Wet Ink Ensemble 2009-10 Season
Upcoming Events
The Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute July 20-24, 2010, Columbia University
Wet Ink has been chosen as the second ensemble in residence for the 2010 American Composers Orchestra's Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, where we will present workshops on contemporary instrumental techniques and a concert of new music. The concert information is below:
Wet Ink Ensemble Large Ensemble Concert
Miller Theater
Friday, July 23, 2010 - 8pm
Program:
Leroy Jenkins - Wonderlust
Katharina Rosenberger - parcours III
Richard Barrett - Codex V
Eric Wubbels - Euphony
Bernhard Lang - DW 5
The American Composers Orchestra: Jazz Meets Orchestra
Miller Theater
Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 8pm
Program:
Anthony Davis - You Have the Right to Remain Silent
Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah
Earle Brown - Available Forms 1
Errollyn Wallen - The Girl in My Alphabet
John Zorn - For Your Eyes Only
Please help support the Wet Ink Ensemble's 2009-10 season!
Recent Events
Festival of New American MusicMay 1 and 27, 2010 - 8:30pm
Roulette
20 Greene St.
Wet Ink's Festival of New American Music, co-presented by Roulette Intermedium and Carrier Records, took place in May 2010 at Roulette, and featured works for large and small ensembles by the winners of our call for scores (Keith Moore, Rama Gottfried, and Amy Williams) and emerging and mid-career American artists including Mark Applebaum, Anthony Braxton, Erin Gee, Ben Hackbarth, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, Ming Tsao, and Eric Wubbels.
Pairings - Salvatore Sciarrino and Alex Mincek
Tuesday November 10, 2009
Pre-Concert Talk - 7:00pm
Concert - 7:30pm
The Tank
354 W. 45th St.
Wet Ink Ensemble performed a concert pairing the music of Salvatore Sciarrino and Alex Mincek. Presented in collaboration with The Tank and Amp New Music, this concert is part of a series that matches established new music composers with some of New York's best young artists.
Peter Ablinger Portrait ConcertSeptember 23, 2009 - 8pm
St. Peter's Church- Chelsea
346 W. 20th St.
The Wet Ink Ensemble opened its 11th season with a mid-career retrospective of the music of renowned Austrian composer Peter Ablinger (*1959), one of the most original voices in contemporary concert music. The September 23rd concert marks the first major presentation of Ablinger’s work in the U.S.
Best known for his 'Reality Studies', which recreate with astonishing fidelity the sounds of human speech on an acoustic player piano (listen here), Peter Ablinger has also created a rich and diverse body of electronic music and work for ensemble. Drawing on influences ranging from Free Jazz and spectral music to Conceptualism and the Visual Arts, Ablinger has devoted his career to the single-minded exploration of the experience and mechanics of hearing. In celebration of his 50th birthday, the Wet Ink Ensemble presents a portrait concert of his music, featuring five U.S. and world premieres. The program ranges from the delicate density of Verkündigung (inspired by the playing of free jazz legend Cecil Taylor), to Weiss / Weisslich 22, which compresses the complete symphonies of the six great Classical symphonists into a four-minute wall of noise.
CD Releases
Wet Ink Ensemble releases its first solo disc on New York City's newest experimental music label, Carrier Records. The album features new compositions by Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, Sam Pluta, Jeff Snyder, and Alex Mincek - written for and recorded by the Ensemble. Buy it now on the Carrier Records Website and soon from iTunes.
Named one of the 10 best new CD's of 2008 by the American Music Center's Trevor Hunter, Wet Ink composers Jeff Snyder, Alex Mincek, Eric Wubbels, Kate Soper, and Sam Pluta along with New York composers Jim Altieri, Clara Latham, and Alex Ness present a new disc of works entitled "The Language Of", available on Quiet Design Records, an Austin, TX based label. The disc is available from the Quiet Design website, CD Baby, and i-Tunes.
