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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...
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20241028: Oct 28, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
"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
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
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
Jennifer Walshe, Tony Conrad: Nov 15, 2018: 1am - 2am
Ma la Pert is the duo of Jennifer Walshe and Tony Conrad, here recorded in concert at Roulette on 19 February 2010. They use voice, violins, viola, bass, autoharps, autotune, keyboard, shells, broken...
Stuart Dempster and Greg Powers: Oct 18, 2018: 1am - 2am
Virtuosos Stuart Dempster and Greg Powers in a Druphad style raga for didjeridu and trombone, recorded in concert at Roulette on March 4, 1999. Powers develops the raga on trombone while Dempster pro...
Toshio Kajiwara, Taketo Shimada: Sep 20, 2018: 1am - 2am
A sound installation/performance recorded at Roulette on May 15, 1999. Entitled Ferris Wheel, the piece is designed as a sonic flashback museum of digital samples, an archaeology of ideas, and a post-...
20180816: Aug 16, 2018: 1am - 2am
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 Sta...
Annie Gosfield: Jul 19, 2018: 1am - 2am
The composer/keyboardist performing original compositions as well as work by mentor/alter-ego PW Schreck, “Father of Calamitonality”, recorded live in concert at Roulette on 28 October 1994. Along wit...
Bern Nix and Ayman Fanous: Jun 21, 2018: 1am - 2am
The gentle and ferociously inventive guitarist Bern Nix (1947-2017), a former Ornette Coleman collaborator, and Egyptian bouzouki/guitar/flamenco/jazz master Ayman Fanous in duos and solos, restored f...
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: May 17, 2018: 1am - 2am
This percussion duo performed at Roulette on 22 March 1995 in an eclectic cross genre, cross cultural program with Afro-Cuban, jazz, Middle Eastern, and Indian influences and utilizing instruments inc...
Joseph Jarman: Apr 19, 2018: 1am - 2am
Jazz legend, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Jarman appears here in a 1995 concert at Roulette with pianist Myra Melford and guitarist Mikele Navazio. In the early sixties in Chicago Jar...
Guy Klucevsek: Mar 15, 2018: 1am - 2am
Guy Klucevsek is one of the world’s most versatile and award-winning accordionists. He has performed and/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Bang On a Can, Brave Combo, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman,...
Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, Ned Rothenberg: Feb 15, 2018: 1am - 2am
Berlin-based guitarist Hans Reichel (1949-2011) in an improvising trio with Fred Frith, guitar/bass and Ned Rothenberg, alto sax/bass clarinet, recorded at Roulette on 24 October 1987. All three lege...
Matthew Shipp Trio: Jan 18, 2018: 1am - 2am
A live concert by the Matthew Shipp Trio, recorded January 22, 2004 as part of the Roulette Concert Series held at the Thalia Theater in Manhattan. The Trio features Shipp on piano, William Parker on...
Min Xiao Fen: Dec 21, 2017: 1am - 2am
Min Xiao Fen is a Chinese pipa player and vocalist, known for her work in traditional Chinese music, contemporary classical and experimental music, and jazz and has worked with numerous contemporary c...
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Nov 18, 2017: 8pm - 9pm
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...
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Nov 16, 2017: 1am - 2am
Eugene Chadbourne: Oct 19, 2017: 1am - 2am
Eugene Chadbourne: Crude Gene Mannipuappalachian. The guitarist and free styling provocateur Eugene Chadbourne with his renegade rockabilly noise band recorded at Roulette on December 10, 1994. Featu...
Susie Ibarra & William Parker Duo: Sep 21, 2017: 1am - 2am
Recorded in concert on May 2, 1997, Susie Ibarra on drums and percussion and William Parker on bass and percussion utilize bells, strings, wood, bows, skins, gongs, sticks and brass in a rare meeting...
Bill Frisell Live 1989: Aug 17, 2017: 1am - 2am
Guitarist Bill Frisell, whose extraordinary touch, technique, and daring has led him to collaborate with artists including Nora Jones, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, and John Zorn, did some of his earlie...
Deep Listening Band: Jul 20, 2017: 1am - 2am
Tune into the premiere broadcast of Tracking The Odds, a new monthly program featuring selections from the Roulette Concert Archive. This month's broadcast features the Deep Listening Band. From delic...