Past Programs
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
Wet Ink Season Opener - Fall Premieres: Part 1
Symphony Space
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 8pm
Wet Ink Ensemble opens their 12th season in New York City with a concert of world premieres and new works by Rick Burkhardt, Ian Power, Katharina Rosenberger, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta and Kate Soper. This event combines the theatrical language of Burkhardt, Power, and Soper with the driving brutalism of Rosenberger, Mincek and Pluta showcasing the virtuosity and versatility of one of New York's premier new music groups.
Program:
Rick Burkhardt - Alban (Wet Ink Commission)*
Katharina Rosenberger - TEXTUREN (Wet Ink Commission)*
Ian Power - Love Story (Wet Ink Commission)*
Alex Mincek - Color, Form, Line *
Kate Soper - Voices from the Killing Jar
Sam Pluta - ATD V
* - First Performance
Wet Ink Columbia University Residency - Fall Premieres: Part 2St Peters Church
Saturday December 11, 2010 - 8pm
Wet Ink's residency at Columbia University will include five world premieres for large ensemble by New York City based composers as well as Alex Mincek's large scale electro-acoustic work Pendulum. From the sweeping orchestral textures of composers like Mika Pelo and Geof Holbrook to the sound explorations of Brahim Kerkour and Yoshiaki Onishi to the multimedia experimentations of Josh Cody this large ensemble concert looks to be a highlight of the fall concert season in New York.
Program:
Mika Pelo - New Work
Brahim Kerkour - New Work
Yoshiaki Onishi - New Work
Alex Mincek - Pendulum IV
Joshua Cody - New Work
Geof Holbrook - New Work
Wet Ink in San Diego: Wed.@7
CPMC Concert Hall, UC San Diego
Wednesday January 12, 2011, 7pm
New York's Wet Ink Ensemble makes their West Coast debut with a program of works by Peter Ablinger, Alex Mincek, Katharina Rosenberger, and Mathias Spahlinger.
Spring Premieres
Saturday, April 30, 8pm
St Peters Church - Chelsea
Manhattan
Wet Ink presents a concert of new works by George Lewis, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels and Lew Spratlan as well as American premieres by European composers Simon Steen-Andersen and Stefan Prins.
Program:
George Lewis - New Work*
Lew Spratlan - Process/Bulge*
Simon Steen-Anderson - Chambered Music#
Stefan Prins - Fremdkörper #1
Sam Pluta - Portraits/Self Portraits*
Eric Wubbels - New Work*
*World Premiere #US Premiere
Peter Ablinger Portrait ConcertSeptember 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 PerformanceFriday, 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 InkTuesday, 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.
Friday, May 1st, 2009:
Three Generations of Experimental Music
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Alvin Lucier, Sam Pluta, Chiyoko Szlavniks, Jeff Snyder, and Matthias Spahlinger
at St. Peter's Church, Chelsea
Saturday, January 31st, 2009:
Carrier Records CD Release Concert
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Eric Wubbels, Morton Feldman, Alex Mincek, and Beat Furrer
at Roulette
December 6 and 7, 2008:
Wet Ink and The Knights
performed by The Knights String Orchestra
works by: Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Jeff Snyder, Eric Wubbels, Osvaldo Golijov, and Gabriela Frank
Wednesday, October 15, 2008:
10th Anniversary Season Opener
performed by Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Alex Mincek, Alvin Lucier, Kate Soper, Jeff Snyder, Richard Barrett, and Wadada Leo Smith
October 9 and 11, 2008:
AACM - A Power Stronger Than Itself
performed by Wet Ink Ensemble, with Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Myers, and Nicole Mitchell
works by: George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith
Thursday, May 3rd, 2008:
Third Annual Concert of New Works for Large Ensemble
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Reiko Fueting, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Matthew Hough, Eric Wubbels, Randy Nordschow, and Richard Carrick
at St. Peter's Church, Chelsea
Thursday, April 10th, 2008:
