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Bethany Younge

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Bethany Younge's acoustic and electronic music explores the manifold kinesthetic properties of musical performance. For her, the act of music-making cannot be divorced from the physical presence of the human instigator. Her works often incorporate instrumental deconstruction, exaggerated movement, motion tracking, sounding costumes, and/or other aesthetic devices to sonically heighten corporeal expressivity. Younge is currently serving as the Technical Director and Lecturer at Dartmouth College. Her works have been featured in the 2020 National Sawdust New Works Commission, the Long Beach Opera Songbook, the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Resonant Bodies Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The 16th International Young Composers Meeting, the Frequency Festival, Ear Taxi, and many other festivals. She has worked with many ensembles including JACK Quartet, TAK Ensemble, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, TILT Brass, KLANG, Ereprijs Orkestra, Fonema Consort, AndPlay, Chartreuse, Gyre Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Mocrep, and others throughout Europe and the USA. She has been awarded the Stipend Prize at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, the Kanter/Mivos Prize, the Barcelona Festival Mixtur Commission award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives award, a Fromm Commission award, and was nominated for the Gaudeamus award.
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Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Instrumental Music

Undergrowth / Polka for chamber ensemble and electronics (2023)
You, Penumbra Me for chamber ensemble and electronics (2022)
FEAST OF SELVES for chamber ensemble + electronics (2021)
To Touch is to Feel Oneself Being Touched for chamber ensemble + electronics (2020)
I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)
Yappy Pace for two vocalizing percussionists with DIY/toy instruments (2017)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)

Chamber Ensemble (5 - 9 instruments)

I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )

Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)

Voices and Instruments

Where Waste Piles Mezzo Soprano and Violin (2019)

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Fixed Electronic Media

ALAMARGO for soprano and electronic voices (2018)

String Quartet

Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)
ALAMARGO for soprano and electronic voices (2018)
At Midnight I Walked Into The Middle Of The Desert chamber ensemble + electronics (2019)
Bodyscape for chamber ensemble and no-input mixer (2016)
Carving Our Wooden Bodies for String Quartet and Objects (2018)
FEAST OF SELVES for chamber ensemble + electronics (2021)
I'll Bleed Your Lines for chamber ensemble (2020)
Limbs / Uttered / Spirits / Neglected / Flesh for chamber group and accoutrements (2020)
To Touch is to Feel Oneself Being Touched for chamber ensemble + electronics (2020)
Undergrowth / Polka for chamber ensemble and electronics (2023)
Where Waste Piles Mezzo Soprano and Violin (2019)
Yappy Pace for two vocalizing percussionists with DIY/toy instruments (2017)
You, Penumbra Me for chamber ensemble and electronics (2022)