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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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Bill Hsu and James Fei perform a new work for reed instruments and electronics, using an interactive system that tracks timbral and gestural information.
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Sawako: a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who explores the virtual and actual world through sound.

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ishi ~ listening stone

"ishi" is a new work for stone, crystal radio, contact microphone and laptop. The work is based on Sawako's ongoing interest in soundscape and the invisible signals of the urban environment.

In Japanese, "ishi" means "stone" as well as "will" and "intention." With her piece, Sawako tries to listen to the will of stone through both radio transmissions and other invisible vibrations. The captured signal will then be mutated to create an intimate, poetic sound that forms a tiny moment of quiet in the city.

This work is commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Sawako is a sound sculptor and timeline-based artist who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, fragments in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig.

Sawako released her albums from 12k (USA), and/OAR(USA) and Anticipate (USA). She had collaborated with Taylor Deupree, asuna, HYPO, RF, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto, Andrew Deutsch, Jacob Kirkegaard, Kenneth Kirschner, Radiosonde, among others.

She has performed internationally as an audio and/or visual artist in MUTEK (Canada): Tonic, Diapason, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, Starbucks Salon, BAP Festival (NYC); Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC); Glade Festival, Resonance FM (UK); Batofar (Paris); Offsite, Super Delux, Bullets, Apple Store (Japan). In 2006, she was awarded a Jerome Foundation grant to create a commissioned work for Roulette.

Her work has been featured in The Wire (UK), Blow Up (Italy), Improvised Music from Japan (Japan), NY Art (US), e/i magazine (US), DEBUG (Germany), Go MAG (Spain), GAFFA (Denmark) among others.

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Produced by the Institute for Electronic Arts @ Alfred University

Roulette will host an exhibition of video synthesizers from the Sandin Image processor to current computer-based systems presented by The Institute for Electronic Art in cooperation with the School of Art and Design at Alfred University . Visitors will be able to manipulate images and sounds using a hand built Sandine Image Processor, Wobbulator, and Jitter inteactive system. On Wednesday evening June 6 th there will be solo and duo concerts by Stephen Vitiello, Andrew Deutsch, Sawako Kato (from Tokyo) Tammy Bracket and Peer Bode (via cellphone from China).

The Institute for Electronic Arts is a high technological research studio facility within the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY. The IEA encourages and supports projects that involve interactive multi-media systems, experimental sonic/video production, digital imaging, and publications. The IEA is committed to developing cultural interactions spurred by technological experimentation and artistic investigations.

About the Performers:

Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist. Originally from New York, he is now based in Richmond, Virginia. Vitiello's CD releases include Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts (New Albion Records), Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls), Scanner/Vitiello (Audiosphere/Sub Rosa), Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records), Scratchy Marimba (Sulphur UK/Sulfur USA), Light of Falling Cars (JDK Productions) and Uitti/Vitiello (JDK Productions). Stephen's website: www.stephenvitiello.com

Andrew Deutsch (b.1968) is a sound, video and graphic artist who lives in Hornell, NY and teaches Sound & Video Art in the Division of Expanded Media at Alfred University. He received his BFA in Video Art and Printmaking from Alfred University in 1990 and his MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. He is a member of the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Board of Advisors and is a former member of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Board of Directors (1999 - 2001). Andrew's website: www.infoblvd.net/andrewandjen/index.htm

Sawako Kato is a Tokyo/NYC-based timeline based artist and sound sculptor who creates the digital nostalgic world using technologies. Once through the processor named Sawako, elements in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. For these 5 years, Sawako did more than 80 live performances in Japan, USA, Paris and London, and last year her 2nd album "hum" was released from NY based minimal label, 12k. Sawako's website: www.troncolon.com

Tammy Renée Brackett received a BA in fine arts from Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y. in 2003 and an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in 2006. Critiques of the impact of scientific "breakthroughs" on identity formation inform Brackett's work. Using new and traditional artistic media, she explores the factors that contribute to the invention of new identities and the overlapping fluid structures behind them. Brackett's recent work uses scientific data, such as the Map of the Human Genome, brainwave biofeedback, and DNA frequencies, as elements in her musical compositions and surround-sound installations. Brackett has exhibited in Japan, Croatia, Hungary, and the United States. She has been awarded the 2005 College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship for Visual Artists, funded by the NEA, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Expanded Media at Alfred University's School of Art and Design.

Peer Bode is a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist with media works in museum collections world-wide. He is also an active educator and studio advocate and facilitator of independent electronic media. He is associated with the renowned American Alfred and Owego schools of new media imaging. He is Professor of Video Arts at the School of Art and Design and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), NYSCC at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. His work is produced at the IEA, Alfred NY; the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY and Pep Studios, Hornell and Rochester, NY.
About the Sandin

The Dan Sandin Image Processor, or "IP," is an analog video processor with video signals sent through processing modules that route to an output color encoder. The IP's most unique attribute is its non-commercial philosophy, emphasizing a public access to processing methods and the machines that assist in generating the images. The IP was Sandin's electronic expression for a culture that would "learn to use High-Tech machines for personal, aesthetic, religious, intuitive, comprehensive, and exploratory growth." This educational goal was supplemented with a "distribution religion" that enabled video artists, and not-for-profit groups, to "roll-your-own" video synthesizer for only the cost of parts and the sweat and labor it took to build it. It was the "Heathkit" of video art tools, with a full building plan spelled out, including electronic schematics and mechanical assembly information. Tips on soldering, procuring electronic parts and Printed Circuit boards, were also included in the documentation, increasing the chances of successfully building a working version of the video synthesizer.

Program subject to change.