a concept-based,
new music//new media
performing ensemble
Fuse Ensemble is a unique electroacoustic chamber ensemble. Each season a concept is presented, giving voice to new music composers and creating musical happenings with visual elements of live or interactive video, electronics, or kinetic installations. They joyfully collaborate with sculptors, visual artists, instrument makers, poets; with analog and digital artists of all types.
“a sizable impression in the area of chamber music.”
— Take Effect Reviews
Upcoming Season
Speech and Silence, Fuse Ensemble’s 2024/2025 concert season, brings to the fore two ways of listening. In an alternating series of live music works (many with spoken word) and meditative videos of artist Edgar Endress, we gather in these two realms and explore the deep possibilities that lie within and outside of our auditory sphere. The audience contemplates a visual world in front of them, a quiet, direct experience of the mind as it is; until their listening is reawakened, drawn outwards by the live music piece that follows until the cycle begins anew. It has been said that while speech may divide us, silence can connect us – not only to each other, but to our deeper selves. Two ways of listening explored in succession, a push-pull, inside-out encounter between two worlds; Fuse Ensemble’s Speech and Silence holds much for the audience to discover.
Speech and Silence includes works by Pamela Z, Caroline Shaw, Brittany J. Green and Gina Biver, and a premiere of a solo work for bass by Ethan Foote. Select concerts also include works by Marc Mellits, Kevin Puts and Matteo dal Maso.
The ensemble is excited to be performing live in New York along with Pamela Z on her Ways of Looking in 2025! Stay tuned for details!!
Included this season are several original short films by new media artist Edgar Endress.
This season is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Allan and Margot Blank Foundation.
“it’s just so much fun to listen to”
— I Care If You Listen
Recordings
Fuse Ensemble has recorded on Neuma Records and Ravello Recordings. Click on the album covers below to listen or purchase.
“awarding the album a perfect score for both the recording and performance”
— Cinemusical Online
For more videos, please visit (and subscribe to!) our Fuse Ensemble YouTube Channel