Adjust font size Save for Later Email to Friends Print Mode Submit your own content on this or any topic. Get started . The New Music Ensemble at Indiana University kicks off their season of concerts on October 20 with something completely different. The New Music Ensemble will be performing British electronica that has been adapted to accommodate chamber ensemble music.

The New Music Ensemble at Indiana University was founded in 1974 by Frederick Fox and has been directed by David Dzubay since 1992. The Ensemble focuses on performing contemporary music from composers in the past 30 years. The New Music Ensemble has made appearances at Columbia University, in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, the University of Louisiana, and in Portland, Oregon.

Dzubay is on a leave of absence this academic year and two directors were selected to take his place for the year: Alan Pierson and Akira Mori. Pierson is scheduled to direct the first and last concerts of the season while Mori is scheduled to direct the middle three concerts. Alan Pierson is the director of the New York-based Alarm Will Sound, a 20-member band.

In 2003 Pierson decided to undertake the project of arranging British electronica, especially artist Aphex Twin’s music, into chamber ensemble pieces. In a press release, Pierson commented, “It’s been an incredibly challenging project, struggling to figure out how to make the hard core drum beats, bizarre sounds, and insanely fast tempos of music never intended for live performers, work with a chamber orchestra.