a multimedia work by Joseph Di Ponio, Catherine Katsafouros and Margaret Lancaster

Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8, 2025
Installation: 11 am – 4 pm
Live Performance: 4-5 pm

Gallery MC 
549 W. 52nd Street, Ground Floor Gallery 
(between 10th & 11th avenues)

Ensemble Ipse will present The Ways In Which, a collaborative installation project exploring divergent themes of isolation. Created by composer Joseph Di Ponio, visual artist Catherine Katsafouros and performer Margaret Lancaster, this work is part of Ensemble Ipse’s innovative SiteWorks series.

The Ways In Which unfolds in a landscape where movement, sound, image, and presence continually shift in response to space and time. The multi-media installation will run uninterrupted from 11 am – 4 pm. At 4 pm, Lancaster will navigate the installation in a live one-hour performative exploration of 5 disparate modalities of isolation (social isolation, shelter, political isolation, confinement, sanctuary).

This is not a concert. It is a porous encounter.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow each performance.

Performance Art Troupe?  Sound Art?   Shiny Silver Costumes?   Yes, Yes, Yes, and so many more Yeses!  I have joined forces with my dear collaborators Juraj Kojs and Alex Lough…….We are ONE SYSTEM

ONE SYSTEM is taking their shininess to Wesleyan’s Ring Hall (Middletown, CT), Thursday, March 27th, 7 PM.

In May, the world lost the equally brilliant and dear Larry Polansky.  I am still shocked and heartbroken, but honored to be a part of a concert honoring him on what would have been his 70th birthday, October 16, 2024.    It will be an amazing cross section of his work.   Near the bay area?  Please drop by The Lab.

 

 

 

December 8 – 8 pm at University Settlement, Either/Or presents Time/Again…….featuring a gorgeous premiere by Victoria Cheah and an incredible realization of Henning Christensen’s Requiem of Art (NYC) (fluxorum organum II) (1970/2014).   Anthony Coleman is joining us, Alex Lough is working his technical magic and my axe for the show is a megaphone ……….it’s going to be EPIC!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buckle your seat belts, folks!  The evening of March 4, 2023, ML and Corey Jane Holt Merenda AKA The Nepo Sisters AKA Holster present The first annual DWS flute and piano convention (here we are hiding from the paparazzi)!!!! At this swanky soiree, you will hear fresh spanking new works by Robert C. Constable Jr., Eric Lyon, and Paul Reller in addition to older (but still fresh) works by Paula Matthusen and J.S. Bach. Bonk 2.0? DWS Live? Salon Musik comes to life at Chez Merenda in Tampa!!!! (this year………….!   Next year??

December is Ensemble month!!!   Playing with so many great folks in SEM Ensemble, Ghost Ensemble and of course my dear pals in Either/Or.  Here’s the line-up……

12/5, 8:30PM — SEM Annual Christmas-Time Concert Preview, Willow Place
12/11, 7 PM — SEM Annual Christmas-Time Concert at the Paula Cooper Gallery
12/16, 7:30 PM – Ghost Ensemble, Univ. of Mass. Amherst
12/19, 8 PM – Infrequent Seams Festival at Roulette (in person and streaming) — it opens with
Either/Or and closes with Ghost Ensemble!!
12/20, 8 PM – Richard Teitelbaum Tribute Concert at Roulette.   Ghost Ensemble returns to
premiere a new work by Cat Lamb and is joined by IONE on Oliveros’ Mountain Air.

 

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 9 PM, Either/Or presents The Intimacy of Detail:  the music of Chiyoko Szlavnics.  Come and get lost in her beautiful sound world!  Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W. 13th St)

While I love doing my solo cross disciplinary thing, I am SO grateful to be playing live with 2 of my favorite groups and connecting with my family of friends!   Here’s the schedule — can’t wait to see everyone!!!  

Tuesday, November 23, 2021 – 8 PM
Either/Or performs the music of  the legends Talib Rasul Hakim and Tania Leon
Tenri Cultural Institute (43 A W. 13th Street, NYC)
Tix $10-20, online sales only at  eventbrite

Friday, December 10, 2021 – 8 PM
Either/Or presents Process + Potentiality
Works by Roland Kayn, Tom Johnson, Richard Carrick, and Jessie Cox (a new work written 4me)
Tenri Cultural Institute (43 A W. 13th Street, NYC)

Sunday, December 19, 2021 – 7:30 PM
Ensemble Ipse presents a concert of new commissions and premieres
After many postponements, we are so looking forward to premiering works by Peter Apfelbaum, Aruan Ortiz, Kirsten Broberg, Ursula Kwong Brown, and a very special posthumous premiere by James Sellars.
Dimenna Center – Benzaquen Hall (450 West 37th Street, NYC)

…is where  I’m playing a solo show!!!!!!! It feels like a miracle.   Partnering with Juraj Kojs and the FETA Foundation, I will be present 3 performances a day (including a full–blown multi-media ML show based on my pandemic life) from December 3-5 at the Miami Botanical Gardens.   Performing in the Gazebo encased in plastic, entitled the Breath of Death Pavilion,  no dangerous aerosols will escape!      You can also visit installations by Juraj Kojs and Rachel Weiss and enjoy the magic that is Troy Rogers and his robot boat!!

FETAFoundation.org

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Breath of Death Pavilion Schedule:

1 PM – work by Dorothy Hindman

3 PM – work by Alex Lough

5:30 PM – works by Elizabeth Adams, Christopher Cerrone, Yi Ding, Moritz Eggert, Elizabeth Hoffman, Anne LeBaron, Eric Lyon, Milica Paranosic, and Jacob TV.