Bowerbird is excited to present the music of Ben Patterson (1934-2016), performed by the Arcana New Music Ensemble. Patterson was a founding member of the FLUXUS movement, an international, interdisciplinary community of experimental artists that began in the early 1960s, inspired both by the Dada movement of the early twentieth century and the more recent provocations of John Cage. The Arcana Ensemble will be performing a program of works spanning the range of Patterson’s creative activity, from traditionally scored works to alternative forms of notation that skirt the boundaries between music and conceptual art.