ENSEMBLE PAMPLEMOUSSE
Chance & Circumstance
​Festival

May 11-14, 2017

Taking its name from Carolyn Brown’s eponymous book, the inaugural Chance and Circumstance festival aims to present daring, experimental work from a wide cross-section of the NYC and greater national arts communities. Curated by the members of the new music troupe Ensemble Pamplemousse, the festival places special focus on trans-disciplinary work – drawing disparate influences from improvised music, experimental theater, conceptual art practices, installation art, and contemporary music performance.

Thursday May 11
7pm:
TAK Ensemble
Program:
Sam Pluta: Escape Strategies (poppoppop?float away!)
Kate Soper: Rhetoric
Charlotte Mundy: Bluff
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece 28

9pm:
SOUND ART TREASURE HUNT/OPENING HANG
Hidden throughout JACK will be lots of little miniature sound art pieces - try to find them all & complete your check sheet and you might even get to take one home (don't worry, we made plenty!). Makers include Jessie Marino, Nolan Lem, Eoin Callery, Bryan Jacobs, Weston Olencki, and others. This event will also feature short solo performances by Philip White and Charmaine Lee.

Friday May 12
7pm Dan Weiss: Solo

9pm Ensemble Pamplemousse: Part 1: New and recent pieces by Dave Broome, Andrew Greenwald, Jessie Marino, Natacha Diels, and Weston Olencki

Saturday May 13
7pm Object Collection: Time with People -- an experimental chamber opera by London-based composer Tim Parkinson for 8 performers and a mound of 21st century detritus. Directed by Kara Feely. Performers: Deborah Wallace, Daniel Allen Nelson, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Andie Springer, Eric Magnus, Tavish Miller, Taylor Levine, Marie Christine Katz, Travis Just.

9pm Ensemble Pamplemousse: Part 2: New piece by Bryan Jacobs + robots

Sunday, May 14
7pm Tyshawn Sorey: Solo

9pm Mocrep: Five members of Chicago-based performance collective Mocrep will perform a collaboratively created piece. This appearance comes on the heels of a weeklong residency at dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, where they will be creating and performing the piece before bringing it to NYC. Their process comes from an active devising practice, drawing from multiple media and their individual experience as artists and musicians.

Photo by: Andrew Munsey

This programming is made possible in part by New Music USA's NYC New Music Impact Fund (made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation's Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund).