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Friends and colleagues since 1988, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins are two of the strongest musical voices out of the downtown scene.  Lynchpins of bands as diverse as DNA, Skeleton Crew, Electric Masada, Hemophiliac and Björk, each have been leading figures of the downtown scene since the early 1980s, and their collaboration, Phantom Orchard is the perfect outlet for their unique and personal musical languages.  Tonight, Phantom Orchard presents duo arrangements of work from their most recent album, Trouble in Paradise (Tzadik), featuring Mori on live visuals and electronics and Parkins on harps, keyboard, and celesta.

Pet Bottle Ningen is an avant-garde rocketship which journeys through musical worlds of composition featuring three of New York City’s finest young “Downtown” musicians, saxophonist Nonoko Yoshida, guitarist Dave Scanlon and drummer Dave Miller. A first meeting improvisation in October of 2009 between Scanlon and longtime associates Yoshida and Miller at Brooklyn’s D.I.Y. space Death By Audio led to months of workshopping ideas, composing new music, playing shows, and a 3 island tour of Japan during August 2010. Described by Dither guitarist Josh Lopes as “hyper specific, hyper non-specific music” PBN’s repertoire features a diverse world of sketches, melody, counterpoint, rhythm, noise and sonic curiosity which are displayed on their debut recording on Tzadik records, available the summer of 2011.

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Roulette presents MEPHISTA, an all women supergroup featuring the colorful piano of Sylvie Courvoisier, the groundbreaking laptop electronics of Ikue Mori and the dynamic drumming of Susie Ibarra. Mephista is one of the most spectacular new music groups working today, a perfect blend of heart, fire and mind.Separately these three have worked with some of the most important musicians in new music (Derek Bailey, William Parker, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Dave Douglas, etc.)-together they have created a whole new kind of music spanning the worlds of rock, classical, jazz and electronica. Sensitive, powerful and exotic.

Sylvie Courvoisier is an award winning  pianist ,composer, sideman and band leader.  Courvoisier has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 40 records for different labels, notably ECM , Tzadik and Intakt records. She has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Yusef Lateef, Ikue Mori, Tony Oxley, Tim Berne, Joey Baron,Joëlle Léandre, Herb Robertson, Butch Morris, Tom Rainey, Mark Dresser, Ellery Eskelin, Lotte Anker, Fred Frith, Michel Godard, Mark Nauseef among others. She has received several commissions  to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her works include:” Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra"; "Balbutiements" for vocal quartet and soprano.

Drummer/composer/laptop pioneer Ikue Mori moved to New York in 1977 and has since launched a multi-faceted career as a musician. After forming seminal no-wave band DNA with Arto Lindsay, Mori used drum machines to create her own highly sensitive signature style of improvisation and experimental music; she received the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music in 1999. Mori's activities in the realm of music and media are wide-ranging and diverse, including performing in several bands and collaborating with international artists Current groups include “Mephista”, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, a duo project with Zeena Parkins,  a Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.

Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra has performed as a soloist and collaborator in various configurations. Known for her innovative style Ibarra creates cultural dialogue through her music. She is a Yamaha, Vic Firth and Paiste Artist and has recorded over 40 records as a leader and co-leader. Ibarra composes and performs regularly with her collaborative projects with composer/percussionist Roberto Rodriguez in their eco-electronica duo Electric Kulintang, chidrens world music with Mundo Niños, Susie Ibarra Quartet with featured soloists Bridget Kibbey, Jennifer Choi and Kathleen Supove and Ibarra, as well as various interdisciplinary art collaborations with poet Yusef Komunyakaa and visual artist Makoto Fujimura.

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$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Tonight's event features traditional Korean music as well as group improvisations with special guests Ikue Mori, Shoko Nagai, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Satoshi Takeishi, and more.

Tori Ensemble is a world music ensemble featuring Korean traditional artists and American free jazz artists - transcending musical borders through a mingling of jazz, new music, and Korean influences.

Featuring HEO Yoon-jeong (geomun-go), KANG Kwon-soon (jeongga), MIN Young-chi (daegum & janggu), LEE Suk-joo (piri), Ned Rothenberg (clarinet & saxophone), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Isabel Castellvi (cello)

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An eclectic evening blending acoustic and electronic performances both improvised and composed. Sweet Combustion (Jennifer Choi, Ikue Mori, Marco Cappelli, and Rubin Kodheli) start the evening with a surreal combustion of sounds and atmospheric melodies, followed by "residuals" - a lush synthetic work for quadraphonic speakers by Doron Sadja. Topping off the evening is an explosive improvisation by longtime collaborators Jim Staley (trombone) and Ikue Mori (electronics).

Doron Sadja is a sound and visual artist investigating how sound, light, movement, and the body can react to and augment the architectural, atmospheric, and psychological space of the performance environment. Current collaborations include MIRRORGATE (a duo with Mario Diaz de Leon fusing metal/new age/doom with a smoke and mirrors light show), ALFI & WALDI (a multimedia performance and installation duo with Alfredo Marin), and Perfect Lives (a multimedia duo with Severiano Martinez). Previous projects include Sadjeljko (duo with Zeljko McMullen) and Symbol. Sadja has published multiple solo and collaborative works on 12k, Shinkoyo, and Atak records. In 2003 Doron founded Shinkoyo : an experimental music record label/art collective currently based in New York, Oakland, and Baltimore. From 2006 to 2010 Doron founded and ran the Paris London West Nile performance/gallery space in Brooklyn.

Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown experimental music scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight Jim will be joined by special guests.

Sweet Combustion
Jennifer Choi (violin), Ikue Mori (laptop), Marco Cappelli (guitar), and Rubin Kodheli (electric cello)

Four adventurous collaborators merge musicalities in an evening of conceptual, improvised, and chance music resulting in a surreal and powerful combustion of sounds and atmospheric melodies.

Jennifer Choi - Hailed by Time Out New York as "one of New York's most reliably adventurous performers", violinist Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of creative improvisation. A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer won Grand Prize at the 1996 Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions. Since then, she has performed for theChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ravinia Festival, Barge Music, and Caramoor Music, among others. Ms. Choi is regularly sighted in solo performances of works that stretch the limits of violin playing often calling for extended techniques, improvisation, and the use of electronics. In 2006 she received a grant from the New York State Music Fund for the premiere and performances of 'Holding Fast' for violin and video written for her by Randall Woolf. She also gave the world premiere of John Zorn's solo violin work, Goetia at the Guggenheim Museum, and Wadada Leo Smith's Afrikana concerto for violin. She can be heard on over a dozen albums for TZADIK record label. Most recently Ms. Choi served as Concertmaster of the National Touring production of South Pacific.

Rubin Kodheli, Cello Rubin Kodheli was born and raised in Tirane, Albania. At the age of 7 Rubin began his music studies on the cello. He quickly gained attention as a prodigious talent. He continued his education in Belgium and Germany, eventually landing in New York to attend the Juilliard School of Music studying with Fred Sherry. During his studies at Juilliard he became more and more interested in collaborations between dance, theater and music. It was at this time that he first began his exploration of composition. Most recently, Kodheli composed additional music for the feature filmPrecious, directed by Lee Daniels. His piece Desert Man was featured in the Documentary film Third Wave based on the 2004 Tsunami which decimated Sri Lanka. Kodheli also composed the score for the dance film Becoming, winner of the Best Experimental Prize at the Miami Short Film Festival. On television, his music has been featured in the HBO seriesTrue Blood. As a performer and soloist Mr.Kodheli has collaborated with Courtney Love,Henry Threadgill, Philip Glass.

Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid 80's Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style. "¨Through out in 90's She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music."¨1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also "One hundred Aspects of the Moon" commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust."¨Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. 2000 commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premired the piece "Aphorism" "¨also awarded Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. "¨2003 commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write a piece for film In the Street and premired in Philadelphia. Started working with visual played by the music since 2004. In 2005 Awarded Alphert/Ucross Residency."¨Recived the grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006. Tate Modern commissioned the live sound track for Maya Deren's silent films and premired in 2007."¨In 2008 Celebrated 30th music year, presented 5 on-going projects at Japan Society in NYC. "¨Current working groups include MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, duo project PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, various projects with John Zorn. and John Zorn's Electric MBio

Marco Cappelli, Guitar. After completing many years of demanding music studies (first at Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome and then in the Konzert-Klasse at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Oscar Ghiglia), Marco Cappelli has lead an extraordinary artistic path, becoming familiar both with rigorous written music as well with free improvisation languages.

The diversity of Marco's performances is due to a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman, Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen, Cristina Zavalloni and more) and regularly as guest in important classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque passi nel '900 al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival - Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - France, Barnsdall Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in Amsterdam...) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.

