APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2011
FINAL ROULETTE CONCERTS
AT 20 GREENE STREET

We hope to open September 2011 at our new home in Brooklyn : www.roulette.org/newroulette

Stay Tuned.

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

April 25 @ 8:30 PM
AUDREY CHEN
Chinese-American musician Audrey Chen's work delves deeply into her
own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. Extremely
personal and visceral, her playing explores the combination and
layering of a homemade analog synth, preparations and traditional and
extended techniques in both the voice and cello - working to join these
elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. Chen has performed
with a wide array of musicians - including Toshimaru Nakamura, Elliott
Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, C. Spencer Yeh, Alessandro Bosetti,
Mats Gustafsson, Joe Mcphee, and Susan Alcorn.

April 26 @ 8:00 PM
FREE
SHELLEY HIRSCH
Shelley Hirsch is a critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and
storyteller whose mostly solo compositions, staged multimedia works,
improvisations, radio plays, installations and collaborations have been
presented all over the world. Tonight Hirsch will give a poetic
demonstration of her inventive body voice language process, show video
documentation of staged work which has never been seen before in the
USA, and present excerpts of works in progress. This is a free event.
Shelley Hirsch is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co†sponsored
by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with
leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

April 27 @ 8:30 PM
KURT RALSKE "Rediscovering German Futurist Cinema, 1920-1929)
Multimedia artist Kurt Ralske presents his research into the
experimental films of Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. With the rediscovery
of this little-known genre, 1920s Berlin moves forwards and backwards in
time simultaneously. The price of admission to this parallel universe
is only your credulity. "Through the slightest of digital interventions,
these lost landmarks of early experimental cinema have been retrieved
from the Akashic Record."

April 28 @ 8:30 PM
MATTHEW OSTROWSKI
Matthew Ostrowski is a pioneer in live electronic music, having worked
as a composer, improvisor and installation artist for over 20 years,
exploring work with alternative controllers, multimedia, and theater. An
unreconstructed formalist with a continuing interest in density of
microevents and rapid change, his work has been seen in festivals on
every continent except Antarctica. Tonight Ostrowski will be performing
two works with the collaboration of inanimate systems:
"atopia:levigation and apophenia", an audio-visual work for live
webcrawler, and "Three (out of four) States of Matter", for a common
household experience and live processing.

April 29 @ 8:30 PM
HAHN ROWE
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 which melds acoustic sounds with the
infinite textures available through analog and digital processing,
creating atmospheric, sensual, and polymorphic soundscapes.

April 30 @ 8:30 PM
KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA & RICHARD GARET "Polymedia/Live Mix"
Media artists Katherine Liberovskaya and Richard Garet join forces for
an audiovisual collaboration in real time. Combining analog and digital
processes, the duo merges visuals in a continuous flux of appropriation
- reprocessing and feeding back of imagery into the room while
simultaneously translating light into sound through field recordings,
audio feedback, and computer processing.

May 1 @ 8:30 PM
KAGEL NACHT "An Evening Dedicated to Composer Mauricio Kagel"
German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel is arguably one of the most
radical 20th century avant-garde composers, often incorporating bizarre,
hysterical theatrics into his compositions. Kagel Nacht gathers a
stacked deck of musicians from Brooklyn's artistic multiverse,
performers deeply situated in theater, performance art, classical, and
experimental music worlds for an evening exploring Kagel's diverse
oeuvre, including "classical" works, electro-acoustic compositions,
multi-media pieces, radio plays, and some of his most daring and
hilarious works of "instrumental theater". With interpretations ranging
from strict to fully recontextualized, Kagel Nacht breathes new life
into these important and underperformed works by joining them into one,
multi-stage, panoramic event.