With their new program Consorts Reframed, the Philadelphia early music trio Filament celebrates the boundary-breaking chamber music of early 17th-century English composer William Lawes, mirrored by his contemporaries and a new commission by Philadelphia composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle. Lawes’ music stretches established rules of counterpoint to their limit, and his use of unexpected, sometimes radical dissonance and irregular rhythmic profile creates a singular temporal soundscape. Consorts Reframed centers Lawes’ compositions for “broken” consort, a mixed ensemble of keyboard instruments, plucked strings, viols, and violin. This mixture of musical idioms, which harmonizes divergent instrumental lineages and languages, catalyzes a celebration of the differences between them. This celebration is a foundational element of Filament’s identity as an ensemble, and serves as the genesis of this ambitious project.