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4/12/2006
ROULETTE presents
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/
? Also! Please check out our new ROULETTE BLOG for excerpts of our artists� music, podcasts featuring interviews with the artists and Roulette TV clips, and musical discussion: http://www.roulette.org/blog/index.php
Tuesday, April 18th
HAEYOUNG KIM (AKA BUBBLYFISH) WITH KATHLEEN SUPOVE & ADAM KENDALL
Haeyoung Kim (a.k.a. Bubblyfish) & Kathleen Supov� join forces to perform Kim�s new piece, Hidden, Lost, Forgotten, for piano, voice samples, computer and gameboys with live video by Adam Kendall. Kim�s work has been presented at The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, the New Museum and Lincoln Center. Supov� is an award-winning pianist whose playing incorporates performance art, staging and interdisciplinary collaboration. Commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation. Check out: www.bubblyfish.com.
Wednesday, April 19th
MICHAEL VARGAS
Vetran improvising pianist Mike Vargas presents his work, Houdini, for solo piano. Come listen as Vargas wriggles out of his own self-imposed structures and limits. He gives the listener lots of space between the sounds, densely-packed rhythms and harmonies and his 47 years of experience on the instrument. Vargas has played everywhere from cocktail lounges in Indonesia to New Music America, has composed over 100 commissioned scores and has released 5 CDs (@ EMF.)
YUKO FUJIYAMA [YUKO FUJIYAMA ENSEMBLE]
Keyboardist Yuko Fujiyama and her ensemble (Jennifer Choi: violin, Tomas Ulrich: cello and Reggie Nicholson: drums) present a night of colorful improvisation and compositions, ranging in mood from lyrical quiet to stormy darkness. She and her ensemble have two CDs on the CIMP label. In the words of the Village Voice, �she�s created her own pass.�
Thursday, April 20th
DREW KRAUSE
Drew Krause presents a mix of new and recent solo, electronic, and chamber works that include piano, featuring Krause and surprise guests. He writes compositional algorithms that discover musical forms ranging from the poised and benign to the intricate and uncanny. Based in NYC, his music's ongoing venues have included the Bonk Festival, Thump Piano Duo, Frog Peak, etc. Check out: www.worldecho.org.
SIMON HOSTETTLER
Simon Hostettler is a musician who defies all stylistic restrictions, experimenting over many years as a freelance composer for the stage, free theatre groups and contemporary compositions. Tonight, he presents his new work, CODES, a series of 7 miniatures for 2 pianos and a pump organ. This minimalist piece is composed with very dense and sparse moments with room for improvisation and will be performed by Hostettler and Anthony Coleman.
Friday, April 21st
MYRA MELFORD
Pianist/composer Myra Melford presents a solo piano program of old and new compositions/improvisations, including the New York debut of her new live electronics and "extended piano" piece. Melford�s playing recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her hometown Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India and blends with it the rangy, percussive avant-garde stylings she cultivated studying with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill.
Saturday, April 22nd
ROBIN HOLCOMB
Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb gives a rare solo performance of new and old music for piano & voice including selections from her upcoming Tzadik release. Holcomb has performed extensively throughout the world as a solo artist and as the leader of various ensembles. The Village Voice describes her unique style: �Satie goes to Appalachia, Morricone goes to the Knitting Factory, and you, dear art-folk fan, die and go to heaven.�
Sunday, April 23rd
DAVID BORDEN & THE MOTHER MALLARD ENSEMBLE with KATHLEEN SUPOVE
Composer/pianist David Borden and Mother Mallard (Borden�s all-synthesizer ensemble, made up of Borden and keyboardist Blaise Bryski) are joined by avant-pianist Kathleen Supov� for the premire of Borden�s new evening-length electroacoustic composition, Heaven-Kept Soul. Borden�s work spans both worlds of �high� and �low� culture. Supov�, for whom the piece was written, is known for her boundary-breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience.
Tuesday, April 25th
CONNIE CROTHERS with BEN MANLEY [THE CROTHERS-MANLEY DUO]
Piano Resonance/Room Resonance: The Crothers-Manley Duo (Connie Crothers, improvised piano & Ben Manley, electroacoustic improv) will create ambient resonance in the performance space with piano in the very center and speakers all around the edges. Crothers converses spontaneously with Manley�s continuously shifting sound resulting in a dynamic musical environment, interspersed with solos throughout.
Wednesday, April 26th
DENMAN MARONEY
Composer and hyperpianist Denman Maroney presents works of the seventies, eighties, nineties and aughties � including some world and New York premieres � with his brand new group including John Hagen (saxophones,) Reuben Radding (bass) and Michael Sarin (drums.) Maroney�s music is inspired by the sound of crickets and power tools (among other things) and by the music of everyone from Cage to Coleman to Stockhausen. Check out: http://www.pipeline.com/~denman.
Thursday, April 27th
BORAH BERGMAN
Downbeat Magazine describes pianist Borah Bergman as "having the hands of an eccentric genius." Completely ambidextrous, he improvises horn-like lines with both hands, sometimes crossed, in a contrapuntal and polyphonic, multi-layered dialogue that allows pieces to be turned upside down without losing rhythmic intensity or aesthetic shape. Tonight, Bergman performs Dimensions in Direction, compositions and improvisations showcasing his unique style of playing, called "ambi-ideation."
Friday, April 28th
KYOKO KITAMURA & KIRK NUROCK [K2K]
Over some 30 years, the unpredictable composer/pianist Kirk Nurock has orchestrated for Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, and Meredith Monk, conducted live animals at Carnegie Hall, and innovated in duos with Theo Bleckmann and Jay Clayton. This time he teams up with vocal improviser Kyoko Kitamura who has honed her craft as a sideperson with the likes of Reggie Workman and Steve Coleman. Sharing a penchant for risk and absurdity, Kirk and Kyoko present their music tonight as K2K... for the first time.
Saturday, April 29th
MARGARET LENG-TAN
Pianist Margaret Leng Tan performs rarities by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Philip Glass, Somei Satoh and Hans Otte. Tonight�s program includes Cage's recently discovered "score-painting," Chess Pieces, Glass' Minimalist classic, How Now, and Lucier�s renowned Nothing is Real. The program toasts Lucier and Otte on this milestone year of their 75th and 80th birthdays, respectively. Tan is renowned for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano's conventional boundaries and is hailed by The New Yorker as �the diva of avant-garde pianism.� Check out: www.margaretlengtan.com
Sunday, April 30th
GUY KLUCEVSEK & ALAN BERN
Accordionists/composers Guy Klucevsek & Alan Bern present a program that will include Bern's Deep Blue C and Sideways and the premiere of selections from Klucevsek's on-going musical day book, Notefalls. Klucevsek has created a unique repertoire for accordion through his own composing and by commissioning. Berlin-based Alan Bern is a composer, pianist, accordionist and musical director, with a special interest in solo and group improvisation. Othermusic.com says: "These two are at the absolute height of their profession � Together, they sweep you up, carrying you on hard currents of sound.�
posted by Coming Events
4/12/2006 12:20:00 PM
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