ROULETTE 26.10 / 1.11 . 09

Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra
Mon Oct 12, 19, 26 – 8:30 PM
Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series for Go: Organic Orchestra. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

Pamela Z
Tue Oct 27 – 8:30 PM
Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. She has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She’s created installation works and has composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.

Samuel Vriezen: The Chord Catalogue & Within Fourths / Within Fifths
Wed Oct 28 – 8:30 PM
Pianist/composer Samuel Vriezen gives his unique rendition at breakneck speed of Tom Johnson’s conceptual cult classic, The Chord Catalogue, together with a large-scale lyrical constructivist piece of his own, Within Fourths/Within Fifths.  Dutch composer SAMUEL VRIEZEN (1973) studied mathematics before studying composition the Royal Conservatory at The Hague. In recent years, besides being active as a composer of experimental chamber music, Vriezen has regularly performed as a pianist and published poetry and essays in Dutch on a wide range of musical and literary subjects.  The Chord Catalogue consists of all 8178 chords you can play using the 13 tones of one full octave, from the 78 2-note chords up to the one 13-tone cluster. In Vriezen’s hands the piece becomes an exciting and lively rhythmical exploration of harmonic color. Within Fourths/Within Fifths, dedicated to Johnson, uses very similar techniques to arrive at a completely different result: a long, subtly melodic meditation on rich and relaxed chord progressions.

Shayna Dulberger
Thu Oct 29 – 8:30 PM
New York Bassist, Shayna Dulberger hits the stage with her own compositions and with a new ensemble. The evening will be a creative approach to jazz and improvisation. Expect swinging atonal melodies, spontaneous group improvisations and underlying grooves that occasionally surface. Dulberger’s writing consists of graphic scores with short traditionally written phrases. The mix often gives a jumping board effect into free-form chaos. Don’t expect a complete free jazz freak out for sixty minutes but five to ten minute pieces including a ballad and short interludes. There will be freaking out and there will be mellowing out. At certain times the music will be spacious, other times dense. This will be a premire of Dulberger’s work since her debut album “TheKillMeTrio”.  Time Out New York wrote: “Led by bassist Shayna Dulberger, the Kill Me Trio is one of the stronger avant-jazz groups we’ve heard in some time. Dulberger, saxist Darius Jones and drummer Jason Nazary really let their music breathe—it’s tension-filled but always agile and never anxious, reminding us of classic units such as Henry Threadgill’s Air.”

JAY CLAYTON/JERRY GRANELLI duo “Sound Songs”
Sun Nov 1 – 8:30 PM
Jay Clayton (voice) and Jerry Granelli (drums) are two seasoned, jazz-based players who compose as they go and produce sparkling music of concise, classic proportions, enriched by a contemporary apprehension of Third World and classical innovations. Each musician here has a supreme command of timbre and an ability to get inside the sound of the other. Listening to them explore, expand and contract a musical idea, it’s easy to forget that you’re listening to just a singer and a drummer.

ROULETTE
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
http://www.roulette.org/

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