Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music // Larry Ochs Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth)
About This Event
Live event at Roulette
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 whose work moves between free jazz, avant‑garde improvisation, and contemporary classical contexts. In New York City he appears at venues such as The Stone at The New School and Roulette, including sets with Highsmith and as part of Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music.
Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley is an American trumpeter and composer known for his innovative approaches to improvisation and contemporary music.
Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music
Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music is a project led by trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley, working in the overlap of contemporary classical practice and improvisation. The ensemble brings together musicians from Wooley’s ongoing collaborations, including ties to Larry Ochs and Ochs’s Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth).
Mutual Aid Music
Mutual Aid Music is a classical-leaning ensemble heard in New York City at Roulette, often in close orbit with composer-trumpeter Nate Wooley. The group has shared bills and personnel links with Larry Ochs, including Larry Ochs Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth), placing them in a scene where composition and improvisation regularly overlap.