Recording of the webstream from this performance, which become delayed due to a power brownout.

This summer, Art Omi will premiere a new body of work by Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee) that includes scores and a set of reimagined flags, inspired by the iconography of the Native American Church and symbolism of peyotism, a medicine and sacrament in the church. Central to the project is a new series of event scores titled Tune It Or Die! (2024). Musicalizing both motorcycles and dirt bikes, their revving engines will become a new noise piece, continuing Young’s interest in Indigenous sonic agency and in unnerving frequencies with insurrectionary potential. The work’s title comes from a patch rumored to have been worn by La Monte Young, the seminal minimalist composer, who Brian Eno described as “daddy of us all.”  

Nathan Young: Tune It or Die! will be on view at Art Omi (Ghent, NY) July 6 - September 3, 2024. More info at https://artomi.org/exhibition/nathan-young-tune-it-or-die/ Photo: Jeremy Charles. Nathan Young, Karhausen, 2017.