BILL ORCUTT: “FOUR LOUIES,” CORSANO/ORCUTT, AVA MENDOZA, & CYRUS PIREH

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.