Fuse Ensemble
Biography Fuse Ensemble
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 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; Ethan Foote, contrabass; Greg Hiser, violin; Jenny Lapple, flute; Ina Mirtcheva, piano, Angela Murakami, clarinet. This season, Fuse Ensemble is presenting "SKETCH, an Exploration of Identity, Image, and the Art of Becoming". We are excited to be joined onstage this season by percussionist Scott Deal.
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 in Rockville, Maryland and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington DC as part of the 2009 CrossCurrents New Music Festival, and Sonic Circuits DC Festival, Andrea Clearfieldʼs Salon in Philadelphia and the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, NY, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in January 2013 and UMBC's LiveWire4 Festival in October 2013. Recent shows include the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC on November 7, 2014.
Gina Biver
is a composer of electro-acoustic music for chamber ensemble, choir, multimedia, dance and film. She has won numerous grants and awards including those from the American Music Center and American Composers Forum. Her music has been performed worldwide through her collaborations with choreographers, filmmakers, and multimedia artists, and has been performed in venues such as the Kennedy Center and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn NY, IUPUI in Indiana, UCal Fullerton, UMBC Baltimore and Andrea Clearfield’s Salon in Philadelphia and several others. Gina recently performed with the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble in the atrium of the National Gallery East Wing as part of the John Cage Centennial in September 2012, and as electric guitarist with the National Gallery of Art Modern Music Ensemble at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC as part of the Andy Warhol: Headlines 2011-2012 exhibit. She is the Composer/Director of Fuse Ensemble, a performing group based in Washington DC that actively promotes new music as well as the work of video artists, kinetic sculptors and other visual artists. She lives in Falls Church, VA, with her husband Steve Biver, photographer and author, and their three children.
