Residency: 7th – 10th December
Performance: Saturday 10th December 19:30
Concept, composition & performance – Linda Jankowska and KAY.
Video – Kera MacKenzie
Weaving – Molly Roth Scranton
RESIDENCY:
boundarymind is a long-distance collaboration by Linda Jankowska and KAY. The electroacoustic sound piece and aggregating multi-media installation explores and transgresses the geographical, cultural, psychological, and musical boundaries that impact how we share—and modulate—our past, present, and future selves through collection and interaction with our material world. Every-day objects with sentimental meaning and memory-evoking power have been shared—recorded and
remixed, filmed and animated, collected and woven into a three-dimensional tapestry. The project premiered in June 2022 in Chicago at 6018 North as a site-specific multi-room installation, with the support of Experimental Sound Studio.
For ame, K and Linda will rework the piece to suit the space and hopefully discover new dimension to boundarymind’s expression. The community recording events are a way of sharing the process of listening to memorable objects with other people. The audience is invited to contribute their sounds and stories to boundarymind’s sound archive with the intention of weaving them into future live iterations of the piece as a shared meaning-making practice.
EVENT:
SATURDAY, Dec 10
5-6ish – community recording event
6-7:30 – bring your own food, social gathering
7:30 PM – live performance
Boundarymind aka Linda Jankowska and KAY is a composer-performer collaborative project spanning nine years over four countries. Challenging and expanding the concept of collaboration, blurring the boundaries of disciplines within the contemporary classical field, and questioning the notion of single authorship, their co- compositional practice disrupts the focus on score as primary goal through a feminist lens of non- hierarchical creation.
Linda Jankowska is a musician whose practice orbits around long-term collaborations and multifaceted modes of working with sound that stretch her limitations. Primarily a violinist, she works at an intersection of instrumental performance, improvisation, and composition. She is also an active concert producer, contemporary performance researcher, and educator. Linda is a founding member and co-artistic director of Distractfold Ensemble. She holds a PhD from University of Huddersfield, works as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire and acts as Eavesdropping Festival Producer.
KAY makes electroacoustic music and sonic art using expressive noises, curious timbres, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic physicality of sound. Collaboration is central to her practice. The LAPhil, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Dal Niente, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, and others have commissioned her music. Her collaborators include Wet Ink, Ensemble Nikel, WasteLAnd, and Yarn/Wire.
Katherine teaches at Emory University. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition.
