Monday, November 16, 2015

Experimental Music Yearbook: graveled crumbled strewn


Experimental Music Yearbook has published graveled crumbled strewn. 

The score - including videos & audio tracks - are all here: https://t.co/NSnVK8uo0O

This awesome group of L.A.-based people also performed the piece on Friday 11/6 in LA.

Here's a review of what was an awesome concert:

"Graveled crumbled strewn by Katherine Young was first up and performed by a large group that included strings, winds, guitar, electronics and a video. This began with a single pitch from the soprano sax, matched in the violin whose tone quickly broke down into a rough, scratchy sound, like a cable under tension. Breathy sounds came from the flute while the lower strings produced a calm, welcoming chord and it was as if we were standing outside on some open, windswept hill. Meanwhile, the video showed construction equipment in the distance with the sounds of heavy, mechanical clanking. The instruments picked up this theme and began to issue a series of industrial sounds – the snap of a cello string and some humming in the horns. This portrayal – aided by the images in the video – proved very convincing, as if we were in the middle of a construction site, surrounded by powerful mechanical activity. With a steady siren blast from the horns, as might be heard for a shift change, the sounds ceased. Graveled crumbled strewn is a convincing realization of forceful earth moving processes experienced in close proximity." - Paul Miller, New Classic LA