FLUX 53's FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTYYep, our baby venue is one year old as of this Saturday! We're celebrating with an informal potluck and jam, music and noises that is, though if you want to bring jam that's nice too.
All are invited - performers and enthusiasts, past and future. This is a celebration of YOU - all the folks who've made the beginning of our journey such an adventure!
RSVP if possible at our Facebook page or by calling (510) 338-2432. Bring something to barbecue (weather permitting), or just bring wads of cash. Or just bring your sweet self.
Cost: GRATIS!
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Bruce Ackley and Eugene Chadbourne
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
Biggi Vinkeloe - alto saxophone, flute
Donald Robinson - drums
Joe Lasqo - piano, laptop, percussion
Teddy Rankin-Parker - cello
Lisle Ellis - contrabass, acoustic bass guitar
April 19, 2014, The Emerald Tablet, San Francisco, CA
Video by Charles Smith
Ken Filiano/ Steve Adams Duo at the Stone
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008
Pauline Oliveros, Susie Ibarra and Thollem McDonas at The Stone, NY, NY Aug. 21, 2012
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.
Yves Charuest, Agusti Fernandez, Nicolas Caloia & Peter Valsamis
Live at Cafe Résonance, Montreal, Quebec
Invented Instruments , at the High Zero festival September 22nd 2012 , Baltimore Maryland
Interview with Jenny Maybee & Nick Phillips about the concepts behind the album HAIKU.
Getting some poolside practice in on vacation in Bali!
Jacob Felix Heule, Clarke Robinson, Matt Ingalls
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
Tender Buttons at Second Act, SF, 2016; live video processing by Bill Thibault
Nihil Communication (Andre Custodio). Videotaped by M. Trucco at the Musician's Union Local 6 in San Francisco.
Fred Frith, Guitar; Jordan Glenn, Drums; Jason Hoopes, bass
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on
Open Ended by Michael Cooke is a very versatile work that is composed live before your eyes and ears. Based on Rova‘s Radar techniques, Open Ended is less of a composition and more of a color or tool palette. It is an ever-growing collection of rules and games for the performers that are triggered by hand signals by the conductor/composer. The conductor/composer then composes the piece live using these hand signals to guide the performers. The ability to compose with what happens in the moment, in real time, is what is required to produce this piece. This similar to the “Soundpainting” language was created by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York in 1974. Open Ended has no set instrumentation and can be played by any number of performers. It also has no set length; the piece could last 5 minutes or 24 hours.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante (bajo sexto) playing at the John Cage/CalArts event at the Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco on January 28th, 2012.