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Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2002 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. 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. Compositions 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.

Silence is an important ingredient of most [of these] compositions, but also detailed complexity, short runs of hyper action, and also– not to forget – a sense of humor. The playing is virtuoso and inspired. All together fantastic playful modern chamber music full of magic and wit. Surely this one will make many friends.
(DM, Vital Weekly on RAANNA JEDAKU)

[Theirs is] a style and concept that bridges the gap between the earliest conscious sounds humans made together and the most up to the moment exploration of musical possibilities...the event horizon of each sound describ[es] a moment with infinite possibilities, including infinite duration.
(George Grella, The Big City)

[Ensemble Pamplemousse’s] compositions combine raw instrumentals with meditative electronic hums and shocking burst of noise, creating soundscapes that are playful, elegant and sinister by turns.
(Seven Days, VT)

One might not quite understand what’s going on when first listening to something like “ttt”, which sounds at turns like a kettle’s strange whistle... [b]ut stick around and the transformative sounds start to create scenes, landscapes, settings for places only you can imagine.
(Charleston City Paper, SC)