HiFi New Music Festival
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: James Tenney, Hikari Kiyama, Kate Soper, plus improvisations
at The Tank
Saturday, December 1st, 2007:
Non-hippie-West-Coast-Sound-Art meets New York/Euro-lite-Noise-Technology
performed by Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: James Fei, Brian Kane, Alex Mincek, Jeff Snyder, and Charlie Wilmoth. The concert closes with selections from György Ligeti's piano Etudes, in virtuosic arrangements for amplified ensemble
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007:
New Works for Large Ensemble
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Franco Donatoni, Reiko Fueting, Beat Furrer, Vincent Raikhel, Katharine
Soper and Jeff Snyder
at New York Quarterly Meeting House
Monday, March 19, 2007:
Difference / Repetition
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Bernhard Lang, Alex Mincek, Sergej Newski, Helmut Oehring, Katharine
Soper, Jeff Snyder and
Eric Wubbels
at Symphony Space
Saturday, Jan 27, 2006:
sixth annual TRIO concert
compositions and improvisations performed by TRIO and the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by Daniel Goode, Kui Dong, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff
at Greenwich Music House
Friday, Dec. 1, 2006:
New and Traditional Music for Bagpipes
performed by Matthew Welch and the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, Alex Mincek, and Matthew Welch
at New York Quarterly Meeting House
Friday, Oct. 27, 2006:
Berlin / New York
performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble
works by: Peter Ablinger, Reiko Fueting, Alex Mincek, Oliver Schneller, and
Eric Wubbels
at Greenwich Music House
April 14th, 2006
Wet Ink in Context
The Wet Ink Ensemble, in collaboration with the Second Instrumental Unit, will present new pieces for large ensemble by Alex Mincek, Eric Wubbels, and Sam Hillmer. The concert will also feature works by Japanese composer Jo Kondo, Venetian master Luigi Nono, and renowned American experimentalist Christian Wolff.
Program:
Euphony (2005/6) - Eric Wubbels
"Hay Que Caminar" Soñando (1989) - Luigi Nono
Walk (1976) - Jo Kondo
Selected Exercises (1973-5) - Christian Wolff
Yap Yaw Yawp (2005/6) - Alex Mincek
February 24th, 2006
Trio / Wet Ink Ensemble Annual Concert -- with Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, and Kui Dong.
The tradition continues with Wet Ink's fifth presentation of New Hampshire's
two-piano, one-guitar improv trio known simply as Trio. The group features
veteran composer/performers Larry Polansky, Kui Dong, and Christian Wolff.
Wet Ink Ensemble will perform new compositions by Reiko Fueting, Alex Mincek,
and Jeff Snyder.
Program:
Perpetuum Mobile (2005) - Alex Mincek
Leaving Without (2002, rev. 2006) - Reiko Fueting
Leaving Without / Palimpsest I (2006) - Reiko Fueting
Percussion (2006) - Jeff Snyder
----intermission---
improvisation - Trio
February 3, 2006
Columbia University Music Scholarship Conference
The Wet Ink Ensemble has been invited to open the 2006 Columbia University
Music Scholarship Conference with a concert of works that mix composition
and improvisation. The conference, focusing on the theme of "Performance
and Improvisation," will feature keynote addresses by George Lewis and
Carolyn Abbate.
December 8th, 2005
Weasel Walter, People, and the Creations
No-wave/death-metal/free-jazz composer Weasel Walter (of the Flying Luttenbachers)
performs new compositions with special guests. People is the prog-rock duo
of guitarist/vocalist Mary Halvorson and percussionist Kevin Shea. Starting
off the concert will be duets for electronics by the Creations, featuring
Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith.
November 20th, 2005
Transcriptions
Jazz/Indian Classical percussionist Dan Weiss will perform his transcriptions
for drumset of solo tabla repertoire from the Farrukhabad Gharana School.
To open the program, member of the Wet Ink Ensemble and Zs will perform transcriptions
by Wet Ink Composers of music by Machaut, Schoenberg, Bach, and Feldman.
