Fri, June 13, 2008 | 8PM (doors at 7:30PM)
Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver St. (map)
Brooklyn, NY
$8
For more info and to buy tickets (surcharge free) visit: http://www.fluxconcert.org

FLUXCONCERT presents "FLUXCONCERT 20080613" a concert in 13 movements generated from 13 textual instruction sets written by Ethan Wagner.

Instead of following musical notation, the ensemble of nine performers follow texts instructing musical actions to be performed. The concert draws on the legacies of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Fluxus event scores to generate a musical evening of original composition, improvisation, and absurdist performance.

Following are two movements from the show:

Set a noisily ticking alarm clock to ring four minutes after it is set. Run the sound of the ticking through a microphone and sequence the sound, using filters etc. Piece is over when alarm rings.
- Ethan Wagner, Sequenced Ticking, 2008

Try to teach an audience member how to play something incredibly difficult on an instrument that requires a bit of skill (Rachmaninov, etc).
- Ethan Wagner, Music Lesson, 2008

FLUXCONCERT 20080613 will be followed by two performances:

"Softwoods, Hardword: Thirteen Trees": A poetry performance in 13 acts featuring brief readings, group acts, interdisciplinary performances, and audience participation. The pieces lean on structural elements such as chance operations, erasures, found texts, and other experimental modes of writing. Influences include Gertrude Stein, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Bernstein, and other contemporary language poets.

A punk-rock episode by Missy Sport. Hailing from a random basement on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the Sport is a very, very loud power-punk trio with musical roots sunk deep in the guts of dirty 1980s punk rock and 1950s teenage active-wear. Influences include the Angry Samoans, Black Flag, the Red Aunts, the Sex Pistols, and Tito Puente.