Ensemble Pamplemousse + Mocrep

Ensemble Pamplemousse brings new flavors and objects to a new form, a new piece, a new experience. Instead of discrete pieces filling out your typical concert, the composer-performer collective has co-authored a piece of strange magic, an exquisite corpse of exquisite corpses, a work sending each members’ talents and specialties skittering across its surface. This concert-length set has been developed collectively by bringing together everyone’s favorite sounds and materials together into one exhilarating combination, developed by all. What a better way to reach the sublimely absurd than mashing up musical identities?

Mocrep will present a highly individual program of works written for and by the ensemble. Crackles, a piece written for them by Berlin-based composer Neele Huelcker, was premiered as part of their showcase at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany. They will perform it alongside a new piece by the ensemble’s own Zach Moore, and a new collaboratively created work by the ensemble, devised as part of their current residency at Mana Contemporary Chicago.

Ensemble Pamplemousse: Natacha Diels (flt), Jessie Marino (vcl), Weston Olencki (tbn), Dave Broome (keys), Andrew Greenwald (drums), Bryan Jacobs (elec)

Mocrep: Amanda Bailey, Owen Davis, Alex Ellsworth, Zachary Good, Lia Kohl, Nick Meryhew, Zach Moore, Isaac Stevenson, Christopher Wood, Bethany Younge, Ryan Zerna

“[In Pamplemousse’s music] mime was made musical, outer space and inner space were inverted, organic essences were redefined, and music, enthralled, was enthralling. Wisdom and frolic do-si-do’ed.” – Jean Ballard Terepka, Theater Scene

www.ensemblepamplemousse.org
www.mocrep.org

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