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Art News:
PLEASE NOTE: New Lineup for March 11 & 18
Wed Mar 9 - 8:30 PM
Ches Smith and These Arches
Thu Mar 10 - 8:00 PM
INTERPRETATIONS: Thomas Buckner performs Peter Garland, Michael Byron, Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik, Fred Ho
Fri Mar 11 - 8:00 PM
Sarah Lipstate & Lee Ranaldo
Kyle Bobby Dunn
Seaven Teares
Sat Mar 12 - 2:00 PM
- $5
Kids Concert: Alicia Rau
Sat Mar 12 - 7:30 PM
Phat Chance
Jim Pugliese & Christine Bard “Drum Art”
Nate Wooley, Paul Lytton, C. Spencer Yeh & Okkyung Lee
Tue Mar 15 - 8:30 PM
Raz Mesinai
Wed Mar 16 - 8:30 PM
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
Thu Mar 17 - 8:00 PM
INTERPRETATIONS: Joe Kubera with Marilyn Nonken
Fri Mar 18 - 8:00 PM
Nautical Almanac
Sat Mar 19 - 8:30 PM
Lesley Flanigan with James Moore
Till by Turning Performs New Music by Erica Dicker, Matt Marble, and Katherine Young
Sat Mar 19 - 2:00 PM
- $5
CHILDRENS CONCERT with Adam Lane
Sun Mar 20 - 5:00 PM
Sun Mar 20 - 8:30 PM
Music for Merce CD Release Event (TWO CONCERTS)
$25 Admission, $15 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
$40 Pass for both events, $25 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
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ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
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Ches Smith and These Arches
Wed Mar 9 - 8:30 PM
"A
smartly unruly drummer active in devious art-rock and outsider jazz,
Ches Smith works often enough in other people’s bands to seem the
quintessential journeyman. His stealth proficiency as a bandleader
lurches to the foreground on “Finally Out of My Hands” (Skirl). It’s the
debut of These Arches, his texture-rich quartet with Tony Malaby on
tenor saxophone, Mary Halvorson on guitar and Andrea Parkins on
accordion and organ... The group presents a volatile compound of
attributes: deft and boomy, ragged and precise. And the album has
proportionate doses of knockabout groove, scratchy free improvisation
and chamber-esque restraint. This music is impetuous but a long way from
careless." --Nate Chinen, New York Times
INTERPRETATIONS: Thomas Buckner performs Peter Garland, Michael Byron, Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik, Fred Ho
Thu Mar 10 - 8:00 PM
Baritone
Thomas Buckner performs works by Peter Garland and Petr Kotik for voice
and percussion, featuring percussionist William Winant and members of
the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble conducted by Kotik, works for voice
and piano by Michael Byron and Roscoe Mitchell, featuring pianist Joseph
Kubera, and a work by Fred Ho for baritone voice and baritone saxophone
featuring Ho on baritone saxophone.
Sarah Lipstate & Lee Ranaldo / Kyle Bobby Dunn / Seaven Teares
Fri Mar 11 - 8:00 PM
An eclectic evening of music featuring a guitar duo by Sarah Lipstate (Noveller) and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), minimalist drone artist Kyle Bobby Dunn, and a new experimental folk project from Charlie Looker (Extra Life).
Kids Concert: Alicia Rau
Sat Mar 12 - 2:00 PM
"aRAUz,
featuring Alicia Rau, will arouse the creative senses of young
audiences through hands-on percussion, body movement, and call and
response. Miss Rau's young audience will join in singing and counting
in English, French, and Wolof (West African language), as well as
`explore cadence-based grooves based on traditional African chants.
Utilizing both familiar American-based tunes and deep-rooted African
traditions, children will take a trip through the world of musical
expression."
Phat Chance / Jim Pugliese & Christine Bard “Drum Art” / Nate Wooley, Paul Lytton, C. Spencer Yeh & Okkyung Lee
Sat Mar 12 - 7:30 PM
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Phat Chance is Avant Jazz french horn player Vincent Chancey, guitarist Steve Bloom, and percussionist Jeremy Carlstedt.
- Jim Pugliese and Christine Bard
continue to use their long time drumming collaboration in order to
explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming,
allowing the rhythmic harmonics to inspire percussive harmony while
electrifying the space with their sonic exchange. Their extensive
history of performance experience extends across many genres both having
performed and or recorded with John Cage, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena
Parkins and Anthony Coleman as they continue to lead their own eclectic
bands. ".. respect to the rhythm was represented by two drumsets,
played by Jim Pugliese, and the equally sovereign Christine Bard. How
they both regularly tripped out of the groove, how they called up ghosts
which they pushed away immediately after, was wonderfully nonchalant.
The music proved to be very serious” - Kulturspiegel, Germany
- The New York premiere of a brand new quartet feature a cross-generational and cross-genre meeting of improvisors. Paul Lytton has spent the last 40 years redefining the drum kit as one of the foremost practitioners of European free improvisation. Nate Wooley is an experimental trumpet player subverting his jazz historical context through extended techniques and amplification. C. Spencer Yeh
is the creative mind behind Burning Star Core and his solo
violin/electronic/vocal improvisations have been featured alongside Tony
Conrad and Joan LaBarbara. Okkyung Lee is one of the leading lights of experimental cello, performing regularly with Peter Evans and Steve Beresford.
