Press
"A survey of Wet Ink programs from its eight-year history reveals that the group doesn't so much cross boundaries as disregard them." - Time Out
"The glowering overtones and stabbing riffs of Mincek's [Viola] proposed a sort of common ground between Morton Feldman's glacial gestures and the amplified swarms of Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth... At several points, the piece abruptly shuddered from near-silence to cacophonous rumble; even at its gnarliest and most confrontational, the overall effect was intoxicating." - Steve Smith, Night after Night (reviewing Wet Ink's December 2006 concert)
"Not all young composers have a yen for pop; many still engage in the venerable avant-garde pursuit of making music from dense, difficult combinations of sounds, thus striking an attitude of resistance to mainstream culture. Composer-led groups such as Wet Ink... are active at the noisier end of the spectrum, although they don't rule out sweeter sounds." Alex Ross, The New Yorker
"Ma i giovani di Wet Ink... hanno scelto una via più sofisticata di quella dei Bang on a Can... e questo spiega l'interesse preponderante nella loro musica per le ricerche sul suono e l'elettronica. Nei loro programmi... il linguaggio formalizzato e la precisione di scrittura delle avanguardie, le scoperte della psicoacustica e del minimalismo sono contaminati con le forme più libere e improvvisate delle musiche metropolitane." - Alberto Bosco, Il Giornale della Musica
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