Fuse Ensemble’s recent 2024/2025 Speech and Silence concert season brought to the fore two ways of listening. In an alternating series of live music works (many with spoken word) and five serene and stunning films by artist Edgar Endress, we gathered in these two realms and explored the deep possibilities that lie within and outside of our auditory sphere. The audience contemplated a visual world in front of them, a soft, direct experience of the mind as it is; until listening was reawakened, drawn outwards by the live music that followed until the cycle began anew. It has been said that while speech may divide us, silence can connect us – not only to our deeper selves, but to each other. Two ways of listening explored in succession, a push-pull, inside-out encounter between two worlds; Fuse Ensemble’s Speech and Silence held much for the audience to discover.
Speech and Silence included works by Pamela Z, Nicole Mitchell, Caroline Shaw, Brittany J. Green, and Gina Biver, plus the premiere of a work by bassist/composer Ethan Foote.
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Also included this season were several original short films by new media artist Edgar Endress.