Brandon Ross: Blazing Beauty
Wed Feb 16 - 8:30 PM
Guitarist,
composer, singer, songwriter Brandon Ross has worked with everyone from
Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver
Lake, Arto Lindsay, to Joan Osborne, Henry Threadgill, and many others. Self described as
“Future-folk music”, Ross’ music is at once pastoral, dissonant,
intimate and avant-garde. Tonight at Roulette, Ross presents
Blazing Beauty, his acoustic-based ensemble with Stomu Takeishi (acoustic
bass guitar), JT Lewis (drums), and Brandon Ross (guitar/banjo/vocal) -
extending his expressive field into “folk”-oriented musics and
compositional approaches while communicating his dedication to fresh
musical experience.
INTERPRETATIONS: David Wessel / Roscoe Mitchell 70th Birthday
Thu Feb 17 - 8:00 PM
Two
contrasting settings featuring innovative woodwind virtuoso and Art
Ensemble of Chicago founder Roscoe Mitchell. Electronic music pioneer
David Wessel and Roscoe Mitchell, long time collaborators, play a set of
duo improvisations, followed by the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet featuring
Dave Burrell (piano), Henry Grimes (bass), and Tani Tabbal (drums).
Sweet Combustion: Ikue Mori, Jennifer Choi, Marco Capelli & Rubin Kodheli
Doron Sadja
Jim Staley & Ikue Mori
Fri Feb 18 - 7:30 PM
An eclectic evening blending acoustic and electronic performances both
improvised and composed. Sweet Combustion (Jennifer Choi, Ikue Mori,
Marco Cappelli, and Rubin Kodheli) start the evening with a surreal
combustion of sounds and atmospheric melodies, followed by residuals -
a lush synthetic work for quadraphonic speakers by Doron Sadja.
Topping off the evening is an explosive improvisation by longtime
collaborators Jim Staley (trombone) and Ikue Mori (electronics).
 Oliver Lake Organ Quartet
Sat Feb 19 - 8:30 PM
Composer,
multi-instrumentalist, poet, and painter Oliver Lake is renown for his
extraordinary talents as a composer and explosive, bluesy saxophone
sound. Co-founder for the World Saxophone Quartet and a Guggenheim
fellow for composition, Lake was the first African American commissioned
by the Library of Congress and McKim Foundation for composition.
Tonight at Roulette, Lake presents his Oliver Lake Organ Quartet with
Jared Gold (organ), Freddie Hendrix (trumpet), Mclenty Hunter (drums), & Oliver Lake (alto sax).
INTERPRETATIONS: Sylvia Smith / Pauline Oliveros
Thu Feb 24 - 8:00 PM
Dynamic
and highly intimate visions of sonic meta-resonance. Percussionist
Sylvia Smith and flutist Carrie Rose perform musical theatre works from
composer Stuart Saunders Smith, including his “spoken opera” By Language
Embellished: I. Composer and improviser Pauline Oliveros has been an
important pioneer in American music for five decades. She presents
Oracle Bones, a performance corresponding to the Taoist Cardinal
Directions, with Oliveros performing on accordion along with the spoken
word of Ione and the koto of Miya Masaoka.
Susie Ibarra Quartet
Fri Feb 25 - 8:30 PM
“Ibarra
is one of the all too few jazz artists who combine prodigious talent
with cultural awareness to create art and make the world a better place
in the process" - AAJ- NY
Inspired
by the rhythmic cycles in Southern Philippine gong musicand the
interplay between rhythms and chaos in Nature, Composer/Percussionist
Susie Ibarra presents Mysteries of Nature - a series of quartets, duos,
and solo compositions for violin, piano, harp, and percussion. The
compositions are an expression of nostalgia, folklore, laments and
admiration by Ibarra for mysteries of nature.
DANCEROULETTE
Dedicated to the collaborative efforts of composers and
choreographers,
this event brings both music and dance to Roulette. Some of the
partnerships presented are years in the making while others have joined
forces for the first time. Over the course of two nights, Melanie Maar
& Kenta Nagai, Jessica Cook & Ashcan Orchestra, Katy Pyle &
Jules Skloot, and Tess Dworman, Kyli Kleven, Steve May & Tristan Shepherd share their
varied perspectives on the relationship between sound, movement,
composition and choreography.
