Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth) New York Performances

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.