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Pianist Kathleen Supové takes off with compositions for piano and soundtrack by Lainie Fefferman, Matt Marks, and Randall Woolf, inspired by Claude Debussy, and featuring the premiere of “Flaming Pairs” by Eric Lyon, part of an evening length work entitled “Earth To Kathy“. PLUS: New concepts for solo tuba technique and sound design from English tubist Melvyn Poore and sound artist Cort Lippe.

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Kathleen Supové is one of America's most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists. She regularly presents a series of solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has performed and premiered works by the world's leading composers as well as countless emerging ones. The Exploding Piano is a multimedia experience that employs theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, electronics, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Kathleen has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Music at the Anthology, The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs. Her most recent CD is INFUSION, released on the International Classics label, which features music for solo piano and electronics. Other recordings can be found on the Tzadik, CRI, Innova, New World, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, and XI labels.

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Melvyn Poore has worked in various situations as tubist, improviser, composer, sound designer and sound diffuser, researcher in Computer Music, computer programmer, recording engineer. Born in England, educated at the University of Birmingham, he moved to Germany in 1991, at first working on his own performance practice projects at the Centre for Art and Media Technolgy ( ZKM) Karlsruhe. He has been active for over 25 years in both the improvised music and New Music scenes: one of his main artistic contributions being the integration of live electronics with acoustic instruments.

http://www.music.buffalo.edu/lippe/

After studying Renaissance music in Italy for a year, Cort Lippe studied composition and computer music with Larry Austin in the USA. He also followed composition and analysis seminars with various composers including Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis. From 1980-83 he studied and worked in The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized music. From 1983-1994 he lived in France where he worked for three years at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), founded by Iannis Xenakis, while following Xenakis' courses on acoustics and formalized music at the University of Paris. Subsequently, he worked for nine years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, where he gave courses on new technology in composition, and developed real-time computer music applications. His research includes more than 35 peer-reviewed publications on interactive music, granular sampling, score following, spectral processing, FFT-based spatial distribution/delay, acoustic instrument parameter mapping, and instrument design.

 http://www.interpretations.info/

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Playing with balloons, wearing a mask, doing the Time Warp, dancing in a room filled with voices...sounds like a party! Kathleen Supové hosts a tribute to some friends Marita Bolles, Eric KM Clark, Jacob Cooper, Judy Dunaway, and Daniel Felsenfeld by performing world premieres of their multimedia piano works.

Marita Bolles: Debussy on Wagner
Eric KM Clark: Layerings 3 for piano
Jacob Cooper: La Plus Que Plus Que Lente
Judy Dunaway: For Piano with Balloons
Daniel Felsenfeld: Cakewalking (Sorry Claude)
1. Blandishments of the Young and Uniquely Handsome
2. To the Manor (Icarus Chained)
3. Golliwog Agonistes

Kathleen Supové is one of America's most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist is, in today's world. In May, 2012, she received the special John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Recent projects include collaboration with SIDEBAND Laptop Orchestra, LEMUR musical robots, and her own DIGITAL DEBUSSY project. Her latest solo CD is THE EXPLODING PIANO, on the Major Who label. For more info, visitwww.supove.com, www.facebook.com/explodingpiano orwww.twitter.com/supove.

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Jennifer Choi-violin, Kathleen Supove- piano, Bridget Kibbey-harp, Susie Ibarra-drumset & percussion

"Ibarra is one of the all too few jazz artists who combine prodigious talent with cultural awareness to create art and make the world a better place in the process" - Elliott Simon AAJ- NY

Virtuosic composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra is an artist known for her innovative style and exquisitely global essence - coupling a profound respect for indigenous musics with a cutting edge sense of the avant-garde. Inspired by the nature of rhythmic cycles in Southern Philippine gong music, Mysteries of Nature is a series of quartets, duos, and solo compositions for violin, piano, harp and percussion exploring the nature of improvisation and how rhythms and chaos interplay in Nature. These compositions are an expression of nostalgia, folklore, laments and admiration by Ibarra for mysteries of nature.

Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra resides in New York and 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. Recent work include : Drum Sketches, solo percussion composed and performed by Ibarra commissioned by Innova Records and The Brecht Forum, Dialects for Electric Kulintang on Plastic Records, Summer Fantasy and Folklore for Susie Ibarra Quartet commissioned by MoMa Summergarden and Jazz at Lincoln Center, A Translation of Silk with Yusef Komunyakaa for poetry, soprano and violin premiered at the Harlem Stage, Canciones de Cuna / Lullabies by Mundo Niños ,Madre Selva a soundtrack video installation by Juan Sanchez in tribute to Ana Mendieta, Kit: Music for Four Pianists commissioned by Ars Nova Workshop, War Horses music by Electric Kulintang and poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa commissioned by Isamu Noguchi Museum, These Trees That Speak commissioned by Ethos Percussion Quartet, Pintados Dream/ The Painteds Dream a concerto for drums , visual art by Makoto Fujimura and chamber orchestra commissioned by American Composers Orchestra and premiered at Zankel Carnegie Hall. In 2004 Ibarra began work in cultural and environmental preservation through with Indigenous and children's groups in the Philippines, US, Asia/Pacific and globally. She is honored to be a 2010 TED Fellow and 2010 Asia Society Young Leaders Delegate as she continues her documentary work and is creating public service projects in music to support Indigenous communities , peace efforts in conflicted areas and children's communities in the Asia/Pacific region and US.

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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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Live taping for Roulette TV

From *Adrenaline Revival* to *Air Rights*.
"Downtown piano queen" (New Yorker) Kathleen Supové will perform highlights from her commissioned repertoire for wired and enlightened piano---some classics, some brand new.

"What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed." Anthony Tommasini, NY Times

"This was classical music played like the best rock'n'roll. It was passionate, earnest, loud and more complex than the gatekeepers of high culture would like to think. Brava." Ben Sisario, NY Press

"...the downtown piano queen Kathleen Supové..." The New Yorker

Pianist Kathleen Supové is not only one of the most acclaimed interpreters of contemporary music in this country, but also an artist who is continually evolving an answer to the question of what music gets presented and how it gets presented. She has commissioned, premiered and performed countless works by emerging and important composers and, in always being at the forefront of seeking out new voices, she has established herself as an integral part of recent music history.

Ms. Supové presents concerts under the name of The Exploding Piano. In recent seasons, she has developed The Exploding Piano into a multimedia experience by using electronics, theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Much of this has been developed during her years in residency at The Flea Theater in Tribeca. The Exploding Piano concerts have taken place these past two seasons in universities, conservatories, and performance spaces throughout the US. This past season, she was a featured artist at the Ussachevsky Memorial Festival in Claremont, CA, as well as the NIME 2007 Festival in NYC. During this upcoming season, she will be a guest artist at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco and the Pianists At The Edge series at University of Pittsburgh. Supové has also appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Music at the Anthology, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls such as Carnegie to theatrical spaces such as The Kitchen to clubs such as The Knitting Factory, The Stone, and The Cutting Room.

She has already commissioned a large body of works for piano and electronics, as well as works for the Yamaha Disklavier. In 2001, Ms. Supové became a Yamaha Artist. Her most recent CD, INFUSION, appears on the Koch International Classics label. Other recordings can be found on the Tzadik, CRI, New World, Innova, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, and XI labels. For more info, visit supove.com or myspace.com/supove.

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Rocco Di Pietro was born in Buffalo, New York in 1949. He studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen and Lukas Foss in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood. He studied in New York and Darmstadt with Bruno Maderna and was a freelance composer for twenty years before earning degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.He became an interdisciplinary adjunct professor teaching in prisons and on many college campuses throughout New York, Ohio, and California. He toured California prisons as artist-in-residence and conducted four years of interviews in Chicago with Pierre Boulez. The resulting book, DIALOGUES WITH BOULEZ, was recently published by Scarecrow Press. He composed Prison Dirges I for the Kronos String Quartet. Di Pietro's music has been performed by many musicians in venues throughout the world. These include: Christiane Edinger, Christobal Halffter, Lukas Foss, Julius Eastman, Bruno Maderna, Frances Marie Uitti, Yvar Mikhasoff, Jan Williams, Anthony Miranda, Gunther Schuller, Dennis Russell Davies, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, CETA Orchestra, Ojai Ensemble Sonor, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Wind Orchestra, Earlham String Orchestra, the Avant Collective, and the Madd Lab Orchestra. Venues include: The Kitchen, La Mama, Bang On A Can Festival, in New York, Contemporary Music Society of Seoul, South Korea and American Academy in Rome among others. Recent performances of LOST have been featured at Dartmouth College and Stanford University. Recently, his work has developed on several fronts. Sound text radio works have developed simultaneously with his teaching at Columbus State College of electronic music and other courses in the Humanities. These works have been broadcast on radio stations in Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, New York and in Europe, in Naples, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Budapest etc.

