Roulette TV is a cable access television program produced by the experimental music institution Roulette in New York City. Roulette TV captures the creative process of live performance, giving viewers a unique window into Roulette’s distinctive programming through in-depth artist-driven features including studio visits, performance footage, and interviews.
Ikue Mori’s trio creates a delicate and mysterious electroacoustic soundscape through improvisations.
The trio improvises by using manipulated computer samples, turntable mixing, and an electric bass played with several bowing, pizzicato, and body-striking techniques. In the interview, Mori discusses her creative use of drum machines and computers, her albums, "100 Aspects of the Moon" and "Ventriloquist in Ghost Chamber," and her liberation through making music in the States.
Ikue Mori began her musical activity by playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 1970s and developed her unique methods of performing improvisations with drum machines, which eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop. Her group, Tohban Dian, formed in 1986, "strived to subvert images of Orientalism, femininity, and obsession," and wove world music and surrealist influences into their song structures. She has since collaborated with many avant-garde performers including Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Mark TomkinÌs Dance Company, Joey Baron, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith, and John Zorn.
Performers:
Ikue Mori
DJ Olive
Kato Hideki
First Aired on Roulette TV: 2002
Produced by Jim Staley
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Founded in 1978, Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art.
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