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

 In December 2020, Sam Scranton and I released our debut album as Beautifulish on Shinkoyo / Artist Pool. CHECK IT OUT!

 

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:

"The Tender Listener" in CERENEM Journal

"The Tender Listener: Collaboration and Friendship as Compositional Methodology in boundarymind 

in Issue 7 of CERENEM from University of Huddersfield

 https://indd.adobe.com/view/7bd9f6d8-ccdc-4c38-977a-6c81618f74e4

 

 

 

60 Wrd/Min Art Critic

 Lori Waxman reviewed "boundarymind" for her 60 Wrd/Min Art Critic blog!

Oh, mementos—even tidiness guru Marie Kondo makes special allowances for them. They are objects kept for reasons of oftentimes obscure personal value, and they can be anything from a cassette tape to a coffee mill, plastic toy car, pine cone, colorful Mardi Gras beads or wooden spoons. “boundarymind,” a short film directed by Kera MacKenzie with a soundtrack by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young, features these and other items pulled from the composers’ childhoods. In the film their keepsakes dangle from the sky, are arranged and rearranged on a tabletop, beckon from around the corners of an old house, hang from the branches of a tree, and animate humorous little narratives. They can also apparently be used to make a lot of noise, despite not being anything close to proper musical instruments, a situation that allowed Jankowska and Young to create a composition ranging from clangy to eerie to plucky. Though many years in the making, “boundarymind” feels perfectly relevant now, when the pandemic has forced so many of us to stay home, surrounded by all our stuff. (A participatory performance/installation of the project scheduled to open at 6018North and Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago in June has been indefinitely postponed; a different iteration will happen in March at Roman Susan with the sculptor Molly Roth Scranton.)

—Lori Waxman 2020-10-30 2:47 PM

Fall 2020

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On Sunday, November 15, as part of the Long Beach Opera's UnGala "2020 Songbook," I will premiere a piece for high voice and piano, entitled Expected Face, and using text by Chicago-based poet A.Martinez. The event features new pieces by a ton of amazing composers and supports this organization. 5pm PST/8pm EST.

On Friday, December 4, my duo project Beautifulish, with percussionist/composer Sam Scranton, releases our debut album on Shinkoyo. We will be performing a live-stream release concert via Boston-based presenters Non-Event at 8pm EST.

Beautifulish will also perform Thursday, November 10, on one of Experimental Sound Studio's Quarantine Concerts with Kamau Patton and others.

The music is available for pre-order on bandcamp: https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/album/beautifulish

This fall I am also working on the first two in a series of solo pieces. I am collaborating with violinist Olivia de Prato, who will release her piece in spring 2021 as part of her I, A.M.: Artist Mother recording project. For the second piece, I am working with saxophonist Patrick Statler. This project is supported with a remote residency by the Goethe Institute. Stay tuned for these, as well as works for piano and accordion, in 2021!

 

I Care If You Listen TV published Dal Niente's performance of like a halo - 

https://icareifyoulisten.tv/katherine-young-like-a-halo/

Live streamed talk w/ Linda Jankowska

As part of this summer's Yarn Wire Summer Composition Institute - which went online - Linda Jankowska and I talk about our piece "boundarymind" and how we are thinking about co-authorship and our process. For more, see - https://www.boundarymind.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NiIlYCkEO0

ESS Quarantine Concert "For Eliane (but really for Linda, Sam and Lucy)

(c) Peter Gannushkin - May 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1slYB7MwUuc