Katie Gately
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Katie Gately | |
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| Born | The Bronx |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Genres | Electronic, Experimental |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Musician, Music Producer, Teacher |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Keys, Field Recordings, Ableton Live, Computer |
| Years active | 2013 - present |
| Labels | Houndstooth, Tri-Angle Records, FatCat Records, Public information |
| Website | http://www.katiegately.com/ |
Katie Gately
Katie Gately is an American musician, composer, producer and sound designer[1][2] based in Los Angeles, California.[3][4] As well as her own releases she has remixed Björk[5] and Zola Jesus[6] and produced for serpentwithfeet[7]. Her most recent album, Loom, was released on the 14th February 2020.[8]
Background
Katie Gately was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Los Angeles to study at USC where she graduated with an MFA in Film Production, where she focused on Sound Design. She cites sound effects editor Midge Costin as a mentor. Alongside this, Gately also holds a BA in Philosophy from [[Carleton College%7CCarleton|College]], with her focus being Philosophy of Music.
Her early musical training consisted of barely anything - failing both the piano and guitar in her youth. As a child she was afraid to even sing, in which she says “"couldn't think of anything more scary!" So why sing? "Once I decided I was going to make music, I thought, well of course, I'm going to sing. It just comes easily, and it's so malleable, and you can find a melody in an instant."[9]
As a graduate student, she pursued minor studies in music production and audio programming. Working as a sound editor for films, Gately went from recording and editing sound to making her own electronic music productions. "I realized that I wanted to do more than just correlate sounds to pictures. I'd like to take the sounds and make them the movie stars of the soundscapes. Those experiments became my songs."
After releasing singles on Blue Tapes, Fet Press, FatCat, and a mini album on Public Information, Katie went on to release her debut album Color in 2016.
Color
Her debut album Color was released in 2016 with Tri-Angle, and it meshed samples and found sounds with manipulations of her own voice to create maximalist electronic compositions deploying fractured rhythms, fierce licks and bold samples.[10]
Loom
Her sophomore album Loom was released on the 14th February 2020 via Houndstooth and is dedicated to her mother who passed away in late 2018. At the time of her mother’s cancer diagnosis, Gately was near completion of an entirely different album, but says that very quickly she realized she needed to make a record relevant to her immediate experience
She returned to her family home in Brooklyn and started again, rebuilding the album around the track ‘Bracer’, which was her mother’s favorite.[11][12][13]
Loom was critically acclaimed upon its release with publications such as; The Music, Brooklyn Vegan and The Financial Times including the album in their Best Albums of 2020.[14][15][16]
Pipes
Pipes was comprised entirely by herself and Quietus named Pipes as one of their albums of the year so far (2014). In which she is quoted: “digitally manipulated vocals, it overarchingly distills the fabric of the modern human mind into one fourteen-minute blowout, searching for beauty through passages of wistful crescendoing, about-turning and quivering through hard-to-nail-down emotions, restlessly exploding with countless momentary thoughts, and all irrevocably interlocked with the omnipresent draw of technology”.[17]
Influences
Katie Gately is part of the growing wave of female auteurs in underground music and mentions Kid A, Tarkovsky’s Stalker and The Mirror as a few of her early influences in music. She recalls and states "becoming obsessed with mostly British post-punk and then at the same time I was interested in Autechre and weird electronic music... It made me feel like, 'I don't know what I'm feeling, I don't know what this is, and I feel like something new.' It's very bizarre and uncomfortable and exciting, and I started to become addicted to that feeling; definitely feeling excited in a positive way, but with this ambiguity, and this feeling of unpredictability.[18]
Discography
Albums
| Title | Details |
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| Loom |
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| Color |
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| Katie Gately (Mini Album) |
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Singles
| Title | Release Details |
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| "Waltz" |
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| "Bracer" |
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| "Pivot" |
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| "Far" |
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| "Last Day" |
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| "Pipes" |
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Remixes
| Title | Artist | Details |
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| Siphon (Katie Gately Remix) | Zola Jesus |
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| Immersion (Katie Gately Remix) | Tangents |
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| Family (Katie Gately Remix) | Bjork |
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Productions
| Album | Co-Producer | Songs | Details |
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| Soil | serpentwithfeet | Whisper
Slow Syrup Bless ur Heart Cherubim Mourning Song |
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Compositions
2014: Passer Passer[30] - Sound Designer
2016: Once Upon a Line[31] - Sound Designer
Collaborations, other
2010: Mimeomeme, Seattle Phonographers Union, CD, October 2010[32]
References
- ^ https://www.shure.com/en-GB/performance-production/louder/hunting-and-gathering-with-katie-gately
- ^ https://www.rewirefestival.nl/artist/katie-gately
- ^ https://www.loudandquiet.com/interview/katie-gately-is-making-maximalist-pop-using-the-sounds-of-espresso-makers-refrigerators-and-toothbrushes/
- ^ https://www.londoninstereo.com/katie-gately-interview/
- ^ https://pitchfork.com/news/59889-bjork-shares-part-1-of-vulnicura-remixes/
- ^ https://diymag.com/2018/02/22/zola-jesus-announces-new-album-okovi-additions
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/soil-mw0003163751/credits
- ^ https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/70975
- ^ https://www.factmag.com/2013/08/23/i-started-to-feel-like-a-cave-dweller-l-a-sound-editor-katie-gately-introduces-her-debut-ep-of-scary-mechanical-worlds/
- ^ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22512-color/
- ^ https://www.factmag.com/2019/11/08/katie-gately-samples-screaming-peacocks-and-earthquakes-on-elegiac-houndstooth-debut-loom/
- ^ https://kgsoundie.bandcamp.com/album/loom
- ^ https://www.fabriclondon.com/store/loom.html
- ^ "The Music 2020 Writers' Poll: Christopher James".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Music Staff Tell Us Their Top 10s of 2020".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Best albums of 2020 in a mixed year for pop".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ https://thequietus.com/articles/16432-katie-gately-interview
- ^ https://thequietus.com/articles/16432-katie-gately-interview
- ^ "Katie Gately's second album, Loom, is dedicated to her late mother". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "Katie Gately: Color". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "Review: Katie Gately - Katie Gately". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "The Quietus | News | Katie Gately Shares New Track, 'Waltz'". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ Orl, Nicola; ino (2019-11-18). "[Video]: Katie Gately - "Bracer"". SonOfMarketing. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ Listen to "Pivot" by Katie Gately, retrieved 2020-07-22
- ^ "The Quietus | News | Katie Gately: New Lathe & Pipes Reissue". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "Katie Gately "Last Day"*Public Information*". XLR8R. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ Tapes, Blue; Tapes, Blue. "blue eight: Katie Gately". Blue Tapes. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ Gately, Katie. "work". Katie Gately. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ a b "The Quietus | News | LISTEN: New Katie Gately Remix". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "Passer Passer". Show Me The Animation. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ Gately, Katie. "Sound Design". Katie Gately. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
- ^ "Seattle Phonographers Union". www.and-oar.org. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
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