Larry Ochs Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) // Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music
About This Event
At Roulette, saxophonist-composer Larry Ochs presents Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) alongside Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music. Ochs, who works at the edges of free jazz, avant‑garde and experimental music and whose residencies at The Stone and work with Highsmith (including sets pairing his saxes with Craig Taborn and Ikue Mori) favors close listening and structural patience; he joins trumpeter Nate Wooley, known for innovative approaches to improvisation and contemporary composition, for an evening focused on exploratory, textural improvisation.
About Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth)
Larry Ochs’s *Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth)* is a chamber-scale work that treats improvisation as structure rather than escape. Written from a practice that sits between free jazz, experimental composition, and avant-garde classical music, it turns small shifts in tone and timing into the main events. At Roulette, Ochs brings the project to New York alongside trumpeter Nate Wooley, placing it in a downtown lineage shaped by venues like The Stone and Roulette itself. The result is music that argues, quietly, that “truth” can be negotiated in real time.
About the Artists
Larry Ochs
Larry Ochs is a saxophonist and composer working at the edges of free jazz, avant-garde, and experimental music. In New York City he appears at The Stone at The New School, where his residencies place him in the venue’s longstanding current of improvisation and new work.
Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley is an American trumpeter and composer known for his innovative approaches to improvisation and contemporary music.