Film by SONNENZIMMER (Nadine Nakanishi & Nick Butcher) for the s/t album by Beautifulish (Katherine Young & Sam Scranton).

Beautifulish is the duo project of composer/bassoonist Katherine Young & percussionist/composer Sam Scranton.

Preview of "boundarymind," by Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young.
Performance and installation @ 6018|North in Chicago, June 3-5, 2022.
Partners include Experimental Sound Studio, 6018|North, Roman Susan, PO Box Collective.

bow, breath, crow (2016). composed by Katherine Young. performed by The Formalist Quartet (Andrew Tholl, violin Andrew McIntosh, viola Ashley Walters, cello Mark Menzies, amplified chewing gum) wasteLAnd concert series. May 4, 2019, ArtShare-LA. www.wastelandmusic.org video by Zach Bell

Mycorrhiza I (with Olivia): Stolen Moments for violin and electronics, performed by Olivia De Prato. Released by New World Records. https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-a-m-artist-mother-project-new-works-for-violin-and-electronics

performance by Bent Frequency at Emory’s CompFest in ATL

Camilles (2019) - World Premiere Live @ Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemässer Musik by Ensemble Nikel (Brian Archinal - Drums, Yaron Deutsch - E-Guitar, Antoine Françoise - Piano, Patrick Stadler - Saxophone / www.ensemblenikel.com)

Performance and installation footage from BIOMES 4.0 at Pioneer Works.

Biomes 1.0 (world premiere performance) October 5, 2018, ArtShare-LA. Conception: Katherine Young. Realization: Katherine Young & RAGE THORMBONES [Matt Barbier and Weston Olencki] bassoon, trombones, electronics, lights. Commissioned for RAGE THORMBONES by wasteLAnd. Video by Kyle Johnson wastelandmusic.org

like a halo, for prepared violin, soprano, alto sax, horn, harp & piano with amplification, by Katherine Young (2014-2015) performed by Wet Ink

video edited by Atticus Hebson uploaded with permission from Katherine Young, Wet Ink, and Carrier Records

Performed at New Music New College — January 26, 2019. Mildred Sainer Pavilion, New College of Florida — by
Ensemble Dal Niente

“For Eliane” for solo bassoon and electronics; p resented by Elastic Arts, curated by Erica Miller https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts

Architeuthis Walks on Land: Amy Cimini, viola+ / Katherine Young, bassoon+ performed February 2016 at Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University

Architeuthis Walks on Land: Amy Cimini, viola+ / Katherine Young, bassoon+ at Space Time, San Diego

for violin with projected video score. performed by Austin Wulliman / released by Parlour Tapes+ /// https://parlourtapes.bandcamp.com/album/diligence-is-to-magic-as-progress-is-to-flight

Austin Wulliman (violin), Daniel Dehaan (electronics), Katherine Young (tabletop guitar) performed February 2016 at Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University

Master of Disguises composed by Katherine Young. performed by wasteLAnd Stephanie Aston - soprano, cassette player; Leslie Leytham - mezzo-soprano, cassette player; Brian Walsh - bass clarinet; Marta Tiesenga - tenor saxophone; Nicholas Deyoe - conductor. performed live on February 16, 2016 ArtShare-LA. video by Zach Bell https://www.wastelandmusic.org

Since its founding in 2012, the Chicago-based ensemble Fonema Consort has championed music that explores the expressive capacities of the human voice. For the ensemble’s fifth birthday, Fonema Consort presents five new works that operate at the boundary between singing and speech, speech and noise, voices and instruments. Katherine Young’s Master of Disguises is also concerned with obscurity and loss, but in a quite different affective register. Young works with largely static textures, using extended vocal techniques, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone to construct a soundworld that softly throbs and whirs. An unusual percussion instrument adds to the effect: hand-held cassette tape recorders, played by fast-forwarding, rewinding, stopping, and ejecting. It as if the players are searching for something on the cassette tapes without finding it, and the obsolescence of the technology seems to emphasize the futility of their investigation. Master of Disguises concludes with a searching melody that sets a fragment from Kelly Link’s “The Girl Detective”: “The girl detective has been looking for her mother for a long time. She doesn’t expect her mother to be easy to find. After all, her mother is also a master of disguises.” Notes by Samuel Rowe PERFORMERS: Nina Dante, soprano Nathalie Colas, soprano Emily Beisel, bass clarinet Jeff Siegfried, tenor saxophone CREDITS: Recorded at the Experimental Sound Studio by Alex Inglizian Edited by Pablo Santiago Chin Mixed by Alex Inglizian and Mastered by Chris Mercer Video by Arlen Parsa Produced by Pablo Santiago Chin Special thanks to Seth Bousted for facilitating rehearsal space at Access Contemporary Music, the Aaron Coplan Fund for Music, Inc. and to all our donors through Indiegogo for partially funding this album. www.fonemaconsort.com www.parlourtapes.com

Matt Barbier (trombone and electronics) performs Katherine Young's puddles and crumbs for trombone and electronics. Recorded live on october 7th, 2016 at ArtShare LA.

puddles and crumbs for trombone + electronics composed by Katherine Young performed by Weston Olencki February 2016 at Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University

slam creak bzzz (2012-13, 2015) composed by Katherine Young performed by The Formalist Quartet Andrew Tholl and Andrew McIntosh, violins Mark Menzies, viola Ashley Walters, cello wasteLAnd concert series May 4, 2019 ArtShare-LA www.wastelandmusic.org video by Zach Bell

Part of Third Coast Percussion's Emerging Composers Partnership. Live Premiere Video May 28, 2017 Constellation - Chicago

Releasing Bound Water from Green Materials (2010)

part i. Binding-Releasing I / part ii. Capacity / part iii. Binding-Releasing II Composed by Katherine Young. Projections by Mike Kenney. Performed by Dustin Donahue, Sean Dowgray, and Ryan Nestor, percussion on December 14, 2018, at ArtShare-LA produced by wasteLAnd concert series. video by wasteLAnd and Zach Bell.