2025...

 January 23 - Yarn/Wire performs BIOMES 6.0

@ Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC, 7pm

https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/yarn-wire-concert/

January 31 - Duo with Jeff Crompton

@ First Existentialist, ATL, 8pm

https://atlnowmusic.org/concert/jeff-crompton-katherine-young-roger-ruzow-ipek-eginli-and-john-kiran-fernandes/

February 8 - Bent Frequency + Jesse Langan performs Camilles for sax, guitar, piano, and percussion

@ Emory Performing Arts Studio, ATL, 8pm

part of CompFest 2025: In Our Own House

March 8  - the Music of Anthony Braxton 

@ Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 8pm

https://www.loc.gov/item/event-415334/music-of-anthony-braxton/2025-03-08/ 

Midwest Tour with Dana Jessen, Ben Roidl-Ward  performing "Altarpiece H. af K." by Eric Wubbels

3/20 - Oberlin, OH - Fairchild Chapel / 7:30pm / with Aurie Hsu & Steven Kemper

3/21 - Cleveland, OH - CUSP: Calicchia Gallery Studio, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland

Doors 7:30, Music 8PM / with Ryan Carter

3/22 - Urbana-Champaign, IL - Gallery Art Bar, 7pm / with Kerrith Livengoog

3/23 - Chicago, IL - Elastic Arts / 7pm / with Kari Watson

Midwest Concerts with Beautifulish (Sam Scranton + KAY)

3/29 - Chicago (okay really Oak Park) - Compound Yellow / 7pm / with Daniel Wyche Ensemble

3/30 - Milwaukee -  Woodland Pattern Books, Milwaukee / 7pm

April 25 - Ensemble Paramirabo + Jean-François Laporte (Table de Babel) premiere "Into this dark forest you have already turned" for noise maker, ensemble, and electronics

McGill University's CIRMMT, Montréal, 7:30pm

https://ensembleparamirabo.com/en/events/2024-2025/totem

May 22 - Elena Cholakova premieres "Mvmt 2" of Mycorrhiza IV at Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University

ALBUMS OUT - Fall 2023

BOUNDARYMIND  with Linda Jankowska out on Carrier Records

https://jankowska-young.bandcamp.com/album/boundarymind

CLAMOR by Jessica Pavone on Out of Your Head Records

https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/clamor

FALL 2023 SHOWS

Sept 9 @ Roulette NYC with Beautifulish (Sam Scranton) to celebrate 20 Years of Shinkoyo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVAzBdtT7c

Oct 12 @ Emory Performing Arts Studio ATL with John Bischoff, Jeff Albert, Theodosia Roussos, and Annalee Traylor

Oct 27 @ First Existentialist ATL with Jeff Crompton, Ben Shirley, Paul Stevens, Ben Davis, David Gray, Chip Epsten, and Sandy Wade

Nov 10 @ Sunview Luncheonette NYC with Jessica Pavone and friends! 

https://www.thesunview.org/jessica-pavone/  

Nov 12 @ Pioneer Works NYC with Jessica Pavone's String Ensemble to celebrate the release of CLAMOR (Out of Your Heads Records)

https://pioneerworks.org/programs/second-sundays-november-2023

Spores review in SF Classical Voice

 https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/pandemic-reunion-program-green-umbrella-turns-celebration#

As Adams pointed out from the stage, the role of improvisation, which once played an important role in classical music, has been all but replaced by exact notation. That is not the case for composer and bassoon virtuoso Katherine Young. Her LA Phil commission Spores was initially composed in 2017, its premiere delayed until Tuesday, first by illness, then by the pandemic.
If there is such a thing as a rock-star electric bassoonist, it would have to be Young. “She’s got more foot pedals than Jimi Hendrix,” Adams quipped.

Young’s title is a reference to the reproductive units produced by mushrooms, some of which have managed to migrate around the globe. Another influence, Young said, was early electronic-music compositions. It makes for a fascinating blend — airborne “spores” in the form of electronics and phasing, plus extended sections of improvisation in which musicians are instructed to listen to what other musicians are playing and then riff on it.

