Who:
Rozanne Levine - alto clarinet, clarinet, bamboo flute, compositions
Mark Whitecage clarinet, soprano sax, electronics
Perry Robinson clarinet, sopranino clarinet
Rosi Hertlein violin, voice

Where: Roulette: 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand); New York, NY 10013

Time: 8:30pm

Admission:
General, $15.
Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10
Roulette members / Location One members: free.

More info:
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
Roulette www.roulette.org
Rozanne Levine - www.erjn.it/mus/whitecage/projects.htm, www.erjn.it/gallery/levine.htm

In Chakra Tuning, Rozanne Levine brings her love of improvisational spontaneity and organic, subtly shifting sounds to the fore. Sonic conversations emerge and develop as the group explores textures, sonorities and space. The hauntingly beautiful music of Chakra Tuning weaves in and out of melodies, exploring rhythms, moods and inner space in a transforming, unfolding journey.

Ms. Levine performs on alto clarinet, clarinet and bamboo flute, and her long-time band mate Mark Whitecage joins her on clarinet, soprano saxophone and electronics. Adding their totally original voices to Chakra Tuning are clarinetist Perry Robinson and violinist/vocalist Rosi Hertlein. Rozanne Levines compositions form the thematic material from which the musicians improvise. Electronic manipulation plays a part in the group sound, as do bird whistles, ocarinas, half horns and percussion. Chakra Tuning recorded their debut CD, Only Moment, in January/April 2008 and plan to release it soon.

All the members of Chakra Tuning are acclaimed composers and bandleaders. Clarinetist/composer/improviser Rozanne Levine has worked with dancers, poets, actors, vocalists, and sound sculptors, in bands large and small, and with some of the most creative musicians on both coasts, including Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Jason Kao Hwang, Nick Mathis, The New Reed Quartet, The Bi-Coastal Orchestra, Robert (Mike) Mahaffay, and the Improvisors Collective Orchestra, among others. She was a founding member of William and Patricia Nicholson Parkers Improvisors Collective, and performed on Whitecages sound sculptures in the Glass House Ensemble. She is also a noted photographer and received a commission grant from Philadelphias Painted Bride Art Center for both her music and photographs.

Mark Whitecage is internationally known as an innovative instrumentalist and composer in the fields of jazz and new music. He has performed internationally and recorded with some of the leading artists of our time, including Jeanne Lee, Anthony Braxton, Jacques Coursil, The Nu Band, Lane / Grassi / Whitecage, Gunter Hampel, Mario Pavone, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Marshall Allen and Steve Swell. Perry Robinson is the sui generis master of the clarinet in jazz, folk and avant-garde music who has worked with everyone from Dave Brubeck and Bill Dixon to Pete Seeger, George Clinton, Badal Roy and Anthony Braxton; and Rosi Hertlein is a breathtaking improviser on both violin and voice who has performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Ivo Perelman, Wendy Osserman Dance Company, and Howard Johnson, to name a few.