Roulette TV captures the creative process of live performance, giving viewers a unique window into Roulette’s distinctive programming through in-depth artist-driven features including studio visits, performance footage, and interviews.
Launched in 1999, Roulette TV has produced over 112 episodes – broadcast weekly on Manhattan and Brooklyn cable networks and distributed through Roulette’s website, and Vimeo channel. The Roulette TV archive includes many avant-garde luminaries from Roulette’s rich history, such as Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Cooper, Robert Ashley, Sun Ra, David Behrman. It also features many emerging artists as they grow their career and audience, including Ben Greenberg, Mary Halvorson, Darius Jones, Tyshawn Sorey, Cassie Tunick, Lesley Flanigan, and C. Spencer Yeh.
Much of the work presented at Roulette is visually absorbing. The on-site audience has the opportunity to see how the sounds are made, how the movement is constructed, how the different forms of media interact. Roulette TV offers this experience to a worldwide audience – interviews with the artists add a new dimension to the audience’s appreciation of the artists’ enterprise and achievement.
Roulette TV also airs on Brooklyn Free Speech the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm. Find your channel and tune in: Spectrum (formerly Time Warner): 79 & 1998 Optimum (formerly Cablevision): 68 Verizon FiOS: 43, RCN8
Roulette TV is also on the cable channel and digital platform NYXT.nyc—a branch of MNN. Watch NYXT in Manhattan on Spectrum 1992 and Fios 38, and in Brooklyn on Spectrum 1997, Fios 45, and RCN 85. You can also watch the 24/7 livestream or stream from their on-demand video library.
Roulette TV Broadcast
Join us tonight for a special Roulette TV broadcast! Beginning at 8pm ET we’ll revisit harpist Zeena Parkins and video artist Janene Higgins collaborative performance from 2000 followed a newly released episode documenting saxophonist Aaron Burnett and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey‘s March 2020 live performance. Watch tonight and see Parkins’s live performance this December.
As part of our Roulette at Home digital initiative, Dispatches is set of brief communications or small collections of new work from artists, sent directly to our community—a way to remain connected and engaged in a time marked by distance and isolation.
