Improvisation: Past

Tomeka Reid continues her 2016-2017 residency at Roulette.

Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and drummer Chad Taylor honor the great saxophone + drum duos.

JG Thirlwell presents Cholera Nocebo, a 50 minute electro-acoustic surround sound immersive cinematic presentation.

Inspired by obsessions, visions, and dreams of artist Joseph Cornell, this new song cycle is performed by Ne(x)tworks and all-star singers.

A Line Becomes A Circle is a Shomyo-Noh chamber opera featuring a libretto with Haiku fragments.

Ostrowski and Goodheart play activated objects. Sound reembodied in objects, light reembodied in sound.

Zorn hosts an assembly of great players in a display of strategy, tactics, and musical chutzpah for his classic game pieces, Cobra & Hockey.

Night 2 with seven age-defying stellar improvisers. Oxymoronic scores create fluid narratives illuminated by nuanced presence.

The director/performer, a multi-generational 7tet of improvisers, and oxymoronic scores of fluid narratives illuminated by nuanced presence.

The disarmingly playful and secretly intense composer/percussionist shows original works for solo and small ensembles with an all-star cast.