New release: All proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood

Sam Pluta, Kyle Bruckmann and I have some new tracks up thanks to Vijay Anderson and MinusZero.

Download and listen here.

All proceeds go to Planned Parenthood.
Lots of awesome folks involved in this project. Collect them all!

Winter & Spring 2017

2/11 - with Stephan Moore & KG Price as part of Merce Cunningham: Common Time
MCA, Chicago 60611

2/17 - with Austin Wulliman
part of the 2nd annual Frequency Festival 
Constellation, Chicago 60618
www.constellation-chicago.com

2/23 - with Anne La Berge, Dana Jessen & Sam Pluta
Elastic Arts, Chicago 60647
elasticarts.org

3/10 - Distractfold premieres bow breath crow for amplified string trio & spatialized electronics
at the Cut 'n' Splice Festival
Hallé St. Peter, Manchester M4 6BF

3/13 - Architeuthis Walks on Land
with Stephanie Richards + Phantom Station
The Loft at UCSD

3/18 - Architeuthis Walks on Land 
with Judith Hamann + Suzanne Thorpe and Haydeé Jiménez and visuals by Xavier Vasquez
presented by Space Time at Bread and Salt

4/14 - Silke Ebehart group
at Elastic Arts

5/14 - The Life You Save May Be Your Own 
performed by the [Switch~ Ensemble]
at Elastic Arts

5/27 - Fonema Consort's record release show!
Fonema recorded my piece Master of Disguises for their Parlour Tapes+ release Fifth Tableau.
Weston Olencki performs puddles and crumbs.
at Experimental Sound Studio

Download the whole album here!
Read the Chicago Reader's review.

5/28 - Third Coast Percussion premieres just water, no lemon
Emerging Composer's commission for four percussionists
at Constellation

Fall 2016

Sunday, September 11, 2016 - Aurora Nealand, KAY & Friends
@ The Hungry Brain, Chicago
with The Few, Helen Gillet, James Singleton, Jeff Albert Quartet
www.hungrybrainchicago.com

Sunday, September 18, 2016 - Matt Barbier plays puddles and crumbs
@ Automata, Los Angeles
www.facebook.com/events/609914199181348

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - Nico Couck performs Earhart & the Queen of Spades
@ BKA Theater, Berlin
www.bka-theater.de

Saturday, October 1, 2016 - Solo and with Dave Rempis, Albert Wildeman & Ryan Packard
@ The Oberlin Modern Music Guild, Oberlin, OH
oberlinmmg.wordpress.com

October 7, 2016 - Matt Barbier performs puddles and crumbs 

@ WasteLAnd, Los Angeles
www.facebook.com/events/186731528407470/

Monday, October 10, 2016 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW premieres where the moss glows for eight players, amplification & electronics
@ Harris Theater, Chicago - part of the Ear Taxi Festival
cso.org
www.eartaxifestival.com

Thursday, October 20, 2016 - Kyle Bruckman, Sam Pluta & KAY
@ Elastic Arts, Chicago
elasticarts.org

Thursday, October 27, 2016 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Roland Ramanam & KAY
@ Elastic Arts, Chicago
elasticarts.org

Saturday, October 29, 2016 - Ensemble Dal Niente performs like a halo
@ Garrison Theater, Claremont, CA
www.dalniente.com

Sunday, October 30, 2016 - Nico Couck plays Earhart & the Queen of Spades at Transit Festival
@ STUK, Leuven
www.festival2021.be/nl/transit/concert/bianchi-baca-young

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - Peter Evans, Sam Pluta, Ben Lamar Gay & KAY
@ Constellation, Chicago
www.constellation-chicago.com

Saturday, November 12, 2016 - Dan Peck & Jacob Greenberg of ICE perform Underworld (Dancing)
@ Abrons Art Center, NYC
http://iceorg.org/events

Summer 2016

Friday, June 3, 2016 - Open Ears Festival: KAY Solo
@ The Registry Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario, CA
with Bernice & Tenderness
openears.ca

Saturday, June 11, 2016 - Mark Shippy, Erica Dicker, Aaron Zarzutzki & KAY

@ Elastic Arts, Chicago

with Nick Millevoi's Desertion Trio & Michael Vallera 

elasticarts.org

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - Till by Turning performs Jessica Pavone's Quotidian

@ The Stone, NYC

www.thestonenyc.com

Friday, July 29, 2016 - Claudia Solal, Benoit Delbecq & KAY

@ 19 rue Paul Fort 75014 Paris

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - Nico Couck premieres Earhart & the Queen of Spades for solo electric guitar & electronics

@ Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse Fur Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany

www.internationales-musikinstitut.de

Monday, August 29, 2016 - John Niekrasz, Shawn Decker & KAY
@ Experimental Sound Studio: Option Series
www.experimentalsoundstudio.org

Spring 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016 - Pretty Monsters 
(KAY, Erica Dicker, Owen Stewart-Robertson & Mike Pride)
@ Luxury Lounge, Brooklyn
with Anna Weber & The Ghost. Hosted by Cory Bracken
www.facebook.com/events/223929064621257

Friday, March 4, 2016 - Pretty Monsters 
@ JACK, Brooklyn
with Iktus Duo & Ashcan Orchestra
www.facebook.com/events/692977670805424/

Sunday, March 13, 2016 - Jorrit Dijkstra, Jason Stein, Keefe Jackson, Brian Labycz & KAY
@ Hungry Brain, Chicago

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - KAY Solo 
@ Constellation, Chicago
with Spunk (Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Lene Grenager &
Kristin Andersen)
www.constellation-chicago.com

Thursday, April 7, 2016 - Church Chords (Steven Buono, Mark Shippy, Pat Samson, Pat Wagster & KAY)
@ Hideout, Chicago
with Health & Beauty
www.hideoutchicago.com

Thursday, April 21, 2016 - Ryan Packard, Albert Wildeman & KAY
@ Elastic Arts, Chicago
with Sonnenzimmer
elasticarts.org

Sunday, May 22, 2016 - Albert Wildeman, Ryan Packard & KAY
@ The Owl, Chicago

February 2016

Monday 2/15 - K.A.Y & Weston Olencki

Option Series: Katherine Young & Weston Olencki 

7:30pm 

Experimental Sound Studio

Friday 2/19 - K.A.Y. with Austin Wulliman, Daniel Dehaan, Weston Olencki & Amy Cimini

Northwestern University Galvin Hall

8:30pm

Experimental Music Yearbook: graveled crumbled strewn

Experimental Music Yearbook has published graveled crumbled strewn. 

The score - including videos & audio tracks - are all here: https://t.co/NSnVK8uo0O

This awesome group of L.A.-based people also performed the piece on Friday 11/6 in LA.

Here's a review of what was an awesome concert:

"Graveled crumbled strewn by Katherine Young was first up and performed by a large group that included strings, winds, guitar, electronics and a video. This began with a single pitch from the soprano sax, matched in the violin whose tone quickly broke down into a rough, scratchy sound, like a cable under tension. Breathy sounds came from the flute while the lower strings produced a calm, welcoming chord and it was as if we were standing outside on some open, windswept hill. Meanwhile, the video showed construction equipment in the distance with the sounds of heavy, mechanical clanking. The instruments picked up this theme and began to issue a series of industrial sounds – the snap of a cello string and some humming in the horns. This portrayal – aided by the images in the video – proved very convincing, as if we were in the middle of a construction site, surrounded by powerful mechanical activity. With a steady siren blast from the horns, as might be heard for a shift change, the sounds ceased. Graveled crumbled strewn is a convincing realization of forceful earth moving processes experienced in close proximity." - Paul Miller, New Classic LA