Matana Roberts Presents: “off the record…”
About This Event
Matana Roberts Presents brings “off the record…” to Roulette, framed by Roberts’s work across classical forms, free jazz and sound experimentation. Drawing on a history with the AACM and the B.R.C., Roberts — a saxophonist and clarinetist who composes and improvises — uses extended technique, composed frameworks and open-ended ensemble exchange to foreground structural rigor and narrative shape.
About Off the Record
“Off the Record” arrives at ARTSPACE as a live electronic set rather than the Canadian sports talk program of the same name that ran for years on TSN. In New York, the title reads like a prompt: what gets said when the room is dark, the beat is steady, and speech gives way to signal. Featuring Sleepy & Boo on DJ duties, the event treats the club as a listening space with its own codes and etiquette. Its quiet point is cultural as much as musical, mapping how nightlife functions as informal public discourse in the city.
About the Artists
Matana Roberts Presents
Matana Roberts Presents is the performance banner for New York–based composer and improviser Matana Roberts, whose work moves between classical structures, free jazz, and sound experimentation. Presented at Roulette, projects such as “off the record…” draw on Roberts’ background as a saxophonist and clarinetist with ties to the AACM and the B.
Matana Roberts
Matana Roberts is a New York City–based sound experimentalist, visual artist, and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who works as both composer and improviser. Their background includes ties to the AACM and the B.