Roulette brings together an exceptional lineup of artists for a special benefit concert: multidisciplinary artists Raven Chacon and C. Spencer Yeh with Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich; Apache violinist Laura Ortman with gabby fluke-mogul and a special guest (TBA); and violinist, vocalist, and electronic artist more eaze (mari rubio).
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Raven Chacon electronics
John Dieterich electronics
C. Spencer Yeh violin, electronics
Laura Ortman violin
gabby fluke-mogul violin
more eaze violin, pedal steel, electronics, vocals, DI
Supporting Roulette = Supporting ArtistsRoulette was founded by artists for artists, and has stayed true to that ethos for nearly five decades. We strive to be the best place in New York City for artists at every stage in their careers, presenting over 100 concerts a year, paying artists guaranteed fees, and preserving their work in our extensive public archive. Through our Awarded Artist program, we have distributed over $2.3M in commissioning, residency, and fellowship fees to early-career artists developing new work, many of whom have gone on to become leaders in their fields or later recognized as MacArthur Fellows and Pulitzer Prize winners. A ticket for this benefit concert goes directly to supporting our mission of supporting artists making new experimental work.
This is a benefit concert to support Roulette. Member and Patron benefits do not apply—thank you for your support!
This concert will not be livestreamed.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.
A recording artist over the span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.
Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition, the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2022), the Pew Fellow-in-Residence (2022), and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
His solo artworks are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and various private collections.
His solo artworks are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and various private collections.
John Dieterich is a musician known largely for his work in the band Deerhoof, which he has been a member of since 1999. In that time, Deerhoof has released 13 critically acclaimed albums and toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. In addition, John has been a member of Gorge Trio, Endlings, Colossamite, Natural Dreamers, SWAPS, Powerdove, The Hand to Man Band, Dieterich & Barnes, Bad News from Houston and many other groups. He has also worked as a musician, producer, mixer, remixer and/or collaborator in any other number of other ways with artists including: Juana Molina, Phew, Mike Watt, Raven Chacon, Mary Halvorson, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Tashi Dorji, Powerdove, Xiu Xiu, Sufjan Stevens, Chris Vatalaro, Heather Trost, Lucas Santtana, Claire Cronin, Jeremy Barnes, Booker Stardrum, Officer!, Lonna Kelley, Max Knause, Thor Harris, Half Japanese, Busdriver, James Jackson Toth and many others.
C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for interdisciplinary activities as an artist, improviser, and composer, and for his music project Burning Star Core. Since 2020, Yeh has performed for The Kitchen NYC, Experimental Intermedia NYC, The Renaissance Society with ESS Chicago, the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, Casa del Lago UNAM MX with Jacob Wick and Bonnie Jones, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon PT with Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, Blank Forms with Raven Chacon and Che Chen, and both solo and with Luke Stewart/Leila Bordreuil’s Feedback Ensemble for Roulette NYC. He presented new video works and performances for both ISSUE Project Room NYC, and the Bemis Center Omaha NE. Yeh also exhibited with Anthology Film Archives, Loong Mah NYC, Bánh Mì Verlag online, 5th Floor/Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and participated in Nick Klein’s “Bring the Flowers to the Theatre” at Sara’s NYC. In 2021 he organized a karaoke event for Creative Time and Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage” NYC project, and started a key music duo with Kwami Winfield that has performed at many venues and events including ISSUE Project Room and Ende Tymes Festival. In 2019, Yeh received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.
In 2023 Yeh’s work was part of exhibitions including “Constellating Histories” with Asia Film Archives Singapore, “Impossible Music” at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, and the Taipei Biennial “Small World” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, and SculptureCenter NYC. In addition to “Impossible Music” travelling to Tufts University Art Galleries in 2025, he is concurrently staging an installation of his project “World of Music.” Yeh also presented an experimental anthology-style radio play “Tales from Area 212” (featuring Samara Lubelski, Frank Heath, Samantha Riott, Ayanna Dozier, and Mark Freado Jr.) with Creative Time as part of their “Sonic Commons” program series. His video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Yeh is on the advisory board for Montez Press Radio, is a contributing editor for BOMB magazine and Triple Canopy, and was a former programmer/trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY.
A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Kronos Quartet, Martha Colburn, New Red Order, Martin Bisi, Demian DinéYazhi, and as part of the trio, In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings. Ortman has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Venice Biennale, Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, MASS MoCA, MCA Chicago, REWIRE Festival at the Hague, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Stone, SF JAZZ, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2025 Pioneer Works Music Residency, 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Fellowship, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. Ortman was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
gabby fluke-mogul is a Brooklyn-based violinist, improviser, composer, educator, organizer, and doula. Weaving within experimental threads of improvised musics, their playing has been described as “embodied, visceral and virtuosic” and “the most striking sound in improvised music in years.” gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Ava Mendoza, Charles Burnham, Fred Frith, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, Tcheser Holmes, Mariá Portugal, Lotte Anker, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva, Dave Rempis, Lily Finnegan, Nate Wooley, Lester St. Louis, William Parker, Dimos Vryzas and Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists. gabby has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe, with performances at Cafe OTO (London), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Curva Minore (Palermo), Stadtgarten (Cologne), Constellation (Chicago), Schl8hof (Wels), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis), Roulette (Brooklyn), The Stone (Manhattan), the Lab (San Francisco), and Temescal Arts Center (Oakland). flukemogul.com
more eaze is the project of composer/multi-instrumentalist mari maurice. her work touches upon myriad genres and often explores themes of gender, intimacy, identity, perception, and the mundane. resident advisor categorizes maurice’s work as “accomplished ambient pop” and the quietus has said that her work “unearths a raw poignancy in what can often be a coldly academic field.” her music has been widely released on a number of international labels including orange milk, mondoj astral spirits, phinery, and lillerne tapes among others. as a performer, maurice regularly collaborates with artists such as claire rousay, nick zanca, amulets, seth graham, dntel, christina carter, and more. she also has contributed mixes for a number of radio stations and podcasts including nts, dublab, noods, kxlu, and hoc.