Marco has recorded three solo guitar cds : "Fantasia per Ensemble" and "Yun Mu"for the for the Italian label TDS, and EGP (Extreme Guitar Project: Music from Downtown New York) for the prestigiuos American label Mode Records. Mode Records also published two cds by Ensemble Dissonanzen, where Cappelli is involved in G. Petrassi's and H.W. Henze'schamber Music. In 2006-2007 Marco Cappelli also published "Los Angeles Tapes" (with Andrea Centazzo and Kato Hideki) for Ictus Records, and signed his debut on John Zorn's Tzadik, taking part in duo with Jim Pugliese on the CD "Pushy Blueness" by Anthony Coleman. In 2008 the Italian jazz label Itinera released the first cd of Marco's band IDR - Italian Doc Remix.

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Ikue Mori (laptop), Jennifer Choi (violin), Marco Cappelli (guitar)




Three adventurous collaborators join forces in an evening of conceptualized and
improvised combustion of sounds, noise, and music.




Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid 80's Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style. Through out in 90's She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music.
1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also "One hundred Aspects of the Moon" commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. 2000 commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premired the piece "Aphorism" also awarded Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. 2003 commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write a piece for film In the Street and premired in Philadelphia. Started working with visual played by the music since 2004. In 2005 Awarded Alphert/Ucross Residency. Recived the grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006. Tate Modern commissioned the live sound track for Maya Deren's silent films and premired in 2007.
In 2008 Celebrated 30th music year, presented 5 on-going projects at Japan Society in NYC.
Current working groups include MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, duo project PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, various projects with John Zorn. and John Zorn's Electric Masada




Marco Cappelli has lead an extraordinary artistic path, becoming familiar both with rigorous written music as well with free improvisation languages. The diversity of Marco's performances is due to a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman, Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen, Cristina Zavalloni and more) and regularly as guest in important classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque passi nel '900 al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival - Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - France, Barnsdall Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in Amsterdam...) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.




Hailed by Time Out New York as "one of New York's most reliably adventurous performers", violinist Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of creative improvisation. s. Choi is regularly sighted in solo performances of rare works that stretch the limits of violin playing often calling for extended techniques, improvisation, and the use of electronics. In 2006 she received a grant from the New York State Music Fund for the premiere and performances of 'Holding Fast' for violin and video written for her by Randall Woolf. She also gave the world premiere of John Zorn's solo violin work, 'Goetia' for the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum, the premiere of 'Serenade in Isolation' by Wang Jie presented by the Music Theater Group, the U.S. premiere of Jacob ter Veldhuis' 'Capriccio'. She can be heard on over a dozen albums for TZADIK record label in compositions by new music icons, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith, and the Susie Ibarra Trio with whom she has toured Europe and North America extensively as a creative improvisor and chamber jazz musician.

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Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown experimental music scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight Jim will be joined by special guests.



Jim Staley, trombonist/composer moved to New York and has resided in a lower Manhattan since 1978. His work has been primarily working with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz. He has worked for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians, including Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Simone Forti, Ikue Mori, Davey Williams, Shelley Hirsch, Phoebe Legere, John Zorn and many others. Staley's recording projects include Blind Pursuits with Phoebe Legere and Borah Bergman; Mumbo Jumbo-different trio combinations with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Samm Bennett, Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and John Zorn; Jim Staley's Don Giovanni, with Mori, Davey Williams, Zeena Parkins and Tenko, plus several more.

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Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown experimental music scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight Jim will be joined by special guests.




Jim Staley, trombonist/composer moved to New York and has resided in a lower Manhattan since 1978. His work has been primarily working with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz. He has worked for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians, including Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Simone Forti, Ikue Mori, Davey Williams, Shelley Hirsch, Phoebe Legere, John Zorn and many others. Staley's recording projects include Blind Pursuits with Phoebe Legere and Borah Bergman; Mumbo Jumbo-different trio combinations with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Samm Bennett, Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and John Zorn; Jim Staley's Don Giovanni, with Mori, Davey Williams, Zeena Parkins and Tenko, plus several more.




Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid 80's Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style. Through out in 90's She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. 1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also "One hundred Aspects of the Moon" commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. 2000 commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premired the piece "Aphorism" also awarded Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. 2003 commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write a piece for film In the Street and premired in Philadelphia. Started working with visual played by the music since 2004. In 2005 Awarded Alphert/Ucross Residency. Recived the grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006. Tate Modern commissioned the live sound track for Maya Deren's silent films and premired in 2007.
In 2008 Celebrated 30th music year, presented 5 on-going projects at Japan Society in NYC.
Current working groups include MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, duo project PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, various projects with John Zorn.

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Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight, Staley is joined by laptop virtuoso and longtime collaborator Ikue Mori and multilingual, electronics enhanced vocalist Kyoko Kitamura.




