DANIEL CARTER, MATT MIKAS & NRA at ROULETTE

ROULETTE
http://www.roulette.org/
at Location One 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10
ROULETTE AND LOCATION ONE MEMBERS FREE
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Monday, November 7th
DANIEL CARTER and MATT MIKAS
Performing/recording/street musician Daniel Carter and sound artist/sonic anthropologist Matt Mikas create improvised dialogues using saxophone, flute, sampler, specially pressed records and turntables. The result acknowledges sci-fi soundtracks, hip-hop minimalism, and ecstatic free-jazz. Carter began playing in New York in the early '70s, sporadically recording with artists such as Gunter Hampel and Bob Moses. He joined Other Dimensions in Music and also played with punk rock groups throughout the 80s. He has recorded extensively with Test. Test, featuring multireedist Sabir Mateen, bassist Matthew Heyner, and drummer Tom Bruno. Carter also has collaborated with non-jazz acts like avant-rock songwriter David Grubbs and electronic musicians Spring Heel Jack and DJ Logic. Since 1999, Carter has kept himself busy with projects on the Aum Fidelity and Thirsty Ear labels. Mikas has a long history of involvement in microradio, nightclub entertainment, and museum exhibition. He uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer and electronics and low-power FM transmitters as artist and activist. He is also a co-founder of and the operations manager for free103point9, a New York based non-profit arts organization focusing on the creative usage of transmission mediums. Minkas has performed his work at The Kitchen, P.S. 122, Anthology Film Archives and the 2004 Gwang-Ju Biennial in South Korea.

N.R.A.
Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion (Japan,) Vic Rawlings, open-circuit electronics, amplified prepared cello (USA,) and Ricardo Arias, bass-balloon kit (Colombia.) N.R.A.’s performance practice is based on a kinetic-physical approach to their respective instruments. The players concoct their own distinctive instrument adaptations/inventions and playing techniques, each bringing markedly contrasting sonic materials to the ensemble. Their approach exploits the intersection of these disparate sounds within the confines of particular times and spaces. Nakatani is a recent recipient of the Bronx Art Council individual artist grant. Rawlings has recorded and toured extensively, collaborating with Sean Meehan, Eddie Prevost, and Donald Miller, among others. Arias’s residencies include Harvestworks, Engine 27 and the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. N.R.A. has released two recordings on H&H productions and Transmission Arts.