LISTS: Works + Discography

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Selected Works

BIOMES 6.0 (2024) for 4 performers on piano and percussion [collaboration with Yarn/Wire]

Tendrils (2023) for three bassoons [co-composed with Dana Jessen and Ben Roidl-Ward]

Spores (2022/2017) for improviser, clarinet, two bassoons, saxophone, trombone, tuba, two percussionists, viola, cello, contrabass and electronics [commissioned by LA Phil]

What Is Water? (2022) for voices, instruments, and electronics [created with Mocrep]

Terra Incognita (2022/2009) for solo amplified bassoon  

boundarymind (2022) installation performance piece for objects, electronics, violin and bassoon [coauthored with Linda Jankowska, co-produced by ESS and 6018North, visuals by Kera MacKenzie and Molly Roth Scranton]

If we are still (2022) for two electric guitars and electronics [commissioned by Ruben Mattia Santorsa and Adrian Pereyra with funding support from Ernst von Siemens Stiftung and MusikFonds]

Some choose exposed edges, others damp grooves (2022) for flute, saxophone, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics [commissioned by Wet Ink Ensemble]

BIOMES 4.0 (2021) multi-channel outdoor installation and performance [collaboration with Yarn/Wire]

Mycorrhiza III (with Alejandro): Quiet Places (2021) for solo bass clarinet and electronics [collaboration with Alejandro Acierto; commissioned by Intersection for LISTEN project]

Mycorrhiza II (with Patrick): Vernal Pools (2021) for saxophone and electronics [collaboration with Patrick Stadler]

Mycorrhiza I (with Olivia): Stolen Moments (2021) for solo violin and electronics [commissioned by Olivia De Prato for I, A.M. (Artist Mother)]

Expected Face (2020) for voice and piano with text by A. Martinez [commissioned by Long Beach Opera for their 2020 Songbook]

Requiem: A White Wanderer (2019) for strings, percussion and narrator [created with Luftwerk]

Resonance, and the Inhibition of (2019) site-specific, 8-channel installation using original text, fragments of PhD dissertations and an oral history interview, and sounds performed by vocalists Angel Bat Dawid, Carol Genetti, and Jenna Lyle [commissioned by the University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art for The Chicago Sound Show]

Camilles (2019) for saxophone, electric guitar, piano, percussion, and no-input mixers [commissioned by Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik for Ensemble Nikel]

The Air Itself (For Daphne and Delia 3) (2019) for bassoon, piano, percussion, and electronics [commissioned by Callithumpian Consort]

BIOMES 1.0 (2018) environment for two trombones, bassoon, electronics & lights [commissioned by WasteLAnd for Rage Thormbones + Katherine Young, created with Rage Thormbones]

How to Hold (2018) for solo performer with two assistants & electronics [commissioned by Lucy Dhegrae and Resonant Bodies Festival]

For Daphne and Delia (2018) for solo amplified bassoon, clarinet, 2 bassoons, saxophone, trombone, tuba, 2 percussionists, viola, cello, bass, and electronics [commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association]

When stranger things happen (2017) monodrama for soprano, bassoon, winds, strings, electric guitar, percussion, electronics, and lost objects [commissioned by the Ensemble Dal Niente]

just water, no lemon (2017) for four percussionists [commissioned by Third Coast Percussion]

where the moss glows (2016) for eight players, amplification & electronics [commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW]

Earhart & the Queen of Spades (2016) for electric guitar & electronics [commissioned by Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, premiered by Nico Couck]

bow, breath, crow (2016) for violin, viola, cello & electronics [commissioned by Linda Jankowska, premiered by Distractfold]

puddles and crumbs (2014-2015) for amplified trombone & electronics [commissioned & premiered by Weston Olencki]

like a halo (2014) for soprano, violin, saxophone, French horn, harp & piano [commissioned & premiered by Ensemble Dal Niente]

Master of Disguises (2014) for 2 sopranos with cassette players, bass clarinet & saxophone [commissioned & premiered by Fonema Consort]

graveled crumbled strewn (2013, revised 2014) for 2 winds, string trio, electronics & video scores
[performed by Ensemble Recherche, Sound Initiative, Chartreuse Ensemble & Experimental Music  Yearbook]

