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 electronic percussionist Ikue Mori (DNA, John Zorn), and a large group composition, all recorded in concert at Roulette in New York City between 2008-2019. Parkins’ collaborators over the years also include Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp, Björk, Matmos, Kim Gordon, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, filmmakers Cynthia Madansky, Jennifer Reeves, Daria Martin, and Mandy McIntosh and choreographers John Jasperse, DD Dorvillier, Jennifer Monson, Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Lacey, and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and three Bessie Awards for her work with dance. In recent years Parkins held the Darius Milhaud Chair in Composition at Mills College. Photo: Peter Gannushkin.

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 Standing Wave Radio. The broadcasts feature selected highlights from Roulette’s New York experimental music space dating from the early 1980s to the present. Thousands of rare, formative, and often unheard recordings by innovators and adventurous musicians populate the archive. Tracking The Odds airs the fourth Monday of the month from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and is archived at wavefarm.org.

Founded in 1978, Roulette operates a 400-seat concert hall on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn with a focus on experimental and unorthodox music and performance across all genres and media. It's archive of thousands of audio and video recordings is currently being restored.