03/23 @ 8:00pm - Porter Records Showcase: Nate Wooley, Katherine Young and Jeremiah Cymerman

Porter Records Showcase

Porter Records is a young label with clear focus of celebrating the diversity of music both domestically and abroad. Within a few short years the label has amassed an impressive collection of music that ranges from jazz and electronic to the modern composer and hip hop artist. Along with presenting new and exciting music, Porter Records also digs deep to find lost music treasures of the past through reissues of hard to find or previously unreleased recordings.

Nate Wooley

Katherine Young

Jeremiah Cymerman

Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father.

Nate currently resides in Jersey City, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as collaborating with such diverse artists as Anthony Braxton, Paul Lytton, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Marilyn Crispell, Joe Morris, Steve Beresford, Wolf Eyes, Akron/Family, David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Daniel Levin, Stephen Gauci, Harris Eisenstadt, Taylor Ho Bynum and Peter Evans.

Katherine Young

Brooklyn-based composer and bassoonist Katherine Young writes acoustic and electro-acoustic music that uses expressive colors and curious timbres to explore suspended time, genre fiction, the communication of ensemble energies, and the narrative qualities of space. Her acoustic and electro-acoustic music for large and small ensembles has been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe by groups such as the FLUX Quartet and Till by Turning; she has also been commissioned to compose music for dance. As a bassoonist, Katherine performs with Anthony Braxton’s Falling River Quartet, Architeuthis Walks on Land, Till by Turning, chamber pop quartet the Fancy, and in many other collaborations.

Katherine Young debuts her new project Pretty Monsters, which animates the solo bassoon music released on her 2009 Porter Records debut Further Secret Origins in an interactive ensemble setting. Katherine has arranged the music – as well as some new material – for this New York trio featuring Owen Stewart-Robinson on guitar and Mike Pride on percussion. Using amplification and pedals to enhance the power of the bassoon, Pretty Monsters explores dynamic extremes, energetic interplay, flexible rhythmic structures, as well as timbral depth and detail.

Composer Jeremiah Cymerman will premiere a new electroacoustic piece for his ensemble Scorpio Rising featuring Elena Moon Park (violin) Jessica Pavone (viola) Christopher Hoffman (cello) & Tom Blancarte (bass) in addition to selections from his upcoming Porter release, “Under a Blue Grey Sky”.

Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer and clarinetist based in New York City since 2002. He has been fortunate to present his work in many of the city’s most respected venues for experimental performance including Roulette, Issue Project Room, the Stone & Anthology Film Archives. Described by Time Out New York as “one of Downtown’s most resourceful and inventive composer-performers” Cymerman has worked with a broad range of contemporary artists including Jandek, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Nate Wooley, Evan Parker, Matthew Welch, Jessica Pavone, Anthony Coleman, Toby Driver, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and many others. His recorded output has been documented on the Tzadik, Porter and Solponticello record labels.