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.
Friday, March 2, 2018. 8:00 pm
Nels Cline, Zeena Parkins, Jen Shyu, and others perform Rhapsody, an acoustic song cycle exploring the experience of travel.
Thursday, March 1, 2018. 8:00 pm
Miami-based sound art collective Frozen Music; plus composer and experimenter Ben Manley.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018. 8:00 pm
Bearthoven teams up with Shelley Washington, Kristina Wolfe, Adam Roberts, Scott Wollschleger to perform new works for modern anxieties.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018. 8:00 pm
Yajna is a solo vocal ritual, a sacrifice to the metaphoric sacred fire to purge the dark energies of this era.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018. 8:00 pm
A new sung-spoken opera based on Alan Lomax's folk song science in the leadup to the information age performed by BOTCH Ensemble.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018. 8:00 pm
A new sung-spoken opera based on Alan Lomax's folk song science in the leadup to the information age. Performed by BOTCH Ensemble.
Sunday, February 18, 2018. 4:00 pm
World premiere of “The Goddess," a 1934 Chinese silent film with a live score by Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi.
Friday, February 16, 2018. 8:00 pm
Two groups that collectively build visual and sonic textures into fantastical journeys, from Bushwick to Tokyo.
Thursday, February 15, 2018. 8:00 pm
Psychedelic, dark ambient, and virtuoso mindfulness from groups using microcosmic polyrhythms, transmission, and deep tech.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018. 8:00 pm
Artists weaving the sacred and the profane into an electronic / human spectrum of artifacts, voices, cultures, and tradition.