Raz Mesinai
Tue Mar 15 - 8:30 PM
Composer,
producer and sound alchemist Raz Mesinai makes music at the
intersection of Dub and modern composition. As a solo artist and with
his ensembles, he creates mythic performances evoking ancient rhythms
with electronics, acoustic instruments and turntables. His recordings as
Badawi have placed him on the forefront of the experimental electronic
scene for over a decade, with remixes contributed by such artists as
Kode 9, Shackleton, DJ Spooky and Headhunter, and Badawi remixes of
Burning Spear, Arto Lindsay and Shackleton. He’s been a fixture of the
downtown New York improvised music scene as well since the late
nineties, collaborating with such luminaries as John Zorn, Mark Dresser,
Elliott Sharp, DJ Olive and many others.
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
Wed Mar 16 - 8:30 PM
Grounded
in the American improvisational tradition, Adam Rudolph's Moving
Pictures Octet embraces musical forms and instrumentation of Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the African diaspora. Veteran
percussionist Adam Rudolph, who was called “ a percussion wizard”
(Downbeat) and “a pioneer in world music (New York Times),” leads an
ensemble of artists performing on instruments ranging from West and
North African percussion, Middle Eastern oud (lute) and Japanese and
Indian flutes to saxophones, clarinets, guitar and banjo. The program
features the world premiere of music by Rudolph commissioned by Chamber
Music America. Tonight Rudolph is joined by Graham Haynes, Brahim
Fribgane, Kenny Wessel, Ralph Jones, Shanir Blumenkranz, and Matt
Kilmer.
INTERPRETATIONS: Joe Kubera with Marilyn Nonken
Thu Mar 17 - 8:00 PM
Hailed
by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as one of “new music’s most valued
performers,” Joseph Kubera is joined by pianist Marilyn Nonken, one of
the most celebrated champions of the modern repertoire of her
generation. Together they will premiere Larry Polansky’s epic work
“Three Pieces for Two Pianos”. Kubera will premiere Michael Byron’s
“Book of Horizons”, and the duo will also play "Exercise 20 (Acres of
Clams)" by Christian Wolff.
NAUTICAL ALMANAC
Fri Mar 18 - 8:00 PM
Nautical Almanac
is an experimental band that was founded in Michigan in 1994 by Carly
Ptak and Twig Harper. They emerged from a Midwestern scene of noise
outfits that transformed junk-from alarm clocks to toys-into homemade
instruments. Ominous and intense, their music is made of driving rhythms
that seem to move in several directions at once. Ptak and
Harper live in Baltimore, where they founded Tarantula Hill, a home,
performance space, and recording studio, which is also the headquarters
of their label Heresee.
Lesley Flanigan with James Moore / Till by Turning Performs New Music by Erica Dicker, Matt Marble, and Katherine Young
Sat Mar 19 - 8:30 PM
- Lesley Flanigan is
a New York-based sound sculptor, composer, vocalist, and performer.
Inspired by the physical materiality of sound, she focuses on
amplification itself as the subject of her performances, which weave
sound from her voice with hand-built feedback electronics. Tonight she
is joined by guitarist James Moore of Dither.
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Till by Turning
is the collective effort of Amy Cimini, Erica Dicker, Emily Manzo, and
Katherine Young. Working as performers, educators, improvisers,
scholars, composers, and songwriters -- Till by Turning performs new
chamber music by established and emerging artists. Our programming
features original songs, compositions, and arrangements by our core
members. Tonight at Roulette, Till by Turning debuts a new quartet for
violin, viola, bassoon, and piano by composer Matt Marble, as well as
performing a first portion of an ongoing investigation into interactions
between sound and image. The piece will be a structured improvisation
for the musicians and Brock Monroe's visual projections. The program
will also include a duo version of Białystok for strings by Erica Dicker
and selections from Katherine Young's multi-movement meditation on
Quartet for the End of Time, which explores Messiaen's musical materials
and time-suspending techniques, while grafting material and mundane
apocalyptic suggestions onto and across his religious consciousness.
CHILDRENS CONCERT with Adam Lane
Sat Mar 19 - 2:00 PM
Combining
influences from Duke Ellington, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Melt Banana,
bassist and composer Adam Lane stretches the terms "jazz" and "chamber
Music" beyond convention. His blend of music and performance art takes
listeners on a meticulously orchestrated joyride, with horns, strings,
electronics, spoken word, and the occasional vacuum cleaner. As a
composer he has been recognized by critics world wide as "innovative"
(Signal to Noise) and "forward thinking," (Jazziz) and as a player he
has contributed to important new recordings by artist such as John
Tchicai and Tom Waits. Today Adam Lane presents a concert for kids!
Music for Merce CD Release Event (TWO CONCERTS)
Sun Mar 20 - 5:00 PM & 8:30 PM
$25 Admission, $15 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
$40 Pass for both events, $25 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
“Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) has been a
decisive force in the creation, dissemination, and survival of
contemporary music since the mid-1940s,” Amy C. Beal
The Music Committee of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) will
present two one-night-only concerts on Sunday, March 20, 2011, to
celebrate the release of “Music for Merce,” a 10-CD boxed set from New
World Records. From 5 – 7 and from 8:30 - 11 pm, the concerts offers a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for audiences to witness the remarkable
breadth and vitality of the musical community—from John Cage to David
Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, and generations of experimental musicians—that
played a critical role in Merce’s life and work.
The concerts will include performances by composers and musicians
featured on the boxed set, as well as many others, including: Christian
Wolff, David Behrman, John King, Gordon Mumma, Takehisa Kosugi, Jon
Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Joan La Barbara, Stephan
Moore, Jesse Stiles, George Lewis, Fast Forward, Marina Rosenfeld, Ikue
Mori, Alvin Curran, Matana Roberts, Shelley Burgon, and Miguel Frasconi. Noted music scholar Amy C. Beal, whose essay accompanies the boxed set,
and David Vaughan, archivist for the Cunningham Dance Foundation, will
also speak during the evening about Merce’s influence and relationship
with new music.
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