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Ensemble Decipher @ Roulette Intermedium

Ensemble Decipher will perform at Roulette Intermedium (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) on October 23rd, 8:00PM. Doors open at 7:30PM. The program will include works by Bora Yoon, Erin Rogers, and Lyn Goeringer. It will also include a collaboration between choreographer and dancer Hiva Sedaghat and ensemble members Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Robert Cosgrove, and Taylor Long.

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We are still raising funds to support this incredible project and would love your help! Please consider donating below!

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We greatly appreciate the support of the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Copland Fund for New Music, the Amphion Foundation, the Fromm and Barlow Foundations, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Reed College, and the numerous individuals who have already donated. This project could not have been achieved without you!

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Ensemble Decipher SUNY PACC Tour

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Ensemble Decipher Performing at New Music for Strings 2021

We are heading to #Denmark to perform at this year’s New Music for Strings and we couldn’t be more excited! There, we will be performing as the Ensemble in Residence, and premiering works hot off the press by Mari Kimura and Sophia Sagaradze, as well as presenting works from our repertoire by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Margaret Schedel, and Yaz Lancaster. Additionally, our very own Eric Lemmon collaborated with New Music for Strings co-Founder and Artistic Director Anne Sophie Andersen on a new work, which will be premiered as well!

You can find out more details about the festival at https://www.newmusicforstrings.org/, which will also be live streamed online at NowNet Arts’ digital venue! https://nownetarts.org/venue

Join us in exploring the festival’s theme this year: Remote Connections!

This engagement is supported by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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Ensemble Decipher Raises Money for the Lift Music Fund

Ensemble Decipher performs on Lift Music Fund’s series “Mini-Concerts for Microgrants”. The concert will feature a mix of music and discussion about Lift Music Fund’s mission. We are setting the modest goal of raising $500 during a live concert for the organization on Sunday, April 11th 2021, 3:00PM EST. We hope to see you there!

About Lift Music Fund:

Lift Music Fund, unlike other scholarship organizations, helps BIPOC student musicians afford the incidental and hidden costs such as necessary equipment, lessons, and other expenses to advance their musical training.

Lift Music Fund also provides informational resources to help students navigate the path toward a career in music and a community of support for young musicians as they work to achieve their goals.

https://www.liftmusicfund.org/about

We at Ensemble Decipher believe that supporting access, equity, and justice in the arts are integral to our mission as a performance group. One of the greatest barriers to historically marginalized groups in music technology and concert music more generally is access to quality music education, and the tools to pursue that education. Lift Music Fund is a fantastic organization that seeks to redress this issue. Click below to learn more and support Lift Music Fund!

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Ensemble Decipher Performs at Penn State New-Music Festival

Ensemble Decipher performs Eric Lemmon’s toy_5 at the Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium, Saturday, March 20th, 1:00PM EST. http://bit.ly/psnmf

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Pretty Saro

‘Pretty Saro’ is a folk tune I first heard through a Folkways recording of Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson. I was immediately struck by the simplicity and power of both the performance and the music itself. I then heard Peggy Seeger do it on one of her albums, and it sort of catapulted the song onto my ‘desert island playlist,’ landing right next to another desert island record, ‘Music for Airports.’ I have tapped Eno’s procedure of orbiting tape loops in his wonderful album as a method to cope with the lack of precise synchronization of parts due to the limitations of our the telematic situation and our unstable home internet connections. The material, sourced from the traditional song, is presented with an open scoring, and is performed to a shared (albeit erratic) metronome, which remains silent to the audience. I am pleased by the way this project has allowed me to explore and remodel these two dear sources and make them my own.

—Sam Beebe

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Ensemble Decipher at Sonic Spring

Works by Nick Nelson, Eric Lemmon, Missy Mazzoli, Agata Zubel, Hannah Davis, and Gregory Pfieffer. Performances also by Stephanie Liu and Ross Aftel. Reception provided generously by the Stony Brook Graduate Student Organization.

4.5.19 7:30PM

Staller Center for the Arts