Wed Sep 19, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, October 19th: Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya: Video / Sound Collaboration

In this live set Niblock mixes between audio pieces based on diverse field recordings (which are very different from his music compositions.) Liberovskaya mixes video using Jitter/Max/MSP and drawing from a vast personal database of clips shot over the past fifteen years. Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video & media artist, working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. In 2003 she began exploring live video mixing in improvisation with live new music/sound. Since, she has performed live video mixing at a variety of venues in NY, Montreal and Europe with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, Vortex, Anthony Coleman and Al Margolis (aka If Bwana.) The program includes: A new piece for Organ (World Premier)e, Three Orchids for three orchestras (performed by Trio Scordatura plus one [Alfrun Schmid, voice; Elisabeth Smalt, viola; Bob Gilmore, synthesizer; plus Guy De Bievre, dobro]) and 4 Chorch +1 (2007).

Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who also runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in SoHo, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music guaranteed to mess with your head. The works are constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change their timbre and pitch characteristics. Niblock's big microtonal drones develop without melody or rhythm, according to an almost imperceptible, geographically slow notion of movement. His recent films are painstaking studies of manual labor, giving a poetic dignity to the sheer grueling slog of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and other backbreaking toilers. Beyond the stunning sounds and hypnotic images, Niblock deliberately designs systems wherein his materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations to which the audience can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.

Wed Sep 26, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, October 19th: Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya: Video / Sound Collaboration

In this live set Niblock mixes between audio pieces based on diverse field recordings (which are very different from his music compositions.) Liberovskaya mixes video using Jitter/Max/MSP and drawing from a vast personal database of clips shot over the past fifteen years. Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video & media artist, working predominantly in experimental video since the late eighties. In 2003 she began exploring live video mixing in improvisation with live new music/sound. Since, she has performed live video mixing at a variety of venues in NY, Montreal and Europe with a number of music/sound artists including: o.blaat, Toshio Kajiwara, Shelley Hirsch, Vortex, Anthony Coleman and Al Margolis (aka If Bwana.) The program includes: A new piece for Organ (World Premier)e, Three Orchids for three orchestras (performed by Trio Scordatura plus one [Alfrun Schmid, voice; Elisabeth Smalt, viola; Bob Gilmore, synthesizer; plus Guy De Bievre, dobro]) and 4 Chorch +1 (2007).

Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who also runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in SoHo, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music guaranteed to mess with your head. The works are constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change their timbre and pitch characteristics. Niblock's big microtonal drones develop without melody or rhythm, according to an almost imperceptible, geographically slow notion of movement. His recent films are painstaking studies of manual labor, giving a poetic dignity to the sheer grueling slog of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and other backbreaking toilers. Beyond the stunning sounds and hypnotic images, Niblock deliberately designs systems wherein his materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations to which the audience can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.

Thu Oct 18, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Thursday, October 18th - Saturday, October 20th
Phill Niblock

Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock, who also runs the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in SoHo, writes noble, hypnotic, majestic music guaranteed to mess with your head. The works are constituted of sustained sounds for large instrumental ensembles of the same family (all strings, all flutes, all trombones, etc.) that very gradually change their timbre and pitch characteristics. Niblock's big microtonal drones develop without melody or rhythm, according to an almost imperceptible, geographically slow notion of movement. His recent films are painstaking studies of manual labor, giving a poetic dignity to the sheer grueling slog of fishermen at work, rice-planters, log-splitters, water-hole dredgers and other backbreaking toilers. Beyond the stunning sounds and hypnotic images, Niblock deliberately designs systems wherein his materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations to which the audience can’t help but superimpose its own meanings and forms.

Thursday, October 18th
Program includes: Guitar too, for four: Version Three (Rafael Toral, Robert Poss, Susan Stenger, David First on guitars played with E-bows) and Stosspeng (2007) for two guitars in stereo (Susan Stenger and Robert Poss on electric guitars and electric basses).

