Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Across two concerts at hcmf// 2019 Wet Ink Ensemble performed a range of new works from Charmaine Lee, Bryn Harrison, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, and Kristina Wolfe.

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Sam Pluta: Lines on Black (2019)

Lines on Black was written for the septet formation of Wet Ink Ensemble. This work explores gradations of notation and the grey area between notation and improvisation. I use gradations of notation in this piece as a vessel to engage the personalities of the individual performers in the Wet Ink band. Some movements are completely notated, taking advantage of the precision that these players can engage in. Other movements are completely improvised, allowing these creative musicians to spontaneously invent sound within a reference point of the rest of the piece. Some movements fall in between, allowing a certain level of freedom within an algorithmic structure.


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Wet Ink Ensemble
Alice Teyssier, flutes/voice
Alex Mincek, saxophone
Ian Antonio, percussion
Eric Wubbels, piano
Josh Modney, violin
Sam Pluta, electronics

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
19-20 November 2019

A project presented in partnership between CeReNeM, hcmf//, and Wet Ink

This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the University of Huddersfield’s University Research Fund (URF), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (#750618 & #725899) and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Wet Ink Ensemble, ’Smoke, Airs’
Huddersfield Contemporary Records, September 2020
nmcrec.co.uk/huddersfield-contemporary-records/smoke-airs

Video by Angela Guyton