Elliott Sharp werd geboren in 1951, in Cleveland in Ohio. Hij begon al vroeg met piano spelen en iets later als teenager ook klarinet en gitaar. Aan de Cornell University studeerde hij antropology. En daarna volgde nog verdere studies in ethnomusicologie, improvisatie en jazz . In 1977 ontving hij zijn M.A. van de Universiteit in [...]

Join us this Thursday for Roulette’s Grand Opening Celebration! Henry Threadgill’s Zooid Kaija Saariaho Margaret Leng Tan Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Duo Thu Sep 15 – 8:00 PM $100 Front Row $35 General Admission *No student, senior or member pricing PURCHASE TICKETS The first night of Roulette’s eclectic Grand Opening Celebration features performances by [...]

In January of 2011, Dominique Balaÿ of webSYNradio asked me to make a playlist from the incredible online sound archives of UBUWEB. What I have chosen does not work as a running radio show but is a recommendation of important sound documents that should be listened to in your own time. The artists have been [...]

Raz Mesinai – Music for Instruments and Live Processing Tues Mar 15 - 8:30 PM Composer, producer and sound alchemist Raz Mesinai makes music at the intersection of Dub and modern composition. As a solo artist and with his ensembles, he creates mythic performances evoking ancient rhythms with electronics, acoustic instruments and turntables. He’s been a [...]

Paul Lytton (b. 8 March 1947, London) is an English free jazz percussionist. Lytton began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began experimenting with free improvisational music, working in a duo with saxophonist Evan Parker. [...]

An extraordinarily gifted and diverse musical mind and recent MacArthur Fellow, John Zorn is probably the closest thing avant-garde music has had to a house hold name since John Cage. And despite his prolific output as a composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, opportunities to hear Zorn live in performance, especially in Philadelphia, are [...]

Histoires de rencontres imaginaires ou bien réelles Rencontres réelles et imaginaires sur webSYNradio qui font virevolter en figures, bagarres et autres banquets sonores Luc Ferrari et Cathy Berberian, Marilyn Monroe et Liza Minnelli, Nino Rota et Erik Satie, Sun Ra, Darius Milhaud et les Dadas, Alain Kan et Frank Royon, Pierre Schaeffer et Igor Stravinsky, [...]

“The work is settled between weird pop, avanttrash, improvised music, mediterranian folklore and noise drones. As the artists are coming from different social and musical backgrounds, the recording is not just a mix of sounds and names but a creation of unique and exciting experiences.” High quality live recording, made at Ausland, Berlin, March 27, [...]

Mia Zabelka, composer, violinist and vocalist from Vienna, lives in the Austrian region of southern Styria. Amongst Jon Rose and Malcolm Goldstein she has the international reputation of one of the most innovative freestyle Violin Players of the World. As a composer and performer of improvised, experimental and electro-acoustic music she has developed a unique [...]