CARTUNE XPREZ: Peter Burr, MSHR, Matt Romein play USEFUL FANTASY
About This Event
Peter Burr, MSHR, and Matt Romein perform USEFUL FANTASY at Roulette. MSHR—whose work sits in a rock/pop continuum and emphasizes electronic process and live texture, with sets that move between structured passages and signal‑heavy improvisation using repetition and noise as compositional tools—is part of the lineup.
About USEFUL FANTASY
At Roulette, CARTUNE XPREZ, Peter Burr, MSHR, and Matt Romein present *USEFUL FANTASY* as a classical-leaning performance built from electronic process and live texture. MSHR’s practice draws from rock and pop logics while using repetition, noise, and shifting signal to move between composed blocks and improvisation. The piece treats technology less as accompaniment than as an instrument with its own friction and drift, a small study in how structure survives under overload. No NYC premiere history has been publicly established; its significance here is Roulette’s ongoing role as a site for this hybrid lineage.
About the Artist
MSHR
MSHR is a group working in the rock/pop continuum with an ear tuned to electronic process and live texture. In New York City, they have appeared at Pioneer Works on bills that place them alongside artists such as Dan Deacon and Macula Dog.