Foreword by Robert Ashley “Music with Roots in the Aether” is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that [...]

Bowerbird Presents GATE @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street 8pm; FREE ADMISSION ABOUT THE ARTISTS fluxmonkey is the duo of Bbob Drake and Kristen Ban Drake, veteran electronic luthiers, language poets, and improvisors whose refined and playful work with modular synthesizers and voice acknowledges deep roots in the classically experimental ethics of Cage, Tudor, and [...]