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.

Takehisa Kosugi

Monday, March 24, 1986. 9:00 pm
Violin Concert, melodies include tango Argentino, Chanson de Paris, simultaneously performed with electronic media.

Jim Staley, Elliot Sharp, and Wayne Horvitz

Sunday, March 23, 1986. 9:00 pm
Trombonist Staley has been contemplating the dynamics of threes. Mr. Sharp’s edgy guitars and processed bass clarinet go chasing spirals, […]

Tim Berne

Friday, March 21, 1986. 9:00 pm
New works for an ensemble of Berne’s alto sax; Marty Ehrlich, bass clarinet and flute; Hank Robert, cello; Lindsey Horner, acoustic bass; […]

Yves Musard

Thursday, March 20, 1986. 9:00 pm
Antipodes, a new dance in solo by the French born choreographer known for his bursts, jerks, flows, compression, drive, and bizarrely eccentric […]

Borah Bergman

Thursday, March 20, 1986. 9:00 pm
Upside Down Visions, by one of the most luxuriant of all pianists to wax and wane on the Roulette piano. We pass a hat to fund the inevitable […]

Zeena Parkins & Chris Cochrane

Wednesday, March 19, 1986. 9:00 pm
Two important downtown improvisers (both went on to join many influential groups, including Parkins’ tours and recordings with Bjork) perform […]

Jill Burton, Edward Rollin

Sunday, March 16, 1986. 9:00 pm
A vocalist of dexterity and imagination, Burton performs solos and her Music for Sleeping Vegetables, with percussionist Yuval Gabay and Kumiko […]

Gordon Monahan

Saturday, March 15, 1986. 9:00 pm
Piano Mechanics, from Toronto, the composer/performer makes an ordinary piano sound like airplanes, voices, insects, other musical instruments, […]

David Weinstein

Friday, March 14, 1986. 9:00 pm
Ma House Corporation is a multinational conglomerate that thinks it’s a pop song. Dance music for digitally sampled, MIDI-sequenced, […]

Jim McNeely

Thursday, March 13, 1986. 9:00 pm
Solo piano and synthesizer compositions by the jazz man with the big hands. To see full program, click on the attached image.