The Imaginary Percussion Ensemble is a chameleon-like entity that grows and sheds limbs; changes colouration, shape and configuration; and otherwise adapts to the creative possibilities dreamed up by three creative percussionists—Germaine Liu, Joe Sorbara, and Mark Zurawinski—who come together to share in one another’s dedicated, joyous, and seriously playful curiosity around sound-making and performance.

Instigated by Liu, the ensemble’s music is rooted in a deep concern for gesture, for physicality, for tactility. They are invested in performance as visceral exploration and co-creation, performance as an ongoing process of (re)discovering ideas and vocabulary; always in the hope of creating an inviting and inclusive space for audience and participants.

The Imaginary Percussion Ensemble has performed at Dancemakers Flowchart, Soundstreams Salon XXI, the Music Gallery's X Avant festival, and the Something Else! Festival. In 2019/20 they will perform at Contact Contemporary Music's Intersection and for the Ottawa New Music Creators’ concert series.

New possibilities are in the dreaming. Please stay tuned...

"Over the course of their set, [they] repeatedly challenged any academy-set definitions of just what constitutes an instrument or a musical practice, reaching into the tubs of water at their feet for whatever sounds they required... The ensemble set to work circling the rims of fishbowls with wet fingertips, hammering disorienting gong sounds out of water-set pot lids, simulating rain on tin roofs with foil and tin cans and simply dropping bowls and cups into the water. The set straddled a line between creative new music and performance art, frequently earning satisfied laughter and excited applause from the audience."
-- Tom Beedham, Exclaim!