Stories

Associate Artists

Introducing Associate Artists

Associate Artists represents the most significant structural change since our founding. It is a reassessment of what 'ensemble' means as we move towards the middle of the 21st century, and a celebration of what 'ensemble' can be.

Associate Artists

Barbara Ellison on her CyberSongs

Associate Artist Barbara Ellison talks us through her favourite work, CyberSongs, a transhuman song cycle for human-like computer voices

Associate Artists

Oceanic on his duo with Greetje Bijma

Associate Artist Oceanic (Job Oberman) talks us through his favourite work, Swallow a Party, an ongoing project with Greetje Bijma

Associate Artists

Maya Verlaak on Song & Dance

Associate Artist Maya Verlaak talks us through her favourite work, Song & Dance – An excessively elaborate effort to explain or justify

Associate Artists

Pavla Beranová on Paradise Lost

Associate Artist Pavla Beranová talks us through her favourite work, Paradise Lost made with Samir Calixto

Associate Artists

Jan-Bas Bollen on ViiR

Associate Artist Jan-Bas Bollen talks us through his favourite work, ViiR and the HyperTheremin

Albums in depth

Ensemble Klang + Kit Downes – Live Release

On 5 March Rewire festival will release a live recording of Ensemble Klang's set with organist Kit Downes from their 2019 festival.

Musical Utopias

Musical Utopias #3 | online festival

2020 Diversions

Keir Neuringer’s Litanies of Trees

In film, music and words Keir Neuringer charts a devotion for the woods, trees and forests that trace his life.

2020 Diversions

Stephanie Pan’s Arbitrary Failures

A new collaborative video artwork by Madhouse Heaven, Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang, 'Arbitrary Failures' is an ode to freedom through anonymity.

2020 Diversions

JS Bach’s Voyager Golden Record Prelude

A gift from Ensemble Klang to the Bach Festival Dordrecht, this short film is a tribute to NASA's Voyager Golden Record.

2020 Diversions

Ethan Braun’s ambitions, suspensions, broken chords

Ethan Braun & Justine Melford-Colegate's film steadily and beautifully drifts, setting off from a timeless dreamland and taking us right back to the here and now of the summer of 2020.