QUBensemble (aka QUBe) is a music collective based in Belfast at SARC, currently directed by Paul Stapleton & Conor McAuley.

QUBe is a forum for experimental music involving students, staff, and artists from inside and outside Queen’s University Belfast. QUBe brings together performers from a variety of artistic backgrounds to develop performances that explore ensemble interaction, conduction, audio-visuals, movement, open scores and improvisation. QUBe is also a band that gigs in a variety of contexts, including experimental music nights, music festivals, art museums and in the streets.

The group is open to anyone from inside and outside of QUB, as well as to artists from disciplines outside of music.
Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings, setup from 5pm, noise making from 5:30-7:30pm, in the Sonic Lab at SARC.
All are welcome to join.

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QUBe performs John Zorn’s ‘Cobra’
at Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music 2013

QUBe presents…
Mark Applebaum’s Metaphysics of Notation
14th Dec 2011, Ulster Museum, Belfast

Cow Pong! From the glory days of co-directing with Michael Gurevich: “Music in the last century abounds in origin myths: Messaien composed his Quatour Pour la Fin du Temps in a concentration camp. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Sonny Rollins discovered his new sound practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge. Dissatisfaction with equal temperament led Harry Partch to invent new tuning system. To these we can now confidently add: The day that QUBe devised Cow Pong. With musical nods to Steve Reich, György Ligeti and Gene Frenkle, this piece is a beautiful marriage of process, competition, polyrhythm and suspense. Performed by QUBe in the Sonic Lab of SARC, at Queen’s University Belfast on May 6, 2009.” For further fine examples from this era of QUBe, visit here.

Moving on Music and the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival presents…
The QUBe Myth-Science Space Arkestra perform the music of Sun Ra
Thursday 9 May 2013, 9pm
@ the MAC, Belfast

QUBe Presents…
Sun Ra Parade @ Belfast Culture Night
19th September 2014

QUBe performs John Zorn’s ‘Cobra’
11th December 2012
Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast