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Tracking The Odds: Ben Greenberg

Apr 22, 2024: 3pm - 4pm
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Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg. Image provided by Roulette Intermedium. (Apr 18, 2024)

Produced by Roulette Intermedium.

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 Ian Antonio. A native New Yorker and veteran of many bands, Greenberg's playing has been described as everything from trance to psychedelic to unhinged noise. Greenberg has established a reputation as a singularly-voiced guitar player, a ruthless and unashamed composer of tunes, songs, and longer forms, and a visionary and resourceful recording engineer.

"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. Its archive of thousands of audio and video recordings is currently being restored.

Pictured: A screening, reading, and performance for Henry Hills' film "Money" at Roulette (1985) with dancer Pooh Kaye surrounded by (L-R) John Zorn, Tom Cora, Ciro Baptiste, (obstructed, possibly Sally Silvers), Abigail Child, Diane Ward, Susie Timmons, Alan Davies, Bruce Andrews, Ikue Mori, Jim Staley, Butch Morris. Photo: Lona Foote.

Playlist:
  • Sign-On / Negativland
  • Hubble's Hubble / Hubble
  • Nude Ghost / Hubble