USEFUL FANTASY New York Performances

At Roulette, CARTUNE XPREZ, Peter Burr, MSHR, and Matt Romein present *USEFUL FANTASY* as a classical-leaning performance built from electronic process and live texture. MSHR’s practice draws from rock and pop logics while using repetition, noise, and shifting signal to move between composed blocks and improvisation. The piece treats technology less as accompaniment than as an instrument with its own friction and drift, a small study in how structure survives under overload. No NYC premiere history has been publicly established; its significance here is Roulette’s ongoing role as a site for this hybrid lineage.