The composer Nina C. Young presents a survey of her artistic work in the context of her relationships with sound and music performance. With a background in both engineering and music, Young’s work straddles the worlds of acoustic and electroacoustic music; in her work, they are seamless entwined. She will discuss her use of memory, timbre, time, and transcription/translation as methods of creating unique sonic environments that can be appreciated by a wide variety of audiences while challenging stylist boundaries, auditory perception, and notions of temporality.

Nina C. Young is the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome and lecturer in the Department of Music at Columbia University.