LEMUR is a fourheaded sonic organism that transforms, blends and breaks the boundaries of their instruments and the art of quartet playing. Drawing on their combined vocabulary from experimental music, noise, contemporary music and jazz, the four soloist appear as a tightly knit improvising unit and a conceptually guided composition collective.

LEMUR was founded in 2006 and has performed across Europe and Asia with different formations and projects ranging from their acoustic and electronic quartet sets, via collaborations with pianist John Tilbury, guitarist Stian Westerhus and larger projects with ensembles such as Caput, Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra or N-Ensemble. Their musical activities include a series of works drawing on titles from the canon of 20th century modernism, through which the ensemble creates new collaborative work.

Frequent collaborators include Glasgow-based avant-disco band AMOR, Zeitkratzer-leader and pianist Reinholdt Friedl, electro-acoustic pioneer Natasha Barrett and performance artist Kate Pendry.

From the press:
Simmering with quiet intensity, Norwegian quartet Lemur aim for the world of chamber music with their collective improvisations. The ensemble develops a subtle, poetic music side by side with broadly painted soundscapes, balancing the beauty of a single pitch and the complexity of a sound cloud. Lemur works without any preconceived structures, allowing the shape of their music to grow from the necessity of the moment, informed only by the wisdom of rehearsal, discussion and evaluation. The result is a new chamber music of the finest build, “a golden balance of ethos and pathos, nuance and chaos”.