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Featuring Gamin, Hyun-Sik Shin, Jane Ira Bloom and Elliott Sharp joined by members of ISIM. Program Director Jin Hi Kim. Virtuoso guest artists from Korea meet with leading American improvisers to explore cultural differences and create collective new voices.

The program is made possible with support from Arts Council Korea and York College/CUNY.

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THREE NIGHTS (Also see April 25 and April 26)

Lucid Possession is a futuristic dramatized song-cycle that unfolds in a haunting display of the admixture of the human and the robotic, the spiritual and the digital. Employing a state-of-the-art motion-sensing system designed by Dove and R. Luke DuBois and an astonishing assemblage of video projections, an unforgettable performance emerges as characters, both live on stage and programmed video avatars alike, interact in increasing intensity to dramatize a contemporary ghost story: a poetic musing on managing the mass of information 'noise.' The result is a complex three-dimensional, automated video pop-up book in which the characters – real and virtual – are brought to life through motion, voice, and robotic technology, and the boundaries of the real and virtual are blurred, mirroring our rapidly-changing emotional and cognitive landscape.

A Live-Mix Cinema Performance

Performed by Toni Dove, Hai-Ting Chinn (mezzo soprano),
with a live score by Todd Reynolds.

R. Luke DuBois: Software Design
Songs composed by Elliott Sharp
Bob McGrath: Co-Director of Staging
Ed Bear and Matt Tennie: Technical Directors, live robotics/sound control
Costume design and screen fabrication Karen Young
Robotics by Leif Krinkle and Ed Bear

Co-Produced by Roulette, Issue Project Room, and HERE.

http://www.lucidpossession.com/

Toni Dove has produced hybrid performance, installation and screen based work since the early 1990s that is a fusion of film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing, iPad and laser harp to "perform" on-screen avatars. Dove's work has been presented in the United States, Europe, and Canada, as well as in print and on radio and television. Her projects include interactive installations: Archeology of a Mother Tongue, (virtual reality) at Banff Centre; Artificial Changelings:premieres: Rotterdam Film Festival, USA; Body Mécanique at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Spectropia, a feature-length live-mix movie performance, at Lincoln Center, Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006; Cleveland at the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiered: Wexner Center for the Arts; REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; the Zero1 Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, 2008, EMPAC, Troy NY, 2008, the Kitchen, NYC, 2010, Roulette, NY, 2012.

Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA. She is the granddaughter of American abstract painter Arthur Dove.

http://www.tonidove.com/

Lucid Possession is a joint production by Roulette and Issue Project Room, and is funded in part through support by mediaThe foundation inc, NYSCA, and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

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THREE NIGHTS (Also see April 25 and April 27)

Lucid Possession is a futuristic dramatized song-cycle that unfolds in a haunting display of the admixture of the human and the robotic, the spiritual and the digital. Employing a state-of-the-art motion-sensing system designed by Dove and R. Luke DuBois and an astonishing assemblage of video projections, an unforgettable performance emerges as characters, both live on stage and programmed video avatars alike, interact in increasing intensity to dramatize a contemporary ghost story: a poetic musing on managing the mass of information 'noise.' The result is a complex three-dimensional, automated video pop-up book in which the characters – real and virtual – are brought to life through motion, voice, and robotic technology, and the boundaries of the real and virtual are blurred, mirroring our rapidly-changing emotional and cognitive landscape.

A Live-Mix Cinema Performance

Performed by Toni Dove, Hai-Ting Chinn (mezzo soprano),
with a live score by Todd Reynolds.

R. Luke DuBois: Software Design
Songs composed by Elliott Sharp
Bob McGrath: Co-Director of Staging
Ed Bear and Matt Tennie: Technical Directors, live robotics/sound control
Costume design and screen fabrication Karen Young
Robotics by Leif Krinkle and Ed Bear

Co-Produced by Roulette, Issue Project Room, and HERE.

http://www.lucidpossession.com/

Toni Dove has produced hybrid performance, installation and screen based work since the early 1990s that is a fusion of film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing, iPad and laser harp to "perform" on-screen avatars. Dove's work has been presented in the United States, Europe, and Canada, as well as in print and on radio and television. Her projects include interactive installations: Archeology of a Mother Tongue, (virtual reality) at Banff Centre; Artificial Changelings:premieres: Rotterdam Film Festival, USA; Body Mécanique at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Spectropia, a feature-length live-mix movie performance, at Lincoln Center, Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006; Cleveland at the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiered: Wexner Center for the Arts; REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; the Zero1 Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, 2008, EMPAC, Troy NY, 2008, the Kitchen, NYC, 2010, Roulette, NY, 2012.

Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA. She is the granddaughter of American abstract painter Arthur Dove.

http://www.tonidove.com/

Lucid Possession is a joint production by Roulette and Issue Project Room, and is funded in part through support by mediaThe foundation inc, NYSCA, and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

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THREE NIGHTS (Also see April 26 and April 27)

Lucid Possession is a futuristic dramatized song-cycle that unfolds in a haunting display of the admixture of the human and the robotic, the spiritual and the digital. Employing a state-of-the-art motion-sensing system designed by Dove and R. Luke DuBois and an astonishing assemblage of video projections, an unforgettable performance emerges as characters, both live on stage and programmed video avatars alike, interact in increasing intensity to dramatize a contemporary ghost story: a poetic musing on managing the mass of information 'noise.' The result is a complex three-dimensional, automated video pop-up book in which the characters – real and virtual – are brought to life through motion, voice, and robotic technology, and the boundaries of the real and virtual are blurred, mirroring our rapidly-changing emotional and cognitive landscape.

A Live-Mix Cinema Performance

Performed by Toni Dove, Hai-Ting Chinn (mezzo soprano),
with a live score by Todd Reynolds.

R. Luke DuBois: Software Design
Songs composed by Elliott Sharp
Bob McGrath: Co-Director of Staging
Ed Bear and Matt Tennie: Technical Directors, live robotics/sound control
Costume design and screen fabrication Karen Young
Robotics by Leif Krinkle and Ed Bear

Co-Produced by Roulette, Issue Project Room, and HERE.

http://www.lucidpossession.com/

Toni Dove has produced hybrid performance, installation and screen based work since the early 1990s that is a fusion of film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing, iPad and laser harp to "perform" on-screen avatars. Dove's work has been presented in the United States, Europe, and Canada, as well as in print and on radio and television. Her projects include interactive installations: Archeology of a Mother Tongue, (virtual reality) at Banff Centre; Artificial Changelings:premieres: Rotterdam Film Festival, USA; Body Mécanique at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Spectropia, a feature-length live-mix movie performance, at Lincoln Center, Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006; Cleveland at the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiered: Wexner Center for the Arts; REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; the Zero1 Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, 2008, EMPAC, Troy NY, 2008, the Kitchen, NYC, 2010, Roulette, NY, 2012.

Dove was appointed to the 2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, National Research Council, USA. She is the granddaughter of American abstract painter Arthur Dove.

http://www.tonidove.com/

Lucid Possession is a joint production by Roulette and Issue Project Room, and is funded in part through support by mediaThe foundation inc, NYSCA, and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

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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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ALSO SEE MAY 4th

Elliott Sharp and the '31 Band perform "Spectropia Suite"
with live video performed by Toni Dove and R. Luke DuBois
Guest Starring Barbara Sukowa

For the score to Toni Dove's Spectropia, an interactive media event set in a possible England in 2099 and in New York City in 1931 after the stock market crash, composer Sharp created two different noir sound-worlds: for the future, one of distressed computers and tortured guitars; for New York 1931, one based on an imagined meeting of the musics of Duke Ellington and Edgar Varese. The song "This Time That Place" appears in various versions heard throughout the film: as a tango, as a feedbacked guitar solo, as a swing tune, a classical piano etude and as a rock ballad sung on the Neos CD. The Neos CD also included The Sirius String Quartet (Jennifer Choi & Ester Noh - violins, Ron Lawrence - viola and Tomas Ulrich - cello).

Barbara Sukowa is known for her performances onstage and in some of the most iconic films of the New German Cinema with directors such as Fassbinder and von Trotta. She has also developed a career as a classical music narrator and singer and is the lead singer of the band the X-Patsys, which she founded with visual artists Jon Kessler and Robert Longo.

The musicians of The '31 Band, all of whom have extensive experience in many realms of music, have worked with Sharp on many projects, from the various Western traditions of jazz and classical music to the farthest reaches of contemporary music, free jazz, and improvisation. For this performance, The '31 Band will include E# playing Bb & bass clarinets, tenor saxophone, guitar & computer processing; Briggan Kraus - alto saxophone; Nate Woolley - trumpet; Art Baron; Curtis Fowlkes & Steve Swell - trombones; Anthony Coleman - piano; David Hofstra - string bass; and Don McKenzie - drums

from Douglas Detrick - About.com/Jazz:

