DORON SADJA / ZELJKO MCMULLEN @ Roulette

Friday, May 30th
ZELJKO MCMULLEN / DORON SADJA
8:30 pm

Two solo sets by longtime collaborators (Symbol) and Shinkoyo / ParisLondonWestNile founders Zeljko McMullen and Doron Sadja. McMullen uses samples of acoustic instruments and improvisations to compose dense walls of electronic sound, which are diffused in immersive multi-channel environments. Composer/photographer Sadja presents a new piece for recomposed instruments, including the flombone, floptar, clarisax, tromcorder, multiple speakers, and a tangled mess of analog feedback.

Shinkoyo (www.shinkoyo.com) is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, artists, musicians, thinkers and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. Shinkoyo submits to no genres, but Ancient Futurism, Noise Age, True Age, and NeoConservative are terms to be discovered. Born in 2000 at the Oberlin Conservatory of music, Shinkoyo has spread its wings from California to New York, with its headquarters at the glamorous Paris London West Nile Performance/Gallery Space - Brooklyn's only NO-Profit, donations based center for experimental performance/art (www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/) that has played host to concerts/lectures/art shows including Tony Conrad, Aki Onda, Tujiko Noriko, Costes, Metalux, Jessica Rylan, members of No Neck Blues, Wolf Eyes, Sightings, Boredoms, and much more…

Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist birthed in Los Angeles and decomposing in New York by way of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, London, and Berlin. Co-founder of Shinkoyo music and art collective, he currently lives in Williamsburg where he runs ParisLondonWestNile, an experimental performance space and gallery. He has released solo and collaborative work on 12k, Shinkoyo, and Atak records and has performed throughout the United States, canada, UK, Spain, and Germany. Doron creates overwhelming dark psychological collages, both visually and sonically, through electronic and acoustic multidisciplinary feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangments, extreme frequencies, and dense splashes of color and texture. See www.doron.sadja.com for more.

Zeljko McMullen : Born in February of 1980 / raised in Massillon, Ohio - moved to Chicago and then Oberlin, attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Studied orchestral and electronic composition, sound art/installation. Helped form the Shinkoyo art + music collective. Currently resides in Brooklyn, NY - studying towards MFA at Bard College. Primarily deals with walls of sound as imaginary architecture and moveable spaces. Active experimenter with both binaural perceptive beating and binaural spatial recordings. Participates regularly in the music + art group Symbol. Co-curates and runs Paris London New York West Nile music venue and gallery. paints, photographs, and is currently shooting his first feature film, which entails collaborations with Severiano Martinez, Tony Conrad, Maryanne Amacher, Jay King, Doron Sadja, Carly Ptak, and many more.

Has received commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Roulette, Neumann/Sennheiser. Has performed and/or installed work in North America, Europe, and Asia. Has 7 solo and/or collaborative releases on Shinkoyo records. Has or does play music with Doron Sadja, Mario Diaz de Leon, MV Carbon, Justin Craun, Owen Cannon, Johnny Misheff, Lauren Luloff, Brooke Gillespie, Stefan Tcherepnin, and Lou Reed.
See www.shinkoyo.com/z for more.

SYMBOL (www.shinkoyo.com/symbol) is a collage of artists and musicians from NYC working together to create sublime and grotesque environments. Beginning as a duo of Doron Sadja and Zeljko McMullen in early 2005 - Symbol has expanded to include a revolving cast of participants including Mario Diaz de Leon, Johnny Misheff, Brooke Gillespie, Mv Carbon, Justin Craun; and visual artists Jay King, Severiano Martinez, Antoine Catala, and Lauren Luloff.

Symbol has toured the US three times, performs regularly in and around NYC, and is known as the "house band" for Paris London New York West Nile, the Brooklyn experimental arts venue run by McMullen and Sadja. Their first album, Land Space Water Faith (released by Shinkoyo in early 2008) expressed Symbol's diverse musical educations ranging from orchestral chamber composition to sound installations from Maryanne Amacher to guitar/feedback tricks learned from Lou Reed and lastly psychedelic listening sessions of large amounts of Enya and Deep Forest.

In all its incarnations, Symbol has collaborated / performed with:
Lou Reed, Tony Conrad, International Contemporary Ensemble, Sejayno, Stefan Tcherepnin, Motion, Fred Frith, iO Quartet, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Lauren Luloff, Fashe Mello, Uumans Ensemble,

and shared Bills with:
No Neck Blues Band, Coldplay, Arto Lindsay, Gang Gang Dance, Mogwai, Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Xiu Xiu, Boredoms, Aki Onda, Adam Beyer, Cari Lekebusch, Surgeon, Chris Liebing, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, David Toop, Scanner, Simone Forti, Taylor Deupree, Sawako, Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Tujiko Noriko, Aa, the Vegetable Orchestra


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