News
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FALL 2018
New Albums
Wet Ink - 20 [Carrier]
Wet Ink plays works for large ensemble by Anthony Braxton, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta,
Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels (Auditory Scene Analysis), and Katherine Young
Josh Modney- Engage [New Focus]
3-disc set features "the children of fire come looking for fire" alongside works by
Bach, Braxton, Brook, Pluta, Soper, and Modney
Ingrid Laubrock- Contemporary Chaos Practices [Intakt]
I conducted two orchestral works by by Ingrid Laubrock
for this Intakt release
featuring soloists Kris Davis, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, and Nate Wooley
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New Series
Co-curating a new series with Anna Webber
at Areté Gallery in Greenpoint
Convergences brings together musicians from across the spectrum of the New York music community,
highlighting shared aesthetic threads in various traditions of improvised, composed, and notated music.
Each night is a shared bill of two artists working at various intersections
of jazz, experimental, classical, new music, noise, etc.
Fall Season features Judith Berkson, Ava Mendoza, Oscar Noriega,
Jen Shyu, Philip White, and Seth Parker Woods
more info at
www.convergencesmusic.org
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Sept. 1-6, 2018: Avaloch Farm Boscawen, NH Residency with Kylwyria (workshop on a new work for Horn Trio)
Sept. 15, 2018: DiMenna Center New York, NY Wet Ink Ensemble 20th Season Opener (incl. "the children of fire...")
Oct. 2, 2018: Unerhörte Musik Berlin, GERMANY ubu duo plays “the children of fire come looking for fire”
Oct. 11, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences I: Judith Berkson / Oscar Noriega
Oct. 22, 2018: University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN Allison Adams and Andrea Lodge play This is This is This is
Oct. 27, 2018: UNC School of the Arts Winston-Salem, NC Robert C. Young plays This is This is This is
Oct. 31, 2018: ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn, NY Cat Lamb “Prisma Interius VII” with Wet Ink Ensemble, on For/With Festival
Nov. 4, 2018: Modulus Festival Vancouver, BC, CANADA Richard Uttley plays Psychomechanochronometer, (+ Haas, Cutting, Pinnock)
Nov. 5, 2018: Roulette Brooklyn, NY Darius Jones’s "For the People" (election benefit)
Nov. 15, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences II: Ava Mendoza / Philip White
Nov. 25, 2018: Pro Musica Montreal, QC, CANADA Jay Campbell and Conor Hanick play gretchen am spinnrade
Dec. 1, 2018: St. Peter’s, Chelsea New York, NY Wet Ink + Peter Evans’s Being and Becoming
Dec. 8, 2018: Depot.K Freiburg, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 11, 2018: Unerhörte Musik Berlin, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 13, 2018: Kulturnhalle Leipzig, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 13, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences III: Jen Shyu / Seth Parker Woods
Dec. 15, 2018: IGNM Bern, SWITZERLAND HYPER DUO plays doxa
FALL 2018
New Albums
Wet Ink - 20 [Carrier]
Wet Ink plays works for large ensemble by Anthony Braxton, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta,
Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels (Auditory Scene Analysis), and Katherine Young
Josh Modney- Engage [New Focus]
3-disc set features "the children of fire come looking for fire" alongside works by
Bach, Braxton, Brook, Pluta, Soper, and Modney
Ingrid Laubrock- Contemporary Chaos Practices [Intakt]
I conducted two orchestral works by by Ingrid Laubrock
for this Intakt release
featuring soloists Kris Davis, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, and Nate Wooley
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New Series
Co-curating a new series with Anna Webber
at Areté Gallery in Greenpoint
Convergences brings together musicians from across the spectrum of the New York music community,
highlighting shared aesthetic threads in various traditions of improvised, composed, and notated music.
Each night is a shared bill of two artists working at various intersections
of jazz, experimental, classical, new music, noise, etc.
