a dying espresso machine, which finally exploded after leaving behind this collection of sonic testimonials. The piece displays Henderson's interest in morphogenesis, that moment of transformation at which recorded sounds escape from their context, crossing from quotidian recognizability ... to becoming something entirely new to the world.
Henderson also will perform a series of spatialized multichannel sound sculptures, sparked by architect-composer Iannis Xenakis's exploration of the concept of "the unimaginable". In these works compositional rules are drawn from the methods used to construct shapes and vectors in space. The piece is developed according to a kind of sonic holography, and the composition's progression through time follows a physical model akin to the construction of a house. Each of these pieces employs dozens -- sometimes hundreds -- of layered recordings, exposing images and textures unheard in the original incarnation of the sound. It is a music made to be seen in the mind's eye, and to be felt in the ear. This piece was constructed with the support of Harvestworks's Artist in Residence Program.
Douglas Henderson has been composing, performing and making installations in New York City and internationally for more than 20 years. Collaborators include Jude Tallichet, Guy Yarden, Zeena Parkins, David Henderson and Kristin Lucas, to mention a few. He currently is focused on sound installations, both sound-producing objects and multi-channel immersive sound sculptures. He has shown in galleries from New York to Helsinki to Seoul, including vertexList, Art in General, G.A.S. and the Whitney Museum. He has composed electro acoustic music for dozens of dance works by choreographers such as Jeremy Nelson, Mia Lawrence, Jennifer Monson, Wildadance Copenhagen and Phoenix Dance Theatre UK, and has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe performing original work. Recent awards include a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation MAP Award, a 2006 Harvestworks A.i.R. and a 2007 DAAD residency in Berlin. For more information, visit www.DouglasHenderson.org.
ROULETTE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MOVE INTO OUR NEW HOME: 20 GREENE STREET in SOHO. With this new space, Roulette will be expanding activities to include over 100 concerts, sound installations, longer runs of music theater and other large productions such as the "Avant Jazz -- Still Moving" festival and the annual "Festival of Mixology". For our expanded events calendar go to: http://www.roulette.org/
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
2/17: Douglas Henderson
Saturday, February 17th
Douglas Henderson
Composer/performer/sound artist Douglas Henderson presents an evening of multichannel sound works. Pieces include "Giving up the Ghost (2004)", a layering of recordings of 200 cups of coffee made in a dying espresso machine, which finally exploded after leaving behind this collection of sonic testimonials. The piece displays Henderson's interest in morphogenesis, that moment of transformation at which recorded sounds escape from their context, crossing from quotidian recognizability ... to becoming something entirely new to the world.
Henderson also will perform a series of spatialized multichannel sound sculptures, sparked by architect-composer Iannis Xenakis's exploration of the concept of "the unimaginable". In these works compositional rules are drawn from the methods used to construct shapes and vectors in space. The piece is developed according to a kind of sonic holography, and the composition's progression through time follows a physical model akin to the construction of a house. Each of these pieces employs dozens -- sometimes hundreds -- of layered recordings, exposing images and textures unheard in the original incarnation of the sound. It is a music made to be seen in the mind's eye, and to be felt in the ear. This piece was constructed with the support of Harvestworks's Artist in Residence Program.
Douglas Henderson has been composing, performing and making installations in New York City and internationally for more than 20 years. Collaborators include Jude Tallichet, Guy Yarden, Zeena Parkins, David Henderson and Kristin Lucas, to mention a few. He currently is focused on sound installations, both sound-producing objects and multi-channel immersive sound sculptures. He has shown in galleries from New York to Helsinki to Seoul, including vertexList, Art in General, G.A.S. and the Whitney Museum. He has composed electro acoustic music for dozens of dance works by choreographers such as Jeremy Nelson, Mia Lawrence, Jennifer Monson, Wildadance Copenhagen and Phoenix Dance Theatre UK, and has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe performing original work. Recent awards include a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation MAP Award, a 2006 Harvestworks A.i.R. and a 2007 DAAD residency in Berlin. For more information, visit www.DouglasHenderson.org.
ROULETTE IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MOVE INTO OUR NEW HOME: 20 GREENE STREET in SOHO. With this new space, Roulette will be expanding activities to include over 100 concerts, sound installations, longer runs of music theater and other large productions such as the "Avant Jazz -- Still Moving" festival and the annual "Festival of Mixology". For our expanded events calendar go to: http://www.roulette.org/