Ghost Ensemble: Evergreens

Ghost Ensemble creates experimental music that expands our perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Dissolving boundaries of genre, style, and scene, the ensemble collaborates widely with creators of contemporary chamber music, avant-garde jazz, and sound art, amplifying highly original musical voices to explore the most innovative and exciting music of our time. Since its 2012 inception, the ensemble has collaborated with a diverse range of composers who share a belief in music’s potential for individual and community transformation, including Sarah Davachi, Catherine Lamb, Miya Masaoka, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, and Yasunao Tone.

The new collective composition Evergreens is a collaboration between Ghost Ensemble, our Deep Listening workshop community, and Empowerment Through The Arts (ETTA). Alongside the musicians of Ghost Ensemble and ETTA, audience members with or without musical training may choose to engage as co-performers with provided text instructions and creative choices. Combining the roles of’ audience’, ‘performer’, and ‘composer’, Evergreens invites everyone present to engage with a novel musical situation, deepening our interconnected experience as musicians and as people.