Roulette TV

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.

All 150+ episodes of Roulette TV are now organized and available here. This vibrant archive traces 20 years of the avant-grade in New York and beyond, offering live performance footage and in-depth interviews with artists to an expanded audience. Each episode provides a window into an artist’s experience and practice while the series as a whole beautifully illustrates Roulette’s rich history and place in New York’s music and performance canon. Enjoy this unique view into all that Roulette has offered over the years and stay tuned for new episodes released monthly.

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Recent RTV Studio Visit/ Dispatches

Released June 21, 2022
RTV: Studio Visit – Max Johnson
Composer/bassist Max Johnson recently invited us to his studio to give us a preview of the second of his two concerts in residence (with […]
Released June 2, 2022
RTV: Studio Visit – Isabel Crespo Pardo
Isabel Crespo Pardo discusses desbordandome (the overflowing self), a new set of open form pieces written for their trio.
Released May 19, 2022
RTV: Studio Visit – Cassie Wieland
Composer, musician, and 2022 Roulette Resident Artist Cassie Wieland invited RTV to her apartment/studio to discuss her work.
Released May 5, 2022
RTV: Studio Visit – Alfredo Colón
Roulette 2022 Van Lier Fellow Alfredo Colón invited us to his studio to discuss the origins of his Echando Los Santos.
Released April 20, 2021
RTV: Studio Visit – A Concert Without Public with Ned Rothenberg, Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici
Ned Rothenberg, Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici chat with Roulette about their April 24th 2021 performance—Concert Without Public.
Released February 23, 2021
RTV: Dispatch – Lesley Flanigan
Experimental electronic musician Lesley Flanigan chats about her upcoming streamed performance at Roulette—a solo set for voice and […]
Released February 9, 2021
RTV: Dispatch – Doron Sadja
Sound and light artist Doron Sadja chats with us about his postponed project at Roulette—a multichannel sound work that explores the […]
Released January 25, 2021
RTV: Dispatch – Crystal Penalosa
Resident artist Crystal Penalosa discusses her upcoming performance and the importance of breath.
Released January 12, 2021
RTV: Dispatch – Matt Mottel
Artist Matt Mottel discusses his latest project opening Roulette’s Winter 2021 season on January 15.
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RTV Studio Visit/ Dispatches

About RTV

Roulette TV is a collection of video programs that capture 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.

Launching in 1999, Roulette TV has worked with countless artists and produced over 160 episodes–broadcast weekly on Manhattan and Brooklyn cable networks and distributed through Roulette’s website, Vimeo, and YouTube channels. The Roulette TV archive includes many avant-garde luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Cooper, Robert Ashley, Sun Ra, David Behrman, as well many early-career artists as they establish a practice.

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 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