"Sharp's compositions, which often evolve through repetition and micro-variation, mirror mathematical processes, but don't sound dryly scientific. Sharp is interested in discovery, and similar to the way math attempts to capture the nature of the world through the study of patterns and deduction, Sharp's music seeks musical truth by extracting the essence of a musical concept and exploring it through various perspectives. "Spectropia Suite... features mosaics of noise, string quartet pieces, dark and alluring jazz piano solos, and music for large ensemble, with growling blues riffs reminiscent of the Fletcher Henderson band or the early Duke Ellington orchestra... a wide-ranging tour through jazz, contemporary concert music, and avant-garde noise, three main facets of Sharp's work as a musician over the last 30 years."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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$15 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors




Sharp presents two aspects of Carbon: the quartet and the orchestra. The smaller group functions like a rock band with the spontaneous freedom of a chamber ensemble or jazz group. The larger ensemble presents long form, structured pieces and algorithmic compositions such as SyndaKit, Quarks Swim Free, and Flexagons: self-organizing systems in which a simple set of rules and composed fragments yield ever-changing results.



Featuring: Shelley Burgon - electric harp, Marc Sloan - electric bass, Joseph Trump - drums. percussion, Elliott sharp - 8-string guitarbass, soprano saxophone, electronics and the orchestra will feature additional musicians Jenny Lin - piano, Russ flynn - electric bass and Danny Tunick - percussion, vibraphone.




Elliott Sharp is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and curator central to
the experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He leads the projects
Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of
applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and
interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie
Harry; Ensemble Modern; conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti;
blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats
Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock; turntablist/video artist Christian Marclay; and Bachir
Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka. Sharp is the subject of a new
documentary, "Doing The Don't", by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

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$15 General Admission
$10 Students/Seniors/Members

Dynamic new projects from two of New York's most esteemed jazz visionaries.
Joe McPhee's long-standing and influential Trio X (with Dominic Duvall and
Jay Rosen) presents EROC TINU, a tribute to Cecil Taylor (with guests Steve
Dalachinsky, Hilliard Greene, and Roy Campbell). Drummer/composer Andrew
Cyrille will present a new collaborative trio with Elliott Sharp on guitar and
Richard Teitelbaum on synthesizers.

Purchase tickets online at Roulette.org and enter to win one of two copies of Trio X's new 5-CD set "Live On Tour 2008" on CIMP Records!

Elliott Sharp is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and curator central to the experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; conceptual artists Pierre Huyghe and Christian Marclay; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; JACK String Quartet; actors Steve Buscemi and Eric Bogosian; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jahjouka. Sharp is the subject of a new documentary, "Doing The Don't", by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

Andrew Cyrille (born in Brooklyn, NY) studied at the Julliard and Hartnett schools of music, emerging to professional gigs with such noted legends as Nellie Lutcher, Mary Lou Williams, Illinois Jacquet, Babatunde Olatunji and Coleman Hawkins. In 1964, Cyrille formed an eleven year association with pianist, Cecil Taylor, establishing himself as "one of the most instinctively, musically, inventive drummers of the era." Since 1969, Cyrille has worked with many notable dance groups, most recently with Cleo Parker Robinson and her dance company. He has organized several percussion groups including Dialogue of the Drums, Pieces of Time, Weights and Measures, which featured such distinguished artists such as Kenny Clark, Milford Graves, Famoudou Don Moye, Michael Carvin, Victor Lewis, Ghanian drummer, Obo Addy and Haitian drummer, Frisner Augustin. He has toured internationally with renowned Russian percussionist, Vladimir Tarasov. He has also worked with some of the leading proponents of contemporary music such as Richard Muhal Abrams, John Carter, Walt Dickerson, David Murray. Cyrille has been artist-in-residence at Antioch College and is currently on faculty at The New School University in New York City. His sterling work has earned him several grants and awards including funding from the NEA, Meet the Composer and a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition. A much in-demand drummer, Cyrille tours records and performs in the US and abroad. He frequently performs and records with Trio 3 (Oliver Lake/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille). He leads his own groups in various formations and performs in duo, trio and larger configurations with luminaries such as Archie Shepp, Roswell Rudd, Marilyn Crispell , Geri Allen, Dave Burrell, Richard Teitelbaum, Irene Schweizer, Henry Grimes, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Anthony Braxton and Greg Osby.

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A BENEFIT TO HELP ROULETTE
$30

For a full updated lineup go www.roulette.org/decemberbenefit

Darius Jones
David Behrman
Kathleen Supove
Elliot Sharp & Janene Higgins
and more!

On December 6th and 7th at Roulette, we'll be hosting a fundraiser to help raise money for Roulette as we prepare to move into our new home in Downtown Brooklyn. Each evening will feature performances by 4 or 5 of some of New York City's most exciting downtown improvisors!

