Roulette

Roulette One of the most creative and prolific centers for experimental art in the United States since 1978. Founded in Tribeca, based in downtown Brooklyn.

Roulette began in 1978 as a spontaneous presentation of work by artists in a loft on West Broadway in Tribeca, and has since evolved into an internationally recognized experimental art center. Now based in Downtown Brooklyn, Roulette supports artists through presenting a substantial and diverse program of experimental music, dance and intermedia, commissioning new work, paying the artists professional fees, and finding artists an audience interested in learning about traditions and developments in these art forms.

09/11/2026

on wednesday, 09.16, artist, poet, and healer C. Rena Anakwe plays a solo improvisational set on electronics and voice, weaving together handmade cassette tape loops, synth textures, samples, and field recordings 🎛️🌀get tix at roulette.org!

joyguidry closes the night with a performance of Five Prayers, a convergence of sound, spirit, and radical self-expression on bassoon and electronics, alongside Scott 淙禹 Li on violin 🎶.

vid by Anna Kuzmina + Aknouveau / courtesy of Governors Island

09/11/2026

next Saturday, 09.19, pianist , electronic musician .ms, and drummer perform music from Shards, an album has described as “a mesmerizing and ultimately undefinable journey into sound.” the evening celebrates ’ fifth anniversary — tickets are available at roulette.org! here’s a clip of the trio reflecting on the process of creating the album together 💡.

opening the night is a recently formed group featuring , , and , whose forthcoming album, Trappings of Sleep, was just announced today 🔥. check out their new single Mono Lake at redhookrecords.bandcamp.com!

🎥 clip courtesy of Red Hook Records / filmed by Ingo J. Biermann

SEPTEMBER AT ROULETTE! 🎟️ at roulette.org09.13 - Tashi Dorji, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Raven Chacon // Leo Chang Alex Zhang H...
09/03/2026

SEPTEMBER AT ROULETTE! 🎟️ at roulette.org

09.13 - Tashi Dorji, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Raven Chacon // Leo Chang Alex Zhang Hungtai Tashi Dorji Raven Chacon@listentoleochang

09.15 - Sō Laboratories in Memory of Tim Thomas Sō Percussion

09.16 - Joy Guidry: Five Prayers in Five Movements // A Space for Sound (Rena Anakwe) Joy Guidry C. Rena Anakwe

09.17 - Katherine Young: BIOMES (Album Release) Katherine Young Chaikin Records Yarn/Wire Olivia Block Brian Chase

09.18 – 09.19 - Red Hook Records 5th Anniversary Celebration w/ Amina Claudine Myers and trio sets from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith, and Andrew Cyrille // Jason Moran, BlankFor.ms, and Marcus Gilmore // and Qasim Naqvi, Caroline Davis, and Grey McMurray Qasim Naqvi Jason Moran BlankFor.ms Caroline Davis Grey Mcmurray Red Hook Records

09.22 - The Monkathon: Miles Okazaki Plays Thelonious Monk (World Premiere Screening) Miles Okazaki

09.24 - The Scores Project: A Book Release Show with The Rise of the Novel Michael Gallope Natilee Harren

09.27 - John Zorn’s Alea Iacta Est (The Die is Cast) Brian Marsella Jorge Roeder Ches Smith Sae Hashimoto

09.29 - Bathed in Sound: James Brandon Lewis Trio // Trap Music Orchestra // Angelica Sanchez // Clinton Patterson, Sheela Bringi & Elden Kelly James Brandon Lewis JGI New York
TRAPMUSICORCHESTRA Angelica Sanchez Sheela Bringi Clinton Patterson

09.30 - Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music // Larry Ochs’ Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) Nate Wooley Modney, Lester St.louis, Matt Moran, Luke Stewart Russell Greenberg

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first and last slides of Ingrid Laubrock + Cecilia Lopez and International Contemporary Ensemble at Roulette in 2025 for The Music of Anthony Braxton, by Matthew Mehlan

Some choice xeroxed show flyers from the personal collections of Matthew Mehlan & Justin Frye — for shows by David Longs...
09/02/2026

Some choice xeroxed show flyers from the personal collections of Matthew Mehlan & Justin Frye — for shows by David Longstreth, Skeletons Big Band, Circuit des Yeux, Zs, MV Carbon and others — at beloved venues of a time ago: Zebulon, Cake Shop, Roulette at Greene St, and Silent Barn (including the first ever shows there, slides 1 & 2). Were you there? Let us know in the comments!

On 10.01 & 10.02 we highlight this era of Brooklyn’s music scene and DIY community with performances from davidlongstreth (Dirty Projectors), Haley Fohr (C d Y), Deja Carr, Mutual Benefit, Wordless Music String Quartet, The Fiery Furnaces, and Skeletons Big Band + a short discussion and reading from Us v. Them (panelists to be announced), all in honor of Us v. Them — Ronen Givony’s book on the Brooklyn music explosion of 2004-2014.

