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Laura Andel New Music Works in collaboration with Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), Elliott Sharp (guitars), Carl Maguire (Fender Rhodes), Andrew Drury (percussion)

New York-based, Argentinean composer Laura Andel premieres new works for an eclectic instrumentation, featuring musicians of the Buenos Aires, and the New York music-scenes, creating a crossover of geographies and personal languages.

By conceptualizing music that balance composition, textural improvisation, and compositional conducting, Andel creates unique sonic landscapes, sometimes ritualistic, built from musical elements from avant-garde to contemporary classical. In it, each performer’s distinctive voice forms the fabric of these sonic landscapes.

Listen to Laura's music on WNYC

Laura Andel's performance is made possible with support from Jerome Foundation.

 

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“Occupying that mid-range between jazz and classical music, Laura Andel is a composer to watch, as much for her audacity as for her conception.” –Ken Waxman, JazzWeekly Magazine

LAURA ANDEL is a composer and conductor from Buenos Aires, Argentina. After living and working in her native Buenos Aires, and for several years in Boston, Ms. Andel moved to New York in 2000. One of Andel's main interests is exploring diverse combinations of instruments and formats for her orchestras, as well as working with musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds. Laura Andel has received grants and awards for her work, from the BMI Foundation, Unesco-Aschberg, Rockefeller Foundation, American Music Center, Massachusetts Cultural Council, New York State Music Fund, and the Senate for Culture of the City of Berlin. Her music has been performed in New York, Boston, Berlin, Caracas, Buenos Aires, and other cities. The Laura Andel Orchestra has released 3 CDs to date:  Somnambulist, In::Tension:., and Doble Mano.

Listen to Laura Andel’s Music and Interview by David Garland on WNYC.  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/2008/oct/25/

www.lauraandel.com

DANIEL BINELLI is a bandoneón player, composer, arranger and musical director from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Binelli is a central and long-standing figure of tango music both in Buenos Aires and the international music scene. He has performed for many years with some of the most remarkable tango orchestras and ensembles, including the Osvaldo Pugliese Tango Orchestra, and the Astor Piazzolla´s New Tango Sextet. Currently, he is the musical director of Tango Metropolis, the Daniel Binelli Quintet, and the Binelli-Ferman Duo, and regularly tours in Europe, United States, and Japan. He lives between Buenos Aires and New York City.  www.danielbinelli.com

 ELLIOTT SHARP is a composer, performer, and producer central to the experimental music scene in New York. He leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane, and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. Elliott Sharp’s music has been featured at numerous international venues and festivals, including MaerzMusik, the New Music Stockholm, the Donaueschingen Festival, the Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale, the Darmstadt Ferienkürse für Neue Musik, and the Venice Biennale. Sharp's work is the subject of a recent documentary film Doing The Don't  by Bert Shapiro.  www.elliottsharp.com

CARL MAGUIRE is active as a performer and collaborator with a variety of New York creative artists. His primary focus as a composer and band leader for the past few years has been realizing Floriculture, a band that plays exclusively Maguire's compositions, which call on the musicians to integrate extended sections of exact notation with improvisational passages to create a vivid and compelling aural landscape. Carl performs on piano and Rhodes, with both traditional and less-traditional techniques, and sometimes on accordion. He has performed with Barbez, Momenta Quartet, Tyshawn Sorey, and was a featured soloist in Butch Morris' New York Skyscraper.  www.carlmaguire.co m

ANDREW DRURY is a percussionist, composer, improviser, and educator who works primarily in avant-jazz and free improvisation, with regular forays into other genres and media. In addition to “conventional” techniques he employs friction and air pressure in combination with a variety of gears, clamps, construction site detritus, and metal objects to conjure an extreme range of frequency and texture from the drums. He has become one of the very few drummers known for circular breathing and bowing a metal dust pan. Drury has performed internationally, made five CDs as a bandleader, and appeared on over 40 other recordings. Drury has received grants for his work from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Seattle Arts Commission, the Artist Trust, the Puffin Foundation, and others.  www.andrewdrury.com

 

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Call to Reserve Your Spot Today (917) 267-0365 or email amanda@roulette.org
$5 Kids and Adults (Free for babies under 3)

Everyone knows that if you hit a drum you make a sound.  That’s obvious.  But few people are aware of the amazing, often weird, sounds that drums produce by transforming vibrations originating from other sources.  Have you ever played a drum with a dustpan?  Made a drum scream by blowing on it?   Played a drum using slivers of bamboo, faucet parts, or violin bows?   This is your chance to hear (and make!) drum sounds that hardly anyone—including a vast majority of drummers—is even aware of.

In this Roulette Kids performance drummer/composer Andrew Drury will present solo percussion music utilizing a variety of extended techniques.  The music will be interlaced with informal discussion, audience participation, and a short jam session at the end.  This is a Roulette Kids performance, but anyone, any age, should find it interesting.

