Sam Pluta
Sam Pluta is a New York City-based composer and improviser working in the fields of acoustic and electronic music. He is technical director for the Wet Ink Ensemble, a group dedicated to performances of music from the present century. He has been commissioned and premiered by Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, ICE, Timetable Percussion, RIOT Trio, So Percussion, Dave Eggar, and Prism Saxophone Quartet and has performed internationally as a laptop soloist and chamber musician, including appearances at the Donaueschingen Festival, STEIM, Stadtgarten, and the Huddersfield GEMDays. As a founding member of the improvising quartet GBL and performing with groups like the Peter Evans Quintet, he has focused in recent years on fusing the worlds of acoustic and electronic instruments through improvisation. A devoted pedagogue, aside from his teaching duties at the Manhattan School of Music, he holds the John Plude Faculty Chair in Computer Musicianship at the Walden School. His music is released on quiet design, More is More, and Carrier Records, a recording label he co-founded in 2009.
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spluta@gmail.com
www.sampluta.com
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