Meditation Buddha Amoghasiddhi and His counterpart Green Tara have the wisdom quality of All-accomplishing Wisdom. In this music Of Fearlessness his hand gesture is represented as a mantra - His Gesture Of Fearlessness. This is heard  81 times throughout. The main melody in section 2 of Amoghasiddhi is transformed into an always repeating ostinato in Of Fearlessness. A third musical layer represents the ground of being.

Michael Hugh Dixon - Of Fearlessness (Mix#1 20200204)

Utdrag Krise 1

2023 Work 22

first performance

United Instruments of Lucilin:

Olivier Sliepen, alto saxophone
Sophie Deshayes, flute
Danielle Hennicot, viola
Guy Frisch, orgalitho

Lucilin in the City #18 - Sounding Stones
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg - Natur Musée
February 11, 2025

Dante Boon - Six people on a sailboat (2024)

Flat Pack Music takes an architectural approach to building a composition. Pre-composed panels are arranged, Juxtaposed and altered to build an emotive and surreal sonic experience. The flat character of the sonic materials invites the listener to listen carefully to each object and build relationships between the different materials.

Flat Pack Music

Social Discipline is incredibly excited to present the adventurous life of Jeff Perkins, a hidden gem of the American underground.

This massive five-hour podcast, recorded in Berlin in June 2024, explores his fascinating journey—no one else can claim to have performed for Yoko Ono and John Cage, created legendary light shows with The Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Germs, programmed the first Kenneth Anger retrospective in L.A., and encountered both Charles Manson and members of the satanic cult The Process.

Jeff joined the military in the 1960s and was stationed in Tokyo, where he met Yoko Ono in the early ’60s. He began performing some of her pieces there and later in New York. Perkins also filmed Ono’s classic Film No. 4 (Bottoms), a Fluxus work. His first independent contribution to the Fluxfilm Anthology was Shout. He was at the heart of the 1960s New York avant-garde scene, surrounded by figures like La Monte Young, Jack Smith, and Angus MacLise.

In January 1967, Perkins moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a programmer at Cinematheque 16. Influenced by Tony Conrad’s The Flicker, he began producing powerful light shows and collaborated with bands throughout the ’60s and ’70s—ranging from The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Grateful Dead to the punk scene with X and The Germs. He even refused to do a show for the Sex Pistols due to a disagreement with the promoter. Perkins was a close friend of Terry Jennings and, in fact, entrusted his archive to La Monte Young. While in L.A., he was neighbors with the artist James Turrell.

In 1980, Perkins moved back to New York and started a loft project just a block away from Ground Zero, reminiscent of George Maciunas’ artist loft spaces. To finance it, he worked as a cab driver. He remained deeply connected to cinema, particularly through Anthology Film Archives, where he proposed a John Cassavetes retrospective to Jonas Mekas and later became a manager. In 1994, Nam June Paik—who coined the term “The Fluxus cab driver” for Perkins—invited him to perform at Anthology Film Archives in a homage to Yoko Ono. His performance, Butthead, was a great success. His legendary loft became a hub where one could easily encounter visiting filmmakers like Pedro Costa and Albert Serra.

In 1989, Perkins organized a series of lectures at Anthology Film Archives with Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad, reuniting the two after years of estrangement. Flynt would become a lifelong friend. In 2008, during the financial crisis, when I lived with Jeff, we organized a series of four-hour lectures by Flynt in the loft’s kitchen, focusing on the crisis and communist economics. I vividly remember Tony Conrad attending one of them in his elegant pajamas.

Perkins has directed two critically acclaimed films—one on abstract painter Sam Francis and another on the legendary Fluxus figure George Maciunas. He is currently finishing editing a film about Henry Flynt in Berlin.

This podcast concludes with an excerpt from his piece Movies for the Blind, which features recordings of conversations with passengers from his time as a New York cab driver.

SD44 w/Jeff Perkins "The Fluxus Cab Driver"

live recording 
Oct. 11, 2025
Tenri Institute
New York, NY

Chimeric Form [2023]
I. 77 mögliche Hauptmotive
II. TOR[S]-
III. "little tail"
*. appendix of deleted material

Wet Ink Ensemble
Laura Weiner, horn
Josh Modney, violin
Eric Wubbels, piano

Chimeric Form [2023] (live, Wet Ink Ensemble)

Waterlily

For Morton Feldman (2008)
Composer: Matthew Lee Knowles
Pianist: Kate Ledger 

https://matthewleeknowles.bandcamp.com/album/for-part-one-accretion

Happy Hundredth Birthday Morton Feldman!

excerpt out of the middle of a 40 minute piece inspired by the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, particularly drawing from her masterpiece Always Coming Home. This is taken from the premiere at Rainy Days Festival in November 2025.

Explore Ensemble
Taylor MacLennan flûte
Alex Roberts clarinette
Eloisa-Fleur Thom violon
Christine Anderson alto
Deni Teo violoncelle
Nicholas Moroz direction artistique, guitare électrique
Siwan Rhys harpe celtique
EXAUDI
Juliet Fraser soprano
Sophie Overin mezzo-soprano
Tom Williams contreténor
Stephen Jeffes ténor
Simon Whiteley baryton
Ben McKee basse

dying your dying to come closer (création, commande Explore Ensemble avec le soutien
de la Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Radcliffe Trust et Englandʼs National
Lottery Project Grants, co-commande Philharmonie et The Barbican)

dying your dying to come closer (7 min excerpt)

Composed for and is about the ensemble Birthday Present (Sam Leith Taylor, Paul Zaba, James Alexandropolous-McEwan, Rob Nettleship and Patrick Ellis), played by Birthday present (excluding Rob Nettleship) at the Casa da Música, Porto as part of the Harmos Plural Festival 2015.

2023 Work 22

Freeman Edwards

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