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For this night at Roulette choreographer and dancer Melanie Maar invited composers, vocalist Shelley Hirsch and musician Kenta Nagai, to further explore performance in terms of situational choreography and composition.  Maar has been working with several musicians and dancers over the last years, creating performances in which a theatrical aesthetic and the artists improvisational selves feed each other. The emphasis lies on the attention to the specific visual, structural, sonic, and kinetic elements that are coming together anew in each performance experience. The body as an instrument and the instrument as a body. Maar is  approaching dance, music and audience relationship as a symbiotic and empathetic performance practice.

Melanie Maar is a New York based choreographer and dancer originally from Vienna, Austria. She runs a space in Brooklyn called the Loft. Her latest project Same Selves is a trio with performer Marilyn Maywald and musician Taylor Ho Bynum. Her evening work Spaces and Bones was a collaboration with audio-visual artist Kenta Nagai commissioned by The Chocolate Factory NYC in 2010. It was presented at Impuls Tanz Festival Vienna in 2011. In 2010 Maar co- curated the Movement Research Festival HARDCORPS. In 2009 her piece Phenomenal Bodies premiered at New York Live Arts (formerly DTW). She is currently a member of Quartet Collective with Taylor Ho Bynum, Rachel Bernsen and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. Experimenting with the body of music in performance, this project just returned from their first tour through several cities in Europe.  Maar was also part of a new project by composer Anthony Braxton, called Pine Top Aerial Music. As a dancer Maar has worked with NY choreographers Luciana Achugar and RoseAnne Spradlin and Daria Fain amongst others.
www.melaniemaar.com

Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from Niigata Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his current exploration of the physical properties of sound and its impact on human emotion and the body. This interest has led to numerous collaborations with dancers (Boaz and Anika K Barkan, Daria Fain, DD Dorvillier, Bob Eisen, Zack Fuller and Jennifer Monson among others) throughout his career as an improvisor and performer in New York City and abroad. Nagai has appeared in numerous concerts at venues including Carnegie Hall, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Lincoln Center Out Door Stage, Rubin Museum, Hershhorn Museum at Smithonian Institute, Sculpture Center, Japan Society and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Shelley Hirsch is “an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist ” (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents… Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc, etc.

 

 

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$10 General Admission
$10 Students/Seniors
Free for All Roulette Members

 

Roulette presents Thelonious Monk International
Saxophone Competition winner Jon Irabagon's Threedom Trio, featuring
seasoned, accomplished master musicians Barry Altschul and Joe
Fonda. These three powerhouse performers bring a wealth of acclaim and
experience to the table with careers that have spanned the globe and
in the case of Altschul and Fonda, many successful generations.

The Jon Irabagon Threedom Trio incorporates the complete jazz lineage,
from rag time to no time. This all-inclusive approach utilizes
standards, changes, forms and melodies as well as noises, calls, cries
and sounds to create a sound that is both familiar and new
simultaneously. Altschul and Fonda's longtime partnership in the FAB
Trio (with the late Billy Bang), coupled with Irabagon and Altschul's
recent work together (Foxy, Hot Cup Records) leads to a cohesive unit
that explores proactive group interaction with both delicacy and fire.

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ALSO ON MARCH 29th

Over two nights, Shelley Hirsch and Simon Ho celebrate the release of their new CD, “Where Were You Then?” on Tzadik’s Key Series

Composed by Hirsch and Ho, "Where Were You Then?" blends songs, story telling and rich atmospheric soundscapes and represents a new chapter in their longstanding collaboration.

With a voice that slips effortlessly between speech melody and pure sound, Hirsch's stories work perfectly with the dreamlike state and shifting moods of their music (with instrumental arrangements by Ho).  The stories cover a wide territory, from hitch hiking in Germany in 1972, to living in a squat in Amsterdam, to a song about online dating and remembering the passing of a loved one.  The multilayered stories are filled with vivid details, humor, tenderness, loss and many odd twists in which each listener is likely to find their own meaning.

David Garland of WNYC called the CD "compelling and engrossing".

"It’s an album to be savored with complete attention and it’s like a love letter itself, enveloped in the naked truth”, wrote Ernie Paik in the Chattanooga Post

Kurt Gottschalk of WFMU Radio wrote "Gorgeous .. Shelley Hirsch is among the most honest of improvisers, direct and deeply in the moment. When she turns that candor and intimacy to composed works, as in her "O Little Town of East New York," the results can be revelatory in the strictest sense of the word. With composer Simon Ho, Hirsch has created a work that follows in that vein, and one of her finest records to date."

