Pamela Z – Ensemble Decipher

Ensemble Decipher Performs in Maryland

Ensemble Decipher is excited to be a resident ensemble at the National Philharmonic’s Summer String Institute this week. We’ve had a blast the past two days working with the wonderful students at SSI!

We are teaching two groups of string students about music and technology. One younger group fittingly called the “Guarneri” group is learning how to play as an ensemble with live-looping and live processing through effects like delay, reverb, and distortion. The older group, the “Strad’s,” are working with Cycling ‘74’s Max/MSP and learning to both improvise and compose with computers!

We are performing this Thursday with the students, along with two works from our repertoire: Pamela Z’s Twenty Answers and Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s Of Breath and Feeding Back.

Our concert will be at 4:00 pm on July 25, 2024, at the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation (6301 River Rd, Bethesda, MD 20817).

Ensemble Decipher Networked Fundraising Concert

Ensemble Decipher presents a concert of music written and adapted for networked performance on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 5:30pm PT / 7:30pm CT / 8:30pm ET. The music will be performed live via the internet from six different locations and streamed on Decipher’s YouTube channel. The concert is being held to raise funds for Ensemble Decipher’s upcoming performances and ticketing will be Pay What You Can with a suggested donation of $25.

The concert will feature a series of works new to Decipher’s repertoire by some of our favorite composers. Magic 8 Balls, toy instruments, and machine listening abound in Pamela Z’s Twenty Answers in an arrangement by Paula Matthusen, Angélica Negrón’s The Little Things, Scott Miller’s Exit Velocity, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi’s Speculating and Reflecting, and toy_5 by Decipher’s own Eric Lemmon.