Sat Oct 27, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Saturday, October 27th
Childrens Concert: Joseph C. Phillips & Numinous

Joe Phillips and his music have been praised or performed by such notable artists as Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, Mike Abene, and Manny Albam. By arranger/performers Rufus Reid, Kate McGarry, John Hollenbeck, Tom Varner, John McNeil, John Abercrombie, Howard Johnson, Christian Howes, Steve Bernstein, Chris Vadala, Grady Tate, Bob Curnow, John Ruocco, and jazz writers Dan Morgenstern and Burt Korall, Wouter Turkenburg of the Royal Conservatory, Jan van Kranenburg of the Jazz Center, choreographer JoLea Maffei and many other musicians and listeners.
His music has been performed in New York City at the Merkin Concert Hall, the Renee Weiler Concert Hall at the Greenwich House Music, the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, the John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Auditorium, the Cutting Room, Triad, the Pink Pony Cafe, and the Brooklyn Spring Jazz and Pop Festival. In addition his music has been performed at the 2003 Steve Reich Festival at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) convention in New York City, the Monterey Jazz Festival in California, Jazz Alley, Tula’s, and Patty Summers in Seattle and by ensembles at St. Olaf College, Eastman School of Music, and University of Wisconsin-Eau-Claire.
Joe founded and has conducted Numinous since the fall of 2000. In September 2003 Numinous released its’ first CD-The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (Numen Records) to critical and popular praise. A unique ensemble of some of New York City’s finest jazz and classical musicians, Numinous has performed Joe's music throughout New York City in various music venues and clubs and has been featured on numerous radio programs around the country, including WNYC’s New Sounds. Joe and Numinous are also featured in Gary Evans’ book Music Inspired by Art: A Guide to Recordings (Scarecrow Press; 2nd edition).
Joe was a composer and performer with Seattle’s Young Composer’s Collective and the prestigious BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop in New York City, where he was a BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Composition Award Finalist. He has also been a music archivist for the manuscripts of composers Gil Evans and Manny Albam and a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory (Koninklijk Conservatorium) in The Hague, Netherlands and at the St. Olaf College of Music in Northfield, Minnesota. Presently he is the founder and artistic director of the New York City composer’s federation, Pulse.

Fri Oct 26, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007

For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, October 26th
Department of Hearts: The Violin Music of Stuart Saunders Smith

The Department of Hearts (Airi Yoshioka and Sylvia Smith) performs a retrospective concert of the violin music of Stuart Saunders Smith, a composer associated with rhythmically complex, finely wrought music. Our program features Hearts, a seven-movement work for unaccompanied violin, commissioned by Airi Yoshioka. Each movement creates a poetic expression of the ambivalent, deep regions of the heart. Hearts combines subtle theatrical elements with a hyper-expressive use of the violin and voice.
Violinist Airi Yoshioka has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed annually in Juilliard’s FOCUS! Festival and is currently a member of Continuum, ModernWorks!, Son Sonora, and Azure Ensemble. A graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, she is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Dr. Yoshioka has been actively commissioning new works for solo violin. Hearts, a highly virtuosic solo in seven movements by Stuart Saunders Smith, was written for her. In recent years she has been interested in exploring the different ways in which violin can be combined with other mediums and sounds while retaining the independent quality of the instrument. “The Violin Music of Stuart Saunders Smith” is a program that pursues this idea through the interactions of violin and voice and violin with percussion.
Sylvia Smith is the founder, owner and editor of Smith Publications/Sonic Art Editions, publishers of serious American art music. She is extremely rigorous in her selection of music and therefore her publishing house is looked to as a leading source of new American music. The recipient of six Paul Revere Awards for graphic excellence, her publications are thought of as particularly handsome editions. Her scholarship includes publishing several articles on music notation, and curating many concerts of John Cage’s music.
As a percussionist, Sylvia Smith is active as a new music specialist, performing at Merkin Hall in New York, and with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has received repeated invitations to appear at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. She tours North America with the Sylvia Smith Percussion Duo, specializing in percussion with spoken text and percussion theater. Her performances are recorded on oodiscs and 11 West Records. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Smith was awarded the American Music Center Letter of Distinction in 1988.
Stuart Saunders Smith (born 1948 in Portland, Maine, USA) is a confessional composer who focuses on revealing in his music the most personal aspects of his life, in the belief that the revelations of the particular speak to the universal.
Stuart Saunders Smith’s music is performed regularly on an international basis. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Pittsburgh Film Forum, as well as the Hartt College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Percussive Arts Society Citation for Distinguished Editorship.
Stuart Saunders Smith’s music is recorded on 11 West Records, Centaur Records, oodiscs, Cadenza, BV Haast, and GAC Sweden. He has authored two books: Twentieth Century Scores, Prentice-Hall; Words and Spaces, University Press of America; as well as many articles published in Perspectives of New Music, Percussionist, IS Journal, Percussive Notes, Ear Magazine, etc.

Stuart Saunders Smith has been on the faculty of the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Darmstadt Musikinstitut (Germany), and Percussion Workshop Poland. Residencies include University of California -San Diego, Yale University, Documenta 1992 (Kassel, Germany), and the University of Gothenberg (Sweden).