"Over the first weekend in October, the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble (EDME) hosted their fourth New Music Festival. With five concerts over three days, the experimental and contemporary music ensemble and their artistic allies performed a wide array of pieces by living composers and gave audiences a run-down of what's happening in experimental music. Not all may have lived up to the group's namesake, but there was plenty for even the hardiest avant-gardist to enjoy."
"The Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble started in 2019 as a trio helmed by Lee Pembleton, who is now the ensemble's treasurer, alongside Cathy O'Shea and Milton Fernandez, who have since moved on to other projects. At this time, they had to garner support anyway they could: cold-calling local venues, scraping together AV equipment, and collecting donations from friends and family. Now six years on, the group enjoys support from grants such as Eugene Cultural Services' Downtown Program Fund."
Over the first weekend in October, the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble hosted its fourth New Music Festival with five concerts across three days featuring works by living composers. Programming ranged from free improvisation, digital and analog noise, extended techniques, prepared instruments, graphic scores, audience participation, and electroacoustic tape pieces to performances that blurred music and performance art. EDME formed in 2019 as a trio and grew through grassroots efforts like cold-calling venues and soliciting donations before gaining grant support from Eugene Cultural Services. EDME also produces projects such as Ambient Ecology outdoor concerts and Stories for the Unhoused, integrating community voices into ensemble and dance works.
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