"Where Were You Then? is an evocative, nostalgic, and stylistic exploration of personal and cultural memory”, wrote Robert Egert in WG News and Arts.

For this world premier presentation of music from the cd, Hirsch voice, Simon Ho keyboards are joined by New York's greatest instrumentalists, including Jason Kao Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Nicole Federici, Marika Hughes, David Hofstra, Danny Tunick and Dafna Naphtali.

The NY Times has called Hirsch “an extraordinary vocalist... enormously, inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic... A brilliant overwhelming presence on stage"

 

Presented with special support from Creative Capital

 

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ALSO ON MARCH 31st

Over two nights, Shelley Hirsch and Simon Ho celebrate the release of their new CD, “Where Were You Then?” on Tzadik’s Key Series

Composed by Hirsch and Ho, "Where Were You Then?" blends songs, story telling and rich atmospheric soundscapes and represents a new chapter in their longstanding collaboration.

With a voice that slips effortlessly between speech melody and pure sound, Hirsch's stories work perfectly with the dreamlike state and shifting moods of their music (with instrumental arrangements by Ho).  The stories cover a wide territory, from hitch hiking in Germany in 1972, to living in a squat in Amsterdam, to a song about online dating and remembering the passing of a loved one.  The multilayered stories are filled with vivid details, humor, tenderness, loss and many odd twists in which each listener is likely to find their own meaning.

David Garland of WNYC called the CD "compelling and engrossing".

"It’s an album to be savored with complete attention and it’s like a love letter itself, enveloped in the naked truth”, wrote Ernie Paik in the Chattanooga Post

Kurt Gottschalk of WFMU Radio wrote "Gorgeous .. Shelley Hirsch is among the most honest of improvisers, direct and deeply in the moment. When she turns that candor and intimacy to composed works, as in her "O Little Town of East New York," the results can be revelatory in the strictest sense of the word. With composer Simon Ho, Hirsch has created a work that follows in that vein, and one of her finest records to date."

"Where Were You Then? is an evocative, nostalgic, and stylistic exploration of personal and cultural memory”, wrote Robert Egert in WG News and Arts.

For this world premier presentation of music from the cd, Hirsch voice, Simon Ho keyboards are joined by New York's greatest instrumentalists, including Jason Kao Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Nicole Federici, Marika Hughes, David Hofstra, Danny Tunick and Dafna Naphtali.

The NY Times has called Hirsch “an extraordinary vocalist... enormously, inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic... A brilliant overwhelming presence on stage"

 

Presented with special support from Creative Capital

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$35 General Admission
$100 Front Rows
*No student, senior or member pricing

*$65 of the Front Row ticket price is a tax deductible donation to Roulette in celebration of its Grand Opening*

Acclaimed as America's premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL invigorates contemporary concert music with refreshing exuberance, fierce intensity, imaginative programming and exceptional artistry. Formed in 1998, New York's ebullient ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers Jennifer Choi (violin), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), and Dorothy Lawson (cello).

ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades, with emphasis on works composed since 1995. Their repertoire includes self-composed works, as well as works by such luminaries as Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, John Zorn, Steve Reich, John King, JacobTV, David Lang, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs.
Boldly exploring new synergies between tradition and technology, ETHEL initiates innovative collaborations with an extraordinary community of American and international artists

Guitarist/composer Marc Ribot presents Film Noir - an ensemble exploring a lonely place between classic noir film scores of the 40's thru 60's, and the 80's No-Wave bands who worshipped them - including re-arrangements of Henry Mancini (Touch of Evil), Andre Previn (Scene of the Crime), Roy Budd (Get Carter), on the one hand; and John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, John Zorn, Rootless Cosmopolitans, and new noir by Marc Ribot on the other.

Originally commissioned as a project for the New School's Noir Arts Festival in April 2011, the premiere featured Ribot's fellow Lounge Lizard veterans Doug Weiselman (reeds) and Curtis Fowkles (trombone), plus Shahzad Ismaily (bass), Rob Burger (keys), John Mettam (drums, perc), and a 3 piece string section (violin, viola, cello) led by Christina Courtin.
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Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist " (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents... Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc, etc.

Composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, has situated himself for more than thirty years in the area where rock music and new music meet. Co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-78), he moved to New York in the late seventies and came into contact with many of the musicians with whom he's since been associated, including, for example, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, and Bob Ostertag.

