Architeuthis Walks on Land, Wet Ink Ensemble

Architeuthis Walks on Land - the improvising duo of violist Amy Cimini and bassoonist Katherine Young - celebrates their 3rd release, The Surveyors, recorded and produced at EMPAC in Troy, NY, with this special concert.

Ticket price includes a copy of the new release!

Sawing, sputtering, gurgling and wailing, Architeuthis Walks on Land is every bit the displaced and terrifying cephalopod that the name suggests. The viola and bassoon are two instruments rarely associated with free improvisation and noise; yet Amy Cimini and Katherine Young rip it up with particular aplomb, constructing chaotic sound masses, raise towering monoliths, and spinning out spacious gestures. Crafting their improvised materials into sophisticated structures, they capture the breadth of this uncommon coupling: from divergently soloistic to profoundly intertwined playing, from a slowly unfolding intimacy to raw friction. Cimini and Young lunge and flutter through their materials with the intuition and energy of constant discovery.

Cimini and Young have been performing together as Architeuthis Walks on Land since 2003, when they started improvising in Chicago's rich experimental music communities. Since then the have collaborated with artists like Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Adam Sonderberg, Jessica Pavone, and Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust.

ARCHITEUTHIS WALKS ON LAND
Amy Cimini - viola & electronics
Katherine Young - bassoon & electronics

[M]anifest improvisational bravura, of the ruthless variety, depending on close intervallic buzzing, pipe-like droning and the rusty fencing of inhospitable harmonic territories." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes about Natura Naturans (Carrier Records, 2010)

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The Wet Ink Ensemble is a New York-based new music collective. The group's repertoire is diverse, ranging from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music; from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde; from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.