Gayle Young Residency
Program, P.1982
- Identifier
- P.1982
- Type
- Artist talks;Music performances;Residencies;Workshops
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- October 27 – November 9, 2007
- Description
- Gayle Young Residency - has worked with sound installation and instrument design since the late 1970s. In addition to being reckognized for her uniquie approaches to microtonal music she is also reveared for the two instruments she invented: the columbine, a 61-pitch percussion instrument; and the amaranth, a 24-stringed zither. Both instruments produce a great range of sound through unorthodox tunings and unusual playing techniques. Young has created environmental sound installations and film scores using tuned lengths of tubing. She has worked with R. Murray Schafer, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Snow, David Mott, Don Wherry and many others prominent in contemporary new music. As a writer, she is the author of a biography of Canadian electronic pioneer Hugh LeCaine, and is the publisher of Musicworks.