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.
Nautical Almanac / The Dreebs
Friday, March 18, 2011. 8:00 pm
Nautical Almanac is an experimental expirement that was founded in Michigan in 1994 by Carly Ptak and Twig Harper. They emerged from a […]
INTERPRETATIONS: Joseph Kubera with Marilyn Nonken
Thursday, March 17, 2011. 8:00 pm
Hailed by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as one of “new music’s most valued performers,” Joseph Kubera is joined by pianist […]
Adam Rudolphs Moving Pictures
Wednesday, March 16, 2011. 8:30 pm
Grounded in the American improvisational tradition, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet embraces musical forms and instrumentation of […]
Raz Mesinai – music for instruments and live processing
Tuesday, March 15, 2011. 8:30 pm
Composer, producer and sound alchemist Raz Mesinai makes music at the intersection of Dub and modern composition. As a solo artist and with his […]
Nate Wooley, Paul Lytton, C. Spencer Yeh & Okkyung Lee / Phat Chance / Jim Pugliese & Christine Bard
Saturday, March 12, 2011. 7:30 pm
The New York premiere of a brand new quartet feature a cross-generational and cross-genre meeting of improvisors. Paul Lytton has spent the last […]
Sarah Lipstate & Lee Ranaldo / Seven Teares / Kyle Bobby Dunn
Friday, March 11, 2011. 8:00 pm
Sarah Lipstate is a Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker. She currently records and performs under the name Noveller. Handling the electric […]
INTERPRETATIONS: Thomas Buckner performs Peter Garland, Michael Byron, Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik, Fred Ho
Thursday, March 10, 2011. 8:00 pm
Baritone Thomas Buckner performs works by Peter Garland and Petr Kotik for voice and percussion, featuring percussionist William Winant and […]
Ches Smith and These Arches
Wednesday, March 9, 2011. 8:30 pm
“A smartly unruly drummer active in devious art-rock and outsider jazz, Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3) works often enough in other […]
Susie Ibarra Quartet : Mysteries of Nature
Friday, February 25, 2011. 8:30 pm
Jennifer Choi-violin, Kathleen Supove- piano, Bridget Kibbey-harp, Susie Ibarra-drumset & percussion “Ibarra is one of the all too few […]
INTERPRETATIONS: Sylvia Smith / Pauline Oliveros
Thursday, February 24, 2011. 8:00 pm
Dynamic and highly intimate visions of sonic meta-resonance. Percussionist Sylvia Smith and flutist Carrie Rose perform musical theatre works […]