A Flux Factory production, our 2nd annual Flux-a-Thon is part parade, part dinner/dance party, part participatory art showdown, part walkathon, but 100% Fluxy.

All are invited to march with teams through LIC from our home base, Flux Factory to the wildnerness-hidden-amid-the-skyscrapers community garden Smiling Hogshead Ranch.  After our celebrity panel bestows honors on our teams, we'll celebrate all night with drinks, food, performances, DJs, site-specific installations and more!

Proceeds from the Flux-a-Thon support Flux's free public art exhibitions and help keep costs low for our Artists-in-Residence.

AMIRTHA KIDAMBI

Experimental Vocalist and Composer

A fixture in the NYC experimental music community, Amirtha Kidambi's work is varied, dynamic and deeply evocative. She's worked collaboratively with Robert Ashley, Tyondai Braxton, Ashcan Orchestra, and Seaven Teares (among many others), and leads her own critically-acclaimed band, Elder Ones. We'll be graced with a rare solo performance at the Flux-a-Thon after party.

PUSSY GRABS BACK -- THE BAND

Ad-Hoc Brass Band Ready to Dump Trump EVERY FUCKING DAY

BRYAN UJUETA

DJ Mr. Twin Sister

Bryan Ujueta is the drummer of Mr. Twin Sister, who have released on Domino Records, been sampled by Kendrick Lamar, and have a new self-titled LP. He also spins records around NYC as DJ Mr. Twin Sister, enticing crowds to dance with a delectable mix of funk, disco and house.

Direction, Choreography by Patricia Nicholson
Part 1. "Justice" composed by Oliver Lake
Part 2. "Soliloquy for the Children who lost Everything & the Flowers that Saved Them" composed by William Parker

Live Video Art: Bill Mazza
Dancers: Miriam Parker, Jason Jordan, Guanglei Hui,
nna Pauline Gichan,  Patricia Nicholson, 
Voices: Fay Victor, Amirtha Kidambi, Lisa Sokolov, Andrea Wolper, Jean Carla Rodea
Strings: Melanie Dyer, Jean Cook, Gwen Laster, Brandon Lopez
Reeds: Oliver Lake, Abraham Mennen, Lee Odom, Ras Moshe, Dave Sewelson, Karen Borca
Horns: Vincent Chancey, Jaimie Branch
Rhythm Section: Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Dan Kurfirst
Art Installation: Melanie Dyer, Jackson Krall, William Parker, Patricia Nicholson

Frowny Frown, a group playing the music of Aaron Novik including Kristin Slipp, Amirtha Kidambi, Ches Smith, Shayna Dunkleman, Trevor Dunn, Michael Coleman and Ava Mendoza. 

Also, GRID featuring Tim Dahl, Matt Nelson and Nick Podgurski.

Elder Ones presents new music at The Jazz Gallery

Amirtha Kidambi – vocals
Matt Nelson – saxophone
Brandon Lopez – bass
Max Jaffe – drums

sets at 7.30pm + 9.30pm
each set: $15/FREE for members
 

Improvisers Ingrid Laubrock (sax), Peter Evans (trumpet), Amirtha Kidambi (voice), and Travis Laplante (sax) play with Sky Macklay's installation MEGA-ORGAN in an evening of unpredictable sonic splendor! These world-renouned players will each play a solo with MEGA-ORGAN and wil end with a group improv.

FREE!

Doors at 7:00
Free dinner at 7:15
Music at 8:00

Part of Judson Memorial Church's Bailout series http://classic.judson.org/bailouttheater

MEGA-ORGAN: The Interactive Improvisation Space is an installation of inflatable harmonica-playing sculptures located in the loft of Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village. MEGA-ORGAN will transform the loft of Judson Memorial Church into an ensconcing, living, breathing instrument. Judson has a pipe organ that sadly no longer functions. MEGA-ORGAN will resonify the organ using inflatable sculptures built from flexible plastic and flowing from the organ pipes and walls. The sculptures will have dozens of harmonicas affixed inside their air-escape points. High-power fans will animate the sculptures and excite the reeds, creating rich, organ-like, droney walls of sound. The fans will be controlled by a combination of motion sensors that react when viewers/listeners enter the space. 

