BILL ORCUTT: “FOUR LOUIES,” CORSANO/ORCUTT, AVA MENDOZA, & CYRUS PIREH
About This Event
Guitarist Bill Orcutt appears at Roulette with drummer Chris Corsano, Ava Mendoza, and classical musician Cyrus Pireh in a program that brings composed repertoire into dialogue with improvised forms. Orcutt's pared-down motifs and Corsano's treatment of the kit as tuned surfaces combine with Mendoza and Pireh's emphasis on precision and listening, foregrounding phrasing, resonance, dynamics, and timing.
About Four Louies
The other *Four Louies* arrives at Roulette as a live New York performance that treats “classical” as a set of tools rather than a fixed style. Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano, Ava Mendoza, and Cyrus Pireh work at the seam between composed material and real-time decisions, where rhythm, gesture, and timbre carry the narrative. If this is a New York premiere, it lands in a city with a long history of post-classical crosscurrents and downtown improvisation. The piece’s interest is structural: it shows how a quartet can argue, align, and re-form without settling into one language.
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.
Chris Corsano
Chris Corsano is a percussionist whose work moves between classical discipline and the open forms of improvised music. At Roulette in New York City, he has appeared in projects including BILL ORCUTT: “FOUR LOUIES” and CORSANO/ORCUTT, alongside collaborators such as Bill Orcutt, Ava Mendoza, and Cyrus Pireh.
Cyrus Pireh
Cyrus Pireh is an experimental musician heard in New York City performance contexts, including Roulette. Their work often appears in programs that place composed repertoire in conversation with improvising artists.