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.

Matthew Shipp Trio

Thursday, January 22, 2004. 8:00 pm
Matthew Shipp Trio, part of the Roulette Concert Series held at the Thalia Theater in Manhattan. (The Trio was announced as Shipp on piano, […]

Charles Burnham

Sunday, November 23, 2003. 9:30 pm
The passion and fire of Charles Burnham’s violin has graced the work of many: Cassandra Wilson, James “Blood” Ulmer, Steven […]

Mark Dresser & Susie Ibarra

Sunday, November 23, 2003. 8:30 pm
Mark Dresser and Susie Ibarra present duo project Tone Time. The contrabassist and percussionist are two powerful composer/performers who have […]

Rinde Eckert: Excerpts from Horizon

Saturday, November 22, 2003. 8:30 pm
The composer/writer/actor/director and multi-instrumentalist… plays and sings excerpts from Horizon. Baritone horn, processed slide […]

Jane Rigler

Saturday, November 22, 2003. 8:30 pm
A site-specific work where the performers “play” the live environment. With Rigler, flute, voice, electronics; Jody Elff, […]

David Garland

Friday, November 21, 2003. 8:30 pm
“Crazily imaginative songs from On the Other Side of the Window with The Four Bags (Mike McGinnis, clarinet, sax; Tom Aldrich, accordion; […]

Judy Dunaway & David First

Friday, November 21, 2003. 8:30 pm
Judy Dunaway and David First perform as a duo, exploring the irregular overtone series produced by latex ballons, tones derived from the […]

Robert Black

Thursday, November 20, 2003. 8:30 pm
“A monumental, minimalist manifesto experience of extreme music with continuous, slowly moving, ever changing, hypnotic double bass and […]

Briggan Krauss & Skúli Sverrisson

Saturday, November 15, 2003. 8:30 pm
“Desiccant incorporates live live electronics, live instruments, computer instruments, musique concrete, dynamic and kinetic sound […]

Edward Ratliff + Five Agents

Saturday, November 15, 2003. 8:30 pm
“Groovy new chamber music: tunes, tango-like objects, and an imaginary encounter between Julio Cortazar and Marcello Mastroianni, with […]