Explore Ensemble

Thank you @rewirefestival - some beautiful photos from our show with Beatrice Dillon the other weekend, shot by Sabine van Nistelrooij. See you next at Ultima Oslo and the Barbican in London later this year for the next performances with Beatrice Dillon. Electronics, Beatrice Dillon Flute @taylormaclennan1 Clarinet @froggi_music Piano @siwan_rhys Violin @coco.iinman Cello @deniteocello Photos by @sabine.vnistelrooij

Out today - Rebecca Salvadori’s film on »Signals« by Okkyung Lee! Head to YouTube for the fill film, which follows the UK premiere presented at Huddersfield Town Hall for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Okkyung Lee and Explore Ensemble perform Lee's work in-the-round, with the audience and loudspeaker surrounding them, blurring the boundaries between live performance and electroacoustic illusion. Salvadori's film captures both the performance and preparations, showing glimpses into the creative process, Lee's distinctive compositional and performance practice and personality, and the musicianship of each Explore Ensemble member. Signals was originally commissioned by Explore Ensemble, and co-commissioned by Transit Festival, @hcmfuk , and Rainy Days / @philharmonie_lux . Signals is available as a limited edition vinyl LP on @fluuung A film by @rebeccasalvadori All music by Okkyung Lee (ASCAP) PERFORMERS @okkyung_lee (cello) Explore Ensemble: @taylormaclennan1 (flutes) @alexroberts.clarinet (bass clarinet) @siwan_rhys (piano) @davidvln94 (violin) @canderstine (viola) @deniteocello (cello) Cameras - Rebecca Salvadori & Colin Frank Sound Recording - @nicholas.moroz

“For all the music’s hermeticism, there is intent, and even understated beauty in it” many thanks to antonio poscic for @thequietus for this thoughtful review of “signals” with @explore_ensemble released via @fluuung …! again heartfelt thanks to every member of explore ensemble and @hcmfuk , rainy days @luxembourg_philharmonic and transit festival @festival2021 …! also many thanks to stephan mathieu @studioschwebung for excellent mastering and @o.sam.kim for this fabulous design…!

Okkyung Lee’s ‘Signals’ featuring Explore Ensemble - out today on vinyl, digital, and via streaming. Released as a limited edition of 300 black LPs, head to bandcamp for your copy - it’s Bandcamp Friday too! Huge thanks to Okkyung for putting her peerless and rich work on Flung, and to the musicians of Explore Ensemble for injecting their personalities and sounds into each track of this release. Happy Release Day - @okkyung_lee !!! CREDITS - flung005 Okkyung Lee (cello) @okkyung_lee Explore Ensemble: Taylor MacLennan (flutes) @taylormaclennan1 Alex Roberts (bass clarinet) @alexroberts.clarinet Siwan Rhys (piano) @siwan_rhys David López Ibáñez (violin) davidvln94 Christine Anderson (viola) @canderstine Deni Teo (cello) @deniteocello All music by Okkyung Lee (ASCAP) Recorded by Nicholas Moroz @nicholas.moroz Mixed and edited by Okkyung Lee Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @studioschwebung Design by Young Sam Kim @o.sam.kim Signals was originally Commissioned by Explore Ensemble, and co- commissioned by Transit Festival, hcmf//, and Rainy Days / Philharmonie Luxembourg. #releaseday #bandcamp #experimentalmusic #composer #vinyl

Next month we share a new film by Rebecca Salvadori which follows Okkyung Lee’s project ‘Signals’ with Explore Ensemble during its autumn 2024 tour. Enjoy this clip taken from Huddersfield Town Hall, revealing glimpses into the soundcheck, performance, and audience response. Stay tuned for the full film released next month running up to the release of Okkyung’s new album version of Signals on Flung on 6 March! Signals by @okkyung_lee Performed with @explore_ensemble Film by @rebeccasalvadori #experimentalmusic #musicvideo #portrait #videoart #composer

New preview track out today — Siwan — from Okkyung Lee's »Signals« with Explore Ensemble. Released on 6 March, head to bandcamp now to hear two preview tracks 'Siwan' and 'Taylor': each section named after an Explore Ensemble performer. Preorder the limited edition black vinyl LP >>> link in bio Photo by @evy_ottermans Signals - Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble flung005 Music by @okkyung_lee Photo of @siwan_rhys Featuring @explore_ensemble Recorded by @nicholas.moroz Mastered by @studioschwebung Design by @o.sam.kim #musician #vinyl #piano #experimentalmusic #hands

Vinyl editions of Okkyung Lee's «Signals» with Explore Ensemble have arrived at flung hq! Out on 6 March via Bandcamp, Boomkat, and Soundohm. Head to Bandcamp for preview of this mind-bending release. Design by Young Sam Kim looking excellent and lively in the flesh too. #vinyl #unboxing #yellow #experimentalmusic #record