All proceeds go directly towards funding construction on our new concert hall.
To find out more about our new space and to see how you can help, please visit: www.roulette.org/newroulette

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ROULETTE BENEFIT $20
Curated by Shoko Nagai

Okkyung Lee - cello
Kato Hideki - bass/analog synth
Maria Chavez - turntable
Satoshi Takeishi - percussion, electronics
Shoko Nagai - piano, moog, auto harp
Elliott Sharp - guitar

A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. Using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional music, and noise with extended techniques
to create her unique blend of music. Okkyung has released her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series; and a solo cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said.
www.myspace.com/okkunglee

Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born composer/bassist/multi-instrumentalist, who lives in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuzi. His compositions include: solo piece "Turbulent Zone" for electric bass with prime number tuning; "Tremolo of Joy" for his band with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney & Calvin Weston. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei and Ursula Scherrer. As a bassist and composer, he has worked with Andy Gonzalez, Eyvind Kang, John King, Karen Manter, Zeena Parkins, Jim Pugliese, Michael Schumacher, Steve Swallow, John Zorn and among many others. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery. (http://www.katohideki.com/)

Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in
Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that
she calls "pencils of sound" and a selection of records, she harnesses
the electro-acoustic sounds of vinyl and needle.
Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth, collaborated with fellow turntablist Otomo Yoshihide as
part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage
with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna's Phonofemme festival 2009.

Satoshi Takeishi, sound artist, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee
College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went
to live in Colombia. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he
worked on while in Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and
classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts
honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to the U.S. and his
interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American
oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as
Ray Barretto, Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony
Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik friedlander, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big
Band and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local
musicians, composers and touring all over the world. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Etakeishi

Shoko Nagai- Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999, she
moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as
John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Miho Hatori (cibomatto), Cuong Vu, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Guillermo E Brown, Matana Roberts, Tom
Rainy to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at
the BlueNote, The Stone, The Kitchen, Location One, Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert. Nagai
released 3 differnt recordings. Nagai has performed in Finland (Tampere Jazz festival 2008), Italy (Sicily Jazz Festival 2007)
Brasil (res Festival 2007)Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998) in Germany (Electro music festival in Berlin 2009, Moers Jazz Festival 2006), touring in Japan, US, Switzerland, and Israel. She is also workng on a new project "Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with piano (Shoko Nagai) and electronics (Satoshi Takeishi). They scored Japanese full featured movie called " Starfish Hotel" directed by John Williams. Also Shoko Nagai scored French featured movie called " L' Amour Cache' " conducted by Butch Morris. 2004 Grant for JazzJaunts winner. A project in which seven jazz artists will compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots, spanning South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, South India, Iraq, Japan, and the Jewish Diaspora. She is curating @ The Stone in 2010. www.myspace.com/shokonagai

Elliott Sharp leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered use of fractals, chaos theory, and genetics in musical composition. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Debbie Harry; computer artist Perry Hoberman; blues legend Hubert Sumlin; jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock; and turntablist Christian Marclay. Sharp's work was featured at New Music Stockholm 2008 and at the Frankfurt Klangbiennale 2007 with "On Corlear's Hook" for the Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt. His music-theater work "Binibon" premiered in May 2009 at The Kitchen and he has also recently composed the score to Toni Dove's science-fiction film "Spectropia." "Doing The Don't", a feature documentary by Bert Shapiro on Sharp's work has just been released on DVD.

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The 2009 edition of Harvestworks' Spring performance series "š"Harvestworks Inside"  with three exceptional programs exploring gesture and physical computing in live performance.

Pamela Z will present new work for voice, electronics, video, and gesture controllers.
Elliott Sharp: Elliott Sharp will perform new works as part of his ongoing Tectonics project

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In this special "children's concert" (for all ages), composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp will present a panorama of American styles on the acoustic guitar including blues, folk, and jazz as well as demonstrate some of the many sounds that a guitar may produce when played in unconventional ways. Finally, he will put all of this together in a typical composition of his drawing together the sonic and the traditional, a composition that is dynamic, rhythmic, and riveting both for eyes and ears.

