Flux Bikes

Auricle New Music Series presents Flux Bikes, a concert to kick off Madison Bike Week 2025 on Sunday, June 1 at 7:00pm. Free admission, donations encouraged.

Flux Bikes makes long distance music and is proud to be presented by the Auricle New Music Series to kick off Madison Bike Week 2025. Rob Frye (based in Chicago, plays in Bitchin Bajas, Exoplanet) rides on two-wheeled air, travelling near and far to discover the sonic and transportative capabilities of his bicycle tires, rims, and spokes. Played and layered like drums, a relationship is discovered between these everyday objects and more conventional instruments like flutes and synthesizers.

Documented at www.fluxbikes.blogspot.com and more recently @flux_bikes on Instagram, Rob believes in the simple power of the bicycle, riding to every show since the project's inception in 2010. Trips have included: LA to San Francisco, Chicago to Milwaukee, Austin to New Orleans, Valencia to Barcelona, Munich to Vienna, and now Chicago to Madison.

Madison improvisor and bike enthusiast Tim Russell will collaborate with Flux Bikes in this performance.

Event page photo credit: Mark Rietveld.

Rob Frye

Based in Chicago since 2006, Rob Frye chases sound using woodwinds, synthesizers, bicycle tires, and birdsong. His project Flux Bikes is in its 10th year; Frye’s other current groups include Bitchin Bajas, Jackie Lynn, Exoplanet, and a duo with Ben LaMar Gay.

Tim Russell

Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin’s Dance Department. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. Along with Tim’s long time collaboration with the Gerald Casel Dance Company, his audio shares the stage with a vast array of choreographic artists bringing Tim and his music across the world from Dock 11 in Berlin to YBCA in San... Read More

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