Kou Records: David Torn // Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet
About This Event
Guitarist and producer David Torn joins cellist Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet at Roulette. The program draws on Torn’s use of electronics and looping, Ultan’s Nocturnal Cellist practice—shifting between ambient and avant‑garde bowing—and the quintet’s emphasis on clarity of ensemble and texture, placing acoustic chamber technique alongside electronic manipulation.
About the Artists
Kou Records
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David Torn
David Torn is a guitarist and producer whose work moves between composed structures and real-time construction with electronics. At Roulette in New York City, he has joined cellist Aliya Ultan and the Boreas Quintet for programs that place looping and signal processing alongside chamber-writing and close ensemble balance.
Aliya Ultan
"At turns ambient and wildly avant-garde, Aliya Ultan's Nocturnal Cellist project slides in and out of the anarchaic. The glue between melodious and uprooted moments is a stranglehold on the air. It's as if the entire atmosphere of the room is ordered (and broken apart) by the whims of Ultan's bow.
Boreas Quintet
Boreas Quintet is a classical chamber group heard in New York City on stages such as Roulette. Their work often moves between standard chamber practice and contemporary collaborations, including projects connected to Kou Records.