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ALBUM RELEASE SHOW 9/17 at Roulette!
https://roulette.org/event/biomes-album-release-katherine-young/
Monday, August 3, 2026
Monday, February 9, 2026
CompFest 2026: EarthSeed ft. Nicole Mitchell, Lisa E. Harris, Kebbi Williams, and more! 2/9, 2/13, 2/14
One of the most meaningful and exciting parts of my work at Emory is organizing and shaping the programming for our annual CompFest.
This year, we are thrilled to welcome Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris, as our featured guest artists!
Info here: https://music.emory.edu/undergraduate/composition/CompFest.html
Details below! ATLians come out!
MONDAY 2/9
Nicole and Lisa join local improvisers at eyedrum for our Monday Night Creative Music Series. | 8pm | Donation
As part of their Atlanta residency for Emory's CompFest 2026: EarthSeed, Nicole Mitchell (flutes) and Lisa E. Harris (voice) perform tonight in improvised settings with local artists Chris Cook (harp), Deisha Oliver (cello), Monique Osorio (voice), and Cameron Cook (percussion).
https://www.eyedrum.org/calendar-events-performances-art-music/ki18pjkto3l210z3c6hkldd0m0s4o9
COMPFEST 2026: EARTHSEED
February 13–14, 2026
CompFest 2026 highlights Afrofuturistic sonic, musical, and narrative visionaries, and features internationally acclaimed creative flutist, composer, conceptualist, bandleader and educator Nicole Mitchell and vocalist, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher Lisa E. Harris.
The festival culminates on Saturday 2/14 with a presentation of Mitchell and Harris’s collaborative, evening-length piece EarthSeed, inspired by and in tribute to groundbreaking African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. EarthSeed powerfully interprets Butler’s writings through composed and improvised music for instrumental ensemble and vocalists. Mitchell and Harris bring their innovative practices to Emory, presenting the work in an ensemble with local improvisers, faculty members, and Emory students.
Concerts each night at Emory's Performing Arts Studio, free and open to the public.
1804 N. Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA 30022
Recommended parking: Parking lot adjacent to the building on Burlington Road or Gambrell/Lowergate South Parking Deck.
Friday, Feb. 13, Concert at 8pm
Mitchell and Harris present their duo music, sharing the evening with Grammy-winning Atlanta-based improviser Kebbi Williams and student performers in Emory Jazz Combo 1.
Emory Arts Calendar listing.
Emory Arts Calendar listing.
Saturday, Feb. 14, Concert at 8pm
oncert program features:
Mitchell and Harris present EarthSeed in a mixed ensemble featuring Christopher Briggs Rodriguez (voice), Katherine Young (bassoon), Kenito Murray (percussion), and student performers from Emory Sound Collective.
Pre-Concert Talk at 7pm with the artists and Georgia Tech scholar of Black Feminism, Black Digital Media, and Afrofuturism Dr. Susana Morris.
Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement at Emory Libraries and Michael C. Carlos Museum Dr. Clint Fluker will moderate the conversation.
Emory Arts Calendar listing.
Monday, September 29, 2025
"If we stay still" installation at the Goat Farm's SITE
If We Stay Still: Jeremy Bolen, Katherine Young, Alexandria Smith
A collaboration between artist / researcher / filmmaker Jeremy Bolen, music technologist / performer-composer / researcher Alexandria Smith, and composer / sonic artist Katherine Young, this installation speculates on a not-too-distant future where the sky has been engineered to block out the sun and once extinct species (the passenger pigeon) have been brought back through de-extinction methods.
The evening soundscape recording was made at the Hard Labor Creed Observatory in Georgia, on the homelands of the peoples of the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee nations.
Visitors are invited to explore and interact with the space to see how their movements and positions change the sonic environment.
Performers:
Chris Childs - percussion
Deisha Oliver - cello
Monique Osorio - voice
Installation Assistance:
TeAiris Majors (Audio System Development Assistant)
Devon Green
Evan Maloney
At SITE on Saturday, Sept 27, 2025 — a monumental evening of art installations, live performances, exhibitions, and open studios, all in one expansive event transforming the entire 12-acre Goat Farm campus and featuring over 60 participating artists.
Friday, August 15, 2025
August 2025 - Mycorrhiza VI Premiere
Mycorrhiza VI (for Erica, John, and Mabel)
composed by Katherine Young
electronics developed with Hans Tammen
premiere performance by Kylwryia Trio
* Erica Dicker - violin
* John Gattis - horn
* Mabel Kwan - piano
Sunday, August 17, 2025
3:00 PM
WADA
St. Petersburg, FL
piece developed with support from Harvestworks and Hambidge residencies
performance supported by Creative Pinellas Arts Impact Fund
Thursday, January 30, 2025
2025...
