Shadows

The composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2003 to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. The works always have a fixed author, but are normally created in collaboration with the other performers. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound “at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique” and aggregate each member’s unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance, clusters of glitch, skitters of hyper-action, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty.

Several members of Pamplemousse have participated in the Darmstadt Summer Course during recent years, presenting their own compositions. In 2016, Weston Olencki received the Kranichstein Music Prize for Interpretation. For this year’s Summer Course, the group has recorded a video version of their new commissioned works, filmed by Haptic Pictures at Guilford Sound.