Roulette

10/30/2026

M³ Festival Mutual Mentorship for Musicians returns to Roulette on Saturday, 11.07! NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Artist, and four-time Grammy Award-winning drummer, composer, and producer Terri Lyne Carrington is one of many gracing the stage, this time joined by Devon Gates, Miranda Agnew, and Morgan Guerin ⭐️.

🔥🔥🔥here’s a clip of Carrington playing “Lawns” with Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, and Milena Casado.

founded by Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa M³ Festival brings together a stacked marathon of performances including the likes of William Parker William Parker, Theo Bleckmann, Martha Redbone, Marta Sanchez Trio and many more.

🎟️ learn more and get tickets at roulette.org!

video filmed at Studio 9 / courtesy of Paste Magazine / produced by I Know We Should

10/30/2026

10/29/2026

Wednesday, 11.11! composer, saxophonist, and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts premieres “off the record…”, a solo, multimedia performance that acts as a celebratory, loving postscript to their acclaimed COIN COIN project (Constellation), which was conceived in connection to a Roulette Commission.

the performance will integrate tidbits from each of the records in the COIN COIN series as it moves between memory, imagination, and lived experience. part story, part call, the work follows association rather than chronology with language, gesture, silence, humor, and a chance shaping each telling.

here’s an excerpt from Roberts’ performance of “Trail of the Smiling Sphinx” from Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, featuring Matt Lavelle on trumpets, Hannah Marie Marcus on violin, and Ryan Sawyer on percussion 🔥🎼📖🌬️.

🎥video produced by WNYC’s New Sounds

10/28/2026

🔊next Tuesday, 11.03, multimedia artist Cecilia Lopez Cecilia Lopez premieres compositions for Filter Four, a fresh quartet featuring an exceptional lineup of collaborators: saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock, double bassist Trevor Dunn, and tuba player Dan Peck, with Lopez performing on electronics.

>>>get tix at roulette.org!

together, the quartet explores the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound. through live amplification and processing, instrumental timbres are altered, twisted, and blended into vivid aural hallucinations, dissolving individual voices in a collective network of sound.

Melissa Almaguer Melissa Almaguer opens the night with a solo set of tap dance and percussion. expanding from tap dance into gongs, seed percussion, field recordings, resonant objects, and electronics, Almaguer builds evolving sonic environments where movement, texture, and rhythm become forms of storytelling through improvisation.

🎥💥vid of Lopez and Laubrock performing works for saxophone and electronics in 2023 at Roulette.

10/27/2026

next Wednesday, 11.04, composer-pianist Adegoke Steve Colson and composer-vocalist Iqua Colson AdegokeSteveColson-IquaColson perform for AACM NYC’s 61 Years of Creative Music, joined by Steven Bernstein on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, and Chris Beck on drums. tickets are available at ROULETTE.ORG!

described as a “musical power couple” by The New York Times, the Colsons met at Northwestern University when “the world was on fire and their art, love, and commitment to Black liberation helped set it ablaze” (liner notes from Glow).

they became early members of the AACM in the ‘70s, and have since gone on to create several albums together with acclaimed collaborators like multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart, composer-poet Joseph Jarman, and drummer Andrew Cyrille, as well as fellow members of the AACM like Wallace Laroy McMillan, Reggie Willis, and Dushun Mosley.

explore the albums that capture the Colson’s decades of collaboration, 🎧 listen via link in our bio.

1 - No Reservation, 1980
2 - Triumph, 1980
3 - Hope for Love, 2004
4 - The Untarnished Dream, 2010
5 - Tones For, 2015
6 - Glow, 2025

10/22/2026

next Friday, 10.30, EMA and Tabitha Nikolai will perform their multimedia duet, Memory as a Rock Out of Reach – here’s a glimpse of what to expect! get tix at roulette.org 🐎 👾.

soundtracked by modular synth and guitar, the performance visualizes the psychosexual inner world of a girl-child in the ‘80s using video game technologies as a narrator searches for her shape amid commercial detritus, degraded 3D scans of suburbia, and a Polly Pocket apocalypse.

📹clip courtesy of the artists, filmed live at TBA Festival, September 2025 in Portland, OR.

10/21/2026

pioneer of sound art Liz Phillips Liz Phillips and painter Heidi Howard present Live Processing Paint & Sound NEXT WEDNESDAY (10.28) for Harvestworks’ 50th anniversary. grab tickets in our bio!

as Heidi Howard paints, Liz Phillips will live-process aquatic recordings using Mugic and light sensors, contact microphones, and a theremin, transforming brushstrokes and fish activity into an immersive water soundscape alongside live video projections from six cameras.

Harvestworks’ Interim Director Ivana Dama Ivana Dama will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Sanna Almajedi 𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆 𓃗 سنا, Performance Curator at e-flux.

a mother-daughter duo, check out moments from Phillips’ and Howard’s previous work and collabs:

1 - Liz Phillips talks about Cymbal, a sound installation at the LA Theater Center, in New Music America LA (1985).

2 - Heidi Howard paints as Liz Phillips creates soundscapes for Sound/Swim/Mirror at Sara’s World in NYC.

3 - rehearsal for Live Processing Paint and Sound 👀

5 - Liz Phillips comments on Mersonic Illuminations, an installation at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (1991), with sounds activated and shifted by the audience and fish movements.

10/19/2026

this Friday, 10.23, musician, instrument builder, and DJ Antenes Antenes plays as part of Emanate / Crenellate, sam hillmer and TROUBLE’ immersive sculptural installation for site-specific performance. get tickets via the link in our bio!

Emanate / Crenellate restructures habits of assembly, inviting the audience to move through the space as artists perform within an interactive multi-channel video installation, including Luke Stewart Luke Stewart, Patrick Higgins Patrick Higgins, Dome Theater, and DJs R. Gamble R Gamble + Heidi Sabertooth Heidi Sabertooth of Lost Soul Enterprises.

🎥: clip of Antenes performing A/V Live from her living room for Going In, with visuals by ACE ACE

10/17/2026

a scene of pianist/composer/improviser Ursel Schlicht shredding on piano 🎶. join us on OCT 22 to witness it yourself 👀. the night continues the Interpretations Series series and includes a set from the incredible jazz trio Critical Response, featuring Jason Kao Hwang Jason Kao Hwang on violin and viola, Anders Nilsson on guitar, and Michael T.A. Thompson on drums and percussion.

TICKETS AT ROULETTE.ORG

vid: Ursel Schlicht & Fabian Niermann on March 20, 2023 at Theaterhaus Schille / produced by LeipJAZZig on YouTube

10/16/2026

Tuesday, 10.20! Contemporaneous Mantra Percussion and ꧁RECAP PERCUSSION꧂ present a night of new music titled Seeing in the Dark. 🎟️ tickets are on sale at roulette.org!

members of Mantra Percussion and Recap Percussion will perform the world premiere of Paul Pinto’s years-in-the-making meta-opera Estabanico – a work that follows a Moorish conquistador who pulls apart stories of the past to create an expansive new vision of the history of the Americas.🃏👀 here’s a glimpse of Recap’s magic, using found objects to play “Count to Five” by Angélica Negrón Angélica Negrón.

the evening includes Brendon Randall-Myers and Annie Blythe’s world premiere arrangement of Only in the Dark, a gorgeous cello concerto for the chamber orchestral forces of Contemporaneous with Annie Blythe as soloist.

composer Lila Meretzky will also present To Crave and to Have, a work that explores the gulf between what is and what ought to be.