I'm Hiding Your Present From You; arrangement of song by Arthur Russell (2013) for string quartet
[commissioned & premiered by Spektral Quartet]

Diligence Is to Magic As Progress Is to Flight (2013) six movements for solo string player & electronics [developed in collaboration with Austin Wulliman]

slam creak bzzz (2012-13) for string quartet [premiered by Mivos Quartet]

The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2012) for flute, bass clarinet, cello, piano, percussion & 8-channel surround fixed media [premiered by Talea Ensemble]

Four Chambered Heart (2007-2012) for violin, viola, bassoon & piano [created with Till by Turning]

Inhabitation of Time (2011) for string orchestra [commissioned by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn with Issue Project Room]

Capacity (2010) for mixed percussion trio [Issue Project Room's Emerging Artist commission]

Releasing Bound Water from Green Materials (2010) for brass, piano, analog synthesizer & percussion [Issue Project Room's Emerging Artist commission]

TARGET: furnace (2010) for violin, bassoon & percussion [commissioned by choreographer Daria Fain and dancer Marya Wethers]

Crushed, Deuterium, Entropy, Incognito, Relief, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, and Patricia Highsmith (2008-2010) for bassoon, violin, guitar, and percussion [for Pretty Monsters]  

Things Suspended Converge and Fall (2008) for large ensemble, live electronics, typewriters, and conductor

Underworld (Dancing) (2008) for Wurlitzer electric piano and tuba [for Emily Manzo and Dan Peck]

Inside UFO 53-32 (2007) for string quartet [premiered by FLUX Quartet]

Density Peals (2007) for carillon bells, 4 hands [premiered at Wesleyan University]

Wandering Da'an (2007) for soprano, contrabass, and field recordings [commissioned by Anne Rhodes]

Selected Discography

Boundarymind with Linda Jankowska (Carrier, 2023)

Clamor by Jessica Pavone ft Katherine Young (Out of Your Head, 2023)

Beautifulish with Sam Scranton (Shinkoyo, 2020)

Bind the Hands that Feed with Michael Zerang and Michael Foster (Relative Pitch Records, 2018)

Piece Her Together, Ensemble Dal Niente and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett’s live staged performance of When stranger things happen (2018). Video here.

20, Wet Ink Ensemble performs Like a halo (Carrier Records, 2018)

Phantom Images, For Daphne and Delia II on shared release with Aaron Cassidy, Sam Pluta & Chris Mercer (HCR, 2018)

Four Chambered Heart, Till by Turning (2017)

Live . Elastic . 10.20.2016, Kyle Bruckmann, Sam Pluta & Katherine Young (Minus Zero, 2017)

Fifth Tableau, Fonema Consort performs Master of Disguises (Parlour Tapes+, 2017)

Don't Wait Up, The Fancy (2016)

Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight, Katherine Young & Austin Wulliman with Ensemble Dal Niente (Parlour Tapes+, 2015)

The Surveyors, Architeuthis Walks on Land (Carrier, 2015)

12 Duets (DCWM), Anthony Braxton + Erica Dicker, Kyoko Kitamura & KAY (New Braxton House, 2014)

Pretty Monsters, Pretty Monsters (Public Eyesore, 2012)

Releasing Bound Water from Green Materials, Katherine Young with videos by Michael Kenney (Prom Night, 2012)

Verdure into Onxy, Naranjo-Stankova-Young (Peira Records, 2012)

Spielweisse 3, Irmler-FM Einheit-Paul-Young (Klangbad, 2011)

Natura Naturans, Architeuthis Walks on Land (Carrier Records, 2010)

Underworld (Dancing), Katherine Young featuring Dan Peck, tuba; Emily Manzo, wurli (Absence of Wax, 2010)

Anthony Braxton Quartet (Mestre), Civil War (Caligola, 2010)

Further Secret Origins, Katherine Young (Porter Records, 2009)

C&H 009, Katherine Young and Adam Sonderberg (Composte and Height, 2009)

Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Quartet (Moscow) (Leo, 2008)

Self-titled, Architeuthis Walks on Land (Set Projects, 2007) 

The Brutality of Fact, Civil War (Longbox, 2006)

When Fact Threatens Belief, Civil War (Longbox, 2005)