Thursday, November 29th
Sawako Kato Work Commissioned by Roulette w/ funds provided by Jerome Foundation
ishi ~ listening stone is a new work for stone, crystal radio, contact microphone and laptop by sound sculptor and timeline-based artist Sawako Kato. The work is based on Sawako's ongoing interest in soundscape and the invisible signals of the urban environment. In Japanese, "ishi" means "stone" as well as "will" and "intention." With her piece, Sawako tries to listen to the will of stone through both radio transmissions and other invisible vibrations. The captured signal will then be mutated to create an intimate, poetic sound that forms a tiny moment of quiet in the city.

Friday, November 30th
Jaques Bekaert
Born in Belgium in May 1940, Jacques Bekaert is well known as both a composer and a journalist. As a journalist he covered American politics, before moving to Southeast Asia in 1979. He worked for the BBC, le Monde, and wrote a weekly column for The Bangkok Post (1983-1993). Since 1993 he has worked as a diplomat, posted in Cambodia. As a composer, Bekaert studied with Henri Pousseur and worked or performed with the Sonic Arts Union, John Cage, Merce Cunningham Dance Co, George Lewis, Rae Imamura, Takehisa Kosugi and Tom Buckner.

Sunday, December 1st
Children's Concert: Flutterbox
2:00-3:00pm
Neill C. Furio (electric bass) and Janine Nichols (voice) perform fun and playful songs ranging from current originals, to songs Neill wrote during his childhood and selections from musicals. Neill is an "architecturally cagey" songwriter and musician with a heady, only-he-knows-for-sure way about his instrument. Janine, who draws the pictures in the air, has been called a lot of things, including "arrestingly plaintive" and a "black Marianne Faithfull."

Sunday, December 1st
Susie Ibarra Trio
8:30pm
Nominated "Best Drummer" by the Village Voice, Susie Ibarra, percussionist and composer has played with such diverse acts as Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, Prefuse 73, and Yo La Tengo amongst others. Tonight the Susie Ibarra Trio (Jennifer Choi, violin & Angelica Sanchez, piano) will be presenting new works from a series titled Dream Etudes, as well as several pieces from their CDs Folkloriko and Songbird Suite.

Monday, December 2nd
Noa Guy
8:30pm
Noa Guy presents the second installation of Drops of Consciousness - an audio-visual personal diary revealing the story of her recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Breathing becomes sound; intricate visions form words and thoughts. A poem ­ in four different languages - written at an early stage of her recovery serves as the architectural form of the piece. Drops of Consciousness is a collaboration between sound artist Alon Leventon and Noa Guy, utilizing live improvisation, pre-recorded music and video.

Saturday, December 8th
Kathleen Supové (Roulette TV Shoot)
8:00pm
From *Adrenaline Revival* to *Air Rights*.
"Downtown piano queen" (New Yorker) Kathleen Supové will perform highlights from her commissioned repertoire for wired and enlightened piano---some classics, some brand new. Performing under the name The Exploding Piano, Supové is an arist who is continually evolving an answer to the question of what music gets presented and how it gets presented. Recordings can be found on the Tzadik, CRI, New World, Innova, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, Yamaha, and XI labels.

Sunday, December 9th
Phoebe Legere (Roulette TV Shoot)
8:00pm
Inspired by an IBM software that moves information across business processes and facilitates cross organizational collaboration, composer, lyricist, and transmedia artist Phoebe Legere's newest work, Transformation Suite, will cycle through compositional strategies, from Serialism to Jazz to Romanticism to Improvisation. Legere will sing from her autobiography and conduct a string ensemble from piano, laptop and accordion.

Thursday, December 13th
Gisburg
8:30pm
"I have a contract on myself" by Austrian singer, composer and Tzadik recording artist Gisburg is a cinematographic music piece about a hitman who has a contract on himself and who tries to figure out through musical therapy the karmatic repercussion of his killings, the survival instinct of water-bugs, why he dreamed up his life as a film noir movie and if this was the only way for him to become a blues artist.

Friday, December 14th
Okkyung Lee
8:30pm
Inspired by rain, empty streets, 2 (Korean) dead singers, memory, home and goodbyes... maverick cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee presents the premiere of then, there, that cornerS, a new work commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts. Tonight's all-star lineup includes Alex Waterman, Cornelius Dufallo, Trevor Dunn, Peter Evans, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Satoshi Takeishi, David Shively, and DJ Olive.

Saturday, December 15th
Margaret Leng-Tan (Roulette TV Shoot)
8:00pm
THE STEEL QIN: New Asian Music for Piano
Called "The diva of avant-garde pianism" by The New Yorker, Margaret Leng Tan is a visionary pianist whose work embraces theater, choreography, and performance. The first woman to earn a doctorate from Julliard, Tan has had works written for her by such composers as Michael Nyman, Toby Twinning, and George Crumb, as well as an active collaboration with John Cage lasting 11 years. Tonight she performs startlingly original works by Tan Dun, Ge Gan-ru, Somei Satoh, and Erik Griswold's prepared piano arrangements of Sichuan folksongs.

Sunday, December 16th
David Behrman (Roulette TV Shoot)
8:00pm
Celebrating his 70th Birthday at Roulette, veteran composer and artist David Behrman has been actively composing and creating sound and multimedia installations since the 1960s. Tonight, along with guitar/composer John King, he presents Long Throw, one of three works by three composers commissioned by the Cunningham Dance Company as music for the 2007 dance, eyeSpace."