DANCEROULETTE
Katy Pyle with Jules Skloot
Jessica Cook & Ashcan Orchestra
Tess Dworman, Kyli Kleven, & Steve May with Tristan Shepherd
Sat Feb 26 - 8:30 PM
Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist whose fantastical work
has been seen all over NYC. In "3 duets of Unification Theory," Katy Pyle and her collaborator
Jules Skloot explore the questions of emotional microcosms and their
connection to what's visible in the macrocosm of performance. This
work puts humiliating desires on display in 3 duets involving quilts,
ritualistic transformation, and a queer salior and mermaid.
Jessica Cook
will be presenting a mixed media performance with
collaborators The ashcan “Orchestra.” This solo will contain a
cumulative representation of the artist’s endeavors in sculpture,
drawing, and wiggling. The ashcan “Orchestra” is simultaneously the work
of composer p. spadine, a large collection of toy and real instruments,
and a revolving performance ensemble based in Brooklyn, NY.
Jessica Cook is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Durham, North
Carolina. She graduated from SUNY Purchase from the conservatory of
dance in 2005. Since graduating she has worked with Noemie Lafrance,
Hilary Easton & Co, Gallim Dance Company, Eagle Ager, Sidra Bell
Dance NY, Regina Rocke, Holly Faurot & Sarah Paulson, Chase Granoff,
Christine Elmo, Anneke Hansen, and the cook sisters.
Tristan Shepherd is a composer, improviser and turntablist currently
based in Brooklyn. Using custom dubplates combined with found records
which he annotates with paint marker, he inscribes graphic scores onto
his musical materials. He currently collaborates with guitarist Austin
Julian and composes multichannel installations for unenclosed organ
speakers.Tristan recently interpreted Christian Marclay's "Screenplay"
as part of the Festival retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American
Art.
DANCEROULETTE
Melanie Maar & Kenta Nagai / Beth Gill & Jon Moniaci
Sun Feb 27 - 8:30 PM
After the successful showing of Maar's piece "Spaces and Bones" at The
Chocolate Factory of L.I.C., the rigorous collaboration of Maar and
Nagai continues.
Melanie Maar is a New York based choreographer and dancer originally
from Vienna, Austria. Maar recently co- curated the Movement
Research Festival 2010- HARDCORPS. Other choreographies and
improvisations have been seen in New York, San Francisco, Vienna,
Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Berlin. Her teachers include Gertraud Maar,
Janet Panetta and Daria Fain. She has worked extensively with New York choreographer Luciana Achugar
, as well as with RoseAnne Spradlin, Levi Gonzalez, Daria Fain, Luis
Lara Malvacias and others. Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from
Niigata Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his
current exploration of the physical properties of sound and its impact
on human emotion and the body. This interest has led to numerous
collaborations with dancers (Boaz and Anika K Barkan, Daria Fain, DD
Dorvillier, Bob Eisen, Zack Fuller and Jennifer Monson among others)
throughout his career as an improvisor and performer in New York City
and abroad.
Beth Gill is a Brooklyn-based artist, who makes contemporary
dance and performance in New York City. She has been commissioned
multiple times by The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop and Dixon Place,
and her work has been shown in dance festivals and series such as: Food
For Thought by Danspace Project, the Movement Research Festival, and
Catch! Jon Moniaci lives in Brooklyn where he is a composer, performer
and computer programmer. Interested in improvisation and live
electro-acoustic performance, he has collaborated extensively with dance
artist Chase Granoff. He has also worked with Beth Gill, Peter Kerlin,
Anna Sperber, Chris Peck, Steve Rush, Marissa Perel, Alex Escalante,
Mark Jarecke, Nancy Forshaw-Clapp, Dean Moss, Peter Jacobs and is a
member of the Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir.
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ROULETTE
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
$15: General Admission
$10: Students, Under 30s & Seniors
FREE: Roulette Members
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