Motion Ensemble INC

is a non-profit organization based in New Brunswick, Canada founded in 1998. Motion Ensemble supports the creation and dissemination of contemporary classical, improvised and experimental music. Since 2014 Motion Ensemble Inc. exists to support the activities of Resonance New Music. From 1998-2014 the organization supported an ensemble called, simply Motion Ensemble.

Motion Ensemble was a flexible array of musicians: soprano Helen Pridmore; violinist Nadia Francavilla; D'Arcy Philip Gray, percussion; Karin Aurell, flute; and clarinetist Richard Hornsby. Over the years Motion was presented by New Music Concerts (Toronto), Western Front (Vancouver), E.C.C.S (Edmonton), The Music Gallery (Toronto) and La Chappelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal), The Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Scotia Festival of Music, Montreal’s Jusqu'aux Oreilles, Sound Symposium in Newfoundland, NUMUS (Kitchener), Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, New Works Calgary, New Music North (Thunder Bay), Five Penny New Music Festival (Sudbury), The Art Gallery of Windsor and Open Waters Festival in Halifax.In 2003 Motion performed at the legendary venue Tonic presented by Mode Records. They were recorded several times by CBC Radio, once by CBC TV and recorded CDs of Veronika Krausas (self produced) and John Cage (on New York label Mode Records).