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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2008 — Thomas Buckner

For this season’s recital, baritone Thomas Buckner has gathered several generations of “new music” composers and performers in a program that runs the gamut of human experience — from exploring the inner states of personal growth (Mel Graves) and creative process (Dan Joseph) to visceral encounters with the natural world (Jon Gibson) and the world we create for ourselves (Leroy Jenkins). Stuart Saunders Smith’s piece ties the program together with poignant texts about life in America by Kerouac and Whitman. The sounds used to evoke these experiences are as varied as the experiences themselves.

Featuring: Jon Gibson, wooden flutes; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Dan Joseph, hammer dulcimer; Joseph Kubera, piano; Ted Mook, cello; Chris Nappi, percussion; Stefani Starin, flute

THURSDAY MARCH 13, 2008 — Al Margolis / Denman Maroney

Al Margolis
“New works for vocals and prerecorded sounds; trombone and prerecorded sounds; flute, electronics and tape; and electronics, flute, trombone, vocals, and prerecorded sounds. I continue to use sound palettes as the basic structure of my works; the instrumentalists then create their parts over these sound palettes. Other prerecorded and sampled sounds are then added to the live mix; the result is multi-layered works that are never twice the same.” — Al Margolis

Featuring: Al Margolis manipulating prerecorded sounds and sampling; Lisa Barnard, vocals; Monique Buzzarté, trombone; Tom Hamilton, electronics; Jacqueline Martelle, flute; and Katherine Liberovskaya, video.

Denman Maroney
Denman Maroney will give a solo piano concert of improvisations in his trademark “hyperpiano” style: playing the keys with one hand and the strings with the other, using bows and slides of metal, plastic and rubber. He also employs a system of temporal harmony based on the undertone series to compose and improvise in several tempos at once. His music is inspired by natural sounds and the music of Cage, Coleman, Cowell, Ellington, Ives, Joplin, Messiaen, Monk, Nancarrow and Stockhausen, among others.

“Pianists have been tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman Maroney.” TimeOut NY, Aug. 2006.

THURSDAY APRIL 3, 2008 — Oliver Lake Big Band / Joe Giardullo

Oliver Lake Big Band
Lake and his compatriots will perform Lake’s “new and newer compositions.” "It's all about choices," states modern Renaissance Man Oliver Lake to explain his expansive artistic vision. An accomplished poet, painter and performance artist, Lake has published a book of poetry entitled Life Dance, has exhibited and sold a number of his unique painted-sticks at the Montclair Art Museum, and has toured the country with his one-man performance piece, Matador of 1st and 1st. But it's his extraordinary talents as composer, saxophonist, flautist and bandleader that have brought him world-renown. Although his greatest reputation exists in the world of jazz, Lake's amazingly eclectic musical approach is best expressed by his popular poem SEPARATION: “put all my food on the same plate!”

“The modern big-band sound funnels directly back to the Count Basie band from the 1950's, with its pinpoint blending of reeds and brass and dynamic drumming. Not Mr. Lake's. He mixes blues and gospel, funk and free; but his free jazz is never maundering. He likes players with a sense of humor and style; his pieces explode with bursts of chaotic energy but don't lose direction.” — Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Featuring: Oliver Lake, alto sax; Erica Lindsay, tenor sax; Jason Marshall, bari sax; Bruce Williams, alto sax; Peck Allmond, Nabate Ilses trumpet; Al Paterson, Aaron Johnson, trombone; Yoichi Uzeki, piano; Bob Sabin, bass; others TBA.

Joe Giardullo
Giardullo’s G2 ensemble performs TRIANGLE / CIRCLE / SQUARE: New G2 Compositions in Open Music. G2 is the result of “years of investigations” into George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Theory of Tonal Organization, creating an ensemble that explores large group dynamics and creativity via diverse instrumentation and improvisation. G2’s music is made of “independent ideas that, collectively, let emergent ensemble properties reveal themselves.

“Giardullo is willing into existence a music that occurs beyond his control. Giardullo is finding a way for musicians to be themselves while serving a larger cause.” — John Szwed, Signal To Noise

Featuring: Chris Chalfant, piano; Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Jennifer Choi, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Alex Waterman, cello; Harvey Sorgen, percussion; Joe Giardullo, soprano & sopranino saxophones

THURSDAY APRIL 24, 2008 — Christian Wolff Sextet
Curated by Dan Joseph

"Melody and Counterpoint"
Esteemed American composer Christian Wolff will lead this exceptional group of experimental musicians in a program which re-examines the fundamental aspects of melody and counterpoint in music. The program will include a complete performance of Wolff's recent Micro Exercises, and the World Premiere performance of a new work by Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey.

Featuring: Christian Wolff, Fender Rhodes electric piano, melodica; Jürg Frey, clarinet; Larry Polansky, electric guitar; Craig Shepard, trombone; Jeremy Lamb, cello; others TBA.

THURSDAY MAY 15, 2008 — Juho Laitinen / Tania León

Juho Laitinen
A rising star on the new music scene, Finnish cellist Juho Laitinen returns to New York with a program featuring his fellow Finns and a brand-new work from New York composer Michael Rose.

Jean Sibelius: Theme and variations in d minor for solo cello (1887)
Jukka Tiensuu: oddjob for cello and electronics (1995)
Michael Rose: Year Zero for solo cello (2008) World Premiere
Kaija Saariaho: Prés for cello and electronics (1994)

Tania León
The celebrated composer and conductor Tania León presents an evening of recent chamber works: an unusual foray into an electronics + live musician combination and two song cycles with texts by Margaret Atwood and Derek Walcott.

“Cultural clash is at the core of her music, though in a dynamic sense, as in a good fight, a feisty confrontation.” — Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

Abanico, for violin and interactive computer
Atwood Songs, for soprano and piano
Love After Love, for soprano and marimba

Featuring: Airi Yoshioka, violin; Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Adam Kent, piano; Diana Herold, marimba

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ROULETTE
20 Greene Street between Canal and Grand
2 blocks west of Broadway
$15 general admission
$10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members
Roulette and Location One members free
Reservations: 212-219-8242 / Information: 212-627-0990
All concerts begin at 8pmOctober 4, 2007

Programs subject to change.

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