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


Friday, September 28th
BENEFIT for ROULETTE: Improv Night: Shelley Hirsch, Ikue Mori, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier and many more!
All tickets $20

A night to benefit Roulette, filled with intense, free-wheeling and unpredictable improvisations by…

Shelley Hirsch has been called “enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic…a brilliant overwhelming presence on stage” by the New York Times. She is a vocalist, composer and performance artist whose work for stage, concert, record, film, television and radio incorporates extended vocal techniques, real and imaginary language, international music styles, stream of consciousness, electronics, characterizations, movement and mixed media. Her work has been presented on 5 continents and at music venues throughout the U.S. Hirsch is the recipient of three NYFA awards in music composition and new forms, an NEA New Forms Interarts grant and of commissions from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (music for theater), NYSCA (electronic music) and New Radio and Performing Arts.

Nate Wooley is one of a handful of trumpet players redefining the instrument's role and technique, pushing the trumpet inside out, concentrating more on frequency, density, silence, and velocity than melody, rhythm, and harmony. Touching Extremes called his first solo disc, "Wrong Shape to be a Storyteller" (Creative Sources) "exquisitely hostile". His acoustic trumpet playing references desiccated breathing, tape and electronic composition and harsh noise, while still maintaining a rigorous sense of composition. His second full-length solo disc, "Beast," was released in 2006. Since his arrival in New York in 2001, Wooley has made a name for himself as a leader (Blue Collar with Steve Swell & Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nate Wooley Quartet and Trio) and as a sideman (with Daniel Levin, Mike Pride, Harris Eisenstadt, Assif Tsahar). In the past three years, his ability to fit a unique personality into many differing musical idioms has earned him spots on stage and in the studio with artists such as Paul Lytton, Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, David Grubbs, Wolf Eyes and Tony Malaby.

Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris (guitars) and Samir Chatterjee (tabla). Recent recordings include Intervals, a double CD of solo work, and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg's Animul label. Chamber music releases include Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World, along with Port of Entry, Sync's release on Intuition. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi. Rothenberg generates a remarkable variety of new timbres through unique playing techniques including circular breathing allowing for extremely long melodic patterns, multiphonic chords, precise overtone control, elaborate rhythmic tonguing attacks, control of overlapping beat frequencies, combinations of the previous, and much more. His music evokes an emotional spectrum from humor to pathos, a feeling of rhapsodic melancholy to simple awe at encountering a sound never before experienced.
Composer/pianist Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started playing piano at age six. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef, among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording, ''Ocre", on Enja Records, led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released six CDs as a leader, ten CDs as a co-leader, and more than twenty recordings as a side-person or as a guest. Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side-person in the USA, Canada and Europe. She currently leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra, the Herb Robertson Quintet with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser and John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in duos with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes createurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Creation. More info at: http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/

Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70s. During this time, she developed her unique method of performing improvisations with drum machines that eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer. She has since collaborated with many avant-garde performers including Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Mark Tomkin's Dance Company, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith and John Zorn. She is a recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Award of Distinction. She has worked with Dave Douglas's “Witness Freakin" ensemble and John Zorn's Electric Masada. Current working groups include Mephista, with Sylvie Courvoisier
and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, a duo project with Zeena Parkins, a trio with Haco and Aki Onda, and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.