Composed for electronic and acoustic bassoon, assorted brass, winds, strings, and a battery of percussion, including a pair of triangles, the piece is by turns as dense as molasses, as light as air (with the musicians encouraged to vocalize their breath), and as freewheeling as a trip down the open highway.  

 

2023 concerts n such

January 2023

Hinge ensemble performs Camilles on a program with music by Chaya Czernowin, Meshuggah, Laurie Spiegel, Jessie Cox, and Louis Andriessen.

1.27 - The Music Mansion | 88 Meeting St. | Providence, RI

1.28 - Boston Conservatory at Berklee - Ipswich Hall | 132 Ipswich St. | Boston, MA 

 

February 2023

2.23 - with Jacob Wick, Laura Cox, and Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra | No Tomorrow | Underground Atlanta | 84 Lower Alabama Street | Atlanta, GA

2.25 - with Shane Parrish, Jacob Wick & Dan Nettles @ Hendershots | 237 Prince Avenue | Athens, GA

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-solo-setsjacob-katherine-shane-dan-tickets-525957361627

March 2023

3.14 - LAPhil premieres Spores (2017, rev 2023) for improviser (me!), ensemble, and electronics on program with music by Solonen, Anthony Cheung, and John Adams.

https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/1870/2023-03-14/la-phil-new-music-group-with-john-adams

 

May 2023  

5.7 - Dana Jessen, Ben Roild-Ward, and I premiere a new collaboratively composed piece for 3 bassoons! @ Elastic Arts | Chicago, IL

June 2023 

6.28 - premiere of if we are still for two guitars and electronics, commissioned and performed by Ruben Mattia Santorsa and Adrian Pereyra @ Munich for the aDevantgarde-Festival

If we are still.... for santorsa~pereyra

Premiere of If we are still for two guitars and electronics

schwere reiter, Dachauer Straße 114 a, 80636 München

17. Dezember um 20:00 einladen  

https://www.schwerereiter.de/files/detail_cal.php?id=725

PROGRAM

so nah ~ so fern 

Kompositionen für zwei E-Gitarren und Live-Elektronik E-Gitarren: Ruben Mattia Santorsa und Adrian Pereyra 

 

 

Mark Barden (1980) - Codex (2022) 

Katherine Young - (1980) If we are still (Uraufführung) (2022)
I. Quiescence.
II. Sensing.
III. Precarious Assemblages. IV Pausing. 

Mauro Hertig (1989) - Half Held Hands (2022)
I. II. 

Achim Christian Bornhöft (1966) - Flor (2022) 

so nah ~ so fern wird gefördert durch: die Ernst von Siemens Stiftung, den Deutschen Musikfonds, die Landeshauptstadt München, das Now!Festival, die santorsa~pereyra GbR und Fractal Audio
herzliche Grüße adrian und ruben

boundarymind in Huddersfield

amexperimental attic #12 

boundarymind: 

Linda Jankowska, Katherine Young, Kera MacKenzie & Molly Roth Scranton

Residency: 7th – 10th December

 

 

Performance
SATURDAY, Dec 10th
5:30-6:30 – community recording
6:30-7:30 – social gathering (drinks, snacks, bring your food if you want)
7:30 PM – live performance

Concept, composition & performance – Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young
Video – Kera MacKenzie
Weaving – Molly Roth Scranton

RESIDENCY:
boundarymind is a long-distance collaboration by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young. The electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating multi-media installation explores and transgresses the geographical, cultural, psychological, and musical boundaries that impact how we share—and modulate—our past, present, and future selves through collection and interaction with our material world. Every-day objects with sentimental meaning and memory-evoking power have been shared—recorded and remixed, filmed and animated, collected and woven into a three-dimensional tapestry. The project premiered in June 2022 in Chicago at 6018 North as a site-specific multi-room installation, with the support of Experimental Sound Studio.

For ame, Katie and Linda will rework the piece to suit the space and hopefully discover new dimension to boundarymind’s expression. The community recording events are a way of sharing the process of listening to memorable objects with other people. The audience is invited to contribute their sounds and stories to boundarymind’s sound archive with the intention of weaving them into future live iterations of the piece as a shared meaning-making practice.