Ensemble Ex Materia is a collective of composer/performers blurring the line between composition and improvisation.

Poet Samuel Jay Keyser reads from The World Is Filled With Empty Places, an immersive work combining original piano music with spoken poetry, recited by Keyser himself.

“The four souls making up Ensemble Ex Materia demonstrate the art of the possible to the nth degree.” — Greg Fenton, Magazine Sixty, UK

Composer and pianist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens has teamed up with the prolific punk poet Penny Rimbaud to create ‘S LENCE’, a contemporary experiment of balance between piano and spoken word. — Caliban / One Little Independent

“Christoph Hess, aka Strotter Inst., and concert pianist and composer Peter Vukmirovic Stevens have created a truly amazing product.” — Zipo, Aufabwegen, Germany

“Three crystalline works that bring a lot of light to our ears.” — Marçal Borotau, Sonograma, Spain

“[Stevens balances] the power and intensity of solo viola, all the while maintaining the sincerity, the vulnerability, and above all, the beauty of a single, unaccompanied instrument.” — Maggie Molloy, King FM’s Second Inversion

“Peter Vukmirovic Stevens’ August Ruins is one of the finest pieces for unaccompanied cello to come along in a long time.” — Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer, UK

August Ruins – solo cello

Feral Icons – solo viola

String quartet No. 1 Panacea

full score / parts

String quartet No. 2 Stateless

full score / parts

String quartet No. 3 Inter Nos

full score / parts

Bile Noire – solo piano

S LENCE – Piano and spoken word
poems by Penny Rimbaud

Improvisations I – III
solo piano (published by Zeitschleife Verlag)

The World Is Filled With Empty Places
Piano and spoken word – poems by Samuel Jay Keyser

Volta
graphic score for open ensemble or soloist