How to Rescue Things New York Performances

At Roulette, *How to Rescue Things* arrives as a live classical event shaped around the act of retrieval—of sounds, of objects, of attention. Featured performers include Bill Orcutt and the Guitar Quartet, working in close detail where timbre and fracture can carry as much meaning as melody. In a New York setting built on reinvention, the piece reads as a small study in repair and refusal, more process than statement. No documented NYC premiere history is widely noted, but its concerns fit the city’s ongoing archive of broken and remade forms.