Performance

Jeff Mills Cinemix of Metropolis

1 upcoming performance in New York

At Roulette, Detroit artist Jeff Mills brings his Cinemix of *Metropolis* to New York, performing a newly structured score live against Fritz Lang’s 1927 film. Mills, a co-founder of Underground Resistance and the founder of Axis Records, approaches the project with the discipline of a composer as much as a DJ, treating rhythm as architecture. The piece reads as a contemporary response to early cinema’s machine-age anxieties, and it sits unusually well in a classical context. If this is a NYC premiere, Roulette frames it as part of the city’s long tradition of live film accompaniment and cross-genre performance.