@ 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
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/
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 Carter3/22 - 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
May 22 - Elena Cholakova premieres "Mvmt 2" of Mycorrhiza IV at Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
ALBUMS OUT - Fall 2023
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVAzBdtT7c
Oct 12 @ Emory Performing Arts Studio ATL with John Bischoff, Jeff Albert, Theodosia Roussos, and Annalee Traylor
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
Tuesday, May 23, 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.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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
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
Thursday, December 8, 2022
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
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.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
boundarymind - 5/21-6/5 - Chicago!
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
Winter 2022 - ATL, CHI, NYC
Olivia De Prato @ Emory - 2/2/22
premiering Mycorrhiza I: With Olivia (Stolen Moments)
Emory University CompFest 2022 w/ Timucin Sahin and Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra
@ Performing Arts Studio, Emory University - 2/11-2/12/2022
Beautifulish with Ben Lamar Gaye and Krista Franklin @ Frequency Festival 2022!
@ Constellation, Chicago - 2/26/22
What is water? with Mocrep
premiering a new piece co-composed with Mocrep
sharing the bill with Equilateral Triangle (Renee Baker, Douglas Ewart, and Lou Mallozzi)
@ Elastic Arts - 3/1/22
https://elasticarts.org/events/mocrep-katie-young-equilateral-triangle
Some choose exposed ledges, others damp grooves. with Wet Ink
premiere of new piece for bass flute, tenor sax, violin, cello, piano + feedback, percussion + amplification, and live electronics
@Tenri Cultural Institute - 3/27/22
Fall 2021 - BIOMES @ PioneerWorks and....
BIOMES 4.0 with Yarn/Wire @ Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn
as September residents at PW, Y/W and I present Biomes 4.0, a 4-part outdoor sound installation and performance piece
9/9/21-9/17/21
https://pioneerworks.org/programs/katherine-young-and-yarn-wire-biomes-4-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmmI0H_2DQw
Duo w/ Tim Daisy @ If Art Gallery, Columbia, SC - 9/24/21
Here's a link to our streaming concert from the summer, presented by Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/performance/young-daisy/
Wet Ink Artist-in-Residence
I'm so thrilled to be one of Wet Ink's artists in residence, along with the incredible Nick Dunston.
w/ Wet Ink @ Scholes Street Studio - 11/17/21
https://www.wetink.org/events/season-23/air-concerts-01-katherine-young
University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble plays Just Water, No Lemon - 12/3/21
https://music.utoronto.ca/concerts-events.php?eid=3209&cDate=2021-12-03
https://youtu.be/PuhIh-fngcM?t=1523
Either/Or performs For Autonauts, For Travelers - 12/10/21
@ Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGoTwujHYfI
Patrick Stadler and Ensemble Inverspace premiere Mycorrhiza II for soprano sax and electronics
Monday, May 17, 2021
Guggenheim Fellowship!
Wow! I am thrilled to have been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition.
https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/katherine-young/
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
boundarymind - Spring 2021
Although the pandemic has postponed for what's looking like it will be two years, my collaborative project "boundarymind" with Linda Jankowska, we have found some ways to share portions of the work this spring.
March 3-6 - Work-in-Progress Installation at RomanSusan in Chicago, IL
Kera MacKenzie (video), Molly Roth Scranton (sculture), LJ and I (music) install a storefront window and gallery version of the third "movement" of boundarymind at this Chicago Gallery.
https://romansusan.org/boundarymind
March 8 - Live broadcast on WGXC 90.7 FM as part of "Moves on the Radio" series
https://www.filmontmediaproject.org/movies-on-the-radio
April 24 - Premiere of Movement 3 Video and Stereo Audio piece at SEAMUS
As part of the 2021 SEAMUS virtual conference, we will premiere the third movement with stereo audio composed by LJ and KY and video by KM.
https://seamusonline.org/2021-national-conference/
Beautifulish Release, Streamed Concerts & Music Video
Bill Meyer wrote about the album in the Chicago Reader: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sui-generis-duo-beautifulish-constructs-alien-sound-worlds/Content?oid=85445529
We also played several streaming concerts leading up to and surrounding the release, which are now archived on YouTube:
October 8, 2020 - ESS The Quarantine Concerts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q2mE4zrHAM
December 4, 2020 - NonEvent at Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elzEb7JlvFQ * Record Release Show *
December 10, 2020 - ESS The Quarantine Concerts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQ8Ne6D4v0
AND our friend Mikel Patrick Avery has made this incredible music video for us:
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