Tuesday November 16, 7pm-9pm: Katherine Young (solo bassoon) + Jacob Wick (solo trumpet).
$10, 8 for 701 CCA Members, Doors open at 6pm
In November, Brooklyn-based composer/improvisers Katherine Young and Jacob Wick will embark on a double solo tour throughout the East and Southeast performing material that explores and exploits the limits of their respective instruments.Young’s solo bassoon work, documented on her 2009 Porter Records release Further Secret Origins, carefully employs specific amplification and pedals to enhance the overtones, interior sounds, and power of the bassoon.
Young’s solo bassoon work, documented on her 2009 Porter Records release Further Secret Origins, carefully employs specific amplification and pedals to enhance the overtones, interior sounds, and power of the bassoon. Of this music The Wire called Young “Bassoon colossus,” while her work was described in Downbeat as making “seriously bold leaps for the bassoon”; and Sequenza 21 said “Katherine Young’s solo bassoon music does more than rock. It f-king kicks ass. And takes names…Her performances are powerful and compelling….If you thought Stravinsky’s high bassoon writing was ‘otherworldly,’ then you have to hear this.” Young has toured with Anthony Braxton, recorded with members of Faust and Einsturzende Neubauten, and also performs regularly in the improvising duo Architeuthis Walks on Land, whose recent release Natura Naturans has been called “mind-bending” by Time Out New York.
Wick’s solo piece, swarm, is a performance that concentrates on breaking down the trumpet into its constituent parts: air, metal, spit, song. By manipulating the instrument to reveal its myriad sonic possibilities, Wick creates an environment that has been described as “one of the most challenging and intimate things I’ve ever had to do” (Columbia Free Times). Of his 2008 duo release with Andrew Greenwald, 37:55 (Creative Sources), the Chicago Reader wrote “I’ve never heard a trumpet sound so inhuman—his flickering tone and stuttery articulation dislocate the instrument’s voice like an electronic filter, and for minutes at a time you might imagine you’re listening to an old-school analog synth.” In New York, Wick leads two groups: A Mown Lawn, a chamber group with Judith Berkson, Curtis Hasselbring, Josh Sinton, and Katherine Young; and hungry cowboy, with Jonathan Goldberger, Briggan Krauss, and Mike Pride. He also performs internationally with the Trans-Atlantic collaborative trio White Rocket, whose 2009 release White Rocket was hailed as a “dazzling and promising debut” by Downbeat.
