Diligence: Teaser Video

This video offers a quick tour through "Diligence Is To Magic As Progress Is To Flight," my project with violinist Austin Wulliman. The product of intensely close collaboration, this piece includes many modes of notated and improvised performance in the course of its 50 minutes. The pieces for solo violin grow organically out of an 8-channel sound installation. 

Video created and edited by Andrew Tham.

Fall 2013

DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT
The product of over a year of work, Diligence comprises 3 pieces for solo violin, 1 piece for solo viola, and 1 piece for violin and chamber orchestra. These pieces are presented as part of an audio installation built from recordings of an array of instruments. Wulliman will navigate the performance using these instruments, which have been retuned and prepared so that each finds a unique niche within the overall work’s sonic ecosystem. Incorporating visual elements, including a video score that will be interpreted live, Diligence conjures a multi-layered environment. Employing amplification to bring out small sounds, Young will control the soundworld’s mix, manipulate samples live, and work with a detuned electric guitar.

Members of Chicago’s new music community, including performers from Spektral Quartet, Dal Niente and Third Coast Percussion, will perform in the chamber orchestra piece conducted by Michael Lewanski.


Friday 9/27 - 8 PM doors; 8:30 performance
Saturday 9/28 - gallery hours 2-6 PM
Defibrillator, 1136 N. Milwaukee Ave, 60642
$15/$5 students
https://www.facebook.com/events/629718513725839/
http://www.dfbrl8r.org/event/diligence-magic-progress-flight



BENEFIT FOR THE CREATIVE AUDIO ARCHIVE
ESS presents an evening of performances by Ken Vandermark & Fred Lonberg-Holm and Katherine Young. All proceeds will support the Malachi Ritscher Legacy Commissions, a new initiative of the Creative Audio Archive. Artists who feature in the recordings of the Ritscher Collection will be paired with musicians newer to the scene to advise them as they use the materials in the collection to inspire and inform the creation of new work.

Saturday 9/21 - 10 PM
Heaven Gallery, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, 60622
$15/$10 students & members
https://www.facebook.com/events/520856854659556/



ORGANIC/SYNTHETIC MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS:
SOLO-DUOS FOR HANDS, MUSCLES & BRAINS 
An evening of performances for acoustic musicians + brain, muscle, and protein interfaces with Josh Oberman, Daniel Wyche,  Jeff Kimmel, Paul Giallorenzo, Katherine Young, and Naomi Sato

Friday 10/25 - 9:30 PM
Elastic Arts, 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor, 60618
https://www.facebook.com/events/404238019688545/


SPEKTRAL QUARTET AT CONSTELLATION
Very excited for Spektral Quartet to premiere a new arrangement I'm making of Arthur Russell's "Hiding Your Present from You." They've got a great program, including many works by Chicago composers lined up, as they celebrate the release of their recording CHAMBERS.

Saturday 10/26 - 8:30 PM
Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave, 60618
http://spektralquartet.com/chambers-album-release-party/

GHOST VARIATIONS AT COMFORT STATION
To celebrate Halloween, I'll be participating in Comfort Station's "Ghost Variations" Albert Ayler tribute.

Thursday 10/31
Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave, 60647

ENSEMBLE RECHERCHE PREMIERES "graveled crumbled strewn"
As part of their Northwestern residency, Ensemble Recherche will premiere my new piece for oboe, bass clarinet and string trio, along with pieces by Joan Pamies, Eliza Brown, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Morgan Krauss, David Reminick, and Mihal Massoud.

Thursday 11/7 - 7:30 PM
Lutkin Hall 60208

August-Early September 2013

I've got a some really exciting projects coming up in the next month! I'll be recording a new record with Amy Cimini as Architeuthis Walks on Land, and performing the complete version of my multi-movement piece Four Chambered Heart with Till by Turning and beautiful video by Paul Rowley in New York. Guess summer is over! Details below.

Architeuthis Walks on Land: EMPAC Residency
8/26-9/2 Amy Cimini and I will be in Troy, New York, recording a new record as Artists-In-Residence at EMPAC.

Till by Turning performs Four Chambered Heart
Launching the Music at First 2013-2014 season, Till by Turning premieres my concert-length cycle of pieces Four Chambered Heart. We are thrilled that award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Paul Rowley has created a video installation for the performance that hints at the work's avian and apocalyptic preoccupations.

