Wet Ink Ensemble Presents Season-Opening Concert on October 11 at Tenri Cultural Institute

Performance Features Eric Wubbel’s Chimeric Form and Clarinetist Madison Greenstone

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September 16, 2025 (New York, NY) — New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble kicks off its 27th season with a performance of Eric Wubbels's Chimeric Form on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Tenri Cultural Institute.

Following Brahms’s and Ligeti's path-breaking entries in the rarely attempted genre of the horn trio, Chimeric Form treats the bizarre and acoustically ungainly combination of violin, French horn, and piano as a hybrid meta-instrument navigating a chaotic, polyglot, spliced-up, and semi-self-aware formal structure. The work, performed with Eric Wubbels on piano, is preceded by clarinetist and improviser Madison Greenstone (of TAK Ensemble), who performs new solo material as a follow-up to their acclaimed 2023 release, Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness.

Madison’s performance is an extension of their solo practice, exstatic resonances, which explores ‘shatteringly intense’ phenomenological, material and spatial expressivities of sound through richly noisy timbral actions, often performed on the clarinet at a high volume. Their music explores dreamlike acoustic mirages, spatial interferences of different tones and beating, and draws inspiration from fiction writer Yoko Tawada's proposition that there is no such thing as a room with a fixed size.

In December, Wet Ink presents its third annual Mini-Festival on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. at Benzaquen Hall in the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Featuring works and performances by Wet Ink’s Artists-In-Residence Aurora Nealand (saxophone/voice) and Ben LaMar Gay (cornet), the festival includes the NYC premieres of Alex Mincek’s Assemblage - Trace/Mobile and Ensemble member Mariel Roberts Musa’s Jalan Mentari, as well as Peter Ablinger’s Black Series.

Performance Details:

Wubbels Chimeric Form / Madison Greenstone
Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8:00 p.m.
Tenri Cultural Institute | 43A W 13th St | New York, NY 10011
Tickets: $20 suggested/pay what you can [reserve online or purchase at the door]; free student tickets
Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wubbels-chimeric-form-madison-greenstone-tickets-1645032860569?aff=oddtdtcreator

Program:
Madison Greenstone - Solo Clarinet (2025)
Eric Wubbels: Chimeric Form (2023)
     I. 77 mögliche Hauptmotive
     II. TORS-
     III. little tail

Artists:
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Josh Modney, violin
Laura Weiner, horn
Eric Wubbels, piano
Nicholas Houfek, lighting design

About Madison Greenstone
Madison Greenstone is an improviser, writer, and clarinetist of TAK Ensemble. Madison performs across the US and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. They have been presented by the New York Philharmonic, Blank Forms, Cafe Oto (UK), LAMPO, KM28 (DE), ISSUE Project Room, the Vigeland Mausoleum (NO), Night of Surprise (DE), and Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center.

As a writer, Madison has contributed critical essays on experimental music to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (k-verlag), Blank Forms (Alien Roots), Museum of Art and History in Neuchâtel, Contemporary Music Review, and LAMPO Publications. They can be heard on Important Records, Relative Pitch, Longform Editions, Mengi, Another Timbre, Greyfade, Wandelweiser Editions, Impakt Kollektiv among others. Madison resides in Brooklyn.

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.

Image of Wet Ink by Alexander Perrelli; Image of Madison Greenstone by Alex Inglizian

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