Wet Ink Ensemble Mini-festival: Artists-In-Residence, Soper Album Release (First Set)
Pay what you can, $20 suggested donation, $30 festival pass; reserve online or at the door
- Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
- Clare Monfredo, cello
- James Moore, electric guitar
- Erin Lesser, flute
- Ian Antonio, percussion
- Eric Wubbels, piano
- Josh Modney, violin
- Kate Soper, soprano
- Sam Pluta, electronics
Carolyn Chen — Birria (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, & piano)
Kate Soper — Shame (for voice & electric guitar)
Carolyn Chen — Introducing Object (2018; for speaker & object)
Kate Soper — Rondeau: The Rose Once Blown (arr. for soprano & violin)
New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble presents a mini-festival of adventurous music celebrating works by this season's artists-in-residence Gelsey Bell, Carolyn Chen, and Ben LaMar Gay, plus a new album release by ensemble member Kate Soper.
The first set, at 6pm, will feature two works by AIR Caroline Chen which highlight the breadth of her artistry, from chamber music to text and movement, and will celebrate the release of Kate Soper's album The Romance of the Rose (New Focus Recordings) with performances of excerpts from the opera.
Second set takes place at 8pm. More information here: https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/111182/wet-ink-ensemble-mini-festival-artists-in-residence-second-set
Between sets and afterward, the audience is invited to hang out with the performers at the Dixon Place Lounge.
About Wet Ink Ensemble
The Wet Ink Ensemble is a collective of composers, performers, and improvisers dedicated to adventurous music-making. Named "The Best Classical Music Ensemble of 2018" by The New York Times, Wet Ink's work is rooted in an ethos of innovation through collaboration, extending from the music and the unique performance practice developed in the "band" atmosphere of Wet Ink's core ensemble of composer-performers, to projects with a broad range of renowned creators, from Evan Parker to George Lewis to Peter Ablinger, and committed performances of music by young and underrepresented composers, from today’s most promising emerging voices to the next generation of artists.
Hailed for "sublimely exploratory" (The Chicago Reader) and "dense, wild, yet artfully controlled" (The New York Times) performances and "uncompromisingly original music by its members, and unflagging belief in the power of collaboration" (The New Yorker), Wet Ink has been presenting concerts of new music at the highest level in New York City and around the world for over 20 years. Wet Ink's programming celebrates the nexus of composition, improvisation and interpretation, from early collaborations with Christian Wolff and ZS to pioneering portrait concerts of Peter Ablinger, Mathias Spahlinger, Anthony Braxton, and the AACM composers, work with renowned creative musicians such as Ingrid Laubrock, Peter Evans, Darius Jones, and Katherine Young, and long-term collaborative projects with Wet Ink's four acclaimed composer-members (Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels). In May 2020, the ensemble launched Wet Ink Archive, an online journal of adventurous music featuring writings and recordings by a wide range of artists (please visit at archive.wetink.org).
Wet Ink has been in residence at institutions including Duke University, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Columbia University, the Royal Academy of Music (UK), and The Walden School, among many others, and has been featured on numerous recordings. Highlights include Katharina Rosenberger’s TEXTUREN, which was awarded a German Record Critics Prize, and solo records by Alex Mincek (Torrent), Kate Soper (IPSA DIXIT), Sam Pluta (Broken Symmetries), Eric Wubbels (Duos with Piano, Book 1), and Josh Modney (Engage), all of which were celebrated on various "Best of" lists by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bandcamp Daily, Sequenza 21, and The Nation. Wet Ink has released four acclaimed solo albums (Wet Ink Ensemble; Relay; Wet Ink: 20, which features the Wet Ink Large Ensemble; and Glossolalia/Lines on Black).
Wet Ink is co-directed by an octet of world class composers, improvisers, and interpreters that collaborate in band-like fashion, writing, improvising, preparing, and touring pieces together over long stretches of time. These directors are Erin Lesser (flutes), Alex Mincek (saxophone), Ian Antonio (percussion), Eric Wubbels (piano), Josh Modney (violin), Mariel Roberts (cello), Kate Soper (voice), and Sam Pluta (electronics). The Wet Ink Large Ensemble is a group of extraordinary New York City musicians that come together to play the world's most exciting and innovative music. Learn more at www.wetink.org.
http://www.wetink.orgAbout Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
About Clare Monfredo, cello
About James Moore, electric guitar
About Erin Lesser, flute
About Ian Antonio, percussion
About Eric Wubbels, piano
About Josh Modney, violin
Josh Modney—AKA Modney—is a violinist and creative musician working at the nexus of composition, improvisation, and interpretation. A "new-music luminary" (The New York Times) hailed for "jaw-dropping technical skill…" and as "one of today's most intrepid experimentalists" (Bandcamp Daily), Modney is a foremost interpreter of adventurous contemporary music, and has cultivated a holistic artistic practice as a composer, solo improviser, bandleader, music director, writer, arts administrator, and collaborator.
https://joshmodney.com/