Wet Ink Ensemble Collaborates This Fall With Nate Wooley And Darius Jones In Brooklyn

The "sublimely exploratory" (The Chicago Reader) Wet Ink Ensemble will 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 Room on 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.

Tickets: $15 General Admission, $12 ISSUE members
Link: https://issueprojectroom.org