Oct 14th, 2005
Flexible Music and Zs
Wet Ink presents an evening of music for saxophones, guitars and percussion,
as New York quartet Flexible Music shares the bill with brutal chamber ensemble
Zs. Flexible Music will perform works by Louis Andriessen and Ryan Streber
and premiere new pieces by Vineet Shende and Reiko Fueting. Zs realizes Earle
Brown's Four Systems, and will perform new works by Alex Mincek and the members
of Zs.
June 15, 2005
The Wet Ink Ensemble
For the final concert of the season, the ensemble expands to 8 players for
performances of new works by Wet Ink composers Alex Mincek, Sam Hillmer, Reiko
Fueting, Brendan Connelly, Jeff Snyder and Eric Wubbels.
May 18, 2005
Salvatore Sciarrino's L'Opera per Flauto
Sciarrino is a master at dissecting instruments and finding in them the most
intricate and delicate manners of expression. His works frequently allow his
precious discoveries to teeter on the brink of inaudibility. Flautist Erin
Lesser performs a selection of movements from Sciarrino's magnum opus for
solo flute, L'Opera per Flauto, alongside works by Hurel and Reich.
April 20, 2005
TimeTable Percussion and Coptic Light
TimeTable Percussion trio perform works by Beat Furrer, Wolfgang Rihm, Hiroya
Miura, Jeff Snyder and others. They are followed by the avant-rock band Coptic
Light, whose bass and drums play aggressive free-jazz/metal monoliths in support
of triumphant pop melodies played on guitar.
March 30, 2005
The Wet Ink Ensemble and Slow Six
The Wet Ink Ensemble performs various duo combinations by Alex Mincek, Sam
Hillmer, Brendan Connelly, Christian Wolff and Nils Vigeland. They are followed
by the New York-based ensemble, Slow Six, lead by composer, performer, computer
programmer, Chris Tignor. Slow Six investigates consonance in every way. The
harmonic palate is relentlessly agreeable, and textures are constantly soothing.
February 23, 2005
The Wet Ink Ensemble and Charles Gayle
The Wet Ink Ensemble plays compositions by members of the Wet Ink composers
collective Alex Mincek, Sam Hillmer, Reiko Fueting and Brendan Connelly. Saxophonist
Charles Gayle, one of New York's most guttural and aggressive improvisers, then
performs a solo set as his theatrical alter-ego, "Streets the clown."
January 21, 2005
Trio and Zs
Wet Ink presents the fourth annual Trio and Zs concert. Composer/performers,
Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky, and Kui dong, come down from Hanover New Hampshire
to split the bill with New York's brutal chamber sextet, Zs. Trios improvisations
are sprawling in nature, running the gamut from lush diatonicism to pointalistic
chromaticism to distorted noise and prepared piano sounds. Zs perform compositons
by bandmates Alex Mincek, Sam Hillmer, Matthew Hough, and Charlie Looker.
November 17, 2004
James Fei's Alto Quartet and Zs
Composer/performer James Fei and his alto saxophone quartet, will explore
timbre and texture via extended techniques, disabled reeds, and dynamic threshholds.
Zs, with typical bombastic precision, perform recent compositions by bandmates
Alex Mincek, Sam Hillmer, Matthew Hough and Charlie Looker.
Sept 22, 2004
The Wet Ink Ensemble and Zs
The Wet Ink Ensemble and Zs perform the music of Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, Fredric Rzewski, Alex Mincek
and Matthew Hough.
