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11/2/2005
ROULETTE
at Location One 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Monday, November 7th
**Daniel Carter and Matt Mikas**
Performing/recording/street musician Daniel Carter and sound artist/sonic anthropologist Matt Mikas create improvised dialogues using saxophone, flute, sampler, specially pressed records and turntables. The result acknowledges sci-fi soundtracks, hip-hop minimalism, and ecstatic free-jazz. Carter began playing in New York in the early '70s, sporadically recording with artists such as Gunter Hampel and Bob Moses. He joined Other Dimensions in Music and also played with punk rock groups throughout the 80s. He has recorded extensively with Test. Test, featuring multireedist Sabir Mateen, bassist Matthew Heyner, and drummer Tom Bruno. Carter also has collaborated with non-jazz acts like avant-rock songwriter David Grubbs and electronic musicians Spring Heel Jack and DJ Logic. Since 1999, Carter has kept himself busy with projects on the Aum Fidelity and Thirsty Ear labels. Mikas has a long history of involvement in microradio, nightclub entertainment, and museum exhibition. He uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer and electronics and low-power FM transmitters as artist and activist. He is also a co-founder of and the operations manager for free103point9, a New York based non-profit arts organization focusing on the creative usage of transmission mediums. Minkas has performed his work at The Kitchen, P.S. 122, Anthology Film Archives and the 2004 Gwang-Ju Biennial in South Korea.
**N.R.A.**
Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion (Japan,) Vic Rawlings, open-circuit electronics, amplified prepared cello (USA,) and Ricardo Arias, bass-balloon kit (Colombia.) N.R.A.�s performance practice is based on a kinetic-physical approach to their respective instruments. The players concoct their own distinctive instrument adaptations/inventions and playing techniques, each bringing markedly contrasting sonic materials to the ensemble. Their approach exploits the intersection of these disparate sounds within the confines of particular times and spaces. Nakatani is a recent recipient of the Bronx Art Council individual artist grant. Rawlings has recorded and toured extensively, collaborating with Sean Meehan, Eddie Prevost, and Donald Miller, among others. Arias�s residencies include Harvestworks, Engine 27 and the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. N.R.A. has released two recordings on H&H productions and Transmission Arts.
Tuesday, November 8th
**Zeljko McMullen**
ZELJKOVISION: A color symphony of math and stars -- impenetrable walls of delicate timbres create a womb-like space, perpetually collapsing in on itself. Projections from multiple sources collide onto a central focal point - manifesting a new composite world. Sensory overload turns into lowercase intrusion, becomes a faded memory, and then disappears. Zeljkovision glasses will be distributed to the audience. Featuring visual projects with Jay King and Justin Craun; sound relationships with Peter Blasser, Doron Sadja, Carson Garhart, Severiano Martinez, and Owen Cannon. Zeljko McMullen: a multi-medium of arts installed, composed, performed, and experiential. Helps run the Shinkoyo art + music collective in Brooklyn and has 5 albums on the label to date. He has performed/installed his work in museums, galleries, and alternative venues across North America, most recently during an installation/performance tour with Doron Sadja - presenting their works as the hybrid entity Sadjeljko.
**M.V. Carbon**
THE BRIDGE: M.V. Carbon will portray the stages of structural decomposition that occur within architecture, landscape, human physiology, and perception using imagery captured on 16mm film and performed representational compositions. Fragmented field recordings, analog synthesizers, homemade circuits, tape manipulations, and photosensitive oscillations assimilate the disintegration. M.V. Carbon is a Brooklyn based filmmaker, sound artist and composer who uses homemade circuits, samples, guitar manipulations, analog synthesizers and reel to reel tape machines to create eerie and unsettling compositions. She studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibits installations that incorporate 16 mm film and sound. She has collaborated with an array of musicians (including J. Graf in the duo Metalux) and has work released on labels such as 5RC, Load, Hanson and Atavistic.
Wednesday, November 9th
**Maryanne Amacher**
Composer and sound installation artist Maryanne Amacher is known for her pioneering work in acoustics and architectural installation. Recent pieces actually cause the listeners� ears to produce sound through sympathetic vibrations. She is a three-time recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Distinction in Computer Musik as well as awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pew Memorial Trust. She has presented pieces in solo and group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Casa de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Whitney Biennial (2002); Kunsthalle, Basel; Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Kunsthalle, Krems; Panasonic Hall, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Commissioners/collaborators include John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and the Kronos Quartet.
**Stefan Tcherepnin**
Stefan Tcherepnin is a composer/artist currently focused on creating live electronic soundscapes out of material derived from and generated by analog electronic synthesizers, acoustic stringed instruments, and percussion � as well as the occasional archaic digital technology. Tonight�s performance also features Brooklyn based drummer/composer Brian Chase. Tcherepnin has performed, recorded and toured with several bands throughout the last decade, and his music is featured on an upcoming release by the Shinkoyo label. Recent performances in NYC have been at Diapason, The Tank, Tonic, The Knitting Factory, and Columbia University. Brian Chase is a Brooklyn-based performer and composer working in a wide variety of ensembles. For the past five years, most of his time has been spent touring worldwide with the rock band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Brian has also toured Europe and the States with the punk rock band, The Seconds. Other projects include Sugriwa, a process oriented loud folk noise band that features Stefan Tcherepnin and Mary Halvorson, and various improv/chamber groups that perform throughout the city.
