ROULETTE NYC SPRING 2011
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets).
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
$15: General Admission
$10: Students, Under 30s & Seniors
FREE: Roulette Members
INTERPRETATIONS:
Joseph Kubera with Marilyn Nonken
Thu Mar 17 – 8:00 PM
Hailed by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as one of “new music’s most valued performers,” Joseph Kubera is joined by pianist Marilyn Nonken, one of the most celebrated champions of the modern repertoire of her generation. Together they will premiere Larry Polansky’s epic work “Three Pieces for Two Pianos”. Kubera will premiere Michael Byron’s “Book of Horizons”, and the duo will also play “Exercise 20 (Acres of Clams)” by Christian Wolff.
Nautical Almanacthe Dreebs
Fri Mar 18 – 8:00 PM
Nautical Almanac emerged from a Midwestern scene of noise outfits that transformed junk into homemade instruments by Carly Ptak & Twig Harper. They have reconfigured in many ways throughout the years always with an intention of creating altered states of consciousness. Within the last three years Ptak has centered her focus on lighting and she now uses her skills as a hynotherapist to create an intense environment of changing dimensions, colors, and emotions. Harper retains the role of the chief sonic alchemist deriving non-linear feedback systems from custom devices built with paragnosis designs. Ptak and Harper live in Baltimore, where they founded Tarantula Hill, a home, lending library, performance space, and recording studio, which is also the headquarters of their label Heresee.
The Dreebs are an experimental rock trio from Brooklyn, featuring Jordan Bernstein – Prepared
Guitar, Adam Markiewicz – Electric Violin, Voice, and Max Jaffe – Drums.
Lesley Flanigan with James Moore
Till by Turning with Brock Monroe
Sat Mar 19 – 8:30 PM
Lesley Flanigan is a New York-based sound sculptor, composer, vocalist, and performer. Inspired by the physical materiality of sound, she focuses on amplification itself as the subject of her performances, which weave sound from her voice with hand-built feedback electronics. Tonight she is joined by guitarist James Moore of Dither.
Till by Turning is the collective effort of Amy Cimini, Erica Dicker, Emily Manzo, and Katherine Young. Working as performers, educators, improvisers, scholars, composers, and songwriters — Till by Turning performs new chamber music by established and emerging artists. Tonight at Roulette, Till by Turning debuts a new quartet for violin, viola,
bassoon, and piano by composer Matt Marble – a structured improvisation for the musicians and Brock Monroe’s visual projections. The program will also include a duo version of Białystok for strings by Erica Dicker and selections from Katherine Young’s multi-movement meditation on Quartet for the End of Time, which explores Messiaen’s musical materials and time-suspending techniques, while grafting material and mundane apocalyptic suggestions onto and across his religious consciousness.
CHILDRENS CONCERT with Adam Lane
Sat Mar 19 – 2:00 PM – $5
Multi-instrumentalist Adam Lane performs with his voice, guitar, double bass, ukulele, tambourine, piano, or the
traditional Appalachian dancing limberjack. For this performance at Roulette, Adam (who has been the music teacher and choral director at P.S. 321 for the past seven years) will be singing, and leading sing-a-longs, but will also be performing a collection of circle game songs from the Caribbean and the Georgia Sea Islands. With help from a few P.S. 321 chorus members, kids in the audience will be able to participate in these traditional games performed and played by children in Trinidad, Jamaica, and the southern U.S. as recreation, but also as way to, in the most fun andexciting way, to learn and develop good (and funky) rhythm and singing skills.
Music for Merce CD Release Event
(TWO CONCERTS)
Sun Mar 20 – 5:00 PM
Sun Mar 20 – 8:30 PM
$25 Admission, $15 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
$40 Pass for both events, $25 Students / Seniors / Under 30s
“Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) has been a decisive force in the creation, dissemination, and survival of contemporary music since the mid-1940s,” Amy C. Beal
