Fuse Ensemble is a concept-based electroacoustic chamber ensemble that joyfully collaborates with sculptors, poets, filmmakers and all manner of analog and digital artists. Now in their eighteenth year together, Fuse Ensemble presents Speech and Silence, a set that brings to the fore two ways of listening. In an alternating series of live music works (many with spoken word) and the reflective short films created for the season by artist Edgar Endress, Fuse gathers in these two realms and explore the deep possibilities that lie within, and outside of, the auditory sphere. The concert includes works by Nicole Mitchell, Brittany J. Green, Gina Biver, and of course, the inimitable Pamela Z, who will join the ensemble for a rare performance of her Ways of Looking.