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FLUX Quartet
For their debut at ISSUE Project Room, FLUX Quartet will perform Giacinto Scelsi's String Quartet No. 4 (1964), and Salvatore Sciarrino's Sei Quartetti Brevi (1971), with world premieres by Michael Vincent Waller and Tom Chiu. This program celebrates two stunning works during the rise of the Italian avant-garde, and how the core aesthetic features of these sound worlds (subtle glissando, microtonal inflections, abstract harmonies, and ethereal anti-rhetoric) have transplanted into the twenty-first century Neo-American landscape. Waller's new string quartet Quartetto per Archi n.0 (2012) is a treatise on this cultural hegemony. Chiu's new work RETROGRADAL CONVECTION (2012) is a creation borne out of an exhaustive exploration of techniques that have been integral to expanding his sonic vernacular. This is Chiu's second opus for the FLUX Quartet.
"Rome is the boundary between East and West. South of Rome, the East starts, north of Rome, the West starts. The borderline runs exactly through the Roman Forum. There is my house: This explains my life and my music." Giacinto Scelsi
FLUX Quartet
"The mission undertaken by the FLUX players Tom Chiu and Conrad Harris, violinists; Max Mandel, violist; Felix Fan, cellist was something like tilting at windmills while mounted on tortoises and armed with feather dusters." Steve Smith, (New York Times). Considered the ultimate masters of Morton Feldman's 6-hour String Quartet from 1983, David Patrick Stearns, (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed, " this piece oozes a rarefied, spiritual air The FLUX Quartet made all the differenceThe players displayed an astounding ear for sound that made each gradation of timbre palpable." Alex Ross (New Yorker) described FLUX's live performance as "a disorienting, transfixing experience that repeatedly approached and touched the sublime."
They have performed at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, the Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center, in Mexico at the Chihuahua International Arts Festival, and in Ireland at the Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival, the Kitchen in NYC, Bowerbird in Philadelphia, EMPAC, and have been heard on NPR's All Things Considered, WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck, and WFMU's Stochastic Hit Parade. They will be making their debut at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Their recordings include a new Feldman CD up and coming from MODE Records, and other composer compilations on the Tzadik, Innova, Cantaloupe, and Cold Blue Music labels. FLUX Quartet has paved the way for all younger quartets focusing on similar repertoire, they move between the great works of Gyorgy Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, John Zorn, and Iannis Xenakis to avant jazz greats such as Henry Threadgill, Oliver Lake, and Roscoe Mitchell. They have championed works by avant balloonist Judy Dunaway, Mathew Welch, and have also done significant work in dance, including collaborations with choreographers Shen Wei, Christopher Wheeldon, and Pam Tanowitz. FLUX actively pursues commissions, with recent grants from the American Composers Forum, USArtists International, Aaron Copland Fund, and the Meet-The-Composer Foundation. The group also explores new voices from its numerous college residencies throughout the US, including Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Williams, Princeton, Rice, and the College of William and Mary. The spirit to expand stylistic boundaries is a trademark of the FLUX Quartet. Greatly influenced by the all-embracing philosophy of the Fluxus movement, violinist Tom Chiu founded FLUX with a similar aesthetic approach, in search of a living art for all people with an "anything-goes, do-it-yourself" spirit. To that end, FLUX has always been committed to projects of unique vision that defy aesthetic categorization, such as the monumental work by Feldman.
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LocationISSUE Project Room (View)
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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