>Wet Ink 2009-2010 Season

Peter Ablinger Portrait Concert
September 23, 2009 - 8pm
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

Pairings - Alex Mincek and Salvatore Sciarrino
November 10, 2009 -
The Tank
354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

Wet Ink Ensemble presents 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. The concert will feature a new work by Mincek for large ensemble and electronics.


The MOMA Presents - Walking Tables and Wrestling Foals: A Hands-on Workshop and Musical Performance

Friday, December 4th, 2009- 7pm
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St.

Participants collaborate with artist Douglas Repetto in manufacturing a herd of "foals" - "walking tables" handmade from scrap wood and basic mechanical parts. The foal-building workshop is a humorous take on issues central to the Bauhaus movement, including the relationships between form and function and between craft and mass production. At the end of the afternoon the foals are let loose in MoMA's Education and Research Building. Musicians from Wet Ink provide musical accompaniment with improvisations informed by the movements and intersections of the foals.

Inside Out - Wet Ink and Talea at the Roger Smith Hotel
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 - 4pm
The Roger Smith Hotel
47th and Lexington
Manhattan

Wet Ink joins Talea Ensemble in a Sunday afternoon presentation of intricate chamber music.

Carrier Records Presents
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 - 8pm
The Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Carrier Records presents recording artists Wet Ink Ensemble, Hunter/Gatherer, The Dan Peck Trio, and GBL in a concert promoting the New York City-based label.

Splits: Flexible Music and Wet Ink
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 - 8pm
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Wet Ink Ensemble joins Flexible Music in a concert featuring music by Peter Ablinger, Alex Mincek, Ken Ueno, Kate Soper, Sam Pluta and Seung-Ah Oh.

Residency: Northern Illinois University
April 12-16, 2010
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois

Wet Ink composers Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, and Sam Pluta will be in residence at Northern Illinois University as guests of NIU's New Music Ensemble, directed by Greg Beyer. The residency will feature master classes and instrumental workshops, plus 2 concerts of world premieres and classics, performed by the NIU New Music Ensemble and Wet Ink Ensemble.

Festival of New American Music
May 1 and 27, 2010 - 8pm
Roulette
20 Greene St.

Wet Ink's Festival of New American Music, co-presented by Roulette Intermedium and Carrier Records, will take place in May 2010 at Roulette, and feature 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.

The Festival will be recorded live at Roulette, and released as 2-CD set by Carrier Records in Summer of 2010.

The Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute
July 20-24, 2010, Columbia University

Wet Ink has been chosen as the 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
July 23, 2010 - 8pm

Program:

Leroy Jenkins - Wonderlust
Katharina Rosenberger - parcours III
Richard Barrett - Codex V
Eric Wubbels - Euphony
Bernhard Lang - DW 5