Goethe said it best: Architecture is frozen poetry. Except that we all know that poetry is just about everything, so that he could’ve as well meant: Architecture is frozen music.

And to bring about the defrost, local digital wiz CONSTANT FLUX will be duking it out along with VJ FOC:EYE at the A + D Architecture and Design Museum (5900 Wilshire Blvd, directly across from LACMA on Museum Row) on July 28th from 6 to 10 pm.

Best of all, the event is FREE so take this chance to peek at amazing new trends in architecture while also allowing your ears to tune-in to some new, experimental sounds and your eyes to some bodacious visual candy.

Constant Flux and Foc:eye are performing as part of the opening celebration for the exhibit 2x8: SWELL. Both artists have a reputable career in both the local and international scenes for truly radical sound and VJ work. They’ve steeped their compositions for this exhibit into all things urban, considering the exhibit’s metropolitan theme. Many of their sounds are ‘based on architectural forms and structures. The sonic sculptures are then used to create compositions intended to reflect our cities vibrant pace and complex landscape. Everything is then translated back into the visual realm by motion visual artist collaborators ‘.

And what’s 2x8 SWELL, you may ask?

Well, check it out, directly from their PR materials:

2x8 : SWELL
JULY 14 - AUGUST 18

The 2x8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIA/LA (American Institute of Architects), showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and design institutions throughout California. Celebrating the unequaled diversity in pedagogical directions, each of the sixteen participating academic programs select two projects that exemplify its core vision. Through this important exhibition, we hope to forge an invaluable link between this emerging talent and the professional world, giving rise to significant collaborations and alliances vital to the improvement of our built environment.

This year's fourth annual 2x8 exhibition is entitled Swell. Open to many interpretations, Swell encompasses a wide variety of processes and pedagogies these institutions offer. Each of the participating institutions is given the freedom to utilize, define or manipulate the phrase as it wishes, creating a remarkable range of ideas and imagery illustrated in the selected projects. In addition to these presentations, student-run forum at the exhibit space will extend a critical discourse on design and its impact in the local and global community.

For more information including regular museum hours and admission please visit www.aplusd.org

A complete Advisory for this event follows:

WHAT:
CONSTANT FLUX audio concert along live visual artist FOC:EYE with additional music by DJ Paul Wehby (Fateless Flows)

WHERE:
A+D Architecture and Design Museum, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard (directly across from LACMA on Museum Row)

WHEN:
July 28, Doors open 6:30 - 9:30pm

ADMISSION:
Free!

Experimental electronic musician and audio/visual performance pioneer Constant Flux will be in concert with FOC:EYE at A+D Architecture and Design Museum on Museum Row on Friday, July 28 for an opening celebration to launch the 2x8 : SWELL exhibition.

Constant Flux audio and video clips are available at fluxgruv.com. 

The music for the opening celebration of 2 : 8 SWELL is sponsored by SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES.