JANUARY 22-24 & 27-29
at ROULETTE

 

JANUARY 22-24
CIRCUS JERKUS
(Curated by Doron Sadja)

CIRCUS JERKUS is a 3 day restructuring of chaos: music, video, film, performance, experience. Roughly 2 hours and with a slightly different lineup each night, Circus Jerkus runs the gamut from improvised solo/ensemble performances and simultaneous overlapping projects to live film projections, light shows, ventriloquism and surveillance monitoring. Open up your bioport and come into CIRCUS JERKUS.

PERFORMERS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Mario Diaz de Leon, MV Carbon, Brown Wing Overdrive, Nickel Emmet, Freddy Nightliker, Amrita Dang, Twisty Cat, Alfredo Marin, Jay King, Fern Silva, Jessie Stead, Shiraishi Tamio, Anastasia Osipova, Phil Logan, Ourouboros, Bob Bellarue, Carla Rhodes, Bradley Eros, Lilly Hayes, Michael Karas, a few secrets, and a few more TBA....

CIRCUS JERKUS is curated by Doron Sadja, founder of the Shinkoyo Collection/Records and the Paris London West Nile performance space in Williamsburg - both donations based explorations of experimental media and performance. Doron also performs in the ensemble Symbol as well as working solo in sound, photography, and video.
www.shinkoyo.com & www.doron.sadja.com & www.shinkoyo.com/symbol/

 

 

 

 

JANUARY 27-29
IMPROV:COMP
(Curated by Matthew Mehlan)

Wild groupings of some of the most intense players in the city and beyond, from the fringes of all genres! Duos, trios, quartets by people who often play on the same bill... but rarely make music together. Including members of Zs, Excepter, Skeletons, Extra Life, Talibam, Lake, Skint, Dynamite Club and many more... Plus world premiers of new pieces written for each night's ensemble.

FEATURING:
Clare Amory
Peter Blasser
Nathan Corbin
Emily Dufour
Ben Greenberg
Sam Hillmer
Darius Jones
Sam Kulik
Travis Laplante
Okkyung Lee
Jonathan Leland
Charlie Looker
Matt Mehlan
Jason McMahon
Cyrus Pireh
Mike Pride
Kevin Shea
John Fell Ryan

And a few special guests...

Matt Mehlan was born in 1982. He sings and plays instruments in the band Skeletons, video tapes things, and goes to work. Skeletons most recent album "Money" is out now on Tomlab.
http://skeletons.tv

 

 

ROULETTE is at 20 Greene st between Canal & Grand.
All Concerts begin at 8:30pm sharp.
$10 students, under 30s, senior. $15 all else

 

SHINKOYO is the ectoplasm connecting a diverse group of composers, visual artists, improvisers, instrument builders, thinkers, scholars and healers exploring new syntheses of sound and art. We operate on terms of collectivity and collaboration, while supporting the individual voices of all Shinkoyos. Shinkoyo has launched its SHINKOJUKO free jukebox and donation-based online music store, showcasing our catalog of music releases from 2002 to the present.

PARIS LONDON WEST NILE is Shinkoyo's donation-based center for experimental performance and art located in NYC. Click on ParisLondonWestNile for more info, upcoming shows, and archived recordings/videos/photos.