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Tracking The Odds: Fred Frith: Dec 23, 2024
The duo project of Fred Frith and Sudhu...
Tracking The Odds: KMRU: Nov 25, 2024
Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin...
Tracking The Odds: Paul DeMarinis: Oct 28, 2024
Composer Paul DeMarinis combines interactive softw...
Tracking The Odds: jaimie branch: Aug 26, 2024
In June of 2021 improviser, composer, bandleader,...
Tracking The Odds: Matana Roberts: Jun 24, 2024
The saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts in excerpt...
Tracking the Odds: Qwanqwa and Hear in Now Expanded: May 27, 2024
“Weaving Strands of Sound from Addis to Chicago” i...
Tracking The Odds: Ben Greenberg: Apr 18, 2024
Guitarist and composer Ben Greenberg in a solo pro...
Tracking the Odds: Peter Kowald: Mar 21, 2024
The German contrabass player Peter Kowald (1944-20...
Tracking The Odds: Alfredo Colon: Feb 23, 2024
Two contrasting works by saxophonist and composer...
Tracking The Odds: Marcia Bassett: Jan 22, 2024
Composer/improviser and electronic artist Marcia B...
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Fred Frith: Dec 29, 2024: 6pm - 7pm
Fred Frith: Dec 23, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
KMRU (re-air of November 25, 2024): Dec 02, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
KMRU: Nov 25, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
Paul DeMarinis (Re-air of October 28, 2024): Nov 02, 2024: 9am - 10am
Paul DeMarinis: Oct 28, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
The duo project of Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, joined here in a trio with Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker. Frith and Tewari play adapted and processed guitars, home-made acoustic and e...
Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist known for a collection of field recordings from around the world blended with synthetic sound and noise for performances, installa...
Composer Paul DeMarinis combines interactive software, synthetic speech, physics, and noise with invented, obsolete or abandoned techologies. In the 1980s Dimarinis was part of a small group of downto...
In June of 2021 improviser, composer, bandleader, and trumpeter jaimie branch celebrated a birthday at Roulette with the jaimie branch trio, a collaborative project with Luke Stewart, bass and Mi...
The saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts in excerpts from the 4th Chapter (Memphis) of her epic musical novel, Coin Coin, recorded at the Roulette Concert Hall in Brooklyn in 2019. Described by the art...
“Weaving Strands of Sound from Addis to Chicago” is a collaborative project between the Ethiopia-based QWANQWA and Hear in Now Expanded (Tomeka Reid, cello; Silvia Bolognesi,bass; yuniya edi kwon,viol...
Guitarist and composer Ben Greenberg in a solo project named Hubble for layered and processed electric guitar and percussion and a set from the band Zs, a trio with saxophonist Sam Hillmer and drummer...
The German contrabass player Peter Kowald (1944-2002) in an improvising quartet with Zeena Parkins (harp), Jason Kao Hwang (violin) and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet/flute) recorded at Roulette in 1989. K...
Two contrasting works by saxophonist and composer Alfredo Colon, recorded during the artist's 2024 residency at Roulette, featuring a woodwind ensemble with live processing by sound artist Hank Mason...
Composer/improviser and electronic artist Marcia Bassett in two performances: a duo for two synthesizers (The Buchla Music Easel) with performer Ted Gordon, from Roulette’s 2022 Mixology Festival, and...
Tracking The Odds: The Ashcan Orchestra: Dec 25, 2023
A project of composer Pat Spadine and company, The Ashcan Orchestra utilizes electro-mechanical toy instruments, handbells, re-appropriated and homemade instruments, toy pianos, slide whistles, and pe...
Tracking The Odds: Dustin Wong: Nov 27, 2023
The composer/guitarist Dustin Wong in a solo set recorded at the Roulette concert hall in Brooklyn in 2012 plus material from his 2023 album, Perpetual Morphosis. Wong was born in Hawaii, grew up in J...
Tracking The Odds: Hahn Rowe: Oct 23, 2023
Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe in a solo performance at Roulette in May 2009 featuring a digitally de/re-constructed violin – fluidly transforming from sensual-textural microsonic...
