BILL ORCUTT: GUITAR QUARTET, “HOW TO RESCUE THINGS” & MORE
About This Event
Bill Orcutt, an American guitarist and composer whose work moves between classical structure and the raw economy of improvised music, appears at Roulette with Guitar Quartet. The program, “How to Rescue Things” and more, pairs Orcutt’s pared motifs and hard-edged phrasing with the quartet’s ensemble discipline and practical craft of blending four guitars into a single, articulated voice.
About How to Rescue Things
At Roulette, *How to Rescue Things* arrives as a live classical event shaped around the act of retrieval—of sounds, of objects, of attention. Featured performers include Bill Orcutt and the Guitar Quartet, working in close detail where timbre and fracture can carry as much meaning as melody. In a New York setting built on reinvention, the piece reads as a small study in repair and refusal, more process than statement. No documented NYC premiere history is widely noted, but its concerns fit the city’s ongoing archive of broken and remade forms.
About the Artists
BILL ORCUTT
Bill Orcutt is an American guitarist and composer whose work moves between classical structure and the raw economy of improvised music. In New York City he has appeared at Roulette in projects ranging from Guitar Quartet to duo settings with drummer Chris Corsano, alongside artists such as Ava Mendoza and Cyrus Pireh, and in shared bills with Zeena Parkins and William Winant.
Guitar Quartet
Guitar Quartet is a classical ensemble heard in New York City settings such as Roulette, where their programs often sit close to the present tense of concert music. The group has appeared in collaboration with guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt, including events like “BILL ORCUTT: GUITAR QUARTET, ‘HOW TO RESCUE THINGS’ & MORE.