photo by Walter Wlodarczyk

Monday, May 31
7pm CT
Streaming on YouTube
FREE, $10 suggested donation

Option Talks Music: Kate Mohanty

Meet Brooklyn based saxophonist Kate Mohanty who will join Option to discuss her creative work which includes two fantastic solo recordings “Disappear Here” and “The Double Image” both on the Friendship Tapes label, as well as her active role in Brooklyn’s DIY scene. Tune in on Monday, May 31st at 7pm Chicago time to hear the discussion, ask questions in the chat, and listen to Kate perform solo from her home in Brooklyn.

The Option series is presented as part of Experimental Sound Studio’s virtual concerts every Monday. Link to this program, with the interview led by Andrew Clinkman, below.

About Kate Mohanty

Kate Mohanty is an avant-garde saxophonist based in Brooklyn. Kate is an active member of Brooklyn's DIY music scene, continually committed to the process of improvisation. Disappear Here, Mohanty’s second solo effort, was released in October 2019 on friendship tapes (a western Massachusetts based label). Kate’s albums are completely improvised upon recording. Mohanty's debut solo recording, The Double Image (GP Stripes), was named to Avant Music News Best of 2017. Impose Magazine wrote:  '...the record is an exercise in a sort of controlled chaos, an eventful and unpredictable machination of a singular, skillful vision.'

Kate has participated in a wide variety of artistic projects since living in Brooklyn, including scoring short films, accompanying dance and theater performances, and has appeared on numerous albums. In 2011 Kate published a solo book of poetry entitled Back from Brooklyn.