Wet Ink Ensemble Announces 2022-23 Artists-In-Residence

NYC-based new music group Wet Ink Ensemble broadcasts its three new Artists-in-Residence: Obie award-winning theater artist Rick Burkhardt, composer and drummer Vicente Hansen Atria, and saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock.

Moist Ink Ensemble’s first live performance of the season will characteristic Burkhardt alongside members of Atria’s “alien chamber-folk” septet Orlando Furioso on this planet premiere efficiency of Kate Soper’s HEX at Roulette on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 7:30pm. The brand new work is a dramatic satire through which a brand new music ensemble inadvertently opens the gates of Hell.

The live performance additionally celebrates Orlando Furioso’s self-titled debut album, launched on Aguirre Data on September 9 with extra performances by the group, bringing the listener right into a weird microtonal cosmos, the place Andean melodies meet Renaissance arias. Like a science-fiction Dante, Atria’s group takes the listener on a tour of many numerous and colourful provinces of an alien world.

Moist Ink Ensemble’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program offers an open platform for composer-performers who’re invited to create new work for and with Moist Ink, carry out with the ensemble, current their very own solo tasks and bands, and work with Moist Ink’s open, collaborative mannequin in any means that they discover significant. Earlier AIRs embody Charmaine Lee, Katherine Younger, and Nick Dunston.

Efficiency Particulars
HEX // Orlando Furioso
Moist Ink Ensemble
Orlando Furioso
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 7:30pm
Roulette | 509 Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets: $20 (pay what you possibly can); free admission for college kids
Hyperlink: https://www.wetink.org/events/

Program:
Kate Soper – HEX [2022], a dramatic satire with music (world premiere)
Kate Soper, voice / piano
Rick Burkhardt, voice / piano (2022-23 Moist Ink Artist-In-Residence)

Orlando Furioso
Vicente Hansen Atria, drums / compositions (2022-23 Moist Ink Artist-In-Residence)
David Acevedo, trumpet
Andrew Boudreau, piano / MIDI harpsichord
Alec Goldfarb, amplified classical guitar
Daniel Hass, cello
David Leon, saxophone / clarinet
Simón Wilson, bass

Further works carried out by Vicente Hansen Atria’s Orlando Furioso

About Moist Ink’s 2022-23 Artists-in-Residence
Vicente Hansen Atria is a Chilean composer and drummer primarily based in New York. His music riffs on a variety of idioms, from renaissance dances to Korean sanjo, creating lucid, futuristic sonic worlds. He has written for teams such because the Solar Ra Arkestra, JACK Quartet, Moist Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, TAK Ensemble, Worldwide Modern Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Science Ficta, and Daedalus Quartet.

As a drummer and composer, his music has been showcased at all kinds of venues and festivals, together with The Shed, moers Competition, MATA Competition, Re:Sound Competition, Competition Mixtur, ATLÁNTICX Competition, The Stone, Dizzy’s Membership at JALC, Saint Vitus, Jazz Customary, DiMenna Heart for Classical Music, and Roulette, amongst others. His music has been launched on Provider Data, Aguirre Data, and Endectomorph Music, and has been reviewed by publications resembling The Guardian, The Wire, Nettavisen, I Care If You Hear, Cunning Digitalis, Vinyl District, and Which Sinfonia.

He’s a recipient of an ASCAP Herb Alpert Younger Jazz Composer Award (2022), an ACF Create award (2021), The Shed Open Name fee (2019), two Chilean Ministry of Tradition Fondo de la Música funds (2022 & 2020), and a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Younger Composer Award (2016).

He holds a DMA from Columbia College, the place he has studied with Fred Lerdahl, Georg Haas, George Lewis, and Zosha Di Castri. Vicente is presently main experimental chamber folks septet Orlando Furioso, in addition to performing with collaborative trio Household Plan, improvising digital music with Buen Clima as Tronador, and designing devices with Mat Muntz for The Vex Assortment, an alt-historical ensemble.

Rick Burkhardt is an Obie-award successful composer, performer, playwright, and director whose authentic music, theater, and textual content items have been carried out in over 40 US cities, in addition to in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. He studied music composition at Harvard College, the College of Illinois, and the College of California, San Diego (major instructors Chaya Czernowin and Herbert Brün), and playwriting at Brown College (major teacher Erik Ehn).

Rick Burkhardt’s work has been supported by grants from Chamber Music America, ICElab, New Music USA, Meet the Composer, Jerome Basis, Decrease Manhattan Cultural Council, the Millay Colony, Thomas Nee Commissioning Grant, Boswil Basis, DAAD, and the US-Mexico Fund for Tradition, in addition to personal and pageant commissions. Presenters and commissioners embody the Lucerne, Donaueschingen, Wien Fashionable, and Darmstadt Festivals, American Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, LaMama NYC, PS-122, and ensembles resembling Yarn/Wire, Worldwide Modern Ensemble, Moist Ink, PopeBama, radical2, Ensemble Dal Niente, thingNY, line upon line, Hand/Werk, sfSound, Ensemble SurPlus, the La Jolla Symphony, the Olympia Chamber Orchestra, and Ensemble XII. He has acquired “Finest Play” awards on the San Francisco Fringe Competition and the New York Frigid Competition, and an Obie Particular Quotation Award for the music-theater work “Three Pianos.”

