live recording, first performance
5/22/2014, St. Peter's Church-Chelsea, New York

Wet Ink Large Ensemble

Laura Cocks, flute
Karisa Antonio, oboe
Liam Kinson, clarinet
Christa van Alstine, clarinet/bass clarinet
Alex Mincek, tenor saxophone
Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon

Peter Evans, trumpet
Will Lang, trombone
Dan Peck, tuba

Ian Antonio, vibraphone, percussion
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Eric Wubbels, piano
Laura Barger, keyboard

Kate Soper, voice

Joshua Modney, violin
Olivia De Prato, violin
Victor Lowrie, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Andrew Roitstein, bass

Carl Bettendorf, conductor

recorded and engineered by Sam Pluta



Auditory Scene Analysis (Part I)

ALEX MINCEK on Tenor Sax, ERIC WUBBELS on Piano, NATHAN NOKES on Electronics. Performed at the Walden Creative Musicians Retreat 2015.

Skinny, Skinny, Don't You Know Me? - I. Cooing Voice and Nice Skin

"Prelude to Making Tellus"
Recording of performance by Andrew R. Munn, bass; Rami Sarieddine, piano; Julian Lambert, contrabass | May 1, 2015.

This piece is a small teaser/prelude to multi-media opera "Making Tellus: An Opera for the Anthropocene".

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Text:

Word-tipped arrows and song-made gods,
Let loose in the multitude of voices,
Weaving and rending, words forged in the hearth.

-Andrew R. Munn, 2015 [used with permission of the author].


Genesis 11:6 (King James Bible):

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; 
and thus they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, 
which they have imagined to do.

Prelude to Making Tellus (2015) for bass voice, piano, and contrabass

from my performance at uncertainty music series in new haven, ct

uncertainty music series 9.12.15

Wet Ink ensemble 
Marina Kifferstein, violin solo
Eric Wubbels, conductor

www.wetink.org

k̶. tracing (2015) Wet Ink, Marina Kifferstein, violin

"Twisted Blue" was written for clarinetist Dan Liptak to perform with the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra conducted by Erberk Eryilmaz. The title comes from the bluesy progression that forms the basis of the second movement, which was in fact composed first in a few frantic fall afternoons. The opening movement followed, and then the finale. 

Here, the third movement is played in the clarinet and piano version.

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Twisted Blue, III (clarinet and piano version)

Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra; Dan D'Addio (conductor)

enframing lyric

This model is combination of Tacotron2 + WaveRNN
Tacotron2 - 90K iters
https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/772c859
WaveRNN - 550K iters
https://github.com/erogol/WaveRNN/9259e05

Pocket article - WaveRNN and Tacotron2

The internet has fundamentally changed society, it allows us to stay in touch with loved ones and communicate and coordinate with large numbers of people. But it is also used for the decimation of hatred and disinformation. Don’t Feed the Trolls explores the sociological and political challenges of the information age - from its beginnings in the early age of dial-up to the present day, in which information warfare is used to influence elections. The title takes its name from internet slang, urging people to ignore the attention seeking comments from malicious accounts. Modern internet trolling can have multiple manifestations ranging from light-hearted pranks to mob bullying and doxxing, and perhaps the most dangerous, the attempts by organizations and governments to alter society and democracy by sowing disinformation.

The work opens with the spectrum of a dialup modem orchestrated into the ensemble. As the material is stretched it takes on a musical life of its own, invoking the birth of the information age. Eventually the stochastic and nostalgic noises die down and a new theme is introduced. The source material for the second theme is loosely based off of modified fragments of a 1980’s pop song that serves as a light-hearted internet bait and switch. This recontextualisation gradually deviates from its playful nature, becoming increasingly erratic before yielding to the return of the opening material. This final section grows increasingly forceful and mechanical, before ultimately reaching the apex of the work.

Dont Feed The Troll

Alto Saxophone Calvin Wong
Piano: Noah Simon

When I wrote “You Also” I was thinking about the direction of melodic lines. When a line changes direction from ascending to descending, or vice versa, how do we emotionally react? I wrote this piece as an attempt to subvert the change in melodic direction, by making almost every line in this piece is ascending. This constant direction gives the music a somewhat stubborn characteristic at times. It is (in part) because of this stubbornness, that I titled from a latin phrase, “tu quoque”. Tu quoque is a fallacy known as “the appeal to hypocrisy.” It is used to criticize one’s accusers, by attaching them as hypocritical.

Nokes - You Also (2017)

Nathan Nokes is a composer, musician, and sound artist whose works contrast heavily calculated precompositional processes with intuitive, freeform lyricism. Much of his work is written for chamber and live electronics. His work often explores the topic of nature and human interconnectedness in the information age. Works of his have been performed by members of ensembles such as Wet Ink, Loadbang, Mise-en, Ulysses European Ensemble, and Invoke Quartet. His music and sound installations have been featured in concert series such as Fusebox Festival (TX), New Voices Festival at COA (Washington DC), Foot in the Door (CT), Cohen New Works Festival (TX), and Festival of Contemporary Art Music (WA). 

His fellowships, scholarships, and residencies include the Kent Kennan Graduate Fellowship (TX), Hartt Talent Scholarship (CT), Nief-Norf Technology Fellowship (TN), I-Park (CT), and The Walden School (NH). 

He is a currently a graduate fellow, composition D.M.A student and associate instructor at the University of Texas in Austin. He received his M.M. in composition from Hartt School of music at the University of Hartford, and B.M. in Composition from Washington State University. 


His fellowships, scholarships, and residencies include the Kent Kennan Graduate Fellowship (TX), Hartt Talent Scholarship (CT), Nief-Norf Technology Fellowship (TN), I-Park (CT), and The Walden School (NH). 

He is a currently a graduate fellow, composition D.M.A student and associate instructor at the University of Texas in Austin. He received his M.M. in composition from Hartt School of music at the University of Hartford, and B.M. in Composition from Washington State University.

Nokes - You Also (2017)

Nathan Nokes

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