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Next Up: “TED” Project & “Children of fire…” Recording Sessions

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Wet Ink: Violin and Piano - getting into some music by Burkhardt and Wubbels this week.

Wet Ink: Violin and Piano – getting into some music by Burkhardt and Wubbels this week.

Looking forward to a week of amazing projects surrounding Thanksgiving, rehearsing and recording some of my all-time favorite music.  Headed to Cambridge on Tuesday for the first part of a class at Harvard where I will be rehearsing and performing a new work, “TED”, by Rick Burkhardt (with Eric Wubbels on piano).  The class gives students a view into the process of creating new musical work, a wonderful concept!  And this piece is going to be a memorable one – a contemporary violin/piano duet combined with a TED Talk and chanted pseudo-folklore.

After that, honored to be committing Eric Wubbels’ incredible duo for violin and piano to record at Patrick Higgins’ beautiful Future-Past Studios in Hudson, NY. We will be recording to tape in an acoustically impeccable space on a vintage piano over several days. The final product will eventually be released on vinyl on Carrier Records.  Can’t wait to get started!

 

Wet Ink & Mivos Upcoming Performances

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Really stoked to be kicking off the year with these performances with Wet Ink and Mivos Quartet!

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Wet Ink Ensemble

Wet Ink Collaborations Series Part 1

Wet Ink Ensemble + Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Septet

September 30th, 2013 | 8:00pm
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$20 general | $15 Roulette members, students, seniors 

Wet Ink teams up with legendary British saxophonist Evan Parker to present an evening of music that draws connections between recent trends in composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic, American and European musics. Wet Ink Ensemble will present works by Austrian experimental composer and sound artist Peter Ablinger, as well as a large ensemble version of Anthony Braxton’s Composition 227, joined by a roster of all- star guests.

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Yarn|Wire

Wet Ink Collaborations Series Part 2 

Wet Ink Ensemble + Mivos Quartet + Yarn|Wire

October 1st, 2013 | 8:00pm St. Peter’s Church, Chelsea 346 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011
$10 general | free for students 

Wet Ink concludes its series with a program of ongoing collaborations with adventurous New York City ensembles Yarn/Wire and Mivos Quartet in a unique triple-ensemble concert.

Kicking things off, Yarn|Wire along with Wet Ink Ensemble members Alex Mincek and Sam Pluta will showcase recent works by composers Eric Wubbels and Peter Evans.

Mivos Quartet will then present a program including David Brynjar Franzson’s haunting on Repetition and Reappearances, which will be released on Mivos’ first solo album on Carrier Records this November. The American premiere of Sam Pluta’s Chain Reactions/Five Events for string quartet and live electronics, commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, will follow. This work is the product of a long collaboration between Mivos and Sam Pluta, and was first performed in Lucerne, Switzerland in August 2013. 

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Mivos Quartet

Patrick Higgins Album Release w/ Mivos Quartet and Buke & Gase

October 4th – 7:00pm

Le Poisson Rouge158 Bleecker st.

New York, NY 10012

 

Record release concert for Patrick Higgins’ Double LP String Quartet No.2 + Glacia.  Mivos will perform a new collaborative set with Higgins, plus Mario Diaz de Leon’s Moonblood.  Plus I am performing a Glacia duo set with Patrick on guitar and electronics.  Closing set by Buke and Gase, expert purveyors of handbuilt instruments and art-pop.

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Matt Hough’s ffffffffffffffff

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Happy to see that this video of Matt Hough’s recent solo violin piece has made it onto the web. This is from the premiere in October 2012 at the Music at First series in Brooklyn Heights. The piece uses distortion and compression to magnify the difference tones of justly tuned diads on the violin. The result is continuous “triadic harmony”, which is mapped rhythmically to text and performed at blistering volume. Really looking forward to more performances next season!