FLUX Quartet at Interpretations

From New York’s Interpretations:

FLUX Quartet premieres David First // Dom Minasi String Quartet
Thursday, December 1o, 2009
8PM at Roulette
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)
Earl Howard / Edmund Campion

The 21st Season of Thomas Buckner’s innovative series of new music continues on Decermber 10, 2009, featuring two composer/guitarists premiering new music for two very different string quartets. The FLUX Quartet premieres a new work for string quartet and electronics by eclectic composer and Notekillers guitarist David First, and the Dom Minasi performs new music from Minasi’s new recording Dissonance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, featuring violinist Jason Kao Hwang, cellist Thomas Ulrich, and bassist Ken Filiano.

David First’s Elegies for the Afterland is an evening length work composed for string quartet and electronics. Drones moving through shifting extended chords tuned to just-intonation ratios provide a field inside which the quartet executes languorous unison melodies, hallucinogenic pitch-bends and deep polyrhythmic rocking. Influenced by numerous world events and circumstances, the title refers to Mr. First’s concern over the planet we are leaving to future generations.

Dom Minasi’s unique string ensemble functions both like contemporary chamber music group and a jazz band, due largely to Minasi’s innovative compositions and the distinct characteristics of the improvising musicians in the ensemble. Minasi’s classical guitar sometimes substitutes for viola, second violin, or cello, diversifying and enhancing richness of the textural palette. With the addition of contrabass and the inter-mingling of parts, this quartet has its own unique sound.

For more information on Roulette:
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)
General admission: $15 ($10 students, seniors, Harvestworks & DTW members; free for Roulette and Location One members) For reservations, call 212-219-8242 or visit http://www.roulette.org

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