Larry Ochs Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) // Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music
About This Event
At Roulette Larry Ochs presents Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) alongside Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music. Ochs’ project moves between chamber-like structures and open experimental playing with attention to texture and pacing, while Wooley is known for innovative approaches to improvisation and contemporary composition. Both foreground close listening and an inquiry-driven approach to sound.
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 Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth)
Larry Ochs Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) is a project led by saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs, drawing on his long-running work across composed music and improvisation. In New York City, the group has been heard at Roulette, including appearances alongside collaborators such as trumpeter Nate Wooley.
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.