Photos: Reuben Radding, John Gurrin, Carlos Castañda Jr.
COMING IN MAY 2025:
Ensemble Ipse
Siteworks Series: “Flash Mass”
Saturday 5/17/25 - 2:00pm
Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC
~RESERVE YOUR SPOT TO PARTICIPATE HERE~
Ensemble Ipse invites up to 50 composers to participate in a “Flash Mass” Siteworks event on Saturday 5/17/25 at 2pm (rain dates: Sunday 5/18/25 at 2pm, or Saturday 5/24/25 at 2pm), in Central Park’s Great Lawn, NYC. Each particpant will compose an electronic track to be played on their mobile phone, (similaneously, with the other 49 participants) with a provided Bluetooth speaker. Qualified applications will be accepted first come, first served.
Read more here: www.ipsemusic.com/call-for-scores
COMING IN JUNE 2025:
Joseph Di Ponio
(New Work)
Gallery MC
549 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019
A multimedia installation and performance by Margaret Lancaster, Catherine Katsafouros, and Joseph Di Ponio. More details TBA
Joseph Di Ponio
Joseph Di Ponio has been built a reputation as a composer of music that is rich in sonic color and imagery. Drawing on contemporary ideas about the distinction between time and temporality, his work plays on the issues of space and time as experienced by the listener. Active in both the acoustic and electronic worlds, Di Ponio has received commissions from Yarn/ Wire, TimeTable Percussion, Iktus Percussion, the Network for New Music, the pianist Yukiko Sekino, among others. His work has been featured on the North River Music Festival (NYC) and presented at venues such as the Kaufman Center (NYC), the Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall, and several new music festivals. He has been a composer in residence for the Accidental Music Festival, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and was a recipient of a ConEd Composer’s Residency through Exploring the Metropolis.Joseph received his Ph.D. in music composition and theory from SUNY Stony Brook where his primary teachers were Sheila Silver, Daria Semegen, and Daniel Weymouth. He is currently a lecturer in music at Fordham University in New York City, and co-director of the contemporary music ensemble Ensemble Ipse.
NOW AVAILABLE ON NEW WORLD RECORDS:
Max Giteck Duykers
Ensemble Ipse
Folding Music
Track Listing:
1. Folding Music (13:06)
2. Scatterloop (8:52)
3. The Way In (8:47) - with guest soprano Zen Wu
4. Twilight for Adored and Breathless Moments (12:37)
5. Arborescence (10:54)
6. Dark Body (14:48)
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our album of co-director Max Giteck Duykers’ music on New World Records with 9-time Grammy winning producer Judith Sherman. •Purchase here
•Liner notes by New Music Box’s Frank J. Oteri here.
•Review on Kathodik
•Review on Fanfare
•Review on Avant Music News