Thursday, November 10th
**Davey Williams**
Davey Williams plays improvised guitar. He has performed at most of the leading venues for and festivals of new and improvised music in North America and Europe (over 1500 concerts since 1974); and has appeared on over 40 published recordings, many under his own name. He has performed in groups such as Curlew; in The Knitting Factory line-ups; in a long-standing partnership with LaDonna Smith; as a solo performer; and, as "Cyd Cherise", in Ron 'Pate's Debonairs with the legendary Reverend Fred Lane. Collaborators include Min Tanaka, the Shaking Ray Levis, Gunter Christmann, Anne LeBaron, Eugene Chadbourne, Kramer, Roger Turner, Marcus Eichenberger/Philip Micol, Billy Jenkins, Gustavo Matamoros and John Zorn.
**Tony Buck**
One of Australia�s most adventurous exports, Tony Buck�s recent performance activity focuses on solo percussion concerts using only the acoustic sounds of the drum kit and associated bits and pieces. His material is informed by his experiences with electronic music, incorporating ideas of sampling, loops and over-layering. Blending sounds, cross-fading textures and juxtaposing patterns and motifs continue to be primary concerns, as he experiments with the richness and subtlety of acoustic sounds in a living and breathing space. He is the leader of the hardcore/improv. band, PERIL, and has played, toured or recorded with, among others, Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins, Tenko, John Zorn, and The Machine for Making Sense. His solo CD, self_contained_underwater_breathing_apparatus, was released in 2002. Revolver Magazine describes his playing as what happens "when pushing the envelope turns into torching the post office."
Friday, November 11th
**Julia Heyward**
Julia Heyward is a multimedia artist whose work incorporates video, film, monologues and a cappella singing. She will show her interactive version of "Miracles in Reverse" as well as two works-in-progress. All pieces deal with trauma and memory -- some from a local perspective, others from a global perspective. Music performed and collaboratively created with artist/musican Ken Butler. Heyward began her career as a solo performance artist touring America and Europe throughout the 1970s. During the 1980s Heyward�s work expanded into ensemble performances as she formed and toured three multimedia music groups. In January 1981 (a year before MTV�s debut), she premiered 360, a long-form music video. Heyward�s awards include a Bessie Award for outstanding performance of the year (1984,) a Guggenheim and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her video works have been featured at various festivals, including the Tokyo International Video Biennial, the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Film-X Film Festival, Los Angeles.
Saturday, November 12th
**LaDonna Smith**
LaDonna Smith will play in the moment, a deeply intense solo set reflecting emotional depth, technical explorations and current personal musical inclinations. In addition there may be a guest or two. As a violinist and violist, LaDonna Smith has been on the international new music scene for nearly 30 years. She is an active performer, as well as an educator and native of Birmingham, Alabama. LaDonna has created a style of improvisation that is uniquely her own. Alternating classical and extended techniques, she explores her instrument, painting scenarios and sound pictures as she plays. She has performed at practically every major improvisation festival and many of the New Music Festivals. She has toured Europe on numerous occasions, playing solo and in collaboration with many musicians. Her travels have taken her from New Music America to the former USSR, Siberia, China and Japan. In addition, she and guitarist Davey Williams have toured North America and Europe many times as a duo.
**Bisset & Beins**
John Bisset - acoustic guitar (London); Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects (Berlin.) Bisset and Beins began playing together in 1995 and have toured extensively, as a duo and in collaboration with others. Over the time their styles have developed in very different ways, resulting in a wide range of projects from melodic instrumentals to electronic noise. Burkhard has become one of the pioneers of the so-called "Berlin Reductionism," but also is a member of the "post-industrial" group Perlonex and a frequent duo-collaborator with table-top guitarist Keith Rowe. John leads the London Electric Guitar Orchestra and deconstructs song structures with his band, Pocket, besides working extensively as an improviser. In 2001 their duo CD, Chapel, was released on 2:13 Music.
Sunday, November 13th
**Peter Evans**
Peter Evans presents his improvisations for solo trumpet, which seek to fill the instrument with information, watch it expand, and finally "break apart.� Formal influences include the ubiquitous, magical, seemingly irrational world of digital media (the glitch, the loop, the shuffle,) and a fascination with joke and story telling. As a trumpeter, improviser, and composer, Evans�s collaborators include James Dillon, George Lewis, Francis-Marie Uitti, Ursula Oppens and many others. Recent projects have included American premieres of music by Brian Ferneyhough, a collaboration at the Bowery Ballroom with the math-rock band, Hella, and performances with Moppa Eliott's terrorist bebop band, Mostly Other People do the Killing. Peter also plays with contemporary music groups Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ensemble 21.
**Glenda Goodman**
Glenda Goodman performs solo viola works by Salvatore Sciarrino and Giacinto Scelsi, which push the sonic expectations of the traditionally middle-ranged, mellow-voiced instrument, creating fleetingly beautiful soundscapes that are devilishly difficult to execute but highly stimulating to hear. Goodman has a multi-faceted track record as a violist. The creation and performance of new music is her top priority, and to this end she has collaborated frequently with composers to generate new works for viola, and regularly performs as an improviser. She has collaborated with video artist/composer team King/Diaz de Leon, performs in Walter Thompson�s Soundpainting Orchestra, and plays Persian music with Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri. Classically trained, she recently was awarded a Jacob Javits Fellowship for graduate study in viola at Juillard.
Also, Victrolophone (Glenda�s and Peter�s duo,) will be performing ghostly, sentimental versions of old songs learned from Johnny Cash records, mix-tapes and cloudy memories.
posted by Coming Events
11/02/2005 01:58:00 PM
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