Interpretations presents brand-new works from two pioneers in two genres of music: electronic music maven Al Margolis from the DIY underground cassette world and “hyperpianist” Denman Maroney from the free improv/avant-garde scene. Margolis collaborates with a small ensemble of friends (including folks from the latest If, Bwana incarnation) to create introspective, otherworldly sonic tapestries accompanied by video. Maroney goes it alone, but always sounds like a small ensemble, culling wild sounds from inside and outside the piano. This is your chance to hear these pieces, because they’ll never sound the same way again! Featuring: Al Margolis manipulating prerecorded sounds and sampling; Lisa Barnard, vocals; Monique Buzzarté, trombone; Tom Hamilton, electronics; Jacqueline Martelle, flute; and Katherine Liberovskaya, video. “It’s not a brand new idea to combine unrelated elements into a working whole… but Al Margolis makes me think it is, putting “An Innocent, Abroad” into my top albums of the year.” — Dave X, host of “It’s Too Damn Early” on WDBX “Once you get past the ‘gee whiz, how'd he do that’ stage, you find yourself in the midst of shimmering partials hovering luminescent in the air like aurora borealis. And after a while, you lose consciousness of the fact that you are listening to a piano at all. It's all very beautiful and quite unearthly. Maroney has created a singular and very personal style of playing that's very much his alone." — John Chacona, Signal to Noise Thursday, March 13 at 8pm Roulette: 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand) General admission: $15 ($10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members; free for Roulette and Location One members) For reservations, call 212-219-8242. For more information on the Interpretations series, call 212-627-0990 or visit: www.interpretations.info www.roulette.org Al Margolis “I continue to use sound palettes as the basic structure of my works; the instrumentalists then create their parts over these sound palettes. Other prerecorded and sampled sounds are then added to the live mix; the result is multi-layered works that are never twice the same.” — Al Margolis One of the prime movers in the cassette underground scene of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label released over 300 cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, Amy Denio, John Hudak and Jim O'Rourke), Al Margolis is the éminence grise behind twenty-three years of music under the name If, Bwana. He is also the man behind the Pogus label, as well as label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music. "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." — Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes http://pogus.com Denman Maroney Denman Maroney will give a solo piano concert of improvisations in his trademark “hyperpiano” style: playing the keys with one hand and the strings with the other, using bows and slides of metal, plastic and rubber. He also employs a system of temporal harmony based on the undertone series to compose and improvise in several tempos at once. His music is inspired by natural sounds and the music of Cage, Coleman, Cowell, Ellington, Ives, Joplin, Messiaen, Monk, Nancarrow and Stockhausen, among others. For more info visit: http://www.pipeline.com/~denman “Pianists have been tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman Maroney.” TimeOut NY, Aug. 2006. * * * * * * * The Interpretations series, now in its nineteenth season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.