Photos: Reuben Radding, John Gurrin, Carlos Castañda Jr.

 

COMING IN MAY 2025:

Ensemble Ipse
Siteworks Series: “Flash Mass”
SUNDAY 5/18/25 - 2:00pm
Free to the public
Near Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC

Ensemble Ipse presents 45 composers who will participate in a “Flash Mass” Siteworks event on Sunday 5/18/25 at 2pm near Central Park’s Great Lawn, NYC. Each participant will play an electronic or prerecorded track (simultaneously, with the other 44 participants) with a provided Bluetooth speaker.

See walking map: composers will start at 85th and Central Park West entrance around 2pm.

 

COMING IN JUNE:

THE WAYS IN WHICH
a multimedia work by Joseph Di Ponio, Catherine Katsafouros and Margaret Lancaster

Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8, 2025

Installation:  11 am - 4 pm
Live Performance:  4-5 pm

Gallery MC 
549 W. 52nd Street, Ground Floor Gallery  
(between 10th & 11th avenues)
The event is free and open to the public. 
A reception will follow each performance.

Ensemble Ipse presents "The Ways In Which," a collaborative installation and performance exploring divergent themes of isolation. Created by composer Joseph Di Ponio, visual artist Catherine Katsafouros and performer Margaret Lancaster, this work is part of Ensemble Ipse’s innovative Siteworks series, which focuses on long-duration pieces designed for specific spaces.

"The Ways In Which" transcends traditional concert formats to create an immersive sound and video environment.  The transformative multimedia installation will run uninterrupted from 11 am - 4 pm. At 4 pm, Lancaster will navigate the installation in a one hour performative exploration of 5 disparate modalities of isolation (social isolation, shelter, political isolation, confinement, sanctuary). This work invites audiences to experience a layered, contemplative space where live performance, electronic soundscapes and evocative visuals intermingle and engage.

 

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

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Ensemble Ipse is a 501(c)(3) contemporary music ensemble dedicated to showcasing the wide variety of practices in the current new music scene. The ensemble presents concerts of recent music that transcends aesthetic categorization and strives to create a forum for composers and sound artists on the edges of the mainstream of contemporary music. With this in mind, Ensemble Ipse is committed to performing and commissioning the music of emerging composers, as well as composers who have been traditionally under-represented in the larger new music community, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+.

Since forming in 2016, Ipse has premiered 40 works, 19 of them commissions, held numerous calls for scores for emerging composers, received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New Music USA, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and released an album on New World Records in May, 2019.

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Ensemble Ipse is a 501(c)(3) organization. and all donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.  

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Ensemble Ipse
671A Quincy St Apt. 1
Brooklyn, NY 11221