Andrea Young

EXO/ENDO album release 2019

Composed by Andrea Young in collaboration with EXO//ENDO. Special thanks to producer and co-director Braden Diotte, Michael Day, and mixing/mastering engineers Brendan Burnes and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.

This three-movement work uses sound as a furnace and fuel for the expression of internal desire, external rage and temper, produced by voice-controlled sound, electronic bass, prepared turntables, cello and percussion. For the entire performance, the voice is embedded in electronic sound like an organ working within the body, adjusting and adapting to the body of sound emitting from the ensemble. These are sculptural forms, revealing the proportion to which song and sound diverge. 

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EXO//ENDO joined forces with renowned saxophone interpreter Ulrich Krieger for the world premiere of his Black Sun Rebirth. Inspired by the first book of the Edda, Black Sun Rebirth tells the story of destruction and rebirth, combining elements of contemporary chamber music with ambient doom metal and microsound aesthetics. 

EXO/ENDO (composed by Andrea Young in collaboration with E//E) focuses on the release and absorption of sound – where sound is a furnace and fuel for the expression of internal desire, external rage and temper – internalized and externalized in the progression of vibrations produced from the voice that exit through the machine and into the body of the receiving audience. For the entire performance, the voice is embedded in electronic sound like an organ working within the body, adjusting and adapting to the body of sound emitting from the ensemble. This work seeks to reveal the disturbing qualities of "song" and "voice" through the relationship of voice with technology and the proportion to which song and sound diverge. 

Performances presented during Western Canadian tour for Vancouver New Music, Calgary New Works and Open Space New Music during the Fall of 2016.

Black Sun Rebirth: EXO//ENDO with composer Ulrich Krieger

EXO//ENDO joined forces with renowned saxophone interpreter Ulrich Krieger for the world premiere of his Black Sun Rebirth. Inspired by the first book of the Edda, Black Sun Rebirth tells the story of destruction and rebirth, combining elements of contemporary chamber music with ambient doom metal and microsound aesthetics. 

Performance presented by REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA, 2017.