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

A Power Stronger Than Itself: A Celebration of the AACM
Thursday, October 9th, 8pm
Saturday, October 11th, 8pm
The Kitchen
512 W. 19th St.
(212)-255-5793
Tickets: $10

Wet Ink teams up with Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians to present "A Power Stronger Than Itself," a two-concert series at the Kitchen featuring works by AACM composers Muhal Richard Abrams, Leroy Jenkins, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Threadgill. Each night also features performances by AACM members, with special guests Amina Claudine Myers, Matana Roberts, Craig Taborn, and Chad Taylor.


10th Anniversary Season Opener
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, 8pm
Roulette
20 Greene Street
(212) 219-8242
Tickets: $10

Wet Ink officially opens its 10th anniversary season with a concert of works for its eclectic core ensemble, pairing Wet Ink 'classics' by Alex Mincek, Jeff Snyder, and Kate Soper with Alvin Lucier's vivid, meditative Ever present, the polyrhythmic intricacies of Muhal Richard Abrams's Trio, and raucous synthetic folk music from British complexist Richard Barrett. It all goes down on Wednesday, October 15th at 8pm at Roulette, so come get a beer and help us kick off a glorious 10th year!


Wet Ink and The Knights
New works for String Orchestra
Conducted by Jonathan Yates
presented by Bargemusic
Saturday, December 6th, 8pm
Sunday, December 7th, 4pm
Bargemusic
Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn

Two of New York's most adventurous and energetic young ensembles team up for a two-day residency at Bargemusic. The Knights, "a little orchestra of some of New York's best strings-about-town" (The New Yorker), perform four newly commissioned works by Wet Ink's Alex Mincek, Jeff Snyder, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels, along with works by Gabriela Lena Frank and Osvaldo Golijov. Featuring soloists Due East (Erin Lesser, flute, and Greg Beyer, percussion), and Jeff Snyder on computer-controlled crash cymbals.


Carrier Records CD Release Concert
Saturday, January 31, 2009, 8pm
Roulette Intermedium
20 Greene Street

The Wet Ink Ensemble continues its tenth season with a concert pairing new pieces by Eric Wubbels and Alex Mincek with the US premiere of Beat Furrer's "Aria" and Morton Feldman's radiant "palais de mari". These four large-scale works generate complex worlds out of tightly constrained and highly nuanced musical materials, and explore shared fascinations with resonance, fused sonorities, and ensemble virtuosity.

We will also be celebrating the release of Wet Ink's debut CD on carrier records (a newly launched label for experimental music), which includes recent pieces by Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Jeff Snyder, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels. Please join us! Details below.


Peter Ablinger Portrait Concert
Saturday, March 27, 2009, 8pm 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

Gegen Unendlich ('infinite regress')
Friday, May 1, 2009
St. Peter's Church- Chelsea
346 W. 20th St.

Wet Ink closes the 2008-09 season with a concert of commissions and classics, featuring new works for ensemble and electronics by Sam Pluta and Chiyoko Szlavnics, a work for custom-built electronic instruments by Jeff Snyder, as well as modern experimental masterworks by German composer Mathias Spahlinger and American sound guru Alvin Lucier.


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.