Drum Major Instinct with Katherine Young (Fire Museum Presents) (The Perch)
Sat, Feb 28
|The Perch Music & Arts Workshop
The Perch | 2008 E. Arizona Street, Philadelphia PA 19125 | 8pm-10pm | $15-30 sliding scale |
Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Perch Music & Arts Workshop, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
Drum Major Instinct with Katherine Young:
Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept” having “a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt’s modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward. The resultant music is about waves of energy, patterns within patterns (within patterns), sounds from the natural world, and running the voodoo down. Their self-titled first release is on Mahakala Music (2022) and their latest 2025 LP (entitled "Almost Nothing") is on Haunted Apparatus.
As a bassoonist and improviser, Katherine Young amplifies her instrument and employs a flexible electronics setup. She performs as a soloist, in ad hoc improvised groups,…