06/10 @ 8:30pm - Flutronix + Katherine Young (Emerging Artists Commission)

Flutronix is Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, a pair of fresh and eclectic flutists who are paving the way from their classical roots to the future of music. Performing the works of notable pioneers of new music along side their own creations, Flutronix displays an innovative combination of flute and mixed media elements. Their original compositions comfortably navigate daring forms of popular, experimental, and contemporary classical music while implementing video, electronics, and digital effects. The duo pays tribute to groundbreaking work by exposing audiences to composers who have contributed to new bodies of literature that expand the language of the flute.”

http://www.myspace.com/flutronix

Composer and bassoonist Katherine Young writes acoustic and electro-acoustic music, often using flexible forms and expressive notations for specific aims. Her works have been performed throughout the U.S. in independent productions and by groups such as the FLUX Quartet.

For ensembles varying in size from solo to 20 people, Katherine’s compositions include works for piano solo; percussion trio; a septet for trombone, 2 electric guitars,2 contrabasses, 2 percussionists, with electronics; and a duo for typing pianist and live electronics.

As a bassoonist, Katherine improvises, performs new music, and plays with rock bands. Katherine is a founding member of the contemporary chamber music collective Till by Turning. She has toured with Anthony Braxton and is a member of his Falling River Quartet.

She performs regularly in Architeuthis Walks on Land, her duo with violist Amy Cimini. With the trio Civil War, she has released two recordings on the Longbox label, When Fact Threatens Belief (2005) and The Brutality of Fact (2006). She plays with the chamber-pop quartet The Fancy, and her project slyo with bassist Nat Slaughter investigates sight-specific performance. Other projects past and present include: British rockers the Nightingales; flutist and instrument-builder Michael Pestel’s ensembles; Jason Ajemian’s Who Cares How Long You Sink; Jacob Wick’s A Mown Lawn; a duo for bass, bassoon, and electronics with Jonathan Zorn; Chicago-based pop band Roommate; and piratical crew The William Young.

Katherine studied bassoon performance and comparative literature at Oberlin College and Conservatory. Working with Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila, and Alvin Lucier, she completed her masters in composition at Wesleyan University and now lives in Brooklyn.

Katherine’s new work is commissioned as part of ISSUE Project Room’s Emerging Artists Commission and is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Greenwall Foundation and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.