April 2, 2004
The Wet Ink Composers Collective
Compositions by Brendan Connelly, Sam Hillmer , Alex Mincek and Reiko Fueting
Featuring Scarborough Trio
March 11, 2004
New
Music for the Steel String Guitar
kevin barker (currituck county)
zeke healy (from the boggs)
pithot (jerry lim and tom borum)
matt valentine
jack rose
February 20, 2004
Trio
Improvisations
by Kui Dong (piano) Larry Polansky (guitars) and Christian Wolff (piano)
January 22, 2004
Caroline Park, pianist
Compositions by Isang Yun, Tristan Murail, Toshio
Hosokawa, Albert Roussel, and others
December 5, 2003
Scale Space Virtuosity
Compositions by James Saunders, Tim
Parkinson, Brian Ferneyhough and Chris Dench
Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Art Center
November 12, 2003
The
Music of the Spectral School, part two
Compositions by Tristan Murail,
Gerard Grisey, Philippe Hurel, Michael Levinas featuring Jean-Luc Herve's
video of Murail's Winter Fragments
Philosophy Hall at Columbia University
Argento Chamber Ensemble
Michel Galante, director
Co-produced by Argento New Music Project, Wet Ink, and Maison Française
November 9, 2003
The Music of the Spectral School, part one
Compositions by Tristan Murail,
Hugues Dufourt, Michel Galante Philosophy Hall at Columbia University
Argento Chamber Ensemble
Michel Galante, director
Co-produced by Argento New Music Project, Wet Ink, and Maison Française
October 30, 2003
Coptic
Light
Wikked
Hale Zukas
at The Lucky Cat, Brooklyn
March 8, 2003
New Music:
France
(part of the 2003 Sounds
French Festival)
at Columbia
University's Philosophy Hall
LOOPS AND RESONANCES
Argento Chamber Ensemble
presents the music of
HUREL, MANOURY, GRISEY, PESSON, AND RISSET
Michel Galante, musical director and conductor
Juliana Snapper, soprano
Wonjung Kim, soprano
Erin Lesser, Flute
Carol McGonnell, Clarinet
Lisa Conway, Horn
Alan Ferber, Trombone
Joanna Chao, Piano
Matt Ward, Percussion
Philip Payton, Violin
Yonah Zur, Violin
Nadia Sirota, Viola
Joanne Lin, Cello
David Kahn, Bass
Pieter Snapper, Electronics
6PM Part One: ' Resonances'
Jean-Claude Risset: 'Resonant Sound Spaces', for tape
Philippe Manoury: 'En écho', for soprano and real-time interactive electronics;
Juliana Snapper, soprano; Miller Puckette, electronics.
7PM
informal pre-performance talks by the composers. Refreshments served.
7:30PM Part Two: 'Loops'
Gérard Pesson: 'The light has not the arms to carry us' (1994); 'Life is like
a Christmas Tree' (1992); 'Non sapremo mai di questo mi' (1992)
Gérard Pesson: 'Cinq chansons' (1999) for soprano and quintet
Gérard Pesson: 'Le Gel, Par Jeu' (1991) for sextet
intermission
Gérard Grisey: 'Périodes' (1974) for septet
Philippe Hurel: 'Loops' (1999) for solo flute
Philippe Hurel: 'A Mesure' (1997) for sextet
reception with performers, composers, and presenters following concert, at the
Maison Française, across from Philosophy Hall, on the Columbia Campus.
