Gayle Young & Reinhard Reitzenstein

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.