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

 

COMING IN May 2026:

Ensemble Ipse & Hypercube Present:
Concert of New Commissions & Premieres
May 2nd 2026, 7:30pm
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

TICKETS HERE

-Todd Tarantino, “Those Flowers Were Sweet When I Pressed Them” CONSORTIUM COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE
-Aliya Salmanova, “Fairies” CONSORTIUM COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE
-Abby Harris, “Mudskip” CONSORTIUM COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE
-Erin Rogers, “Never Say Goodnight” WORLD PREMIERE
-Max Giteck Duykers, “It Clings For No Reason” WORLD PREMIERE
-Emma Tucker, “Voided Figures” WORLD PREMIERE
-Ellen Lindquist, “Earth” U.S. PREMIERE

 

“Siteworks: Composer Soup Throwdown” event
Sunday 5/24/26
12:30pm
Amphitheater @ Herbert Von King Park
670 Lafayette Brooklyn, NY 11216

3:00pm
Culturelab LIC
5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101

Up to 25 composers to participate in a "Siteworks: Composer Soup Throwdown” event on 5/24/26 at Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn and 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 park/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 viewers can “cook” with the musicians!

 

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 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 46 works, 21 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.

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