Southern Exposure New Music Series presents Wet Ink Ensemble

The Southern Exposure New Music Series at the University of South Carolina’s 22nd season, “Friends and Family,” continues with an evening featuring Wet Ink Ensemble, an acclaimed octet of composer-performers celebrated for their “dense, wild, yet artfully controlled” (The New York Times) performances and “uncompromisingly original music by its members” (The New Yorker).

This free show – no tickets or reservations required, general admission seating – is on Friday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the USC School of Music Recital Hall, 813 Assembly St., second floor.

Hailed for “sublimely exploratory” (The Chicago Reader) and “dense, wild, yet artfully controlled” (The New York Times) performances and “unflagging belief in the power of collaboration” (The New Yorker), Wet Ink has been presenting concerts of new music at the highest level in their home city of New York and around the world for over 20 years; in 2018 they were named “Best Classical Music Ensemble” by the New York Times. The ensemble is co-directed by an octet of world class composers, improvisers, and interpreters that collaborate in band-like fashion, writing, improvising, preparing, and touring pieces together over long stretches of time.

Wet Ink’s Southern Exposure program features the group doing what they do best: performing their own cutting-edge, adventurous music. Works will include pieces by the Pulitzer-nominated composer and soprano Kate Soper, composer-pianist Eric Wubbels, composer-cellist Mariel Roberts, and composer-sound designer Sam Pluta. This concert will also feature a related visual art display by Prosperity, SC artist Sonya Diimmler.

For more information, contact Michael Harley, director, Southern Exposure New Music Series, at [email protected]