Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit
Performed by Wet Ink Ensemble
“Comprehensively astounding …. a twenty-first century masterpiece …. a ninety-minute tour de force in which ideas assume sound and form. Call it philosophy-opera.” – The New Yorker
Hailed as “a composer of trenchant, sometimes discomfiting power” (The Boston Globe), and praised for her “lithe voice and riveting presence” (The New York Times), composer/soprano Kate Soper creates works at the intersection of expressivity, intelligibility, and sense, with a focus on the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. Soper is a co-director and performer for Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries. Soper will present Ipsa Dixit, an evening-length work of chamber music theater for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning through blistering ensemble virtuosity and extended vocal technique. Forged in the uniquely intense creative atmosphere of the “sublimely exploratory” Wet Ink Ensemble (The Chicago Reader) with stage direction by Ashley Kelly Tata, Ipsa Dixit represents the cutting edge of contemporary chamber music and vocal performance.
