Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes solo composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.
Matt Mehlan is an artist, musician, and producer based in New York City, where he is Associate Artistic Director at Roulette, teaches part time at The New School, and mixes and masters records at his Stuudio. Here he performs new music in a trio formation with Qasim Naqvi on drums and Nathaniel Morgan on bass and saxophone.
Dave Scanlon writes austere songs and maintains a series of “counting” compositions focused on intonation, numerology, and measurement. He is also a member of the experimental rock band JOBS.
Zeljko McMullen (b. February 4, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio) is an electronic musician, composer, and interdisciplinary artist, known for his immersive multi-media projects and through his contributions to an extensive list of collaborators. He founded and co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2006 until 2010, which later became the venue 285 Kent.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Formed as an artist collective while conservatory students in Ohio, before making an indelible mark on underground music culture in New York City, the artists of Shinkoyo have been quietly involved in significant ways intersecting experimental music and art.
Initially formed in 2003 to support debut releases by Skeletons (Matt Mehlan), Peter Blasser (instrument inventor and designer of Ciat-Lonbarde), and Severiano Martinez – Shinkoyo the “record label” has always been just a fraction of an expanded universe of collaboration and friendship. Shinkoyo artists have always “played on each other’s projects”: jointly originating bands like Skeletons, Sejayno, Symbol; founding DIY arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and Oakland’s East Nile; releasing music on labels Tzadik, 12k, Crammed Discs, Ehse, Heresee, Tomlab, Ghostly International, Load, Denovali, Astral Spirits, American Dreams and others; traveling the world performing and collaborating with the likes of Tony Conrad, Konono No 1, Janka Nabay, Maryanne Amacher, Excepter, Nautical Almanac, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Larry Clark, and Lou Reed.
Named for a nonsense word heard in a dream, the collective has always been dedicated to a kind of dream logic of newness. Founded on ideals of collaboration around music and the electronic, Shinkoyo has been directed over two decades by the creativity, labor and/or philosophical esoterics of: Matt Mehlan (who still manages the label), Peter Blasser, Severiano Martinez, Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Carson Garhart, Jason McMahon, Tony Lowe, MV Carbon, Thomas Arsenault, Johnny Mischeff, Ben Kamen, Michael Beharie – and has grown further in recent years with releases by Cyrus Pireh, Lia Kohl, Nat Baldwin, Sam Hillmer (Zs), IE, Clara Latham and Bobby Matador’s New Pope, Katherine Young and Sam Scranton’s Beautifulish, Patrick Shiroishi, Angel Deradoorian, artist and writer Sherae Rimpsey and others.
This series of concerts at Roulette brings together artists from each and every era of the imprint, celebrating the myriad threads of the past 20 years and introducing its future with Artist Pool, a non-profit initiative grounded in Shinkoyo’s collective ideals.
“The collective’s members […] have consistently created some of the most interesting and individual electronic music happening in America today” -Nate Wooley, Sound American
“There are connections in the music of Shinkoyo to a wildly diverse set of influences, from icons such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, to “outsider” influences such as Al Margolis and Annea Lockwood, to genre work from left field locations such as new age and hard noise electronics.” -Database of Recorded American Music
Zeljko McMullen at Roulette 2023 (audio)
Dave Scanlon at Roulette 2023 (audio)
Matt Mehlan / Qasim Naqvi / Nathaniel Morgan at Roulette 2023 (audio)
Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes solo composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.
Matt Mehlan is an artist, musician, and producer based in New York City, where he is Associate Artistic Director at Roulette, teaches part time at The New School, and mixes and masters records at his Stuudio. Here he performs new music in a trio formation with Qasim Naqvi on drums and Nathaniel Morgan on bass and saxophone.
Dave Scanlon writes austere songs and maintains a series of “counting” compositions focused on intonation, numerology, and measurement. He is also a member of the experimental rock band JOBS.
Zeljko McMullen (b. February 4, 1980 in Massillon, Ohio) is an electronic musician, composer, and interdisciplinary artist, known for his immersive multi-media projects and through his contributions to an extensive list of collaborators. He founded and co-curated the Paris London New York West Nile performance space and gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2006 until 2010, which later became the venue 285 Kent.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Formed as an artist collective while conservatory students in Ohio, before making an indelible mark on underground music culture in New York City, the artists of Shinkoyo have been quietly involved in significant ways intersecting experimental music and art.
Initially formed in 2003 to support debut releases by Skeletons (Matt Mehlan), Peter Blasser (instrument inventor and designer of Ciat-Lonbarde), and Severiano Martinez – Shinkoyo the “record label” has always been just a fraction of an expanded universe of collaboration and friendship. Shinkoyo artists have always “played on each other’s projects”: jointly originating bands like Skeletons, Sejayno, Symbol; founding DIY arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and Oakland’s East Nile; releasing music on labels Tzadik, 12k, Crammed Discs, Ehse, Heresee, Tomlab, Ghostly International, Load, Denovali, Astral Spirits, American Dreams and others; traveling the world performing and collaborating with the likes of Tony Conrad, Konono No 1, Janka Nabay, Maryanne Amacher, Excepter, Nautical Almanac, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Larry Clark, and Lou Reed.
Named for a nonsense word heard in a dream, the collective has always been dedicated to a kind of dream logic of newness. Founded on ideals of collaboration around music and the electronic, Shinkoyo has been directed over two decades by the creativity, labor and/or philosophical esoterics of: Matt Mehlan (who still manages the label), Peter Blasser, Severiano Martinez, Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Carson Garhart, Jason McMahon, Tony Lowe, MV Carbon, Thomas Arsenault, Johnny Mischeff, Ben Kamen, Michael Beharie – and has grown further in recent years with releases by Cyrus Pireh, Lia Kohl, Nat Baldwin, Sam Hillmer (Zs), IE, Clara Latham and Bobby Matador’s New Pope, Katherine Young and Sam Scranton’s Beautifulish, Patrick Shiroishi, Angel Deradoorian, artist and writer Sherae Rimpsey and others.
This series of concerts at Roulette brings together artists from each and every era of the imprint, celebrating the myriad threads of the past 20 years and introducing its future with Artist Pool, a non-profit initiative grounded in Shinkoyo’s collective ideals.
“The collective’s members […] have consistently created some of the most interesting and individual electronic music happening in America today” -Nate Wooley, Sound American
“There are connections in the music of Shinkoyo to a wildly diverse set of influences, from icons such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, to “outsider” influences such as Al Margolis and Annea Lockwood, to genre work from left field locations such as new age and hard noise electronics.” -Database of Recorded American Music
Zeljko McMullen at Roulette 2023 (audio)
Dave Scanlon at Roulette 2023 (audio)
Matt Mehlan / Qasim Naqvi / Nathaniel Morgan at Roulette 2023 (audio)