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Shelley Hirsch is a critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose mostly solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, installations and collaborations have been presented all over the world. Tonight Hirsch will give a poetic demonstration of her inventive body voice language process, show video documentation of staged work which has never been seen before in the USA, and present excerpts of works in progress. This is a free event. Warning - you may be asked to participate!

".Her methods go beyond conventional definitions of composition and of performance. By violating logical, linear narrative forms, by opposing elements from our known world in disturbing ways, she plunges herself, and her audience, into collective reminiscences so visceral that they seem almost visual---a surreal accomplishment in itself" . Anne Le Baron in her article Reflections on Surrealism in Postmodern Music - Garland Press.

Shelley Hirsch is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co" sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). This is Hirsch's fourth NYFA fellowship. She has received awards in New Forms, Multidisciplinary Work/Performance Art, Music Composition and Sound/Music categories

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KONK PACK brings together three major figures in contemporary music. For over ten years this group has amazed audiences at festivals and concerts all over the world with the sheer energy of its rapid-fire interplay, earning numerous critical accolades. Tonight KONK PACK will be joined by special guest Shelley Hirsch.

"I can't think of an improvising group more explosive than this European trio - percussionist Roger Turner, guitarist Tim Hodgkinson, and synth maestro Thomas Lehn bite down hard on whatever they play, confronting even delicate passages with taut intensity. "¦"¦I've seen so much free improv that some of it feels as predictable as 'Chopsticks', but these guys keep me pinned to the wall, happily anticipating the next shock."
Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader Oct 18th, 2007

TIM HODGKINSON
Increasingly lauded as a contemporary composer, with works featured at international contemporary music festivals, and a set of pieces for ensemble out on the Mode label, Hodgkinson has also a powerful commitment to intense and highly energised performance practice. In over thirty years' work he has placed himself in a series of definitive projects, whether as cofounder of the seminal Henry Cow group, as saxophonist with influential avant metal band God, or as bass clarinet soloist in the spectral compositions of Iancu Dumitrescu. His lap steel guitar playing remains completely uncategorisable bringing subdued and not so subdued echoes of rock musics and other ethnicities.

THOMAS LEHN
Schooled both as a concert pianist playing contemporary repertoire and as a recording technician, Thomas Lehn deploys a huge musicality through his unique chosen outlet the analogue synthesiser. This instrument allows him extremely close and immediate contact with all aspects of sound modification - a vast gamut of living electronic sound produced with unmatched speed and fluency. Thomas Lehn simply represents a coming-of-age of electronic sound production in the domain of concert performance that sets a standard for the entire medium. He is therefore unsurprisingly an essential member of many of the most active and significant projects in this highly international and dynamic scene.

ROGER TURNER
Over decades Roger Turner has brought the renowned volcanic power and finely honed precision of his drum work to ensembles that have often forged real connections with musicians both sides of the Atlantic. In addition he has worked extensively in the microscopic laboratory of the acoustic duo situation where he acquired a highly developed sense of detail and of dynamic control. One of that select group of world-class players who have collectively redefined the language of contemporary percussion. In Turner's hands minute inflections of tension can shape the group's musical direction and galvanise a new level of audience experience.

SHELLEY HIRSCH
Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist " (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents... Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc, etc.

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SHAKING RAY LEVIS WITH SHELLEY HIRSCH
"Ole' Timey Avant-Garde" ensemble The Shaking Ray Levis team up with hyper-inventive vocalist Shelley Hirsch for an explosive evening of improvisation. The Shaking Ray Levis were conceived by Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner in 1986, and have since been the first American group be be released on Derek Bailey's Incus Records. Using synthesizers (analog & digital), MoogerFoogers, samplers, vocals and percussion they achieve an incredibly unique blend of experimental sound with an Ole' Timey feel.

THE SHAKING RAY LEVIS (founded in 1986) is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in improvisation. The project was conceived by DENNIS PALMER and BOB STAGNER. They use synthesizers (analog & digital), MoogerFoogers, samplers, vocals and percussion to achieve their Ole' Timey Avant-Garde sound.

They are the first American group to have recorded for INCUS RECORDS, the record label of British guitarist DEREK BAILEY. Additionally, they have performed and recorded with REVEREND HOWARD FINSTER, MIN TANAKA, DAVID GREENBERGER, FRED FRITH, AMY DENIO, JOHN ZORN, BORBETOMAGUS, TOM CORA, STEVE BERESFORD, J.D. PARRAN, FRANK PAHL, LADONNA SMITH, DAVEY WILLIAMS, GINO ROBAIR, ROGER TURNER, EUGENE CHADBOURNE, TONY OXLEY and DEREK BAILEY, as well as with many other critically acclaimed artists.

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"One of the best pairing of personalities that one could imagine, Hirsch and Kazuhisa show all their magnificent talent in a flawless live recording. The American vocalist is her usual self, her interpretation ranging from one genre to another with a fantasy and an intelligence that are rare to see nowadays; her technical ability is well known, so is the sense of humor that she always puts in front of us, a trademark for which Shelley is recognizable at the first note she hits. Uchihashi Kazuhisa complements her in stunningly perfect fashion, accompanying and counterpointing through a fresh sense of technical abandon that never cancels the simple beauty of the "gesture of playing". His use of delays and effects to reach different timbral zones is a perfect balance to Shelley's crazy yet lucid evolutions. And when they try to subvert "In a sentimental mood" with their cross between anarchy and loving homage, well - I think that the circle is closed. This is a masterpiece."

Uchihashi Kazuhisa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1959. Plays guitar since his twelfth years, mainly "Pop'n Roll" throughout his teens. Later he became involved in jazz. Since 1983 he has devoted himself intensively to free improvised music. He experimented thouroughly with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices to expand the expression possibilities of the electric guitar. He also composed music for films, theatre plays, dance. Among them, he has been working with Japanese Therter group "ISHINHA" for more than 20 years. He made a name for himself in Japan in concerts with such improvising musicians as Hans Reichel, Fred Frith,Tom Cora, Ned Rothenberg, Barre Phillips, Kan Tae Fwan, Peter Brotzman, Derek Bailey , Samm Bennett , Steve Beresford , Jon Rose , Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp ,Eugene Chadbourne,Henry Kaiser,Chris Cutler , Charles Hayward ,Han Bennink, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith, Gene Coleman ,Roger Turner, Franz
Hautzinger, Mani Neumeier, Bobby Previte, Chiristian Marclay,Mark Feldman, Carl Stone, Burkhard Stangle and others. He has been conducting his rock-oriented powerful improvised band
"Altered States" for 18years and continues to create his own new guitar music in solo as well as in "Altered States". He is also known by excellent player of "electroharmonics 16 second delay"

Since 1996 he has also been organizing the New Music festival
"BEYOND INNOCENCE" in Japan every year.
Since 1998 he started to play and make a music with daxophone(Hans Reichel's invention).
Now he moved to Vienna from Tokyo.

http://homepage.mac.com/innocentrecords/

Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist " (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents...

Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc, etc.

She can be heard on dozens of CDs including her just released CDs "The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch" (Tzadik) and "Duets" with guitarist Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence Records), and on her solo CD "States" (Tellus); her storytelling CD "O Little Town of East New York" (Tzadik); "Haiku Lingo" (No Mans Land) last two co-composed with longtime collaborator keyboardist David Weinstein- and the LP "Singing" (Apollo).

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An Evening to Benefit Roulette

Shelley Hirsch - singing to film soundtracks by the late great Bernard Herrmann

Zoe Beloff - presenting her film "Charming Augustine"

All tickets $15

Shelley Hirsch is "an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer, and performance artist " (Anne LeBaron) whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations, and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents...

Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with great musicians including Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, Toshio Kajiwara, Hans Reichel, Min Xiao Fen, Tony Buck, David Simons, Johannes, Connie and Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, David Watson, Marina Rosenfeld, Jim Staley, DJ Olive, Denman Maroney, Joey Baron, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Butch Morris, Elliot Sharp, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Joe Williamson, etc, etc.

She can be heard on dozens of CDs including her just released CDs "The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch" (Tzadik) and "Duets" with gutarist Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence Records), and on her solo CD "States" (Tellus); her storytelling CD "O Little Town of East New York" (Tzadik); "Haiku Lingo" (No Mans Land) last two co-composed with longtime collaborator keyboardist David Weinstein- and the LP "Singing" (Apollo).

Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media and installation. Her projects are philosophical toys, objects to think with. More and more she finds herself fascinated by phantoms, by images that, "are not there". Her work investigates the space where technology intersects with unconscious desire. Zoe's work has been exhibited internationally. Venues include: The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rotterdam Film festival, Pacific Film Archives and the Pompidou Center. www.zoebeloff.com < http://www.zoebeloff.com >

Charming Augustine
Stereoscopic 16mm B/W Film Sound 40 minutes.
Cast: Tea Alagic, Greg Mehrten, Josh Stark, Steven Rattazi, Kevin Maher, Eileen White, Eliza Fernbach
Original music: Miguel Frasconi
Charming Augustine was inspired by series of photographs and texts on hysteria published in the 1880's under the title of the Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. It is an experimental narrative based on the case of a young patient, Augustine. The film explores connections between attempts to document her mental states and the prehistory of narrative film. To conjure up a time just prior to the invention of cinema I shot the film in a stereoscopic format to suggest a different direction that cinema might have taken had it been invented in the 1880's. Ultimately what I wish to convey is a fragile, spectral, what if"¦a moment in time when the moving image was on the brink of existence in a form not yet standardized.

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Hirsch (voice) and Ho (keyboards) have composed an evocative & playful suite of pieces, filled with sonic pictures, kooky autobiographical tales & beautiful orchestrations. Their collaborative work will be performed by an extraordinary ensemble of musicians, who bring the written music to life "¦ and augment it with their unique talents as improvisers. With Stephanie Griffin (viola), David Hofstra (bass, tuba), David Simons (percussion, theremin) & Tomas Ulrich (cello.) *Name the group after you hear the music and win 2 CDS!!!*

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Voice and cello. Language and singing reconfigured alongside traditional Korean music and shameless noise. One of the great imaginations, multimedia artists and storytellers of her generation with a fearless string player of dazzling technique who has sought out collaborators like Christian Marclay, Jim O'Rourke and Marc Ribot.

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Yodels and Doodles: audio-visual projections between friends, a work of vocal and visual improvisations. Composer/vocalist and multimedia artist Hirsch possesses one of the most creative and spontaneous minds in the field along with a noise that bends roars, whispers and soars in response. Hodges' imagery frequently blends the familiar and the miraculous, as in his pieces at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, which in turn creates the sensation of yet another, tangential mirable in your head and heart.

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Vocalist/composer/performer Shelley Hirsch will perform her new piece, In The Field, At The Table and improvise with surprise guests. Fascinating, clever and extreme.

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Roulette
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
20th Anniversary Benefit Concert
8:00pm Saturday, January 30, 1999

Clapping Music (1972) Steve Reich
Performed by Steve Reich and Thad Wheeler

States (1996) Shelley Hirsh
Performed by Shelley Hirsch

Masada Quartet John Zorn
Joey Baron - drums, Greg Cohen - contrabass, Dave Douglas - trumpet, John Zorn - alto sax

Music for Unaccompanied Voice Meredith Monk
Selections from Songs from the Hill (1977)
Light Songs (1988)
Volcano Songs: Duets (1993) and Facing North (1990)
Performed by Meredith Monk and Katie Geissinger

Elegy for Fred Hopkins (1999) William Parker
I. Faith (The Left Side of Silence)
II. Ascent

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SOUND/TEXT....
FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE IN
***BRAVE NEW WORLD***

"..Her dramatic stream of consciousness singing is as original as anything downtown..." (Village Voice). Stunning vocalist Hirsch, will perform with the music of her deceased hero Jerry Hunt and with very special guests.

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"The encyclopaedic, tragicomedic rhapsodist performs vocal works using a specially designed new instrument."

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A festival of improvisational music organized by Judy Dunaway and Cinnie Cole with Polly Bradfield, Marion Brandis, Jill Burton, Lesli Dalaba, Carol Emanuel, Sue Ann Harkey, Sharon Gannon, Shelley Hirsch, Robin Holcomb, Kumiko Kimoto, Ann Le Baron, Myra Melford, Ikue Mori, Charlotte Moorman, Zeena Parkins, Alva Rogers, La Donna Smith, and Rain Worthington.

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A festival of improvisational music organized by Judy Dunaway and Cinnie Cole with Polly Bradfield, Marion Brandis, Jill Burton, Lesli Dalaba, Carol Emanuel, Sue Ann Harkey, Sharon Gannon, Shelley Hirsch, Robin Holcomb, Kumiko Kimoto, Ann Le Baron, Myra Melford, Ikue Mori, Charlotte Moorman, Zeena Parkins, Alva Rogers, La Donna Smith, and Rain Worthington.

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A festival of improvisational music organized by Judy Dunaway and Cinnie Cole with Polly Bradfield, Marion Brandis, Jill Burton, Lesli Dalaba, Carol Emanuel, Sue Ann Harkey, Sharon Gannon, Shelley Hirsch, Robin Holcomb, Kumiko Kimoto, Ann Le Baron, Myra Melford, Ikue Mori, Charlotte Moorman, Zeena Parkins, Alva Rogers, La Donna Smith, and Rain Worthington.