Ensemble Decipher is a modular, experimental music group that performs with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies. Founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ensemble Decipher strives to redefine performer virtuosity by drawing on the technological advancements of our time in order to highlight new voices and ways of listening. By reexamining new music and integrating technology into their performance practice, Ensemble Decipher seeks to reflect on and challenge the power structures that lace the field of electroacoustic music. Recent works commissioned by the group have mobilized network technologies, accelerometers attached to rocks, boxes trained via machine learning to respond to touch, acoustic instruments, and laptops. This has led Ensemble Decipher to collaborate with notable composers and technologists including Mara Helmuth, Margaret Schedel, Hannah Davis, Yaz Lancaster, and Lainie Fefferman and premiere works by many others. Recent feature performances include concerts at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, International Computer Music Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Network Music Festival, and an ensemble residency at EarFest. Current members include Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Chelsea Loew, Taylor Long, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh.
https://ensembledecipher.com/
low pass
low pass is comprised of percussionists/sound artists Rob Cosgrove and Taylor Long. The project’s focus is centered on performing works primarily written by and for the ensemble, particularly by emerging composers. Although ostensibly a percussion duo, this project foregrounds interests in electronics, repurposed objects, noise, and improvisation.
Recent projects include Reticulations by Eric Lemmon (for ceramic, glass, metals, live electronics and no-input mixer); Traces: Figure and Ground by Scott Miller (an iterative long-term collaboration featuring data driven graphic scores) and four drums for speakers (an EP featuring works by Rob and Taylor for snare drums as resonating vessels).
Taylor Long 