David First: Oct 24, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

Composer David first and ensemble, The Western Enisphere, in live sets recorded at Roulette in 2017 and 2022. First's exploration of slowly evolving, microtonally anchored music follows melody, harmon...

Susie Ibarra: Sep 26, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra in two projects recorded in concert at Roulette. Duo and trios with bassist Mark Dresser and violinist Charles Burnham from 2003 and a 2006 duo w...

Elliott Sharp: Aug 22, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp in a solo set on 8-string guitarbass, playing selections from his album, Octal, and sections from a concert performance of pieces from Dispersion, Shar...

Denman Maroney: Jul 25, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

The composer and virtuoso pianist Denman Maroney, distinguished for two remarkable aspects to his work. First, he has developed a unique technique and vocabulary for prepared piano where he places his...

Jerome Cooper: Jun 27, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

The self-described “multi-dimensional drummer” in solo concerts recorded at Roulette between 2000-07. Raised in Chicago, he made history in the 70s with the Revolutionary Ensemble (with bassist Sirone...

Jessica Pavone: May 23, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

This edition of Tracking The Odds features composer and violist Jessica Pavone in excerpts from four projects recorded at Roulette between 2008 and 2021. Pavone’s work for traditional and hybrid strin...

C. Spencer Yeh: Apr 25, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

The composer/improviser/violinist/vocalist and media artist in excerpts from Roulette performances from 2021 for solo work and a 2013 electronic homage to his longtime collaborator, trumpet player Nat...

Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim): Mar 28, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

The sound artist Haeyoung Kim aka Bubblyfish uses Gameboy technology, lo-fi, and 8-bit audio along with contemporary processing tools and computer. This program includes excerpts from a 2006 suite w...

Jarryd Lowder: Feb 28, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

The multimedia artist Jarryd Lowder in a collection of pieces recorded at Roulette: Duo/Toggle in which the audience is given switches to insert audio events into the montage and Composite Cells in wh...

Matana Roberts: Jan 29, 2022: 9pm - 10pm

From an evening length performance by Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, AACM-veteran saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts with a stellar ensemble of jazz masters: Vijay Iyer, piano; Liberty Ellman, gui...

Matana Roberts: Jan 24, 2022: 3pm - 4pm

From an evening length performance by Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, AACM-veteran saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts with a stellar ensemble of jazz masters: Vijay Iyer, piano; Liberty Ellman, gui...

J.A. Deane & Martin Schütz: Dec 27, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Recorded in concert at Roulette in 1992, the electro-trombonist and electric cellist in a spatial jacuzzi of processed, dislocated acoustic sounds; bowed cymbals and blown strings; samples and feedbac...

Oliver Lake: Nov 22, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

This program features jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist Oliver Lake in two concerts recorded at Roulette: a 2005 trio with Pheeroan Ak Laff, drums and Baikida Carroll, trump...

Kelly Moran: Oct 25, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Pianist and composer Kelly Moran in a selection of electro-acoustic keyboard works recorded in concert at Roulette in 2017-18. The sole engineer and producer of her five solo albums, Moran specializes...

Tyshawn Sorey: Sep 27, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Tyshawn Sorey is admired as both an exquisite drummer and adventurous composer (he didn’t win a MacArthur just for his great groove). He also plays trombone and piano and writes in no genre and every...

Gen Ken Montgomery: Aug 23, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Sound artist Gen Ken Montgomery in concert and studio recordings illustrating his multi-layered montage techniques built from found sound, field recordings, and domestic noise (percolators, dripping s...

John King: Jul 26, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

This edition features two works from composer John King’s 2012 performance at Roulette: Kosmos, for string quartet and electronics featuring the Crucible Quartet with King on viola, and Astral Epita...

Gina Leishman: Jun 28, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Toy piano and tuba! Composer/multi-instrumentalist Gina Leishman, whose concert, film, and theater works are best known with her Kamikaze Ground Crew (formed as a backup band for the Flying Karamozov...

Lary 7 and Tony Conrad: May 24, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Concert recordings from two innovators in sound and media art: analog alchemist Lary 7 and filmmaker/drone music pioneer Tony Conrad, who supported each other’s work on and off the stage for decades....

Zeena Parkins: Apr 26, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

The music of Zeena Parkins, composer/improviser/sound artist, a pioneer of the electric harp and innovator for acoustic harp, in solos, duos with guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco, Cibo Matto) and electroni...

Lesley Flanigan: Mar 22, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Lesley Flanigan is a New York composer/performer who builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones, and speakers and mixing these with traditional instrumentation that often includ...

Milford Graves: Feb 22, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Performances and commentary by Milford Graves (1941-2021), recorded at Roulette in 2012-13 with bassist William Parker and friends. A percussionist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, professor,...

Fred Frith: Jan 25, 2021: 3pm - 4pm

Solo improvisations by the guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and master synthesizer of technique, genres, structure, and noise, recorded at Roulette on 10 October 1986. Frith emerged as a founding mem...

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Dec 28, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

A performance by composer/pianist ”Blue" Gene Tyranny whose tonal yet asymmetrical compositions have inspired and tantalized artists from John Cage to Iggy Pop. He is widely known for his substantial...

Jon Gibson: Nov 23, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

Solo works by the saxophone, flute, and wind instrument master, composer, and visual artist (1940-2020), recorded at Roulette on October 13, 1994. A founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and a...

Charmaine Lee: Oct 26, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

The imaginative vocalist in sets recorded at Roulette in 2017 and 2019 ranging from rapid-fire free improvisation to the sober austerity of Japanese onkyo. Here we hear Lee solo and in duos with the...

