Ear Pollen Part 2 with KLIMCHAK (featuring Katherine Young)

The Ear Pollen Series started at Gallery 378 in 2020. Klimchak curated the monthly performances by selecting 3-5 musicians to perform a totally improvised concert together. The series was just getting started when Covid hit and ended it. At Atlanta Contemporary, Klimchak has revived the series in a minimalist compact form while retaining the improvised format. For the Ear Pollen Series, Pt 2, Klimchak is performing in a series of duets each month with a different partner and featuring different instruments. In many ways, the duet is the perfect vehicle for improvisation, as it allows the performers to treat their playing as a form of conversation, introducing new ideas, batting those ideas back and forth, and taking them to new places to keep the dialog flowing. Part 2 becomes a 2 part conversation for the audience to witness and enjoy.

Katherine Young uses expressive noises, curious timbres, and kinetic structures in her electroacoustic music and sonic art; relationship building is central to her practice. The LA Phil, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, and others have commissioned her work. She has a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition. Katherine has documented her work as a bassoonist and improviser on numerous recordings. She teaches composition, improvisation, and electronic music at Emory.