Alex Mincek

Alex Mincek (*1975, USA) is a composer, performer, and co-director of the New York-based Wet Ink Ensemble. His compositional thinking is primarily concerned with creating musical contexts in which diverse sound worlds seamlessly coexist–from raw to highly refined timbres, from rhythmic vitality to abrupt stasis, and from mechanical-like repetition to sinuous continuity. By connecting, combining and alternating seemingly disparate states, he attempts to create a sense of interconnectivity that reveals underlying qualities of coherence and unity. His music frequently explores novel approaches to microtonal harmony by integrating methods often regarded as incompatible. Mincek’s musical thinking is also concerned with how the cognition of physical shape, movement and color can be used as a model for organizing musical sound and structure in relation to psychoacoustics and musical perception more generally.