for violin solo & chamber orchestra

performed live by Austin Wulliman at Defibrillator Gallery (09/2013)
with Aurelien Pederzoli, Doyle Armbrust, Russell Rolen, Mark Buchner, Andrew Nogal, Katherine Young, Ryan Muncy, Kevin Marchuk, Tom Curry , Sean Connors, Robert Dillon & Michael Lewanski

recorded by Daniel Dehaan

Diligence Is to Magic As Progress Is to Flight

for tuba and wurlizter
performed by Dan Peck (tuba) and Emily Manzo (wurlitzer)

Underworld (Dancing)

for amplified flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion & electronics

live premiere performance by Talea Ensemble at the 2012 Harvard Summer Composition Institute

Stereo mix down of 8 channels

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

from "Further Secret Origins" (Porter Records)

Orbis Tertius

from "Verdure Into Onyx" - Ivan Naranjo, Maria Stankova & Katherine Young (Peira, 2012)
http://www.peira.net/pm10.html

Septiembre Dos

Pretty Monsters:
Katherine Young - compositions, bassoon, electronics
Erica Dicker - violin
Owen Stewart-Robertson - guitar
Mike Pride - drums

from "Pretty Monsters" (Public Eyesore)
http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=117

Patricia Highsmith

Terra Incognita

slam creak bzzz for string quartet & electronics: Mivos Quartet

like a halo
for prepared violin, soprano, alto sax, horn, harp & piano with amplification & electronics
(2014, rev 2015) 
commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente
performed by Wet Ink


like a halo

Released on "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight" (Parlour Tapes+ , 2013)

Austin Wulliman, violin
Ensemble Dal Niente conducted by Michael Lewanski

DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT

Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight, Movement IV

excerpt from "For Daphne and Delia II" for bassoon and electronics
https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/huddersfield-contemporary-records/phantom-images

For Daphne and Delia II (excerpt)

Composer and bassoonist Katherine Young creates acoustic and electro-acoustic music that uses curious timbres, expressive noises, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic materiality of sound, constantly shifting ensemble energies, and the tension between the familiar and the strange. 

Recent projects include "slam creak bzzz" for amplified string quartet and electronics, a premiere by Talea Ensemble of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" for mixed ensemble and 8-channel playback, and a commission from the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. Katherine also wrote the music for choreographer Daria Fain’s TARGET: Furnace for solo dancer and three musicians. The piece had a week-long run at the Chocolate Factory, and The New York Times described the work as “full of absorbing elements...a lushly spare aural landscape...marvelously charged.”  

Katherine has documented her work on numerous recordings, including the 2012 debut of her quartet Pretty Monsters (Public Eyesore), which, according to Neil Tesser "threatens to upend any comfortable divisions between music and noise." Her 2009 solo bassoon release, Further Secret Origins garnered praise in The Wire (“Bassoon colossus”) and Downbeat (“seriously bold leaps for the bassoon”).   

As an improviser, Katherine has toured with Anthony Braxton, recorded with Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust and F.M. Einheit from Einsturzende Neubauten. Over the years she has shared bills with John Zorn and Zeena Parkins and performed with musicians such as Peter Evans, Guillermo Gregorio, Mary Halvorson, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeff Parker, Jessica Pavone, Dan Peck, Sam Pluta, Tomeka Reid, and Weasel Walter. Katherine’s active projects also include the duo Architeuthis Walks on Land with violist Amy Cimini and the chamber music collective Till by Turning, who has a recording forthcoming on Klangbad in 2013. 

KatherineYoung

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