Duo FLUX
Christina Fuchs - soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Florian Stadler - accordion
Live video production in 2024 including a workshop concert! With a fantastic team around Heiko Specht_Video, Andreas Hanten_Ton and Stefan Döring from the location K7/O-Ton we were able to create 2 days of relaxed video material with and without an audience.
Supported by the IFM e.V. Initiative Freie Musik in Köln, funded by the City of Cologne, Department of Culture.
To the Video
Two protagonists of jazz-based improvisation music use acoustic instruments to develop a discourse on the possibilities of contemporary interplay. Delicate counterpoint and prancing polyrhythms sound effortlessly alongside raw towers of sound, vehement chord clusters and simple cantability.
When Christina Fuchs and Florian Stadler founded the duo FLUX in 2018, the Bonn-based accordionist and the Cologne-based saxophonist, clarinettist and composer were still experimenting with the various forms and possibilities of composed and electro-acoustic music. Over time, the two like-minded musicians found a new orientation towards purely analogue improvised music.
They present this concept on their new album Roots & Rhyzomes JazzHausMusik Köln and in upcoming concerts.
Fotocredit: Heike Fischer
PRESS:
"The Cologne duo FLUX presents ‘Roots and Rhyzomes’, a masterpiece of improvised chamber music. These recordings were created at Deutschlandfunk's chamber music hall in just three days without any preparation. Its transparent surround sound provides the ideal resonance space for the spontaneously developed improvisations - making the organically grown, self-contained result all the more remarkable. ‘Roots and Rhyzomes’ celebrates the art of spontaneous improvisation at the highest level and is a perfect example of the free musical interaction between two outstanding instrumental artists acting as equals." Jazzthetik 7/24
"The first thing that strikes you is the pure, beautiful sound of the instruments. The selectivity, the tonal balance, the reproduction of the sound space, the placement of the instruments - all of this is close to perfection. The richness of the sound details and melodic ideas is also impressive. In these compositions with no unnecessary haste, we find subtle chamber music and beautiful melodies interwoven with wonderful improvisation." Jazz-fun 4/2024