https://jankowska-young.bandcamp.com/album/boundarymind
CLAMOR by Jessica Pavone on Out of Your Head Records
https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/clamor
composer + electro-acoustic improviser + bassoonist
https://jankowska-young.bandcamp.com/album/boundarymind
CLAMOR by Jessica Pavone on Out of Your Head Records
https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/clamor
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 WadeNov 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
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.
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
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, GAhttps://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
Premiere of If we are still for two guitars and electronics
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:
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.
boundarymind with Linda Jankowska
installation, performance events, and community recording events
COMMUNITY RECORDING DATES (Free and open to the public!)
05/21/22 – @ POBox Collective, 2-5 PM — stay for Jessica Mueller’s community table cloth project!
05/28/22 – @ Berger Park w/ RomanSusan, 2-5 PM
06/02/22 – 6018|North , 4-7 PM — stay for a free BBQ!
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
06/03/22 - 6:30-9:30pm @ presented with ESS with Ensemble Chartreuse
06/05/22 - 7:30-9:30pm @ presented with ESS
Performances at 6018|North, located at 6018 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago
Tickets -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boundarymind-performance-tickets-317238568097