Watch a preview video here! http://vimeo.com/70723507

Written for Till by Turning, Four Chambered Heart is a meditation on Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. In this 8-movement piece for violin, viola, bassoon and piano, Young explores Messiean’s musical materials and time-suspending techniques through her own musical language, incorporating open and song forms, amplification, and noise. Four Chambered Heart grafts material and mundane apocalyptic suggestions onto Messiaen’s spiritual concerns. Coming from and returning to visual silence, Rowley has crafted a video for each of the piece’s interior 6 movements using colorful patterns, shifting repetitions, and suggestive imagery. 

June and July 2013

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
for flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion and multi-channel tape
performed at SICPP 2013
7 PM
Brown Hall, NEC
www.sicpp.org

PRETTY MONSTERS
Sat 6/29
with Spektral Quartet
performing the music of Haydn, Stephen Gorbos, Verdi, Liza White, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, Mozart, Ben Hjertmann, Alex Temple, and Beethoven!
9 PM
@ the Hideout, 60642
www.hideoutchicago.com

Tue 7/2
with hungry cowboy (record release!) + Cloud Becomes Your Hand
8pm 
@ The Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave 11206
www.silentbarn.org

UPCOMING SHOWS: April-May 2013

Mon 4/29 - MIKROS Festival
As the opening night of the MIKROS Festival, I'll be performing with Ashley Paul (reeds, etc.) and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass). We will each perform solo sets, followed by the premiere of a trio piece by Ryan Krause.
@ Panoply Performance Lab, 104 Meserole St., 11206
8 PM

Wed 5/1 - premiere!
Northwestern University's Contemporary Music Ensemble premiers my new chamber orchestra piece, Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight, featuring violin soloist Austin Wulliman.
@ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 20208
7:30 PM

Sat 5/12 - solo and trio 
with Coppice (Noe Culler and Joseph Kramer)
and with Hal Rammel
@ Constellation, 60618

8:30 PM

Thu 5/16 - Parlour Tapes+ "The Guilty Party"
I'll be playing a bit with Alejandro Acierto as part of this wild murder mystery fundraiser event!
http://parlourtapes.com/

Wed 5/29 - Olivia Block + Carol Genetti + KAY
with the Green Pasture Happiness (Aaron Zarzutzki - modular synth, no-output turntable; Daniel Fandiño - modular synth, guitar; Brian Labycz - modular synth)
@ the Hideout, 60642
10 PM

APRIL 2013 - Jessica Pavone & Katherine Young: SOLOS Tour

Super excited for these upcoming shows in Switzerland and Germany! 

Jessica Pavone and I will each be performing new solo sets.

April 13th @ Kab de L'usine - Geneva, Switzerland
http://kalvingrad.com/
April 14th @ The Museum of Contemporary Art - Basel, Switzerland
http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/museum-fuer-gegenwartskunst
April 15th @ Mulbau - Luzern, Switzerland
http://www.mullbau.ch/index.html
April 16th @ Madame Claude - Berlin, Germany
https://www.facebook.com/MadameClaudeBerlin
April 17th @ Oberdeck - Hannover, Germany

April 18th @ Baustelle Kalk - Cologne, Germany

http://baustellekalkpost.blogspot.com/
April 19th @ Hahnengasse - Ulm, Germany
April 20th @ Bavarian Public Radio - Munich, Germany

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: Feb-Mar-April-2013

Thu 2/28-Sat 3/2 - E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E
E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is an epic, town hall musical that pleads the case for a more empathetic economy, proposing, with Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King, money as everyone’s. Created by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet Robert Kocik, in collaboration with composer Katherine Young, vocalist Samita Sinha and The Commons Choir, E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E was developed by researching the sonic and connotative powers of language. 26 dancers, singers and actors treat our current inequity crisis with reparative tones, tunes and intentions while drawing on the body as horn of plenty.

The instrumental music is performed by and was developed in collaboration with Jen Baker (trombone) and Sam Sowyrda (percussion).
@ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St, 10011
7:30 PM
Tickets
More info

 
Fri 3/8 - Solo Set with Noise-Bridge / Eliza Brown / Chris Fisher-Lochhead
Performing new and revamped solo pieces, I will open for new music duo Noise-Bridge (Christie Finn and Felix Behringer) from Germany. Noise-Bridge premieres two commissions by Chicago-based composers Eliza Brown and Chris Fisher-Lochhead.
@ Elastic Arts, 2830 N Milwaukee Ave, 60618
8 PM

Sat 3/9 - Trio with Jim Baker and Frank Rosaly
@ Heaven Gallery, 60622
9 PM

Tue 4/2 - Till by Turning performs Matt Marble
@ Princeton University as part of the Sound Kitchen Series
7 PM

April 13-21 - European Double Solo Tour with Jessica Pavone