9/13.06.09 at ROULETTE
| Angie Eng w/ Thierry Madiot: Rite Ways, Every Intentional Act is a Magical Act & Satoshi Takeishi (work in progress)
Tue Jun 9 – 8:30 PM Live video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with a new work in progress, Rite Ways-Every Intentional Act is a Magical Act with Thierry Madiot, master of breath and wind, inventor of instruments, trombonist who fuses improvised and contemporary music, and inovative drummer, percussionist – Satoshi Takeishi. Angie Eng (New York/Paris) is a video artist who has presented her live video projects in numerous venues:New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, Lincoln Center video Festival,…(more)
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 Joseph Hannan: Varieties of Canine Experience Wed Jun 10 – 8:30 PM On Wednesday, June 10, Roulette will present an evening of music by composer and pianist Joe Hannan. With assisting artists, Hannan will perform four compositions. The evening takes its title from Hannan’s Dog’s Life: Varieties of Canine Experience, a set of seven songs based on poems by or about dogs. Hannan writes, “I was amazed to learn how many poets, both classical and contemporary, had written poems in the voices of their dogs—Pope, Elizabeth…(more)
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| Urs Leimgruber Meets Peter Evans & Okkyung Lee
Thu Jun 11 – 8:30 PM “Urs Leimgruber’s mastery of the saxophone is so protean you could easily be fooled into thinking you are listening to a whole range of other instruments. He produces drum beats, the sound of guitars or the echoing resonnance of gongs at will. His playing seems almost de-instrumentalized, free of any implicit meaning and, despite its complexity, almost unexpectedly stark. Sound in its purest state. The ten pieces here sound like a manifesto set to music,…(more) |
 Yvonne Meier: Gogolorez+ Fri Jun 12 – 8:30 PM Gogolorez+, a collaboration between Choreographer Yvonne Meier with musicians Christian Jaeger and Dave Gisler and the dancers Gabi Glinz, Arturo Vidich, Aki Sasamoto and Christopher Williams. Yvonne Meier originally from Zurich, Switzerland, has been living, making dances and teaching in NYC, since 1979. Her 25 years dedication to improvisation has been strongly informed by Releasing Technique and Authentic movement culminating in the creation of her own “Score Technique”. In 1995 she has received a “Bessie Award”…(more)
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| Paula Matthusen
Sat Jun 13 – 8:30 PM Paula Matthusen is a composer, currently based in Miami and Brooklyn. She writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. In addition to writing for a variety of different ensembles, she also collaborates with choreographers and theater companies. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as run-on sentence of the pavement for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker noted as being “entrancing”. Her work often considers discrepancies…(more)
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