Ensemble Ipse: "Siteworks: Composer Soup Throwdown"

Up to 25 composers to participate in a "Siteworks: Composer Soup Throwdown” event on 5/24/26 at CultureLab LIC in Long Island City, Queens. Composers’ audio files will have been loaded into MIDI triggering webcam stations, which will be placed in a spatial arrangement around the performance area. Composers (and any gallery viewers) can wander around the stations throughout the event, triggering sounds as they like with their movements. Composers will hear their own sounds and the sounds of the other participating composers as the midi instruments cycle through the sounds periodically (and anonymously). Additionally, four Ensemble Ipse musicians will wander among the stations and improvise with the sounds. Participating composers gallery viewers can “cook” with the musicians!

Ensemble Ipse is a dynamic contemporary music ensemble dedicated to presenting recent music that transcends aesthetic categorization while striving to create a forum for composers and sound artists that celebrates stylistic diversity. Ensemble Ipse is also dedicated to performing music of composers who have traditionally been overlooked, and may not have had the same opportunities others have been given. Ensemble Ipse’s "Siteworks" series of events offers free concerts in unusual spaces around New York City, often in locations where passers-by can experience sounds with dispersed placement. This series brings contemporary music to audiences which might not otherwise have access. Ensemble Ipse has been very pleased to receive funding from the NYC Cultural Development Fund, whose mission includes supporting “neighborhood-based groups that represent New York's extraordinary cultural breadth.”