Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (Andrew Greenwald, Rama Gottfried, Dave Broome, Jessie Marino, Natacha Diels, Kiku Enomoto and Russell Greenberg) presents Absurd Limitations: the emergent product of reducing, restricting, narrowing, squelching, slicing, and otherwise removing all unnecessary fodder. In extremes, what remains is a curious series of decomplexities which the audience is driven to anatomize into a consolified structure. Space is at a premium; noise is molecular; silence is hypothetical but desired. Ensemble Pamplemousse presents five new works of exploitative self-limitation effectuated through the conflux of adventure and confusion.
Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in contemporary music. A unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists allows Yarn/Wire to interface with both traditional performance practice and emerging stylistic trends with ease. They will play alphabeta by Eric Wubbels and Wolf by Kate Soper.
Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2002 to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique. Compositions aggregate each member’s unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance, clusters of glitch, skitters of hyper action, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty.
Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet specializing in the performance of 21st century music. A unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists allows Yarn/Wire to interface with both traditional performance practice and emergent stylistic trends with ease. Founded in 2005 at Stony Brook University, the members of Yarn/Wire have extensive performance and pedagogic experience encompassing international and domestic music festivals, college and university residences, and substantive work in the avant-garde theater and DIY/punk worlds. Frequent collaborations with composers on new work form a significant portion of the ensemble’s activities. In addition to presenting multiple US premieres, Yarn/Wire has given the world premieres of over a dozen new works written specifically for the ensemble.