He’s cofounder of the Nonsense Firm, a touring experimental music / theater trio, and of the Prince Myshkins, a touring satirical folks / cabaret duo. His authentic songs have been recorded and carried out by singers throughout the US and broadcast nationally on Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” and NPR’s “Morning Version.” He lives in Brooklyn.

Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer, inquisitive about exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and sometimes evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Heart’s creative director Jason Moran, and a “totally dedicated saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker. Her composition Vogelfrei was nominated ‘among the best 25 Classical tracks of 2018’ by The New York Instances.

She labored with: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Andy Milne, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Moist Ink and plenty of others.

Awards embody the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004, a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Basis in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, the 2014 German File Critics Quarterly Award, Downbeat Annual Critics Ballot Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015) , Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019.

Ingrid Laubrock has acquired composing commissions by The Fromm Music Basis, BBC Glasgow Symphony orchestra, Bang on The Can, Grossman Ensemble, The Shifting Basis, The Robert D. Bielecki Basis, The Jerwood Basis, American Composers Orchestra, Tricentric Basis, SWR New Jazz Assembly, The Jazz Gallery Commissioning Collection, NYSCA, Moist Ink, John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Collection and the EOS Orchestra.

She is a recipient of the 2019 Herb Alpert Ragdale Prize in Music Composition and the 2021 Berklee Institute of Gender Justice Girls Composers Assortment Grant.

Ingrid Laubrock is a component time school at The New College and Columbia College. Different instructing experiences embody improvisation workshops at Towson College, CalArts, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Baruch Faculty, College of Michigan, College of Newcastle and plenty of others. Laubrock was Improviser in Residence 2012 within the German metropolis Moers. The put up is created to introduce artistic music into the town all year long. As a part of this she led a daily improvisation ensemble and taught sound workshops in elementary colleges.

The Moist Ink Ensemble is a collective of composers, performers, and improvisers devoted to adventurous music-making. Named “The Finest Classical Music Ensemble of 2018” by The New York Instances, Moist Ink’s work is rooted in an ethos of innovation by collaboration, extending from the music and the distinctive efficiency follow developed within the “band” environment of Moist Ink’s core ensemble of composer-performers, to tasks with a broad vary of famend creators, from Evan Parker to George Lewis to Peter Ablinger, and dedicated performances of music by younger and underrepresented composers, from at the moment’s most promising rising voices to the subsequent technology of artists.

Hailed for “sublimely exploratory” (The Chicago Reader) and “dense, wild, but artfully managed” (The New York Instances) performances and “uncompromisingly authentic music by its members, and unflagging perception within the energy of collaboration” (The New Yorker), Moist Ink has been presenting concert events of recent music on the highest degree in New York Metropolis and world wide for over 20 years. Moist Ink’s programming celebrates the nexus of composition, improvisation and interpretation, from early collaborations with Christian Wolff and ZS to pioneering portrait concert events of Peter Ablinger, Mathias Spahlinger, Anthony Braxton, and the AACM composers, work with famend artistic musicians resembling Ingrid Laubrock, Peter Evans, Darius Jones, and Katherine Younger, and long-term collaborative tasks with Moist Ink’s 4 acclaimed composer-members (Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Kate Soper, and Eric Wubbels). In Might 2020, the ensemble launched Moist Ink Archive, a web based journal of adventurous music that includes writings and recordings by a variety of artists (please go to at archive.wetink.org).

Moist Ink has been in residence at establishments together with Duke College, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Heart), Columbia College, the Royal Academy of Music (UK), and The Walden College, amongst many others, and has been featured on quite a few recordings. Highlights embody Katharina Rosenberger’s TEXTUREN, which was awarded a German File Critics Prize, and solo information by Alex Mincek (Torrent), Kate Soper (IPSA DIXIT), Sam Pluta (Damaged Symmetries), Eric Wubbels (Duos with Piano, Guide 1), and Josh Modney (Interact), all of which had been celebrated on numerous “Better of” lists by The New York Instances, The New Yorker, Bandcamp Every day, Sequenza 21, and The Nation. Moist Ink has launched 4 acclaimed solo albums (Moist Ink Ensemble; Relay; Moist Ink: 20, which options the Moist Ink Giant Ensemble; and Glossolalia/Traces on Black).

Moist Ink is co-directed by an octet of world class composers, improvisers, and interpreters that collaborate in band-like trend, writing, improvising, making ready, and touring items collectively over lengthy stretches of time. These administrators 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 Moist Ink Giant Ensemble is a gaggle of extraordinary New York Metropolis musicians that come collectively to play the world’s most enjoyable and modern music. Study extra at www.wetink.org.