3RD EAR Presents: Fletcher Tucker performing his new LP “Kin” with LFZ

Join Fletcher Tucker (of Big Sur) for a rare live performance celebrating the release of Kin—a psycho-spiritually potent album of acoustic drones, animistic chanting, and place-based ritual. Composed while trekking through the remote Big Sur backcountry, Kin is a sonic offering to the living world: an incantation of kinship, mystic communion, and mythopoetic storytelling. Tucker’s immersive set will bring to life the record’s elemental palette of “ancestral instruments”—pump organ, Swedish bagpipes, flutes, and bowed zithers—alongside chanted verse and percussive portals to the liminal.

Opening the evening is LFZ, the exploratory sound project of Los Angeles–based artist Sean Smith. Blending analog synthesizers, electric guitars, and hardware effects, LFZ crafts vast, cinematic soundscapes rooted in synesthesia and the esoteric. His work channels the deep unknown through soaring electronic ritualism, offering a richly textured journey into the hidden layers of perception.

Together, these two visionary artists invite you into a night of vibrational ceremony and sonic enchantment—a doorway into the wild, the sacred, and the unseen. A discussion and moderated Q&A between Tucker and Alembic co-founder Erik Davis will round out the night.

This event is part of the Alembic's 3RD EAR series. 3RD EAR is a series of music and sound events and discussions held at the Berkeley Alembic. Curated by Erik Davis and Sam Plattner, 3RD EAR will explore ambient soundscapes, field recordings, experimental electronica, sacred noise, cosmic drones, sonic manipulations, and Old World improvisations. Hearing is a thing that just happens, but listening is a practice: a way of exploring and meditating on sensation, mind, and the vibratory cosmos around us.

This event is in-person only. Tickets are $25 - $50 with no one turned away for lack of funds.

Fletcher Tucker (born 1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and practitioner of animistic, earth-reverent skills and philosophies, residing on the unceded Esselen tribal lands now known as Big Sur, California. Since 2005, Tucker has released nine full-length albums of music under various project names, on labels based in Germany, Sweden, Japan, and the United States. Tucker’s most recent records, released under his given name, explore relationality—aural and poetic expressions of his ever-deepening relationships to place, ancestors, ceremonial practice, and kinfolk (human and more-than-human).

Tucker is the founder of the analog record label Gnome Life Records, which has released experimental and ambient music, outsider folk, and spoken word by West Coast artists since 2005 (including works by Robbie Basho, Daniel Higgs, Little Wings, and many more). Learn more about Fletcher here:

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