And later in the month Sam Hillmer (Zs, Diamond Terrifier) and Laura Paris AKA TROUBLE take over the space with Emanate / Crenellate — a one-night, sculptural and interactive multi-channel video installation for site-specific performance, featuring Dome Theater, Patrick Higgins, and many more.

Tickets at roulette.org! Night one is a Benefit, all proceeds support the creation of experimental music, movement, and media at Roulette.

1 - Charlie Looker
2 - Tony Lowe
3 - Justin Frye
4, 6 - Sam Hillmer
5 - Matt Mehlan

08/29/2026

on 12.11, the New York premiere of legendary composer Anthony Braxton’s most recent concert work, Thunder Music, will be performed by members of the and the Tri-Centric Orchestra as part of Darmstadt at 80 Festival . the evening opens with a performance of Stockhausen’s Kontakte by chamber ensemble .

link in bio for discounted tickets, available until Monday 8.31!

the two-night mini festival celebrates the 80th anniversary of Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt’s groundbreaking Summer Course for New Music – the global meeting point for postwar experimentation, exchange, and creative risk. on 12.10, hear sets from the celebrated , GBSR Duo, and guitarist . both nights will include archival listening sessions and lectures exploring Darmstadt’s historic legacy and evolving influence 🏛️🎧.

💡💡💡here’s one of many brilliant snippets of Braxton in a panel with George E. Lewis and for The Music of Anthony Braxton at Roulette in 2025.

08/28/2026

composer/musician/multimedia artist Cecilia Lopez Cecilia Lopez returns with new compositions on 11.03 alongside Filter Four, a fresh quartet of long-time and recent collaborators featuring Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock, Trevor Dunn, and Dan Peck .

the group explores the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound. through live amplification and processing, instrumental timbres are altered, twisted, and blended into vivid aural hallucinations, where individual voices lose themselves in a collective network 🌀🎛️.

opening the night, multidisciplinary artist Melissa Almaguer Melissa Almaguer will present a special solo tap performance, expanding into gongs, seed percussion, field recordings, resonant objects, and electronics.

🪢vid of Lopez playing her singular wire instruments at Catalytic Sound NYC in 2021. captured by Kjreilly on YouTube.

Rest in peace to the great Dolly Parton 🤍🕊️we’re thinking back to Robert Ashley’s reflections on her powerful a ca****la...
08/27/2026

Rest in peace to the great Dolly Parton 🤍🕊️

we’re thinking back to Robert Ashley’s reflections on her powerful a ca****la song “I Am Ready” from The Grass Is Blue. in his lecture The Future of Music, Ashley shares nine songs that were a continued source of inspiration, and writes:

“These are the kinds of things I listen to when I have the feeling that I have lost the vision…I use this as an example of voices without orchestra. Plus it is beautiful. Also as an example of the question of being able to afford it. The reverb, which breaks my heart, probably costs more than I made last year.”

song and full lecture linked in bio.

08/26/2026

last April, composer/ improviser Wayne Horvitz led a workshop exploring the late composer/cornetist Butch Morris’s musical system, Conduction® – a framework of hand gestures used to structure compositions in real time, typically with improvisers.

as part of the workshop, Horvitz shared this clip from a lecture sponsored by SFJAZZ, reflecting on Morris’s use of Conduction® to create “something he couldn’t achieve with pencil and paper but that sounded sort of compositional.” 👁️watch the full workshop at roulette.org/archive.

all workshops are FREE for members. what’s more, Roulette membership includes discounted tickets year-round, no ticket fees, $2 off at the Roulette bar, free entry to all Awarded Artist performances, and 20% off the online store. ➡️learn more at roulette.org/membership.

08/25/2026

a serene passage from bassoonist Joy Guidry on ELEVATOR MUSIC ™ 🌬️. catch her on Sep 16 at Roulette, joined by Scott 淙禹 Li on violin and electronics!

Guidry will present Five Prayers in Five Movements, an intuitive convergence of sound, spirit, and radical self-expression that builds on her most recent album, Five Prayers. blending bassoon with low-rumbling synths, warm electronics, praise breaks, distortion, and heavy bass, Guidry’s music reflects on her lived experience as a Black trans woman from the South.

➿C. Rena Anakwe opens the night with a solo improvisational performance on voice and electronics, weaving handmade cassette tape loops, synth textures, samples, field recordings, and voice into an expansive sonic landscape.

get tickets at roulette.org! use code EARLYBIRDER at checkout for 20% off through next Monday, 8.31.

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