Wet Ink Ensemble Collaborates this Fall with Nate Wooley and Darius Jones in Brooklyn

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Contact: Katy Salomon | Morahan Arts and Media
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WET INK ENSEMBLE COLLABORATES THIS FALL WITH
NATE WOOLEY AND DARIUS JONES IN BROOKLYN

Performing in Nate Wooley’s FOR/WITH Festival at Issue Project Room and
in For The People, a special event curated by Darius Jones at Roulette
 

New York, NY (October 1, 2018) — The "sublimely exploratory” (The Chicago Reader) Wet Ink Ensemble is pleased to collaborate on two exciting fall projects: Nate Wooley’s FOR/WITH Festival at Issue Project Room and For The People, a special event curated by saxophonist/composer Darius Jones, at Roulette.

Wet Ink makes an appearance on FOR, the first evening of the FOR/WITH Festival, organized by trumpeter/composer/writer Nate Wooley, at ISSUE Project Roomon Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 8:00pm. Members of the Wet Ink Large Ensemble will present the U.S. Premiere of Catherine Lamb's Prisma Interius VII. Previously staged in London at Cafe Oto in March 2018, Lamb's work is the most recent development of a series of pieces constructed around the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer, an instrument—in development with Bryan Eubanks—that spectrally filters a live sound input of the outer atmosphere to the listening space within which the the performance piece is situated. In this iteration, the piece is staged with violin, clarinet, guitar, cello, and the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer.

On Monday, November 5, 2018 at 8:00pm, Wet Ink joins saxophonist/composer Darius Jones at Roulette as part of For the People, a community-based event and concert organized by Jones on the eve of the November Congressional Election. The evening is centered around a collection of compositions by Jones, in collaboration with The Wet Ink Large Ensemble that upholds the belief that artists have the duty and power to inform, inspire, and empower their surrounding community. The evening includes the world premiere of Jones’ Being Caged in ICE, followed by the second performance ever of America The Joke (written for Wet Ink in 2018), and concludes with the return of LawNOrder (pronounced “law no order”), a 45-minute game piece dealing with social justice and American history. Each player represents a separate character (unknown to the other players) and is handed a law to follow at the beginning of the piece.

Program Information
Wet Ink performs Catherine Lamb's Interius VIII on the For/With Festival
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 8:00pm
ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn | 22 Boerum Pl. | Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $15 General Admission, $12 ISSUE members
Link: https://issueprojectroom.org/

Program:
Catherine Lamb: Prisma Interius VII (2018), for violin, clarinet, electric guitar, cello, and 2 synthesizers [U.S. Premiere]

Performers:
Wet Ink Ensemble
     Josh Rubin, clarinet
     Giacomo Baldelli, electric guitar
     Josh Modney, violin
     Mariel Roberts, cello
     Laura Barger, synthesizer
     Eric Wubbels, synthesizer

Wet Ink performs as part of For The People
Monday, November 5, 2018 at 8:00pm (Doors 7:00pm)
Roulette | 509 Atlantic Ave | Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $18 Online, $25 Doors
Link: http://roulette.org/event/darius-jones-for-the-people/

Program:
Darius Jones: Being Caged In ICE (2018) [World Premiere]
Darius Jones: America The Joke (2018)
Darius Jones: LawNOrder (2017)

Performers:
Darius Jones, saxophone
Wet Ink Large Ensemble
     Eric Wubbels, piano
     Ian Antonio, percussion
     Josh Modney, violin
     Weston Olencki, trombone
     Amirtha Kidambi, voice
     Gelsey Bell, voice
     Nina Dante, voice
     Sugar Vendil, piano
     Sean Conly, bass
     Michael Vatcher, drums
     Daniel Givens, electronics
     Jean Carla Rodea, voice
     Shelley Nicole, voice
     Johnathan Finlayson, trumpet
     Leia Slosberg, flute
     Jessica Jones, tenor sax
     Sam Newsome, soprano sax
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, author of The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America to speak

About Wet Ink Ensemble
???????The Wet Ink Ensemble, a “sublimely exploratory” (The Chicago Reader) collective of composers, improvisers and interpreters hailed for “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” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker), is proud to celebrate 20 years of adventurous music-making in NYC and around the world with the 2018-19 concert season. The 20th Anniversary Season highlights the ethos of innovation through collaboration that has guided the work of Wet Ink throughout the ensemble’s history, celebrating the music and the unique performance practice developed in the “band” atmosphere of Wet Ink’s core septet of composer-performers, and presenting exciting new projects with emerging and underrepresented artists and longtime collaborators.

Since the group’s first concerts in 1998, Wet Ink has moved fluently along a continuum of composition, improvisation, and interpretation, from early collaborations with Christian Wolff, George Lewis, and ZS to pioneering portrait concerts of Peter Ablinger, Mathias Spahlinger, Anthony Braxton, and the AACM composers, and deep, long-term creative work by members of Wet Ink.

In that same spirit, Season 20 showcases the many facets of the group’s work - highlights include a retrospective look at “classics” of Wet Ink’s repertoire and new projects by Sky Macklay, Rick Burkhardt, Catherine Lamb, and Wet Ink’s four acclaimed composer-members (Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels); the release of Wet Ink: 20 on Carrier Records, the debut album featuring the 28 musicians of the Wet Ink Large Ensemble; the release of Josh Modney’s Engage on New Focus Recordings, “one of the most intriguing programs of the year” (The New York Times); the release of Kate Soper’s IPSA DIXIT on New World Records; and new collaborations with renowned creative musicians Darius Jones, Peter Evans (Being & Becoming), Charmaine Lee, Cory Smythe, and many others.

Wet Ink is co-directed by a core septet 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), Kath 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. More information at www.wetink.org.

*Photo Credit: Alexander Perrelli

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