FLUX Quartet:

Founded in the early 90's, Violinist Tom Chiu founded the FLUX Quartet with a quest similar to that of the original Fluxus artists: a search for a living art for all people with an embracing "anything-goes" spirit.

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FLUX Quartet both champions the work of living composers and insists on the existence of a new canon of 20th century string quartet music. Composers such as Xenakis, Ligeti, Cage, Feldman, Scelsi, and Lucier are their staples. In addition to their "classical" repetoire, they have pursued collaborative projects with saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Oliver Lake, balloon performance artist Judy Dunaway, Attack Theater, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and video artist Bill Viola.

On the 17th, FLUX will perform a new piece by Alvin Lucier called GROUP TAPPER that explores the Biotech Center's acoustics, Matthew Welch's bagpipe/gamelan inpired SIUBHAL TURNLAR, the architect/composer Iannis Xenakis's gritty TETORA, Anton von Webern's micro-masterpieces 6 BAGATELLEN and Giacinto Scelsi's QUATUOR n°2.

Stick around after the show for coffee, tea and sweets in the atrium.

Additional Information:

ENSEMBLE

• http://www.fluxquartet.com/

COMPOSERS

• Alvin Lucier | http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/
• Matthew Welch | http://www.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch
• Iannis Xenakis | http://www.myspace.com/iannisxenakis | http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/english/
• Anton Webern | http://www.antonwebern.com/
• Giacinto Scelsi | http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/scelsi.html

The schedule for FLUX Quartet is as follows:

DATE:	Saturday, February 17, 2007
TIME:	8:00 PM
LOCATION:	Biotech Center Atrium, Rensselaer Campus
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Admission to FLUX Quartet is free and open to the public.

Download the Rensselaer campus map and make your way to the Center for BIotechnology. Parking is available adjacent to the venue with access from College Avenue. There will be signs to direct you to the event.

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