Wet Ink 2008-2009 Season - 10 Years of Wet Ink in New York

Call for Scores

The Wet Ink Ensemble is currently accepting scores by American composers for performances during our 2010 Wet Ink Festival of New American Music, in New York City. Composers should submit no more than 2 scores, with recordings, if available, for any combination of the following instruments: Flute (picc/alto/bass), Clarinet (bcl), Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet, Electric Guitar, Piano (accordion), Percussion (smaller setups encouraged), Violin, Viola, Cello, Female voice, and Electronics (please note: pieces with instruments outside this grouping will be considered, but are less likely to be programmed). American composers of any age are eligible. Please send scores and recordings along with a brief bio to:

Wet Ink Ensemble
214 W. 92nd St. 6A
New York, NY 10025

Electronic (mp3 and pdf) submissions are encouraged. Please email scores and recordings to wet.ink.music@gmail.com.

All entries must be postmarked/emailed by September 1st, 2009.

Upcoming Events

Walden School Residency
July 6-11, 2009
The Walden School Young Musician's Program
Dublin, NH

Wet Ink is excited to be in residence at The Walden School, a summer music program in Dublin, New Hampshire for young musicians interested in composition. Our residency will include workshops and presentations for the Walden community plus a concert of premieres by the Walden faculty and Wet Ink composers.

Peter Ablinger Portrait Concert
September 2009
St. Peter's Church- Chelsea
346 W. 20th St.

One of the few truly original voices in contemporary concert music, Austrian composer Peter Ablinger has devoted his career to the single-minded exploration of the experience and mechanics of hearing. Best known for his 'reality studies', which recreate with astonishing fidelity the sounds of human speech on an acoustic player piano, he has also created a rich and diverse body of electronic music and work for ensemble. In celebration of his 50th birthday, the Wet Ink Ensemble presents a portrait concert of his music, ranging from the delicate density of Verkündigung (inspired by Cecil Taylor's pianism), to Weiss / Weisslich 22, which compresses the complete symphonies of the six great Classical symphonists into a four-minute wall of noise.

more information at http://ablinger.mur.at

Please help support our most ambitious season to date!

New York Times Review

"Wet Ink, deployed in various groupings, brought admirable precision to its task."

Nate Chinen, The New York Times (reviewing Wet Ink's October 2008 concert of the music of AACM composers at The Kitchen) - read the whole artice here

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.