Gayle Young
sculpts tone and time
Music by Gayle Young places the tactile experience of sound in the foreground of a listener’s experience. In her text-based pieces Young’s evocative descriptions act as phantom conductors, shaping intricate details of sound. In addition to composing for traditional instruments, Young creates sound installations, and performs on unique microtonal instruments she designed and built.
Young wrote The Sackbut Blues, the biography of pioneering electronic instrument inventor Hugh Le Caine (1914–1977). As editor of Musicworks magazine over her decades, she established an inclusive perspective on the complex and multifaceted sound worlds that characterize experimental music today.
I look for connections and relationships among sounds, and present them almost as if they were natural phenomena. It's a process of discovery, of un-heard or un-noticed worlds of sound, taking my listening outside my previous experience.
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According to the Moon
Sarah Albu, Gayle Young
farpoint recordings fp088
According To The Moon sees Young collaborating with Montréal-based vocalist Sarah Albu, one of Canada's most dedicated and curious performers of contemporary and experimental music. A limited edition CD version with a 4 panel gatefold sleeve and an 8 page booklet with extensive liner notes with photography by Greg Locke throughout is available from FarPoint Recordings at: According to the Moon
As Trees Grow
Gayle Young, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Ed Bennett
farpoint recordings fp084
Microtonal recordings of frozen waterfalls, truffle mycelia, fruiting trees in Umbria, ephemeral spring wildflowers in Canada: join us on a journey across a rich tapestry of music for piano and electronics by the radical Canadian composer, instrument designer and sound artist Gayle Young. Available from FarPoint Recordings at: As Trees Grow