Sponsored by New Music USA https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/mega-organ-the-interactive-improvisation-space/ 

Please also visit MEGA-ORGAN during open gallery hours March 26th-April 5th! https://www.facebook.com/events/1274190912646565/

A Tribute to my dear friend, collaborator and mentor, Pauline Oliveros. I know she is listening.
In Vagina Dialogues -a performance sound composition -- Miya Masaoka enacts the registers of aurality, hearing and engagement that involve the giving and receiving of sound.
In these vagina listening sessions, the body’s vaginal orifice a receptor and giver of sound, whereby sound is transmitted and felt through the entire body. In this scenario, vaginas are empowered as the producers of sound, no longer mute and silent. 16 vagina identified queer friendly participants will be vibrating together on resonating chairs with transducers. Come and try a chair yourself or sit in the audience!

Join us for this performance followed by an informal discussion January 12 at 8:00 (Please stay for the later sets with Byron Westbrook and Ursula Scherrer)

Fridman Gallery
January 12, 8:00 PM
FRIDMAN GALLERY
287 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013

http://www.fridmangallery.com/

 NEW EAR FESTIVAL - curated by Peter Evans

January 8- 15 - 8pm

Tickets $20

Jan 8 (6pm) - Tribute to Pauline Oliveros and launch of 9 Evenings + 50 video archiveJan 9 -

Jan 9 Amir ElSaffar, Ole Mathison, Tomas Fujiwar

Jan 10 - Kassa Overall

Jan 11 - Ohal Grietzer, Victoria Keddie

Jan 12 - Miya Masaoka, Byron Westbrook, Ursula Scherrer

Jan 13 - Tomeka Reid, Jamie Branch, Selina Trepp

Jan 14 - Diego Espinosa

Jan 15 - Levy Lorenzo, Lea Bertucci

Jan 16 - Yulan Grant 

January 7th Winter Jazzfest Marathon - 8pm 

New School Glass Box Theater 55 West 13th Street NYC
6:40pm          John Hébert’s Rambling Confessions
8:00pm         Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones
9:20pm         Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days
10:40pm       Ben Allison's Think Free
12:00am       Ben Wendel Seasons Band

Saturday November 12 @ The Park Church Co-op

AdHoc x Northern Spy Presents

Special Collaborative Performance by
Rhys Chatham / Oneida 
'What's Your Sign?' record release on Northern Spy

Tredici Bacci
'Amore Per Tutti' record release on NNA Tapes

Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones
'Holy Science' record release on Northern Spy

TIX: http://ticketf.ly/2c1M2K7

| The Park Church Co-op |
129 Russell St @ Nassau | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G-Nassau | 8pm | $13+ | all ages

"The aggressive and sublime first album by the band Elder Ones, Holy Science, is a kind of gauge for how strong and flexible the scene of young musicians in New York’s improvised and experimental music world can be. At the center of it are drones and phonemes." - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones have signed to Northern Spy Records! Come out to Knockdown Center's lovely Ready Room to meet the band and catch a special performance. Levy Lorenzo and Peter Evans will perform as a duo. NSPY friends/family will be playing records.

11pm Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones
https://vimeo.com/139639231

10pm Peter Evans / Levy Lorenzo
https://vimeo.com/164648474

9pm NSPY DJs

This is a free event.

Vocalist Amirtha Kidambi will be visiting from New York and performing in a quartet with trumpeter Greg Kelley and local improvisational luminaries Lori Goldston, cello, & Greg Campbell, percussion. 

Seattle violinst/composer Austin Larkin will also be performing a set this evening, as well as Anacortes' organic concretist Geological Creep.

Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members
Tickets available at the door only

NYC based improvising vocalist and Bay Area native Amirtha Kidambi, and Oakland’s own Zachary James Watkins, met in the basement music venue of a bar in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. Amirtha and Zachary immediately struck a chord speaking candidly about race politics in experimental music, and the rapid gentrification of their hometowns and home bases, with a silent nod to the connections between these issues in the microcosm of their artistic communities, and the institutional and systemic racism and unrest in the macrocosm of America. The conversation was brief, but a connection was made. This concert is a continuation of that conversation, in communion with POC and women in the Bay Area, expanding the dialogue from coast-to-coast in their respective artistic communities. They will be joined by Marshall Trammell (percussion), Jeanie-Aprille Tang (electronics), Nava Dunkelman (percussion) and Lisa Mezzacappa (bass) in large group and small formations.