Concert produced by Argento Chamber Ensemble, co-sponsored by Wet Ink, Columbia
University's Maison Française and Music Performance Program, the French Embassy,
Sounds French Festival, Electronic Music Foundation, and the Computer Music
Center at Columbia University
February 14th, 2003
Trio
at Greenwich
House Music School
Kui Dong (piano)
Larry Polansky (guitars)
Christian Wolff (piano)
January 25th, 2003
Et At It and
Zs
at The Bowery Poetry Club
November 20, 2002
New Music
from New York
James Fei Proun Space 2002
(for two violins and electronics) featuring Jessica Pavone (violin), Maja
Cerar (violins) and James Fei (electronics)
Sam Hillmer "...this is what it's like most of the time..." 2002
(for tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, electric guitar, 'cello, marimba and
piano)
Alex Mincek String Quartet #2: "tenor" 2002
featuring The
Vega String Quartet
September 27, 2002
New Music
from Germany
at Greenwich
House Music School
Featuring Reiko Fueting,
piano
Jorg Herchet (b. 1943) Composition for Piano 1991
Lydia Weissgerber (b.1975) Wiederkehrend 2001
Reiko Fueting (b.1970) Gleichzeitg Nacheinander 2001
Michael Flade (b.1975) Unverbunden Strömt Verbindlich 2001
Christian Munch (b.1951) Hymne a Jean Genet 1992
Annette Schlunz (b.1964) Verschattet 1991
January 11, 2002
Wet Ink
2001-2 Concert 3 : Trio and Zs
at Greenwich
House Music School
TRIO: Kui Dong (piano) Larry Polansky (electric guitar) and Christian Wolff
(piano)
Z's 40: Sam Hillmer (tenor saxophone) and Alex Mincek (tenor saxophone) plus Charlie Looker (electric guitar), Adam Small (Electric Bass) and Jacob Garchik (trombone)
November 2001
Wet Ink 2001-2 Concert 2
at the New York Kunsthalle
Joe Maneri - excerpts from a new song cycle for voice and saxophone with Judith
Berkson, voice
Milan Alexander Mincek - Stems and Flows for piano
Brendan Connelly - two violins, percussion
Reiko Fueting - Violin Duet
September 2001
Wet Ink
2001-2 Concert 1 : Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri, and Zs
at the Friend's Seminary Meeting House
Joe Maneri (saxophones/clarinet) and Mat Maneri (viola)
Z's 40: Sam Hillmer (saxophone), Alex Mincek (saxophone), and Matt Hough (guitar)
May 2001
Wet Ink
Spring Concert
at the Friend's Seminary Meeting House
Salvatore Sciarrino: Piano Sonata No. 2
Reiko Futing: Voice and String Quartet
Sam Hillmer: Lines of Drift - organ, guitar, and percussion
Jacob Garchik: Music for Trombone and Tabla
Alex Mincek: String Quartet
Brendan Connelly: Letter E In George Schneeman - flute, clarinet, viola, and 'cello
Akira Tereo: Wind Whispers for piano
January to April 2001
Oasis
a monthly performance series at a new experimental theatre space known as
Theatre 135, at 135 W42nd Street between Broadway and Sixth Ave.
Wet Ink was excited to be a part of this 4-month long performance series which
featured New York's most interesting dancers, composers, and filmmakers.
Performances included:
Z's 40
Sam Hillmer and Alex Mincek - saxophones
New Music for Trombone and Tabla
by Jacob Garchik
Mr. Garchik - trombone
Danny Weiss - tabla
1,2,4,8,15
A performance piece
by Brendan Connelly and Igor Siddiqui
for Violin, Viola, two Trombones, Percussion and Three Slide Projectors
For more information about Oasis, visit their website at www.chashama.org
A weekly series held from May to September 2000
New Music Forum
at The Read
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
featured composer/performers:
Franke Vogl (prepared electric bass)
Pete Cafarella (accordion)
Gabe Andruzzi (alto saxophone)
Russ Johnson/Ohad Talmor: Tenor saxophone Duets
Touchdown
Jacob Garchik: Pieces for Trombone and Computer
September through December 1999
New Music at Collective:Unconscious
New York, New York
September 15th
Sam Hillmer
Jester
for eight
October 16th
Brendan Connelly/Igor Siddiqui
Signal.2
for Trumpet, Tenorsaxophone, Bass
Clarinet, Trombone, Percussion and Slide Projections.
November 28th
Sam Hillmer
Similarities for sextet
Alex Mincek
String Quartet 2/3
December 12th
Jacob Garchik/Dan Weiss
Works for Trumpet, Trombone, and Percussion
April 9th, 1999
Columbia University
Experimental Music Series 1999
New York, NY
w/ David Shea, solo performance with samplers.
October 15, 1999
ABENDADA: an evening of dada performance
in conjunction with Ocularis at Galapagos
Ballet Mechanique by Fernand Leger
new score by Brendan Connelly
Anemic Cinema by Man Ray
new score by Alex Mincek