Elliott Sharp: Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound-artist central to the experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over 200 recordings spanning the musical spectrum. He leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction as well as pioneering use of computers in live improvisation. His compositions have been performed by the RadioSinfonie Frankfurt, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Rezonanz, Kronos Quartet, and Zeitkratzer and collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, blues legend Hubert Sumlin; playwright Dael Orlandersmith; cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti; and jazz greats Sonny Sharrock, Jack deJohnette, and Oliver Lake. His "Quarks Swim Free" premiered at the Venice Biennale in September 2003 and his chamber opera "EmPyre" premiered at the 2006 Biennale. Sharp's most recent CD releases include "Racing Hearts-Calling-Tessalation Row" with the RadioSinfonie Frankfurt which won the 2004 German Critics' Prize; his solo guitar "Quadrature"; the string quartet "Dispersion Of Seeds" and "Forgery" with Terraplane. He founded the ongoing zOaR Records in 1978 both for his own productions including the critically-acclaimed compilations "Peripheral Vision" and "State Of The Union" and for other radical music. He has recently completed the feature-film scores "What Sebastian Dreamt" and "Commune". Sharp's sound installations for museums and galleries include "Fluvial", "Chromatine", "Tag", and "Distressed Vivaldi".

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Elliott Sharp - BINIBON

Composed and directed by Elliott Sharp with text written by noted sci-fi author Jack Womack, BINIBON is a work of both musical theater and alternative history based on the 1981 murder by Jack Henry Abbott of Richard Adan, a waiter and the night manager at the Binibon, a cafe and 24-hour hangout on 2nd ave at 5th St. in the East Village, a nexus for artists, musicians, neighborhood characters and bohemians true and faux. Abbott was a talented writer as well as an imprisoned killer who became the protege of famed author Norman Mailer who sponsored his release into a halfway house on E. 3rd st. The killing was an important cusp-point in the history of the neighborhood, it's culture, it's daily life, it's real-estate, and its future. The music draws upon E#'s own compositional and performance language that he developed during the time of the events ( & reflecting his many hours hanging out at the Binibon) and reveals ties to punk, No Wave, electronic dance music, noise, and industrial sounds. The cast includes Mike Lubik, Latarsha Rose, Deian McBryde, and Jack Womack.

Composer/producer/sound artist Elliott Sharp leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and biological metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, The Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Rezonanz, Continuum, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Flux Quartet, sirius Stirng Quartet, and Zeitkratzer and collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, blues legend Hubert Sumlin; playwright Dael Orlandersmith, cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti, sci-fi writers Pat Cadigan and Lucius Shepard; jazz greats Sonny Sharrock, Jack deJohnette, and Oliver Lake; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjoukah. Sharp's orchestra piece "Calling" was commissioned by the Hessischer Rundfunk to open the 2002 Darmstadt Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik and the CD won the January 2004 German Critics' Prize. His composition "Quarks Swim Free" was premiered at the Venice Biennale in September 2003 and his chamber opera EmPyre was premiered at the 2006 Biennale. Sharp's most recent CD releases include "Quadrature", a collection of solo acoustic guitar compositions; "Calling" with the Radio-Symphony of Frankfurt; Terraplane's "Secret Life"; and the string quartet "Dispersion Of Seeds". He founded the ongoing zOaR Records in 1978 both for his own productions including the critically-acclaimed compilations Peripheral Vision and State Of The Union and for other radical music. He has recently completed the scores to the feature-films "What Sebastian Dreamt", "Commune" by Jonathan Berman, and "Spectropia" by Toni Dove. Installations include: "Suspension", a video and audio work in collaboration with video artist Janene Higgins, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, 2003; "Fluvial", computerized multichannel audio work commissioned by Engine 27 gallery, NYC June 2002; "Chromatine", an interactive string sculpture/audiowork created for the Gallery of the School of Museum Of Fine Art, Boston, 2001.

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"The Velocity of Hue continues Sharp's exploration of the limits of instruments, composition, and improvisation utilizing acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer filtered through the traditions of country blues, central Asian music, and the "American primitive" strain of John Fahey and Robbie Basho."

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Using various instruments and real-time computer processing, Sharp will collaborate with speculative fiction writer Jack Womack, whose books include Ambient, Terraplane and Random Acts of Senseless Violence. Sharp will also perform a set of solo pieces for instruments and Powerbook system.

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"Trombone, guitar/bass/reeds, and percussion trio dynamites the tabula rosa while secretly communicating with crossword puzzle editors and famous ballerinas"

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"A collection of new pieces for this unique electro-acoustic quartet playing cello, bass, guitar, reeds and percussion"

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"Improvisations with C.K. Noyes for double-neck guitar/bass, bass clarinet, and percussion."

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Trombonist Staley has been contemplating the dynamics of threes. Mr. Sharp's edgy guitars and processed bass clarinet go chasing spirals, and keyboardist Horvitz thinks with his fingers.

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"Marco Polo's Argali," a piece derived from a mathematical formula for spirals, for doubleneck guitar, saxes, trombones, basses, and drummers.