Wet Ink: Violin and Piano
Eric and I are performing the piece two more times this season, in Baltimore on March 28 @ An Die Musik, and in NYC on March 30 @ The Stone.
Really excited about this concert, please join us on February 8th! I will have the privilege of performing two of my very favorite pieces, Alex Mincek’s String Quartet No. 3, “lift-tilt-filter-split” (with Mivos Quartet), and Eric Wubbels’ “the children of fire come looking for fire”, for violin and piano.
From our October 13, 2012 concert at DiMenna Center in NYC. We were lucky to have an excellent review in the NY Times for this one, linked here.
Wet Ink: Relay
Join us on Saturday to celebrate the release of Wet Ink’s new album Relay, recorded August 2012 at the state-of-the-art EMPAC center in Troy, NY, and including Wet Ink commissions by George Lewis, Rick Burkhardt, Alex Mincek, Eric Wubbels, Sam Pluta, & Kate Soper. The concert will feature large-scale premieres for the Wet Ink Band by Soper and Pluta (more info below), and we’re having a reception afterward to celebrate the album.
Dec 8, 2012, 8pm
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th St
$15/$10 students
SOPER: Voices from the Killing Jar
Spend an evening in the company of seven of history, literature, and myth’s most spellbinding women. Guggenheim Awardee composer and vocalist Kate Soper brings Madame Bovary, Clytemnestra, The Great Gatsby’s Daisy, and others to electrifying life in this monodrama for voice and ensemble.
PLUTA: Broken Symmetries
In Broken Symmetries, improviser, software developer and sound pioneer Sam Pluta combines the sonic world of guitar feedback with the virtuosic performers of the Wet Ink Ensemble’s touring septet. This twenty-five minute, one movement monolith merges epic guitar howls with Joshua Modney’s microtonal violin playing, Erin Lesser and Eric Wubbels’ virtuosic skills on the flute and piano, and the brute force of Ian Antonio on percussion with Alex Mincek on saxophone.
Wet Ink recording Relay at EMPAC
Wet Ink: Relay
The album features work developed over the past two years for the Wet Ink Band by Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, Kate Soper, Rick Burkhardt, and George Lewis. We had a weeklong residency at EMPAC in Troy, NY this past August to record the music, it was an incredible experience.
Please join us at our CD release concert on December 8 at DiMenna Center to celebrate! The evening will feature a new work for the Band by Sam Pluta, and the premiere of Kate Soper’s huge cycle, Voices from the Killing Jar, which we have been performing piecemeal over the past several seasons and will record for Kate’s first solo album in December.
Happy to have this review of our show at Zebulon! It was a fun set with noise-wall electronics by Patrick Higgins, just intonation violin drones, and general savagery from Alexander Perrelli on drums.
Check out the review here.
Katharina Rosenberger’s solo album “Texturen” on hat[now]ART, featuring Wet Ink Ensemble, has been awarded a German Record Critics’ Prize! (Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik). We spent a week at UCSD in 2011 making the record, which was an awesome experience musically and personally. So glad to see this recognition for Katharina’s excellent work! You can check out the press release on the prize’s website here.
Texturen
Wet Ink: Relay, recorded at EMPAC, drops in December!
Please join us at our CD release concert on December 8 at DiMenna Center to celebrate! The evening will feature a new work for the Band by Sam Pluta, and the premiere of Kate Soper’s huge cycle, Voices from the Killing Jar, which we have been performing piecemeal over the past several seasons and will record for Kate’s first solo album in December.
Wet Ink recording at EMPAC
Excited to be making my Zebulon debut tonight with Patrick Higgins (electronics/guitar) and Alexander Perrelli (drums)! Patrick and I have been workshopping a piece for violin and electronics (Glacia) for several months which has evolved into an extended trio piece for tonight’s show.
Our set is being presented on Sam Hillmer’s (ZS) PRACTICE! series at Zebulon, I’m psyched to be involved! The series was just featured in the Village Voice’s Best of 2012 listing, check it out here.
Zebulon is at 258 Wythe Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. No cover charge.
JOSH MODNEY 