Flung is proud to present its fifth release and first vinyl LP: Okkyung Lee’s Signals, featuring Explore Ensemble, out on 6 March. Read more below and listen to the preview available on Bandcamp (link in bio) A major new work by cellist and composer Okkyung Lee with London’s Explore Ensemble, Signals dissolves boundaries between live performance, studio construction, and electroacoustic illusion. Originally premiered by Lee and Explore Ensemble in 2024, Lee creates a hybrid live/studio record by taking recordings from performances in Leuven, Huddersfield, and Luxembourg, and restructuring them with additional layers created and edited in the studio. Lee’s hybrid construction blurs the line between real and imagined acoustics, where the listener’s sense of small and huge, near and far, dark and bright, all combine in seemingly impossible ways, restlessly morphing between materialisation and dissolution. The album unfolds in seven sections that flow continuously; one for each member of the ensemble where they take on a solo role, plus Lee’s own section. Every section creates a distinct environment that tests the boundaries between instrument and performer. A release that feels both self-interrogating and outward-looking, Signals folds Lee’s personal language together with collective form. CREDITS Okkyung Lee (cello) @okkyung_lee Explore Ensemble: Taylor MacLennan (flutes) @taylormaclennan1 Alex Roberts (bass clarinet) @alexroberts.clarinet Siwan Rhys (piano) @siwan_rhys David López Ibáñez (violin) davidvln94 Christine Anderson (viola) @canderstine Deni Teo (cello) @deniteocello All music by Okkyung Lee (ASCAP) Recorded by Nicholas Moroz @nicholas.moroz Mixed and edited by Okkyung Lee Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @studioschwebung Design by Young Sam Kim @o.sam.kim Photo by Eun Chun @meun.chun Signals was originally Commissioned by Explore Ensemble, and co- commissioned by Transit Festival, hcmf//, and Rainy Days / Philharmonie Luxembourg. flung005 Edition of 300 black vinyl LPs #album #vinyl #record #release #experimentalmusic

We're very excited to be part of Rewire 2026, joining Beatrice Dillon in presenting her work 'Seven Reorganisations' alongside parts of a new work for ensemble and electronics, with Dillon performing on stage with the group. See you in The Hague this spring!

This week: a very rare chance to hear Clarence Barlow's "Im Januar am Nil", conducted by Jack Sheen at Wigmore Hall as part of LCMF's 2025 special night "The Artist is Not Present". This video shows Jack Ox's colour organ depicting the algorithmic spiral behind Barlow's ensemble piece. The synths play a spectral transcription of the phonemes of Barlow voice, signing nonsense phrases (in German) that avoid consonants, hence the title. Join us on Thu 20 Nov for this retro-computer music treat, realised by acoustic ensemble. Tickets via link in bio! #clarencebarlow #computermusic #retrocomputer #computerart #spectral #ensemble #london

Next Thursday 20 Nov, Jennifer Walshe @milker_corporation returns to @wigmore_hall to give the world premiere of her ‘Slop Studies 2#a-7’ with @explore_ensemble , plus works by two mysterious Irish composers Eyleif Mullen-White (1937-1988) and Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009), both algorithmic pioneers. Join Jenny and LCMF Co-Director Igor Toronyi Lalic from 6.30pm for a pre-concert discussion about AI and proto-AI art. Check out Jenny’s essay ‘13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art and Music’ now via the link in our bio. Tickets start at just £5, don’t miss out Photo: @dawid.laskowski.photography

New-In: Gotta give it to Finland’s Frozen Reeds imprint. Though at times we’ve paused, noting how they tend to order the top shelf wine almost exclusively, selecting the most singular avant musicians in the vineyard, each of their limited releases (just eight or so stretched over thirteen years) has become a real event: Thomas Brinkman. Derek Bailey & Paul Motian. Julius Eastman. And that’s just the start of the alphabet. They have a Morton Feldman release too. And now from Feldman to … Mark Fell _Psychic Resynthesis_ 2Lp, an instrumental work performed by Explore Ensemble. And unlike some of the American tabletop, electronic and noise folks who use a few pieces of gear or a theme or two to make an entire sandwich, Fell’s methods and forms are truly transdisciplinary, in almost all senses. As the one-sheet suggests, Fell’s rigor and “conceptual approach to electronic music and sound art […] explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception through a blend of computational systems, philosophical inquiry, and cultural critique.” Most artists barely approach one of these projects/lines of inquiry, while Fell appears to always be in motion, always at work and always developing. Again the one-sheet: “Having been a notable critic of classical music’s slavish adherence to traditional musical notation, ‘the score,’ and its associated issues of control and hierarchy, one might expect a provocative or abrasive approach. Instead, a work of deep, tonal introspection unfolds — an elegant structure navigating the artist’s trepidatious relationship with linear or timeline-based musical approaches […] Mathematical determination and sonic fixation vie for dominance.” This record takes time to unpack, though for now we are at work on some bootleg Mark Fell t-shirts. Front will consist of the album cover art. Back will be a NYHC design and font with “Vie for Dominance” square in the center. Cc: @explore_ensemble @corruptionlunch