Excerpts and highlights from the Roulette Concert Archives of 3,000 adventurous and avant garde performances collected since 1980. Based in Brooklyn, NY visit roulette.org for the current schedule. The complete, unedited concert recordings can be found at www.roulette.org/archive. The Roulette podcast collection is now posted as a playlist, The Roulette Tapes.

Staff Picks & Archive Highlights

Dutch artist performs on his instrument constructed from cannibalized organ pipes, toilet plungers, and bicycle pumps.

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Mercurius Wagen & Horst Rickels 1988 at Roulette

Fly or Die, composer/trumpeter Branch’s quartet featuring Lester St. Louis on cello, Jason Ajemian on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums/mbira, excerpt from their 2019 Roulette concert.

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Jaimie Branch at Roulette 2019

Recorded live on Dec 7th, 2012 at Roulette Brooklyn

TILT Brass 
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Tom Bergeron, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, director
John King – live-electronics

John King - Astral Epitaphs (2011) at Roulette [excerpt]

First's Western Enisphere and Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra ensembles collaborate on a drone and percussion piece at Roulette on 3 March 2014.

David First/Pat Spadine 2014

Bruce Eisenbeil, Tom Hamilton, William Hooker
Tom Hamilton, Nord modular synthesizer; Bruce Eisenbeil, guitar; William Hooker, percussion 3 Oct 2009 at Roulette. Excerpt.

Tom Hamilton/William Hooker/Bruce Eisenbeil 2009

Saxophone, flute, and wind instrument master, composer and visual artist (1940-2020), a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and a key player on seminal minimalist compositions including work by Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and works with La Monte Young, Christian Wolff, David Behrman, Harold Budd, Alvin Curran, Arthur Russell, Annea Lockwood, and Frederic Rzewski. Selections from a 13 Oct 1994 Roulette concert.

Jon Gibson 1994

Percussionist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, professor, and pioneer of free jazz, with William Parker, Patricia Nicholson from a multimedia event demonstrating his Heart Sound Music project.

Milford Graves 2013

New & Adventurous Music! Founded in 1978 and operating out of lofts and galleries for years, Roulette continues its mission to support new and established innovators in music and cross-media performing arts in a glorious 400 seat theater in Brooklyn. Podcasts and excerpts here; you can hear these full concerts, and hundreds more, at roulette.org/archive. Enjoy!

Jon Gibson 1994

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