Wet Ink Ensemble Announces Fall Season in NYC and Chicago and Launches Artist-in-Residence Program

The Wet Ink Ensemble announces its fall 2021 lineup of concerts and inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program, featuring composer-performers Nick Dunston and Katherine Young, as well as new editions of the Wet Ink Archive, the ensemble's artist-curated online journal of adventurous music.

Wet Ink's fall concerts kick off with an appearance at the Ear Taxi Festival on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 7:30pm. Held at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, the Wet Ink octet will perform four premieres, presented by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition in partnership with UChicago Presents. The program features the Chicago premiere of Ben LaMar Gay's Better Known. Still Lit, who joins Wet Ink on the cornet, the world premieres of new works by Ted Moore and Maria Kaoutzani, and the Chicago premiere of Alex Mincek's So Many Ways.

On Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:30pm, Wet Ink presents two evenings of new music as part of the ensemble's AIR Concerts at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn. The concerts feature new collaborations with 2021-22 Artists-in-Residence bassist Nick Dunston and bassoonist Katherine Young, and a program including a new work for the Wet Ink band by violinist and Wet Ink Executive Director Josh Modney, plus a new iteration of Performance Practice, an evolving set of music developed collaboratively by members of Wet Ink. The concerts will be open to limited in-person attendance and will also be livestreamed.

On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 8:00pm the Wet Ink Large Ensemble appears at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City for a concert of premieres. The program includes the world premiere of Kate Soper's Missing Scenes and the NYC-premieres of point, point, point, point by Alex Mincek; Simple Fuel by Tonia Ko; and Actuate/Resonate by Sam Pluta.

Wet Ink's new Artist-in-Residence program provides an open platform for two composer-performers who are invited to create new work for/with Wet Ink, perform with the ensemble, present their own solo projects and bands, and work with Wet Ink's open, collaborative model in any way that they find meaningful. For the inaugural 2021-2022 season, Wet Ink welcomes two innovative, composer-improviser artists: bassist Nick Dunston and bassoonist Katherine Young. Dunston was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship by Roulette Intermedium in 2019, which supported the premieres of The Floor is Lava! for double bass quintet and La Operación, a trans-media opera in progress. Young is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, and her electroacoustic music and sonic art uses expressive noises, curious timbres, and kinetic structures. Listen to Young's like a halo from Wet Ink's album Wet Ink 20.

Wet Ink also presents new issues of the ensemble's Wet Ink Archive, an artist-curated online journal of adventurous music. Archive 05, edited by Josh Modney and Eric Wubbels, releases September 30, 2021 with articles by Ingrid Laubrock and Ian Antonio, plus archival audio/video from 2021-2022 Artists-in-Residence Nick Dunston and Katherine Young. Archive 06, the "A.I. Issue," edited by Sam Pluta, releases October 29, 2021 with articles by Beesting Labs (Norah Lorway, Edward Powley, Arthur Wilson), Ted Moore, and Max Ardito.

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