fluxxbaby ‚girlflux EP‘ RELEASE TOUR
and DEATH RATTLED

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2024 | 8PM-9:30PM
Location: Saratoga Arts, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY
Tickets on sale now! $10-25 sliding scale
(pay what you can to support the artists and arts community): https://www.saratoga-arts.org/event-5786538

Get your tickets now for this Thursday’s performance by Zurich-based fluxxbaby for her ‚girlflux EP‘ US release tour with local host musician Troy-based Death Rattled (Manuel J. Perez III) presented by Improv Spaces at Saratoga Arts.

fluxxbaby (she/her) has been focusing on her work as an electronic and improvising musician for several years. Her practice revolves around two intertwined approaches: solo production and collaborative improvisation. As a solo artist, she focuses on harsh sounds and deconstructed rhythms, capturing the abstraction, loneliness, and brutality of late capitalism in 2024 and shaping it into her own soundtrack. 

For the tape “girlflux EP,” set to be released in July 2024, fluxxbaby transformed her improvisational workflow into structured compositions. She worked with algorithmic rhythms, sampled prepared pianos and nature sounds, and pushing every sound through various digital machines and engines over and over, constructing and deconstructing, searching for rhythms, and ultimately finding flux. With a library of refined sounds, fluxxbaby steps out of her studio to once again push, pull and transform her sound, reconstruct the rhythms, searching flux and finding improvisation. 

Death Rattled began out of a desire to explore the assembling, juxtaposition, and disfiguration of recognizable symbols. Their work explores this through multimedia and audiovisual mediums (e.g., digital collage, embodied performance, music genre mashups, music videos, soundscapes, sampling, etc.). DR is proudly anti-cop and anti-fascist.

Manuel J. Perez III, an interdisciplinary artist and experimental performer based out of the northeastern USA, began Death Rattled in 2019. Their artistic work has been shared internationally (Turkey, Germany, Canada, etc.) within the bland white walls of institutions such as Istanbul Bilgi University, TU-Berlin, and Wesleyan University, as well as within thriving DIY communities worldwide.

Death Rattled’s primary visual art practice began with digital collage using royalty-free images. Each work consists of images uploaded on royalty-free image websites that are disfigured through digital processing, specifically layering and filtering techniques. DR’s image sources now include large corporations, search engines, and other capitally-driven enterprises as a politically charged means towards reclamation. This process explores one way out of our perpetual commodification hellscape of capitalism by using reclaimed audiovisual media to make the old new again. This practice extends to the sonic, where sample & mashup culture blend with spontaneous creation in search of the boundaries between genre and symbol.

Hope to see you Thursday!