Z'EV: Sep 28, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

The percussionist Z’EV (1951-2017), credited as an originator of Industrial Music, was a gentle soul more interested in acoustic phenomena than in brutal noise. Usually theatrical in presentation, his...

Mary Halvorson: Aug 24, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

This edition features the stunningly imaginative guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson in concert excerpts recorded at Roulette between 2013-19. Coming from jazz roots, and extending the vocabulary wi...

George Lewis: Jul 27, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

Selections from the Roulette Archive documenting the composer/trombonist George Lewis’ work over 3 decades from jazz and improvisation, to ensemble compositions, to his innovations in interactive comp...

Brandon Ross: Jun 22, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

Composer Brandon Ross (guitar/banjo/vocal) in excerpts from two Roulette performances (2011, 2017) with his group, Blazing Beauty, featuring Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and JT Lewis (drums...

Laetitia Sonami: May 25, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

A program of excerpts from several performances by Laetitia Sonami, recorded at Roulette. Sonami’s atmospheric narratives, often anchored to texts by Melody Summer Carnahan or technical manuals, are g...

Reggie Workman: Apr 27, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

The doublebass master with John Purcell on reeds, Miya Masoaka on koto, and Gerry Hemingway on drums, percussion and electronics, recorded at Roulette on November 15, 2002. Workman described this impr...

Volume (III): Shelley Burgon, Maria Chavez, Stephan Moore, Suzanne Thorpe: Mar 23, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

Four distinguished musicians together in a project called Volume, recorded at Roulette on November 19, 2010. Electro-acoustic harpist Shelley Burgon, turntablist Maria Chavez, laptop artist Stephan Mo...

Kaffe Matthews: Feb 24, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

Violinist, electronic musician, and composer Kaffe Matthews in a solo performance recorded at Roulette on 13 December 1997. Beyond the violin, Matthews has utilized theremin, wild salmon, star maps, N...

Vernon Reid: Jan 26, 2020: 3pm - 4pm

The guitarist’s Night of Radiance, with Laraaji Venus and Suphala, for acoustic, electric, and electronic guitars, autoharp, and tabla/percussion recorded at Roulette on 28 March 1999. Vernon Reid w...

William Parker: Dec 23, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

The premier performance of William Parker’s large ensemble work, “Inscription”, recorded at Roulette 16 February 2013. Composer/bassist/bandleader William Parker is an essential voice the current avan...

Guy Klucevsek: Nov 25, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Composer, accordionist, and long-time conduit for new music Guy Klucevsek is profiled here with three concert recording excerpts from the Roulette Archive: an April 2002 duo and exchange of tunes and...

Christian Marclay: Oct 28, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Equally visual artist and composer, Christian Marclay emerged in the 1980s as a forerunner, in parallel with the hip hop community, of turntablism; manipulating and mixing vinyl records on multiple tu...

Miya Masaoka: Sep 23, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Miya Masaoka in concert with her unique inventions of techniques, songs, and contraptions ranging from the traditional Japanese Koto to her computer-assisted Laser Koto. Often seen in collaboration wi...

David Behrman and Jon Gibson: Aug 26, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Two treasured musical innovators in a duo performance at Roulette on December 10, 1999. David Behrman has been an influential artist since the 1960s, largely with electronic systems. Together with Rob...

Val Jeanty’s AfroElectronica: Jul 22, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

A program featuring Haitian-born electronic music artist Val Jeanty, recorded in a collaborative performance with fire dancer Ra Nubi, at Roulette on 22 May 2017. Jeanty, a virtuoso percussionist, mas...

Bob Ostertag: Jun 24, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Composed entirely from fragments of music from computer games, Bob Ostertag created w00t, with custom software enabling a live interactive montage with Quebecois filmmaker Pierre Hébert’s animation. T...

Billy Bang: May 27, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Violinist, composer, and improviser Billy Bang in a solo concert of original works and a Thelonious Monk classic recorded at Roulette on 13 March 2006. Bang (1947-2011) is known for his Vietnam War ex...

Ikue Mori: Apr 22, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

This edition illustrates two projects of composer/percussionist Ikue Mori whose drumming, drum machine experiments, and laptop electronics all display a unique sense of time and timbre. From her emerg...

Shelley Hirsch with Kazu & Christian Marclay: Mar 26, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Excerpts from two 2008 Roulette concerts featuring the composer/vocalist/improviser and storyteller Shelley Hirsch in collaboration with artist/turntablist Christian Marclay and guitarist Uchihashi Ka...

Dave Douglas: Feb 25, 2019: 3pm - 4pm

Thoughts Around Mahfouz is a collection of compositions and improvisations inspired by the writing of Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz by composer Dave Douglas (trumpet and electrics) and an ensemble...

Myra Melford and Leroy Jenkins: Jan 19, 2019: 7pm - 8pm

Two creative virtuosos coming out of Chicago jazz and blues meet for a wide-ranging exchange. Melford begins with solos including a remarkable rendition of Ornette Coleman’s Passion Culture and soulfu...

Myra Melford and Leroy Jenkins: Jan 17, 2019: 1am - 2am

Two creative virtuosos coming out of Chicago jazz and blues meet for a wide-ranging exchange. Melford begins with solos including a remarkable rendition of Ornette Coleman’s Passion Culture and soulfu...

Thurston Moore: Dec 20, 2018: 1pm - 2pm

Guitarist Thurston Moore in a solo performance, recorded at the Roulette Concert Series in NYC on October 25, 1997. Moore, a pivotal figure in the 80s alternative rock movement along with his band mem...

Thurston Moore: Dec 20, 2018: 1am - 2am

Guitarist Thurston Moore in a solo performance, recorded at the Roulette Concert Series in NYC on October 25, 1997. Moore, a pivotal figure in the 80s alternative rock movement along with his band mem...