Moving beyond the cliches of drug culture fabrications, the festival seeks to induce sustainable euphoria.
PROGRAM:
February 19
Audiovisual trance-media duo Long Distance Poison (Nathan Cearley and Erica Bradbury) explores non-subjective musical processes and practices that minimize intention, self, and hylomorphic design. The electronic duo Snake Union–Chuck Bettis (Die Trommel Fatale, Mossenek, Meta-matics) and David Grant (Action Patrol, On A Clear Day)–creates psychedelic, delicate, and fuzzed-out freeform grooves and synchronized sonic dirt with analog synths, digital sound processing, modular wires, and Max patches.
February 20
The light and sound duo Rue Bainbridge (Gryphon Rue and Benton C Bainbridge) creates a space for collective dreaming, where quirks of human hand and electricity spawn impressions of nature and abstract language. More specifically, Bainbridge uses a hacked game console, driven by custom video synthesizers, to generate light drawings that become a kind of score for Rue, who produces electro-acoustic music with a singing saw. Multi-media artist Lary 7 will present his enigmatic lantern projections and legendary Owl Movie, a 16mm cinema work exploring the possibilities of arcane film equipment.
February 21
The festival closes with Gold Dime, led by drummer/vocalist Andrya Ambro (Talk Normal) with Ian Douglas-Moore on bass, Brendan Winick on guitar, David Lackner on sax, and visuals by Joe Wakeman. The band’s furious and precisely-crafted song-poems evoke The Velvet Underground, Can, and Sappho. The evening also features multi-tentacled master transmitter of the divine delight of virtuosity and funky truth, Shahzad Ismaily, with stellar guests in a special project for Roulette.
Age Guidance: 15
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Audience Advisory:
$50 Festival Pass! See all four nights for $50 Roulette's main floor is wheelchair accessible space via the ramp entrance on Atlantic Avenue. Requests for reasonable accomodation should be made in advance of the concert or event. Please contact our Box Office at boxoffice@roulette.org or (917) 267-0368 (voice only)
Performance Schedule:
THURSDAY thru FRIDAY @ 8 PM
Director
David Weinstein - curation