pt.fwd presents Jeremy Young
Sun, Mar 19
|McLean County Museum of History
Jeremy Young (Montréal, Canada) performs sketches for tape loops, oscillators, and EMF waves.


Time & Location
Mar 19, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT
McLean County Museum of History, 200 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
About the event
Jeremy Young is a maker of electroacoustic audio from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is a member of the Montreal-based experimental poetry_sound unit Cloud Circuit, alongside writer Deanna Radford, and the electroacoustic modern classical trio Sontag Shogun, with pianist Ian Temple and sound sculptor Jesse Perlstein. He has performed across Canada, the US, UK, Asia, and Europe.
Making unique use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, analog 1/4" tape loops, captured and filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects, Young's improvisational and compositional techniques are influenced by Cagean aleatoricism as well as haptics-based praxis and deep listening. His McLuhan-esque approach lies in combining the physical treatment of audio signal (piezo mic'd objects and surfaces, manipulations of tape and tone via texture and voltage) with complex musical content, to create sonic narratives that are anchored by the media on which they are recorded, edited, and/or…