The Ashcan Orchestra presents a collection of new electro-mechanical toy instruments, and new works. The instruments will be built from handbells, toy pianos, slide whistles, and percussion and be automated by light, sound, and other sensors using simple CMOS digital logic chips, and mechanical memory. The first part of the evening will consist of new pieces for the individual instruments and ensemble. In the second half, the instruments will comprise a chamber ensemble sized “music box” with performers using sound and light to play a longer theatrical composition which uses the rules of digital logic, inherent to their electronics, as musical material.

The Ashcan Orchestra is simultaneously the audio/visual work of composerP. Spadine, a collection of toy, re-appropriated, and homemade instruments, and an revolving performance ensemble based in NYC since 2007. On stages and basements, indoors and out, it has been presenting new music and rituals in celebration and emulation of the physics and mathematics that bind the known universe.  

[COMMISSION] Ashcan Orchestra: New Instruments and New Works is made possible, in part, by the Jerome Foundation.

The Jerome Foundation, a long-time supporter of young composers, was a mainstay in Roulette’s early development and continues to help us fulfill our mission by presenting ambitious work by promising artists. Each year, the Jerome Foundation supports five artist residencies and four commissions at Roulette.

For her third and final show as a 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Lea Bertucci will premiere new works for voice, tape and electronics at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. Developed over the course of 2015/16, these new works embody her recent approaches to composition and recording technique. Environmental sound sources and manipulated instruments/objects form an ominous sound-world, where states of alienation, ambiguity and transcendence are examined.

The performance will feature guest vocalists Max Alper, Amirtha Kidambi, and Kathleen Baird.

Dennis Sullivan curates
Sunday, April 24 at 7:30 pm
Tickets $10 in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2539306 or $15 at the door

SET 1
Radical 2 (Dennis Sullivan and Levy Lorenzo)
- Altered States of Elasticity .... Dennis Sullivan
Popebama (Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan)
- Shedding Waste .... Dennis Sullivan (world premier)
Trash Stack (Ed RosenBerg, Jay Sorce, Dennis Sullivan)

SET 2
Amirtha Kidambi, Leila Bordreuil and Alice Teyssier
-Voices and Cello .... Morton Feldman
- Structured Improvisation .... Amirtha Kidambi, Leila Bordreuil

SET 3
Sam Kulik
The Broadcast .... Sam Kulik
Live Screening!!!!

::::: ELDER ONES (9:15PM)

:::: FRANK HURRICANE

::: WICKED ROT

:: MARIEL ROBERTS

8pm
1154 Myrtle Ave

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2016/spring/amirtha-kidambi

From tight rhythmic unisons to expansive, wandering melodic lines, Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones and Longleash represent many possible futures for contemporary experimental music. Each group features highly accomplished, technically virtuosic musicians, conversant in a wide range of musical styles and idioms, and driven by the goal of an ever-expanding musical vernacular.

Elder Ones, a quartet performing the compositions of vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, lies nestled in a Venn diagram of diverse musical spheres and communities in New York City. Bandleader Kidambi performs on harmonium and draws her vocal influence from both Indian Carnatic and Western Classical training. With saxophonist Matt Nelson, bassist Brandon Lopez, and drummer Max Jaffe, the band expands its influence to the realm of hip-hop and free improvisation. Oscillating between modal, Sufi-like circular grooves and jagged, brutal rhythmic constructions, the band equally suspects Thyagaraja, Coltrane, and Stockhausen as illegitimate fathers of their sound. 

Named for the Cold War-era CIA program that aimed to undermine Soviet culture by secretly disseminating art from the American avant-garde, Longleash relish the paradox of experimental sound. Formed in 2013 by violinist Pala Garcia, cellist John Popham, and pianist Renate Rohlfing, the group is focused on the commissioning and performance of music by emerging composers. Pursuing the freedom of exploration within a pre-determined set of limitations, they mine the depths of the traditional piano trio in search of sounds and ideas yet undiscovered. This performance will feature works by Juan de Dios Magdaleno, Francesco Filidei, Yukiko Watanabe, Christopher Trapani, and Clara Iannotta.

JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkDQkXVN_ys
ELDER ONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5eV2_WYehM
SALT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://saltpeoplenyc.bandcamp.com/album/when-jazz-becomes-the-agent-of-the-bourgeoisie
TRIGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jihaHs3MA
SAMUEL BOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymtssxeiMk

bring your own yoga mats
shave your stash
cringe with envy!

Trio with Matana Roberts (Alto Saxophone), Eliot Krimsky (Piano), Amirtha Kidambi (Voice)