Erin Lesser - flute
Meighan Stoops - clarinet
Sarah Beaty - clarinet
Alex Mincek - saxophone and bass clarinet
Nathan Botts - trumpet
Eric Wubbels - piano and accordion
Reiko Fueting - piano
Matt Hough - electric guitar
Ian Antonio - percussion
Joshua Modney - violin
Miranda Sielaff - viola
Isabel Castellvi - cello
Kate Soper - voice
Sam Pluta- live electronics
Jeff Snyder - live electronics
Carl Bettendorf- conductor
Influences
Bernhard Lang, Peter Ablinger, Ornette Coleman, David Tudor, Bill Viola, Alvin Lucier, Beat Furrer, Nic Collins, David Foster Wallace, Morton Feldman, Evan Parker, Gerhard Richter, J.S. Bach, David Lynch, Giacinto Scelsi, Orthrelm, Gustav Mahler, Michel Houellebecq, Haruki Murakami, Helmut Lachenmann, Takashi Murakami, Guillaume de Machaut
The Wet Ink Ensemble is a New York-based new music collective. Our mission is to present innovative programs of contemporary music, with a focus on creating, promoting, and organizing adventurous American music.
With strong ties to several New York arts communities—uptown and downtown new music, pop, jazz, punk rock, electronic music—Wet Ink is able to present engaging programs from the real frontier of new music with a kind of energy and authenticity rarely found elsewhere.
Our artistic vision is to present exceptional music with uncompromising commitment. We believe that exceptional music is being made in many different aesthetic currents, and the diversity of our musical backgrounds gives Wet Ink the versatility to move fluently across a variety of contemporary aesthetics. We typically program artists with the ability to clearly and creatively articulate unique musical ideas, regardless of style, and who might not currently have a platform for their work.
Our repertoire ranges from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music, from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde, and from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.
History
Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 75 concerts featuring a wide range of exceptional artists, both established and emerging. Now entering our 11th season, we have established a reputation for exceptionally committed performances and for programming that is consistently ahead of the curve. Wet Ink has introduced New York audiences to composer such as Richard Barrett, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Lang, and Mathias Spahlinger, as well as promoting major figures of contemporary American music, including Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and Christian Wolff.
As a consistent advocate for young composers, Wet Ink has commissioned, premiered and recorded works by emerging artists such as James Fei, Brian Kane, Hikari Kiyama, Paula Matthusen, Randy Nordschow, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Chiyoko Szlavnics, and Charlie Wilmoth, among others. In addition, we have collaborated with a wide range of exceptional artists, such as Peter Ablinger, Muhal Richard Abrams, Charles Gayle, The Knights, Bernhard Lang, George Lewis, Joe Maneri, David Shea, Timetable Percussion, Weasel Walter, Matthew Welch, Yarn/Wire, and Zs.
In 2009, Wet Ink was the featured ensemble at The Kitchen's retrospective of music by AACM composers, and was praised by New York Times for its "admirable precision". Wet Ink has also performed at the Darmstadt Festival (Germany), the Mannes Festival for Contemporary Performance, and in Summer 2009 will be the resident ensemble at the Walden School's Young Musician's Program, in New Hampshire.
Wet Ink recently released its debut CD on the Carrier Records label, including works by Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Jeff Snyder, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels. The ensemble is also featured on Quiet Design's compilation "The Language Of," a disc named one of 2008's 10 Best New CD's by NewMusicBox, and which Sequenza 21 called "an essential purchase."
Hi All those covered in Wet musical Ink, Just thought I'd send you all a personal invite to the next GF concert at Players Theatre on March 11-- 'The Sound of Red: Two Composers in Mao's China' featuring the JACK Quartet and others, with film by Beijing-based documentary filmmaker Li Guang. The production will be opened by the Museum Director of the Asia Society, Melissa Chiu.
You can click on the image for more information! With all best wishes, William
The latest session of the podcast features experimental dadaist improvising chamber supergroup ThingNY in various groupings. They take the ideas laid forth by post-jazz groups like the AACM and composers like George Crumb, and use it to create forward thinking music with unique humor and power. Check it out, just follow the link and hit subscribe to get a new episode every week:
Pogo in Togo hosts a party at the Cakeshop tonight! Love Like Deloreans joins the bill with some amazing bands including The Magick Report, Willy Weird, Omega Jarden, and a very special guest who's name starts with an A and ends with a K. hmmmm...
So come and get wet with LLD, because Tuesday night is the night to party hard!
Hello! Wet Ink Ensemble: thanks for the add. i enjoyed listening to the delightful, imaginative tracks posted here. Hope to catch a gig live in the city next season. - gil.
The Quiet Music Ensemble Ltd and Deep Listening Institute Ltd present the 18th Annual Deep Listening Retreat, facilitated by Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold. It takes place in Cork, Ireland between June 29th and July 4th as part of the Quiet Music Festival. Deep Listening is an approach to sound, listening and performance developed by composer, performer, and theorist Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening Retreats are open to anyone interested in exploring and expanding their experience of and relationship with sound. Through their focus on community, healing, well-being, and creativity, Deep Listening retreats are of particular interest to musicians, art/music therapists, dancers, theatre practitioners, meditators and visual artists interested in expanding their practice through sound. Visit www. quietmusicensemble. com to find out more or to book a place.
I added you as I thought you might be interested in what I am doing.
So far, there will be hundreds of simultaneous performances of six_events in Spain, America, Egypt, China, Japan, Italy, England, Finland, Canada and Australia.
If you would like me to send you a reminder nearer the time about this then just send a blank email to six_events@yahoo.co.uk (or just send me your email in a message on here)
Hey Guys (and gal), Fun concert last night! Sorry I couldn't stick around for the hang..... and Jeff (and Eric), sorry about the final Ligeti arrangement. I've heard those etudes done in many ways and yours (well, Kate's arr) was by far the most memorable. See you all soon.
