Music: Past
Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.
Antonio “El Turry” featuring Paco Jarana: La Búsqueda del Duende (The Search for Duende, RBA)
Friday, March 7, 2025. 8:00 pm
Leading flamenco vocalist makes his NY debut exploring the passion, sorrow, and intensity that only true duende can evoke.
Interpretations: SPACE (Roscoe Mitchell / Thomas Buckner / Scott Robinson) with Robert Dick
Thursday, March 6, 2025. 8:00 pm
An evening with legendary improv trio SPACE joined by master flautist Robert Dick.
Contemporaneous: Open Mic
Tuesday, March 4, 2025. 7:00 pm
Contemporaneous provides an opportunity for composers at all stages to submit their work to be performed in a free performance.
Mixology: Joy Guidry, Shamar Watt, Kwami Winfield
Saturday, March 1, 2025. 8:00 pm
A triple bill of Joy Guidry, Shamar Watt, Kwami Winfield.
Mixology: Ami Dang, bookworms, Madeline Stepien (fka pent)
Friday, February 28, 2025. 8:00 pm
A triple bill of Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang, nik Dawson (bookworms), and Madeline Stepien.
Mixology: Whitney Johnson – FIAT, featuring Greg Fox
Thursday, February 27, 2025. 7:00 pm
Two multi-instrumentalists perform in the midst of a multi-channel sine wave array.
Leo Chang with Efraín Rozas: Primitive Technologies
Thursday, February 20, 2025. 8:00 pm
Korean experimental improviser/composer with Peruvian robotics-maker Efraín Rozas using custom-built electronic instruments.
JOHN ZORN & LAURIE ANDERSON DUO
Saturday, February 15, 2025. 8:00 pm
Friends and colleagues who met in the Downtown performance art scene of late 1970s NYC play an intimate night of adventurous music.
Impuls Respons
Tuesday, February 11, 2025. 8:00 pm
New York based avant garde musicians perform scores by prominent contemporary classical composers in Denmark.
Bill Frisell: In My Dreams (Night 2)
Saturday, February 8, 2025. 8:00 pm
Guitar icon dreams up a new group with Rudy Royston, Thomas Morgan, Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang, and Hank Roberts.