Fall Season features Judith Berkson, Ava Mendoza, Oscar Noriega,
Jen Shyu, Philip White, and Seth Parker Woods
more info at
www.convergencesmusic.org
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Selected Events
Fall 2018
Fall 2018
Sept. 1-6, 2018: Avaloch Farm Boscawen, NH Residency with Kylwyria (workshop on a new work for Horn Trio)
Sept. 15, 2018: DiMenna Center New York, NY Wet Ink Ensemble 20th Season Opener (incl. "the children of fire...")
Oct. 2, 2018: Unerhörte Musik Berlin, GERMANY ubu duo plays “the children of fire come looking for fire”
Oct. 11, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences I: Judith Berkson / Oscar Noriega
Oct. 22, 2018: University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN Allison Adams and Andrea Lodge play This is This is This is
Oct. 27, 2018: UNC School of the Arts Winston-Salem, NC Robert C. Young plays This is This is This is
Oct. 31, 2018: ISSUE Project Room Brooklyn, NY Cat Lamb “Prisma Interius VII” with Wet Ink Ensemble, on For/With Festival
Nov. 4, 2018: Modulus Festival Vancouver, BC, CANADA Richard Uttley plays Psychomechanochronometer, (+ Haas, Cutting, Pinnock)
Nov. 5, 2018: Roulette Brooklyn, NY Darius Jones’s "For the People" (election benefit)
Nov. 15, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences II: Ava Mendoza / Philip White
Nov. 25, 2018: Pro Musica Montreal, QC, CANADA Jay Campbell and Conor Hanick play gretchen am spinnrade
Dec. 1, 2018: St. Peter’s, Chelsea New York, NY Wet Ink + Peter Evans’s Being and Becoming
Dec. 8, 2018: Depot.K Freiburg, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 11, 2018: Unerhörte Musik Berlin, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 13, 2018: Kulturnhalle Leipzig, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa
Dec. 13, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences III: Jen Shyu / Seth Parker Woods
Dec. 15, 2018: IGNM Bern, SWITZERLAND HYPER DUO plays doxa
New Recordings
Auditory Scene Analysis I
for 18 instruments, narrator, and electronic sound
Wet Ink Large Ensemble
Erin Lesser, flute
Kate Soper, voice
Sam Pluta, electronics
Eric Wubbels, conductor
being-time
for string quartet and electronic sound
Mivos Quartet
Bryan Jacobs and Eric Wubbels, electronics
gretchen am spinnrade
for cello and piano
Mariel Roberts, cello
Eric Wubbels, piano
contraposition
for trombone and prepared piano
Weston Olencki, trombone
Eric Wubbels, piano
live recording, first performance
6/10/2016
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Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a composer and pianist, and a Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble.
His music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and the U.S., by groups such as Wet Ink Ensemble,
Mivos Quartet, yarn|wire, Splinter Reeds, Kupka's Piano (AUS), SCENATET (DK), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble,
and featured on festivals including Huddersfield Festival, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, New York Philharmonic CONTACT,
MATA Festival, and Zurich Tage für Neue Musik.
Wubbels has been awarded grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America,
ISSUE Project Room, MATA Festival, Barlow Endowment, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, and Yvar Mikhashoff Trust,
and residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2011, 2016), Copland House, L'Abri (Geneva), Djerassi Resident Artists Program,
and Civitella Ranieri Center (Italy).
As a performer, he has given U.S. and world premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett,
Beat Furrer, George Lewis, and Mathias Spahlinger, as well as vital young artists such as Rick Burkhardt, Francesco Filidei,
Erin Gee, Bryn Harrison, Clara Iannotta, Darius Jones, Ingrid Laubrock, Charmaine Lee, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Katharina
Rosenberger, and Kate Soper.
He has recorded for Carrier Records, hatART, Intakt, New Focus, Spektral (Vienna), and Albany Records, among others,
and has held teaching positions at Amherst College and Oberlin Conservatory.