Performance

Mutual Aid Music

1 upcoming performance in New York

Nate Wooley’s *Mutual Aid Music* arrives at Roulette in a program framed by Larry Ochs’s *Safe Havens (for the Abstract Truth)*, with Ochs also appearing as a featured performer. The piece treats “mutual aid” less as a slogan than as a method: players organize sound through listening, exchange, and shared responsibility rather than hierarchy. In New York’s long-running experimental ecosystem—from loft-era practices to present-day venues—this approach carries cultural weight even without a stated NYC premiere. One clear implication is that the music’s structure is social as much as formal.