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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...
Tracking The Odds: The Ashcan Orchestra: Dec 25, 2023
A project of composer Pat Spadine and company, The...
Tracking The Odds: Dustin Wong: Nov 27, 2023
The composer/guitarist Dustin Wong in a solo set r...
Tracking The Odds: Hahn Rowe: Oct 23, 2023
Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist Hahn Row...
Tracking The Odds: Eyvind Kang: Sep 25, 2023
The music of composer/violist Eyvind Kang with an...
Tracking The Odds: David and Gisela Gamper: Aug 28, 2023
The soundtrack to David and Gisela Gamper’s projec...
Tracking The Odds: Wayne Horvitz: Jul 24, 2023
Composer/pianist Wayne Horvitz in a trio with Doug...
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Composer, bassist, improviser Nick Dunston in two...
Tracking The Odds: Jessica Pavone Broadcast Image: May 23, 2022
Tracking The Odds: C. Spencer Yeh Broadcast Image: Apr 25, 2022
Tracking The Odds: Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim) Broadcast Image: Mar 28, 2022
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"Tracking The Odds: The Roulette Concert Archive"...
20240923: Sep 23, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
20240826: Aug 26, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
20240722: Jul 22, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
20240624: Jun 24, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
20240527: May 27, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
Ben Greenberg: Apr 22, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
Peter Kowald: Mar 25, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
Alfredo Colon: Feb 27, 2024: 2pm - 3pm
Marcia Bassett: Jan 22, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
"Tracking The Odds: The Roulette Concert Archive" is a monthly hour-long radio special produced by Roulette Intermedium (roulette.org) and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM and St...
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...
The Ashcan Orchestra: Dec 25, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Dustin Wong: Nov 27, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Hahn Rowe: Oct 23, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Hahn Rowe: Oct 20, 2023: 6pm - 7pm
Eyvind Kang: Sep 25, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
David and Gisela Gamper: Aug 28, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Wayne Horvitz: Jul 24, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
Today a recording of composer/pianist Wayne Horvitz in a trio with Doug Wieselman on clarinet and Tony Scher on bass and guitar from 2002 at Roulette is featured. Horvitz has played a major role in bo...
Pejman Hadadi: Jun 26, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Morton Subotnick: May 22, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Nick Dunston: Apr 24, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Joyful Sonic Wash: Mar 27, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Anna Webber: Feb 27, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
We All Break: Jan 23, 2023: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Richard Teitelbaum: Dec 26, 2022: 3pm - 4pm
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...
Pamela Z: Nov 28, 2022: 3pm - 4pm
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...
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
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...