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Wet Ink Performs Works by Morton Feldman and Beat Furrer

Mar. 29, 2012

Wet Ink Performs Works by Morton Feldman and Beat Furrer

New York’s Wet Ink Ensemble continues their adventurous spring season with performances of works by Morton Feldman, Beat Furrer, and PSNY composers Alex Mincek and Kate Soper throughout New York. On March 30 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the ensemble performed Alex Mincek's Trigger/Switch/Filter and Morton Feldman’s 1981 work, Bass Clarinet and Percussion. A later work, this piece is described in the liner notes to its recording on Mode Records (mode 119):

Music of a floating quality with rhythms that expand and contract against a steady but unheard pulse. A piece of extremes: brutally high for both timpani and bass clarinet, with large interval leaps and discretely modulating timbres, all within an exaggeratedly reduced dynamic. This is perhaps among Feldman's most mysterious and otherworldly pieces.

April 14 sees Wet Ink’s “Large Ensemble Concert,” featuring premieres of a new work by Kate Soper and a performance of Beat Furrer’s still for ensemble. still shows Furrer’s evocation of small, persistently energetic sounds, illustrated by sul ponticello strings and an audacious part for the trumpet. Furrer’s use of droning percussive elements in this piece evokes machinery at work, much like the machinery of the ensemble’s own performance.

More on the life and work of Morton Feldman can be found at www.universaledition.com.

Details on the Wet Ink concerts are located at www.wetink.org.

Morton Feldman
Bass Clarinet and Percussion (1981)
17’

Beat Furrer
Still (1998)
fl, ob, bcl, tsax, tp, tbn–2perc-pno–2vn, va, vc, db
15’

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