FUSE

Fuse Ensemble is a concept-based new music/new media performing ensemble. Each season a concept is presented, giving voice to new music composers and new media artists, and creating musical happenings with visual elements of live, interactive video and/or kinetic installations. The musicians of Fuse perform on an eclectic mix of flute, clarinet, electric violin, electric guitar, cello, piano, electronic playback, percussion, and invented instruments. Linked by the insane possibilities of software such as MaxMSP/Jitter and Processing, sometimes using sensors on the musicians and live interactive cameras on stage, the artists create an experience that fuses sound, video and humans into a liquefied state and gives each concept a setting -- a visual and kinetic environment to experience it in that furthers communication and unifies the concept.

Fuse Ensemble is: Gina Biver, composer, director, electric guitar, electronics/laptop; Pam Clem, cello; Martha Haines, piano, electronic keyboards; Greg Hiser, violin; Jenny Lapple, flute; Marshall Maley, percussion; Angela Murakami, clarinet; Krista Siachames, percussion.

Fuse Ensemble has performed at IUPUI Indiana University's intermedia Festival, American University's Katzen Arts Center, the Schlesinger Center, Wooly Mammoth, the Kreeger Auditorium/Gildenhorn Speisman Center for the Arts and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage as part of the 2009 CrossCurrents New Music Festival and Sonic Circuits DC Festival in September 2010. Upcoming performances include Andrea Clearfield's Salon in Philadelphia PA in October 2011.

For more information, visit www.fuse-ensemble.com