BIOMES New York Performances

BIOMES takes its cue from ecology and cartography, treating “biome” as both a scientific category and a cultural idea. The title recalls Brazil’s officially recognized set of terrestrial regions alongside a marine counterpart, a framework that turns landscape into a system of names and boundaries. Heard live at Roulette in New York City, with Katherine Young among the featured performers, the piece sits in a classical lineage that borrows methods from field study without pretending to be one. Its clear premise invites a rare kind of listening: attentive to classification, and to what classification leaves out.