We are [flux]a contemporary music ensemble formed at the Royal Academy of Music as part of the RIOT Ensemble Art Mentor Lucerne scheme. We first came together in a Fluxus concert, performing one another’s text scores - an experience that shaped how we continue to work: collaboratively, experimentally, and with a shared sense of curiosity.

As young new music enthusiasts, we aim to discover and share with audiences the broad and diverse landscape of contemporary music, with a focus on utilising technology. Our ensemble exists in flexible configurations, allowing us to explore both intimate and large-scale works, programming music that reflects a wide range of voices and approaches.

From our first concert, Fractures of Light, Shadows of Sound, where we brought together Lichtbogen by Kaija Saariaho, Fast Darkness III by Chaya Czernowin, and the world premiere of Erebus by Shin Kim to our most recent  second concert, perspectives, featuring a new work for cello and electronics by Eli Stine alongside Four Pieces for Violin and Piano by Anton Webern, Rhapsody No. 2 by Jessie Montgomery, and Rebonds A+B by Iannis Xenakis., what started as a one-off exchange of text scores has become an ongoing, shared practice: each project a new way of working, and a new way of hearing.