Jim Staley, trombonist/composer moved to New York and has resided in a lower Manhattan since 1978. His work has been primarily working with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz. He has worked for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians, including Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Simone Forti, Ikue Mori, Davey Williams, Shelley Hirsch, Phoebe Legere, John Zorn and many others. Staley's recording projects include Blind Pursuits with Phoebe Legere and Borah Bergman; Mumbo Jumbo-different trio combinations with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Samm Bennett, Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and John Zorn; Jim Staley's Don Giovanni, with Mori, Davey Williams, Zeena Parkins and Tenko, plus several more.



Staley has recorded with Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp's ensemble Carbon, and for John Zorn on several records including, Spillane, The Big Gundown, Cobra, The Little Lieutenant of the Living God (Weill/Zorn) and several others. Staley also performs and records with the Tone Road Ramblers, a collaborative chamber-improv ensemble, together since 1981. He is the 2005 recipient of the Susan E Kennedy Memorial Award, given for his years in support of artists.



Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music.

In the mid 80's Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style.
Through out in 90's She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music.
1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also "One hundred Aspects of the Moon" commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99.

In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. 2000 commissioned by the KITCHEN ensemble, wrote and premired the piece "Aphorism"
also awarded Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship.
2003 commissioned by RELACHE Ensemble to write a piece for film In the Street and premired in Philadelphia. Started working with visual played by the music since 2004. In 2005 Awarded Alphert/Ucross Residency.
Recived the grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006. Tate Modern commissioned the live sound track for Maya Deren's silent films and premired in 2007.
In 2008 Celebrated 30th music year, presented 5 on-going projects at Japan Society in NYC.
Current working groups include MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, duo project PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, various projects with John Zorn. and John Zorn's Electric Masada.





Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura was born in New York and raised partially in Tokyo. She studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music prep division with pianist Jane Carlson who was a premier Hindemith interpreter and who exposed Kitamura to contemporary composers at an early age. However, curious about the world, Kitamura chose to become a journalist, working out of Tokyo and Paris, and traveling around the world (including a stint as a Gulf War reporter). She came back to NY in 1997, worked for a while as a magazine writer, and, since 2001, slowly immersed herself in the music scene after a hiatus of close to 15 years.

Building upon the musicianship she had as a trained pianist, and adding to it her globe-trotting experiences, she developed a highly personal style of vocal improvisation which includes multi-lingual spoken words, electronics, as well as hints of different types of music she has heard in various countries. She quickly found work as a side-person vocalist, and honed her craft by performing and/or recording with bassist Reggie Workman, saxophonist Steve Coleman, cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum, Argentinean composer Laura Andel, vocalist Jay Clayton, and pianist Art Lande, among others. Her style has been described as "outrageous", "forward-looking", "fu*%ed up!", "nightmarish", "one of downtown's finest singers."

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$5.00 discount for Harvestworks members and DTW members.

A quintuple bill with New York-based sound artist Ikue Mori in collaboration with an electronic music robot ensemble provided by LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical; composer and media artist Miya Masaoka will present her LED Kimono Project which features a kimono fabricated from nearly 900 LEDs that interacts with the properties of sound, motion and physical conditions; Baltimore-based sound artist Peter Blasser will perform with his self-invented electronic instrument the din datin dudero; New York-based composer and media artist David Galbraith will present works based on his custom software "lgOpre" that links vintage grid pattern algorithms with vinyl record lock-groove samples; and Laetitia Sonami will perform a new work with her signature instrument, the Lady's Glove. $20/night

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Roulette Benefit: All Tickets $20

Three of downtown's most dynamic performers join forces to form Mephista-one of the first all women supergroups (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Ikue Mori). Separately these three have worked with some of the most important musicians in new music (Derek Bailey, William Parker, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Mike Patton, Dave Douglas, etc.)-together they have created a whole new kind of music spanning the worlds of rock, classical, jazz and electronica. Sensitive, powerfuland exotic.