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Composer/pianist David Borden and Mother Mallard (Borden¹s all-synthesizer ensemble, consisting of Borden and keyboardist Blaise Bryski) are joined by avant-pianist Kathleen Supové for the premiere of Borden¹s new evening-length electroacoustic composition, Heaven-Kept Soul. The title Heaven-Kept Soul is an anagram derived from the name Kathleen Supové, for whom this piece was composed. Known for her boundary-breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience.

David Borden founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. in 1969 with the generous support of Robert Moog. The group became the world's first synthesizer ensemble. As a composer, his work spans both worlds of "high and low" culture. Borden's music is available on the Cuneiform, New World Records, Lameduck and Arbiter labels. He recently retired after eighteen years as Director of the Digital Music Program at Cornell University. He has received commissions from Tafel Music, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the Duo Cristofori and Daniel Goode, among others. With Mother Mallard, he has performed at a variety of venues ranging from the Barbican Centre in London, the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen to many of the downtown avant-garde concert spaces in New York City including The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, the Intermedia Foundation, the Alternative Museum, the Dance Theater Workshop, Danceteria and the Paula Cooper Gallery. He has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the New York State Arts Council and Meet the Composer.

Supové is an award-winning pianist whose concert series, The Exploding Piano, incorporates performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She has received grants from Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and American Composers Forum, among others and has appeared with The Philip Glass Ensemble, in the Bang On a Can Marathon, at Music at the Anthology, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs.

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Experimental electronics composer Haeyoung Kim (a.k.a. Bubblyfish) joins forces with the versatile contemporary music pianist Kathleen Supové and video artist Adam Kendall for a performance of Kim's new piece, Hidden, Lost, Forgotten, for piano, computer, and gameboys, accompanied by live
video. The piece is a suite composed of 4 movements, derived from a lullaby that Kim's parents used to sing for her when she was sick as a child. Based on the rhyme and the gesture of a hand rubbing a child's stomach, the piece consists of a piano solo, sound collages of voice samples, a piano and gameboy duet, and gameboy improvisation.

Kim creates lo-fi 8-bit sound pieces and minimal electronic compositions. Her work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, the New Museum and the Lincoln Center Walter Reed Theater and has been heard on WNYC radio and Spongefork Radio on the web. She is a recent recipient of the
Van Lier artist's residency at Harvestworks media art center. Her work has been featured in Art Forum magazine, on MSNBC and in the NYFA Interactive online magazine. Check out: www.bubblyfish.com

Supové is an award-winning pianist whose concert series, The Exploding Piano, incorporates performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. She has received grants from Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and American Composers Forum, among others and has appeared with The Philip Glass Ensemble, in the Bang On a Can Marathon, at Music at the Anthology, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs.

Adam Kendall is a video-artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He improvises and composes video, drawing from his background in traditional and alternative composition and performance techniques, and he incorporates his computer-programming background by writing Max/MSP/Jitter applications. He
performs regularly in New York City and presents pieces in national and international festivals. His extracurricular activities include co-curating the a/v performance series {R}ake. http://www.hellbender.org

Commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation.

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The Exploding Piano- Science Fiction for Las Vagas, featuring composer Marita Bolles' piece for Kathleen Supove based on interviews with the mother of Deora Bodley, killed September 11, 2001 on UA Flight 93. Plus Brittle Chain Hope by Gene Pritsker for piano and Samplestra, Rama Broom by Nick Didkovsky for speaking-homicidal pianist; and works by Randall Woolf and Supove.

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They call their duo twisted tutu, and tonight celebrate the release of their CD, Play Nice (on OO Discs). The Concept Album has returned! Vocalist/keyboardist Eve Beglarian and pianist Kathleen Supove perform Boy Toy Toy Boy, Touchtone Tony, The Buncacan Song, Tahoma, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, One Tough Lama, Ngat and Treva, My Feelings Now, Tea Song, Play Nice, I Touched Yr. Cheek and Written on the Body. Eight pieces are by Beglarian (with Duke Ellington's help in one case) and other by Kitty Brazelton, Art Jarvinen, Guy Klucevsek, Robin Lorentz and Randall Woolf.

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The Exploding Piano. The acclaimed series continues with sonic explosions for the piano by Louis Andriessen, Eve Beglarian, Alvin Curan, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ken Valitsky, Judith Weir and Carolyn Yarnell. With guest Eve Beglarian, electronics.

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A preview from this fall's season with special performances from Jon Gibson, Paul Hoskin, Miki Navazio and Kathleen Supove. Food, drink, and kick-off ceremonies for the fall season. A special night to thank our members and to welcome new ones. Join tonight for $50 and come free all year!!!