Tracking The Odds: Eyvind Kang: Sep 25, 2023
The music of composer/violist Eyvind Kang with an 8-person ensemble, recorded at the Roulette concert space in NYC in 2001. The evening length piece, entitled Petrified Wood, is constructed from the c...
Tracking The Odds: David and Gisela Gamper: Aug 28, 2023
The soundtrack to David and Gisela Gamper’s project, See Hear Now, as presented at Roulette for three nights in June 2008. The event was a true collaboration between image and light and sound, with th...
Tracking The Odds: Wayne Horvitz: Jul 24, 2023
Composer/pianist Wayne Horvitz in a trio with Doug Wieselman on clarinet and Tony Scher on bass and guitar from 2002 at Roulette. Horvitz has played a major role in both the formative and mature perio...
Tracking The Odds: Pejman Hadadi: Jun 26, 2023
The Iranian percussionist Pejman Hadadi in The Namâd Trio with Saeed Kamjoo on kamancheh (spike-fiddle) and Kourosh Taghavi (setar-lute) presented at the Roulette concert hall in Brooklyn in October 2...
Tracking The Odds: Morton Subotnick: May 22, 2023
Two performance excerpts (2009 & 2013) at Roulette by Morton Subotnick, a pioneer in electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments with other media, including interactive computer m...
Tracking the Odds: Nick Dunston: Apr 24, 2023
Composer, bassist, improviser Nick Dunston in two performance excerpts from concerts at Roulette: the 2022 trio, Spider Season, featuring Kalia Vandever on trombone/fx and DoYeon Kim on gayageum/voice...
Tracking The Odds: Joyful Sonic Wash: Mar 27, 2023
Joyful Sonic Wash is the project of Junichi Matsuzaki and Megumi Matsuzaki. Junichi performs on a table-top guitar using “junk” preparations: tubes, mouthpiece, bells, a thumb piano and various other...
Tracking The Odds: Anna Webber: Feb 27, 2023
Composer and reed player Anna Webber's Idiom VI for large ensemble of twelve (winds, brass, strings, synth, and rhythm section, conducted by Eric Wubbels) centers around extended techniques: any non-t...
Tracking The Odds: We All Break: Jan 23, 2023
Drummer/composer Ches Smith's project We All Break infuses downtown jazz improvisation with traditional Haitian Vodou music, recorded at Roulette in 2021. Co-composer and master drummer Daniel Brevil...
Tracking The Odds: Richard Teitelbaum: Dec 26, 2022
Composer and keyboardist of many colors Richard Teitelbaum, synths, samplers, piano (1939-2020) in three appearances at Roulette: a 1995 solo made for choreographer Alison Salzinger, a 1999 duo with v...
Tracking The Odds: Pamela Z: Nov 28, 2022
Composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z in excerpts from performances at Roulette from 1990-2009. Z works primarily with voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digit...
Tracking The Odds: David First: Oct 24, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Elliott Sharp: Aug 22, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Denman Maroney: Jul 25, 2022
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...
Tracking the Odds: Denman Maroney: Jul 25, 2022
Tracking The Odds: Jerome Cooper: Jun 27, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Jessica Pavone: May 23, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: C. Spencer Yeh: Apr 25, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim): Mar 28, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Jarryd Lowder: Feb 28, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: Matana Roberts: Jan 24, 2022
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...
Tracking The Odds: J.A. Deane & Martin Schütz: Dec 27, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Oliver Lake: Nov 22, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Kelly Moran: Oct 25, 2021
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...
Tracking the Odds: Tyshawn Sorey: Sep 27, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Gen Ken Montgomery: Aug 23, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: John King: Jul 26, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Gina Leishman: Jun 28, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Lary 7 and Tony Conrad: May 24, 2021
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....
Tracking The Odds: Lesley Flanigan: Mar 22, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Milford Graves: Feb 22, 2021
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,...
Tracking The Odds: Fred Frith: Jan 25, 2021
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...
Tracking The Odds: Jon Gibson: Nov 23, 2020
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...
Tracking The Odds: Charmaine Lee: Oct 26, 2020
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 u...
Tracking The Odds: Z'EV: Sep 28, 2020
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...
Tracking The Odds: Mary Halvorson: Aug 24, 2020
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...
Tracking The Odds: George Lewis: Jul 27, 2020
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...