After studying with Ed Blackwell and playing with musicians as diverse as Wadada Leo Smith, Dickie Wells, and Brad Mehldau in the 1980s and ‘90s, Andrew Drury has performed internationally and appeared on over 40 cds in ensembles and as a soloist since 2000.  As an educator he has led over 1,000 workshops with schools, prisons, homeless shelters, Indian reservations, a conservatory in Sarajevo, a bookstore in Zagreb, a mountainside village in Guatemala, villages on a volcanic island in Nicaragua, and graduate students at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Drury’s recent projects include performing and recording with Jason Kao Hwang, TOTEM>, IRON DOG, Steve Swell, Jack Wright, Frank Lacy and 10^32K, Other Life Forms, Kevin James, Kris Davis, Denman Maroney, James Ilgenfritz, Reuben Radding, Wally Shoup, Pistol Poem, and many more.  He is also busy at work on his second cd of solo percussion music.

For more information visit www.andrewdrury.com

“I’m not sure there is a more interesting and diverse renaissance-styled individual whose sensibility has as much to do with the street as it does the classic confines of jazz. Get his CD, get your kids to his workshops, and keep an eye out for his next appearance… He is a superb drummer and composer, but that is just the beginning.”
Chris Lunn, Victory Review

 … extremely imaginative… …expansive and intimate…something to place alongside … Burkhard Beins, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Le Quan Ninh.
Jason Bivins, Signal to Noise

 

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On July 23rd we're letting KIDS TAKE OVER our new concert hall! We'll be holding workshops from 1 to 4 PM giving kids hands on experience - learning about DJing, participating in a huge drum jam, and exploring movement through sound - all with some of the most exciting artists in New York City! FREE!

Space is limited, so please RSVP to the workshop(s) of your choice by emailing roulette@roulette.org or calling (212) 219-8242

1:00 PM
THE ART OF DJ'ING (ages 8-11)
With Jeannie Hopper
The art of DJ'ing never fails to fascinate. In this workshop, WBAI DJ Jeannie Hopper shows kids the ins and outs of DJing - from the basics of spinning vinyl records on turntables, to the art of mixing from one song to the next, and how to use turntables as a musical instrument. Following the demonstrations, kids will get to go hands on with turntables and microphones to learn how to get the party started right!

2:00 PM
JUNK PERCUSSION JAM (ages 9-14)
With Andrew Drury
Composer/Percussionist Andrew Drury invites kids to form a percussion band that drums, improvises, and composes using plastic buckets, garbage cans, metal, and more! Guaranteed to be a blast of loud energy and excitement.

3:00 PM
WORKSHOP IN SOUND & MOVEMENT (ages 7-10)
With Tatyana Tenenbaum and Brandin Steffensen
Tatyana and Brandin will lead the class in an imaginative exploration of improvised sound and movement. Come prepared to sing, and move, and create sound through space! No experience is necessary, playfulness required. Instruments welcome!

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For this participatory performance composer/percussionist Andrew Drury will improvise and talk about his work. Drury conjures an unusual and dramatic range sounds from the drums using a violin bow, breath, fingernails, a dustpan, plastic chopsticks, faucet parts, and slivers of wood. Children in the audience will get to try the techniques for themselves, ask and answer questions, and play in a percussion jam at the end.

www.andrewdrury.com
www.myspace.com/andrewdrury

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Wii B Jammin'
Interactive Concert with flutes, percussion and electronics
ROULETTE CHILDREN'S CONCERT
$5

Jane Rigler, flutist, composer, educator and curator is known for her innovations in new flute performance, techniques and unique musical vocabulary. She is a featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as within chamber ensembles (Ensemble Plural, Either/Or, Ne(x)tworks, Ensemble Sospeso, Anthony Braxton 12tet, etc.). Besides premiering works written especially for her, Jane's compositions cover simple solo acoustic pieces inspired by language to complex interactive electronic works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance. After receiving a B.M. (Northwestern University) and then pursuing flute studies in various parts of Europe and North America, she gained her M.A. and Ph.D. (UC San Diego) completing The Vocalization of the Flute, a book demonstrating both new and ancient methods of singing-while-playing the flute. Her expertise has led to performances in contemporary operas, experimental theater and dance events as well as other interactive electronic festivals. Her compositions are sought after by other flutists and have been performed in South Korea, Australia, France, Spain, and in concert halls and universities throughout the U.S.

Jane organizes events such as the Relay~NYC! held at MoMA, the Spontaneous Music Festival and has received support for her works from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Meet the Composer-Global Connections, Harvestworks Studios, Art Omi and RPI's Create @ iEar Studios.

As an Artist Educator, Jane Rigler works with several arts organizations such as the Lincoln Center Institute and the Orchestra St. Luke's where she helped launch a Young Composer Program in the NY schools. Her most notable work is for the Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP) where she spent several years working and researching music education programs such as CME and CIAE for underserved populations and children with disabilities. Together with artist-programmer Zachary Seldess, she is currently co-designing and developing the Music Cre8tor (patent is pending), a new interactive sensor-driven music composition program for young people with disabilities.

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Metal dust pan, aluminum sheets, bronze gear, faucet sleeve, shish kabob skewers, plastic chopsticks.  By Bowing, scraping, circular breathing, and sometimes hitting objects such as these, and many others, Andrew Drury will give a solo floor tom performance that revels in the hidden voices of the drum and pushes young peoples' imaginations beyond the limit.  There will be Q&A and audience participation.

Roulette Children's Concerts offer pre-K to fifth-graders the chance to listen and interact with adventurous, professional composers and musicians of a variety of genres.

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Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn, Andrew Drury - drum set, Ken Filiano - string bass,
Jason Kao Hwang - composer/ violin, viola

CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF
STORIES BEFORE WITHIN (Innova Records)

Jason Kao Hwang's quartet EDGE is nested in the urban mountains of New York City where he created Stories Before Within, personal tales celebrating both life and loss. Over the past three years EDGE has embraced both past and future with musical offerings resonant with human and animal overtones. Their instruments sing through sharp lines vibrating between history, cultures and genres.

In 2006, EDGE's first CD (Asian Improv Records) scaled the college radio charts at #14 for CMJ and #4 for Canada's EARSHOT. EDGE was ranked #3 on a Top Ten CDs of 2006 list for ALL ABOUT JAZZ. They have performed Vision Festival XI, Tonic, Brooklyn College, the Living Theater, and the Stone, all in NYC. EDGE also performed at Sangha (Washington, D.C.), An die Musik (Baltimore), the Deep Listening Institute (Kingston, NY), and the Sanctuary for Independent Media (Troy, NY). In the fall of 2008, EDGE will tour Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. They will also perform in EDGEFEST (name has no prior relation) at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbour, Michigan.

The four manage to meld their individual experiences into a group that can swing hard, evoke the pentatonics and timbres of Asian music traditions or blues edge and push toward freedom.
Michael Rosenstein, SIGNAL TO NOISE, 2006

Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violinist) has created works ranging from jazz, classical, "new" and world music. As violinist, he has worked with Reggie Workman, William Parker, Pheeroan akLaff, Anthony Braxton, Vladamir Tarasov, Butch Morris and Henry Threadgill. As composer he has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey State Council on the Arts and others. His duo with Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajeng, voice), Local Lingo (Euonymus Records), recently broke into the CMJ charts at #36. His chamber opera, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown (New World Records), was named one of the top ten opera recordings of 2005 by Opera News. Music From China recently commissioned his string quartet, In the Garden of Morning Glories (violin, erhu, pipa, yanqin), which premiered at Symphony Space.

Taylor Ho Bynum (coronet, various brass) is a composer and bandleader born in 1975, raised in Boston, and presently residing in Brooklyn. Bynum has established a reputation as a unique musical voice willing to take chances in a wide variety of artistic contexts. Projects range from ensembles in the jazz tradition, to work with DJs, contemporary classical composers, and world music ensembles, to composing for film and theater, to collaborations with dancers and visual artists. He leads a variety of small groups and the large ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings, and works with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and the Fully Celebrated Orchestra.

Andrew Drury (drum set) is a drummer/composer whose work has been noted for its lyricism and expansive approach to form and technique. Drury can be heard on fifteen CDs (two as a bandleader) and he has performed in Europe and the Americas with Michel Doneda, Mark Dresser, Briggan Krauss, Myra Melford, Chris Speed, Jack Wright, Kenny Wolleson's Marching Band with Butch Morris, and others. A former student of Ed Blackwell, he photographs drum solos in desert and prairie settings, collaborates frequently with dancers, and has led over 700 junk percussion workshops across the U.S.

Ken Filiano (string bass), has fused the rich traditions of the double bass, bringing out the many voices inherent to the instrument. His solo bass CD, Subvenire (NineWinds), received unanimous critical praise, and was chosen by Cadence Magazine as one of the top ten CDs of 2003. Ken tours widely, performing at the DuMaurier International Jazz Festival, Banlieues Bleues Festival (Paris, France); and on many concert stages including Carnegie Hall. He was principal bassist with the Cascade Festival Orchestra from 1985 - 2002. Ken has also played and/or recorded with artists and orchestras including Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Vinnie Golia, Dom Minasi, Alex Cline, Ted Dunbar, and Joseph Jarman.

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Breathe is drummer/composer Drury's new trio with celebrated pianist Myra Melford and alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss (Sex Mob) charged with exploring landscapes lying between improvisation, classical and jazz. Drury's music interweaves extended and conventional instrumental techniques and is animated by a drummer's sense of rhythm, phrase and energy.