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Composer Ben Stapp, leads his ensemble, the Zozimos Collective in the premier of Eight Houses(2011). Eight Houses is a large multi movement work based on the 8 core hexagrams of the I-Ching. It is written for a brass quintet, two guitars/pedals and percussion & piano with electronics. Sonically, Ben Stapp's work is based on his harmonic theory - micro-functional tonality. Noticeable influences by era are Post-Romantic, Impressionist, Minimalist and Spectralist composers. Separate from John Cage's use of the I-Ching, this piece resolves to musically represent the core elements of the I-Ching, NOT the way in which the elements of the oracle were practiced. As the piece progresses each instrumentalist as well as specific formations will be featured as soloists, therein lie moments of chance.

Featuring:
Satoshi Takeishi, Shoko Nagai, Sebastian Noelle, Dustin Carlson,
Chris McIntyre, Bryan Drye, Tim Leopold, Nate Wooley, Kenny Warren and Ben Stapp

Although trained as a classical/orchestral tubist with legendary pedagogues, Tommy Johnson and Roger Bobo, Ben Stapp began his professional career recording for the improvised music label Clean Feed with the likes of Herb Robertson, Alipio Neto, Ken Filiano and Michael T.A. Thompson. His first project as leader took him on tour in Portugal and then finally to New York to record with Tony Malaby and Satoshi Takeishi. With the self release Mr. Stapp was quickly recognized by All About Jazz, as "most certainly one to watch" and "the debut of a fresh new voice." The Village Voice gave it an Honorable mention and the New York Times greeted it as a "rugged trio." Since his move to New York he has been composing and performing with his new mixed ensemble projects - Zozimos, and has played at the Stone, the Tea Lounge and Cornelia Street cafe among others.

http://www.benstapp.com/

Photo by Peter Gannushkin

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Plays Well With Others Festival is a 3 night mixed-genres festival exploring music, dance, video, and performance.

October 19
Dance artist Anna Azrieli presents "if you look up" - a landscape of scattered, subtly vibrating bodies in the space. Unceasing movement transforms both performers and viewers alike. A lone figure emerges from the simple yet overwhelming rhythm. Alex Escalante presents a new solo improvised dance work - combining movement and manipulated vocals in performance. Avant-turntablist - and previous Jerome Foundation Commission recipient - Maria Chavez presents short solo electro-acoustic sound pieces using a collection of new and broken needles that she calls "pencils of sound" and a selection of records, which provide the palette.

Alex Escalante is a Brooklyn based choreographer/performer. His work employs
various mediums including dance, theater, film and live music. Escalante's
works delve into current socio-political issues, creating a performance space in
which viewers are invited to examine and reflect upon their own beliefs. Born in Los Angeles, Escalante received a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase. In 1999 he moved to New York City and has subsequently performed and toured with Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson/Birdbrain, Doug Varone, Doug Elkins, David Neumann, Gerald Casel and the Metropolitan Opera. Escalante also works as a freelance photographer and is a teaching artist in the NYC public schools working with at-risk youth.

Also See:

October 17th

Zeljko McMullen
Sarah Boatright

October 18th

Carver Audain
Christopher Williams

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Plays Well With Others Festival is a 3 night mixed-genres festival exploring music, dance, video, and performance.

Carver Audain (b 1981) composes music in the Acousmatic tradition, which, as defined by French composer and theorist Pierre Schaefer, refers to "a sound that one hears without seeing the causes behind it." Materially, he produces audio using digital signal processing and editing techniques on a variety of environmental and instrumental recordings. He is a self taught pianist, his earliest works are explorations in harmonics utilizing the piano, electronic organ, guitar and cymbals. In a live setting, he manipulates and structures these materials into situation-specific compositions. Sonically, he produces an array of slowly shifting sound fields that both merge and transform within their physical surroundings.

Christopher Williams is a dancer, choreographer, and puppeteer who has worked with artists such as Tere O'Connor, Douglas Dunn, John Kelly, Yoshiko Chuma, Jon Kinzel, Yvonne Meier, Renee Archibald, Michou Szabo, and Rebecca Lazier, among others, and has performed for puppetry artists Basil Twist and Dan Hurlin. Tonight, Williams presents Incubus (2003) - inspired by medieval belief in nocturnal spirits of the air who come to make love with sleeping victims, as well as those which were thought to cause the disease malaria through being inhaled, incubus is a duet for film exploring the landscape of the body and it's negative spaces from the waist upwards.

Also See:
October 17th

Zeljko McMullen
Sarah Boatright

October 19th

Alex Escalante
Maria Chavez
Anna Azrieli

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$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Plays Well With Others Festival is a 3 night mixed-genres festival exploring music, dance, video, and performance.

October 17
Born February 4th, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio - attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Bard MFA program. Co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery from September 2006 until April 2010. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Has exhibited and/or performed across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Utilizes sounds and images to deconstruct the present space of the experiencer, replacing it with a perpetually shifting mythical architecture. This performance at Roulette will consist of live diffused sound over multi-speakers.

Artist Sarah Boatright will show her complete "Re-Enactment Videos" series where she transcribes overheard conversations that she has recorded (some of which she was in, some not), and then re-enacts them in character.

Scott Kiernan
Garbage for the Gap
2008/09
HD digital video 7 min
In the video "Garbage for the Gap" the line between a performative act and a narrative (with protagonist) is intentionally blurred.

The imagery is from a series of walks in a straight line through the wildly different environs of New York City and the New Mexico Desert in which I wore a large convex mirror (typically used for catching shoplifters) on my back. The actual performance attempted to place the device used for surveillance (the security mirror) directly onto the surveyed subject and bounce the "information" back... producing a rupture in the visual landscape.

However, as the video documentation began, I soon realized that aside from obvious similarities between my situation and that of a viewer watching a video on a screen, there were also actually a set of opposing mirrors at play... the one on my back and the mirror of the camera lens itself.
Each of my steps forward (and away from the camera) placed a distorted image of what was left behind (the past steps) in both the mirror on my back and the mirror of the lens.

This visual convergence of past and present lead me to think of the nature of looking into a mirror... how it is always a confrontation with the present moment and a corporeal record of the past.

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Healing of K. 2008

Single channel video, 10 min.

"Healing of K" is a 10 minute video (with optional installation/performance) based on a box of found taped sessions of a late 1970's psychic healer and her patient "Kaye" . These tapes are cut-up and assembled into a single monologue in which the voice, played on a monolithic tape machine on a pedestal, addresses the audience in a manner alluding to a cult-like initiation or brainwashing.

The work tries to collide theatricality into unmediated physical response. Initially, it tries to lull the audience into skepticism of this somewhat new agey/hokey material, to then drop them into the physical experience of a vivid color and sound synchronization.

By recontextualizing the found tapes, I not only tried to give this dead record of a private therapy session a new performative life, I also sought to question the situations we submit ourselves to in the name of "healing", "therapy", group affiliation, self-improvement etc. and how these may oppose and co-exist with actual physical sensations.

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E.S.P. TV (Excerpts from Episodes 1-8) 2011

E.S.P. TV is a showcase of (primarily NYC based) music and video art taped "in front of a live studio audience" with live green-screening and analog video manipulation. The entire night is sent to a VHS deck and the tape is cut down into 28 min episodes and sent to Manhattan Neighborhood Network for airing on cable access TV. E.S.P. TV is produced by Louis V E.S.P. gallery (Scott Kiernan and Ethan Miller).

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October 18th

Carver Audain
Christopher Williams

October 19th

Alex Escalante
Maria Chavez
Anna Azrieli