Wet Ink Ensemble plays new works by Eric Wubbels, George Lewis, and Kate Soper, as well as Rick Burkhardt’s Alban and Alex Mincek’s Nucleus. Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging. Their repertoire ranges from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music, from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde, and from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.
"[A] brash group of forward-thinking composers and performers..."
-- Time Out New York
"[Wet Ink] combined technical finesse with a palpable commitment that made these formidable works approachable."
-- Steve Smith, New York Times
"Wet Ink, deployed in various groupings, brought admirable precision to its task."
-- Nate Chinen, New York Times
Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging. Now in our 12th season, we have a reputation for exceptionally committed performances and for programming that is consistently diverse, fresh, and exciting. Our repertoire ranges from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music, from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde, and from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.
We aim to present a broad range of compelling contemporary music in the most direct and relevant manner possible, while in turn giving composers an open platform for their work that encourages artistic integrity and authenticity. To this end we strive to move fluently across a variety of contemporary aesthetics while maintaining the highest possible level of presentation and performance.