Susie Ibarra, percussionist and composer of experimental and avant garde music is currently living in New York City. She received a music diploma from Mannes College of Music and B.A. from Goddard College. Susie Ibarra studied percussion with Daniel Druckman, Filipine Kulintang with Danongan Kalanduyan and drum set with Buster Smith, Vernel Fournier and Milford Graves. As a percussionist, she has performed Filipine Kulintang gong music, southeast asian gong music, jazz and avant jazz with various ensembles, improvised music with the NY downtown scene and solo work. She can be heard on various recordings performing with John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Derek Bailey, William Parker, Dave Douglas, John Lindberg, and Wadada Leo Smith. Susie Ibarra currently performs with her trio, Susie Ibarra Trio with Jennifer Choi & Craig Taborn, Mark Dresser & Susie Ibarra Duo , Mundo Ninos with Roberto Rodriguez , and Electric Kulintang with Craig Taborn,Trevor Dunn & Roberto Rodriguez

Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. As a composer, she has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her newest release as a leader "ABATON" with Mark Feldman and Erik Friedlander is on ECM Records. As a pianist and improviser, she plays and records with different artists such as Mark Feldman, John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Butch Morris, Tim Berne, Herb Robertson, Joelle Léandre, Dave Douglas, Ellery Eskelin, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, Michel Godard, Mark Nauseef"¦ Since 1998, Sylvie Courvoisier has been based in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent work includes: "Abaton", a trio performing her compositions with Mark Feldman violin & Erik Friedlander cello, "Sylvie Courvoisier Quintet", Vincent Courtois, Gerald Cleaver, "Duo" with Mark Feldman playing John Zorn's music "Vincent Courtois Trio" the French cellist's group with Ellery Eskelin saxophone. "John Zorn's Cobra", "Yusef Lateef 4tet", Adam Rudolph and Joseph Bowie, "Herb Robertson Quintet", Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser, Various Duo and Solo Concerts.

Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977, started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid 80's Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style. Through out in 90's She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. 1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 99. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression. Current working groups include a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O'Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, Trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.

 

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Playing together for twenty-six years, and still not out of breath"¦

Roulette rounds up its fall season with a night of stellar ear-bending, mind-altering and earth-shattering improvisations by a trio of downtown's most innovative and invigorating musicians/creators. With their individual work and as a trio, Staley, Zorn and Mori have been challenging and reinventing our ideas about music for over a quarter-century "¦ and tonight should be no different. Each of these three boasts a virtuosic musicianship, a true vision and a tireless commitment to furthering the most far a-field forays into the improvised and experimental music traditions. Staley (trombone,) Zorn (sax) and Mori (percussion/electronics/visuals) are tried-and-true, award winning, effortlessly impressive and, most importantly, endlessly adventurous.

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Trombone (and all that implies and more) with electronic percussion (and all that promises delivered) by two incredible improvisers with a long history together. Since the early 1980's, the duo has performed and recorded with Bill Frisell, Zeena Parkins, Chris Cochrane, Richard Teitelbaum, Tenko and Davey Williams and many more.

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Bhima Swarga is a piece derived from traditional paintings on the ceiling of the Kertha Gosapavilion in Bali, illustrating a story from the Mahabharata of a rescue and journey from hell to heaven. The rich iconographic characters are processed and controlled by the sound signal and other messages through MAX/MSP/Jitter software. The Software allows Mari-a composer celebrated for her mesmerizing, seductive live and recorded music-to incorporate images into her performance. Plus, Insect Scenes where musical gestures control clips from film of insects in their environment.

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Improvisations for liberated trombone and occupied percussion. Mori received a 1999 Award of Distinction in Prix Ars Electronica's Digital Music category. Staley's playing has been described as a merging of George Lewis and Jack Teagarden.

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The wonderfully imaginative Swiss born pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier joins the astounding and irrepressible New York composer, percussionist and Powerbook explorer Ikue Mori in an evening of solo and duo compositions and improvisations. Courvoisier's CDs include Music for Violin and Piano with Mark Feldman (Avant, and see the whole discography at www.sylviecourvoisier.com). Mori is unarguably one of the treasures of the New York music scene; an artist whose work continues to expand and surprise.

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Improvisations for liberated trombone, psycho-electric percussion and software-driven toadstool. Listen to what the doormouse said...

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Macbeth II (1888) will be the place to begin for this spectacular assemblage of improvising soundists: Phoebe Legere, vocalist, poet, pianist, accordionist, and much more; Ikue Mori, spatial illusionist and electronic percussionist; Chicago Rambler Steve Butters on percussion, vibes and the pan; and the trombonist of many mutes and instigator of this event, Jim Staley.

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A night of composition and improvisation. Face the power of groove and silence made by three Japanese females, Yuko Fujiyama on piano, Ikue Mori on percussion and Yuki Saga on voice. This is Yuki Saga's debut performance in the USA.

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Inspired by Yoshitoshi's "a hundred aspects of the moon," this moon song is performed by Mike Patton (voice and electronics), Eyvind Kang (violin), Eric Friedlander (cello), Anthony Coleman (organ), Kato Hideki (bass) and Ikue Mori (drum machines). Commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust.