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Composer, film maker, and performance artist, Zeljko McMullen utilizes sounds and images to deconstruct the present space of the experiencer, replacing it with a perpetually shifting mythical architecture.  Tonight at Roulette, Zeljko McMullen will create an immersive sonic and visual space - surrounding the audience in light projections and multichannel sound.

Support for this program provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Born February 4th, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio, McMullen attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Bard MFA program. Co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery from September 2006 until April 2010. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Has exhibited and/or performed across North America, Europe, and Asia.

 

wish - "cups" by zeljko2012

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Sound Artists activate the unique acoustics of Roulette's newly renovated 1920s Art Deco theater with multichannel spacialized sound. With speakers set up throughout the entire Roulette space, visitors are invited to wander freely during the event, creating their own sonic and spacial narrative.

Featuring work and performances by:
Daniel Neumann
Maria Chavez
Alfredo Marin
Zeljko McMullen
Doron Sadja
Tristan Shepherd
Mario Diaz de Leon
Ben Vida
Sabisha Friedberg

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$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Plays Well With Others Festival is a 3 night mixed-genres festival exploring music, dance, video, and performance.

October 17
Born February 4th, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio - attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Bard MFA program. Co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery from September 2006 until April 2010. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Has exhibited and/or performed across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Utilizes sounds and images to deconstruct the present space of the experiencer, replacing it with a perpetually shifting mythical architecture. This performance at Roulette will consist of live diffused sound over multi-speakers.

Artist Sarah Boatright will show her complete "Re-Enactment Videos" series where she transcribes overheard conversations that she has recorded (some of which she was in, some not), and then re-enacts them in character.

Scott Kiernan
Garbage for the Gap
2008/09
HD digital video 7 min
In the video "Garbage for the Gap" the line between a performative act and a narrative (with protagonist) is intentionally blurred.

The imagery is from a series of walks in a straight line through the wildly different environs of New York City and the New Mexico Desert in which I wore a large convex mirror (typically used for catching shoplifters) on my back. The actual performance attempted to place the device used for surveillance (the security mirror) directly onto the surveyed subject and bounce the "information" back... producing a rupture in the visual landscape.

However, as the video documentation began, I soon realized that aside from obvious similarities between my situation and that of a viewer watching a video on a screen, there were also actually a set of opposing mirrors at play... the one on my back and the mirror of the camera lens itself.
Each of my steps forward (and away from the camera) placed a distorted image of what was left behind (the past steps) in both the mirror on my back and the mirror of the lens.

This visual convergence of past and present lead me to think of the nature of looking into a mirror... how it is always a confrontation with the present moment and a corporeal record of the past.

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Healing of K. 2008

Single channel video, 10 min.

"Healing of K" is a 10 minute video (with optional installation/performance) based on a box of found taped sessions of a late 1970's psychic healer and her patient "Kaye" . These tapes are cut-up and assembled into a single monologue in which the voice, played on a monolithic tape machine on a pedestal, addresses the audience in a manner alluding to a cult-like initiation or brainwashing.

The work tries to collide theatricality into unmediated physical response. Initially, it tries to lull the audience into skepticism of this somewhat new agey/hokey material, to then drop them into the physical experience of a vivid color and sound synchronization.

By recontextualizing the found tapes, I not only tried to give this dead record of a private therapy session a new performative life, I also sought to question the situations we submit ourselves to in the name of "healing", "therapy", group affiliation, self-improvement etc. and how these may oppose and co-exist with actual physical sensations.

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E.S.P. TV (Excerpts from Episodes 1-8) 2011

E.S.P. TV is a showcase of (primarily NYC based) music and video art taped "in front of a live studio audience" with live green-screening and analog video manipulation. The entire night is sent to a VHS deck and the tape is cut down into 28 min episodes and sent to Manhattan Neighborhood Network for airing on cable access TV. E.S.P. TV is produced by Louis V E.S.P. gallery (Scott Kiernan and Ethan Miller).

Also See:
October 18th

Carver Audain
Christopher Williams

October 19th

Alex Escalante
Maria Chavez
Anna Azrieli

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Doron Sadja / Zeljko McMullen

Two solo sets by longtime collaborators (Symbol) and Shinkoyo / ParisLondonWestNile founders Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja. McMullen uses samples of acoustic instruments and improvisations to compose dense walls of electronic sound, which are diffused in immersive multi-channel environments. Composer/photographer Sadja presents a new piece for recomposed instruments, including the flombone, floptar, clarisax, tromcorder, multiple speakers, and a tangled mess of analog feedback in a dense collage of light, color, smoke, and vibrations. .

Shinkoyo (www.shinkoyo.com) is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, artists, musicians, instrument makers, thinkers and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. Shinkoyo submits to no genres, but Ancient Futurism, Noise Age, True Age, and NeoConservative are terms to be discovered. Born in 2000 at the Oberlin Conservatory of music, Shinkoyo has spread its wings from California to New York, with its headquarters at the glamorous Paris London West Nile Performance/Gallery Space - Brooklyn's only NO-Profit, donations based center for experimental performance/art (www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/).

Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist birthed in Los Angeles and decomposing in New York by way of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, London, and Berlin. Co-founder of Shinkoyo music and art collective, he currently lives in Williamsburg where he runs ParisLondonWestNile, an experimental performance space and gallery. He has released solo and collaborative work on 12k, Shinkoyo, and Atak records and has performed throughout the United States, canada, UK, Spain, and Germany. Doron creates overwhelming dark psychological collages, both visually and sonically, through electronic and acoustic multidisciplinary feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangments, extreme frequencies, and dense splashes of color and texture. See www.doron.sadja.com for more.

SYMBOL (www.shinkoyo.com/symbol) is a collage of artists and musicians from NYC working together to create sublime and grotesque environments. Beginning as a duo of Doron Sadja and Zeljko McMullen in early 2005 - Symbol has expanded to include a revolving cast of participants including Mario Diaz de Leon, Johnny Misheff, Brooke Gillespie, Mv Carbon, Justin Craun; and visual artists Jay King, Severiano Martinez, Antoine Catala, and Lauren Luloff.

Symbol has toured the US three times, performs regularly in and around NYC, and is known as the "house band" for Paris London New York West Nile, the Brooklyn experimental arts venue run by McMullen and Sadja. Their first album, Land Space Water Faith (released by Shinkoyo in early 2008) expressed Symbol's diverse musical educations ranging from orchestral chamber composition to sound installations from Maryanne Amacher to guitar/feedback tricks learned from Lou Reed and lastly psychedelic listening sessions of large amounts of Enya and Deep Forest.

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Doron Sadja / Zeljko McMullen

Two solo sets by longtime collaborators (Symbol) and Shinkoyo / ParisLondonWestNile founders Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja. McMullen uses samples of acoustic instruments and improvisations to compose dense walls of electronic sound, which are diffused in immersive multi-channel environments. Composer/photographer Sadja presents a new piece for recomposed instruments, including the flombone, floptar, clarisax, tromcorder, multiple speakers, and a tangled mess of analog feedback in a dense collage of light, color, smoke, and vibrations. .

Shinkoyo (www.shinkoyo.com) is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, artists, musicians, instrument makers, thinkers and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. Shinkoyo submits to no genres, but Ancient Futurism, Noise Age, True Age, and NeoConservative are terms to be discovered. Born in 2000 at the Oberlin Conservatory of music, Shinkoyo has spread its wings from California to New York, with its headquarters at the glamorous Paris London West Nile Performance/Gallery Space - Brooklyn's only NO-Profit, donations based center for experimental performance/art (www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/).

Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist birthed in Los Angeles and decomposing in New York by way of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, London, and Berlin. Co-founder of Shinkoyo music and art collective, he currently lives in Williamsburg where he runs ParisLondonWestNile, an experimental performance space and gallery. He has released solo and collaborative work on 12k, Shinkoyo, and Atak records and has performed throughout the United States, canada, UK, Spain, and Germany. Doron creates overwhelming dark psychological collages, both visually and sonically, through electronic and acoustic multidisciplinary feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangments, extreme frequencies, and dense splashes of color and texture. See www.doron.sadja.com for more.

SYMBOL (www.shinkoyo.com/symbol) is a collage of artists and musicians from NYC working together to create sublime and grotesque environments. Beginning as a duo of Doron Sadja and Zeljko McMullen in early 2005 - Symbol has expanded to include a revolving cast of participants including Mario Diaz de Leon, Johnny Misheff, Brooke Gillespie, Mv Carbon, Justin Craun; and visual artists Jay King, Severiano Martinez, Antoine Catala, and Lauren Luloff.

Symbol has toured the US three times, performs regularly in and around NYC, and is known as the "house band" for Paris London New York West Nile, the Brooklyn experimental arts venue run by McMullen and Sadja. Their first album, Land Space Water Faith (released by Shinkoyo in early 2008) expressed Symbol's diverse musical educations ranging from orchestral chamber composition to sound installations from Maryanne Amacher to guitar/feedback tricks learned from Lou Reed and lastly psychedelic listening sessions of large amounts of Enya and Deep Forest.

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Brain Avatar

Concert & Resonance Experiment

Mario Diaz de Leon, Zeljko McMullen, Doron Sadja

Musicians in Hang Zhou, Bangkok, Durban, Brussels, New York, and Braunschweig will each begin a solo concert, transmitting the music real-time to each city. During the concerts, brain activities of each musician will be recorded by the "Brain Avatar" which, created by Martin Schoene, is the first analogue visualization of real-time brain activity. The brainwaves, in their direct form as sound are projected as resonance in water and light. Emerging shapes and processes allow for visualization of mental states and movement of thought.

Tonight's performers will be Mario Diaz de Leon, Doron Sadja, and Zeljko McMullen.

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Zeljkovision: A color symphony of math and stars. A color symphony of math and stars - impenetrable walls of delicate timbres create a womb-like space, perpetually collapsing in on itself. Projections from multiple sources collide onto a central focal point - manifesting a new composite world. Sensory overload turns into lowercase intrusion, becomes a faded memory, and then disappears. This performance consists of a multitude of collaborations (obstructed) with various artists kaleidoscoped into a singular deluge. Zeljkovision glasses will be distributed to the audience.