Dublin Sound Lab Commission Award

to be premiered Spring 2026

Younge's new work for Dublin Sound Lab will explore an intricate, hocketing texture—irrationally rhythmic, teetering on surreal polka—where bass clarinet, cello, electric guitar, percussion, and electronics collide in playful instability. The performance will include suspended percussion to invite choreographed motion, while samples of analog synths weave through the ensemble. A kinetic, immersive performance where sound and movement blur, softening the lines between roles, where live music becomes as much a visual gesture as a sonic one.

Commissioned work for Collective Lovemusic

to be premiered Fall 2025

Seed is a 15-minute electronic and movement-based work that explores the boundaries of intimacy, vulnerability, and the spectral presence of sound. Nearly entirely electronic, the piece features unusual vocalizations and is entirely choreographed, with performers miming their instruments in surreal, contorted ways—often playing through each other’s bodies. The instruments are laid out in space, requiring the performers to engage in unconventional physical encounters: lying on the floor, twisting into unusual positions, and interacting with the objects in deeply intimate ways. These gestures evoke a sense of shared history, as if the performers are conjuring the "sonic phantasmas" of their collective pasts through one another.

The piece culminates in an 8-minute section where the performers finally engage with their instruments, but only after navigating this liminal space between body, self, and musical practice. Seed transforms the ensemble into mediums, channeling the ghosts of their own instruments in a haunting, visceral performance. By dissolving the boundaries between performer and instrument, the work invites audiences to witness a rare vulnerability—one where sound and movement emerge from the fragile, interconnected space of mutual becoming.

the //ATAVIST series:

Over the course of the next several decades, I intend to compose a series of works for 2-6 performers that incorporate body percussion, voice, and exaggerated movements. These pieces require no traditional instruments, but may utilize everyday objects in addition to simple electronic setups. With durations between 6 and 8 minutes, the //Atavist pieces are not written for any particular musicians in mind, and are therefore easily adaptable to any ensemble. These are not commissioned works, nor shall they ever be; they will be composed outside the transactional economy. As the pieces become available, they will be shared here. Groups interested in performing them may reach out to me directly.