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Katie Gately is an American musician, composer, producer and sound designer based in Los Angeles, California. As well as her own releases she has remixed Björk and Zola Jesus and produced for serpentwithfeet. Her most recent album, Fawn / Brute, was released on March 31, 2023.

Background

Gately was raised 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. Gately also holds a BA in Philosophy from Carleton College, and had focused on Philosophy of Music.

After releasing singles on Blue Tapes, Fet Press, FatCat, and a self-titled mini album on Public Information, Gately released 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. Will Neibergall writes in a Tiny Mix Tapes review, "While it has predictably little in common with anything else she’s done, Color shares the cinematic quality of the latter. Where her self-titled EP could soundtrack body horror or seismic intensity, Gately’s debut Tri Angle LP is darkly whimsical." Clare Lobenfeld writes for Pitchfork, "Gately benefits from sound design know-how from her film production MFA studies at USC and her professional experience. This skill set benefits the intricacies of her beat constructions—harmonies built on tweaked vocal samples to bolster her own voice ("Sift"); cello and garbage-can percussion eloquently melding to make something reminiscent of grunge, but still reflective of current electronic trends at its core ("Frisk")."

Loom

She returned to her family home in Brooklyn and started again, rebuilding the album around the track "Bracer", which was her mother’s favorite.

Loom was critically acclaimed upon its release with publications such as The Guardian, Pitchfork, Paste, The Quietus, Loud and Quiet, musicOMH, Brooklyn Vegan and The Financial Times including the album in their Best Albums of 2020.

Pipes

Pipes was composed, recorded, produced and engineered by Gately, and Quietus named Pipes as one of their albums of the year in 2014.

Fawn / Brute followed in 2023.

Influences

Katie Gately 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. In a 2016 interview with The Guardian, she said, "I’m a pretty diehard Billy Joel fan, which my parents raised me to believe was normal but friends have since told me is unfortunate."

Discography

Albums

Singles

Remixes

Productions

Compositions

• Passer Passer (2014) – Sound Designer
• Once Upon a Line (2016) – Sound Designer

Other collaborations

• Mimeomeme, Seattle Phonographers Union, CD, October 2010

References

1. "Field Recording: Hunting and Gathering with Katie Gately". www.shure.com.
2. Festival, Rewire. "Rewire | International festival for adventurous music". www.rewirefestival.nl.
3. "Katie Gately is making maximalist pop using everyday objects". Loud And Quiet.
4. "Katie Gately // Interview | LONDON IN STEREO". 25 February 2020.
5. Beauchemin, Molly (9 June 2015). "Björk Shares Part 1 of Vulnicura Remixes". Pitchfork.
6. "Zola Jesus announces new album 'Okovi: Additions' | News". diymag.com. 22 February 2018.
7. "Soil – serpentwithfeet | Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
8. Monroe, Jazz (31 March 2023). "Katie Gately: Fawn/Brute review – beguilingly disordered pop". The Guardian.
9. ""I started to feel like a cave dweller": L.A. sound editor Katie Gately introduces her debut EP of "scary, mechanical worlds"". August 23, 2013.
10. Maker, Monet (October 30, 2014). "Guest Mix: Katie Gately – [Untitled]". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
11. "Katie Gately – "Bracer"". Stereogum. November 6, 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
12. "Katie Gately: Color". Pitchfork.
13. Neibergall, Will. "Katie Gately Color". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
14. Lobenfeld, Claire (October 20, 2016). "Katie Gately Color". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
15. "Katie Gately samples screaming peacocks and earthquakes on elegiac Houndstooth debut Loom". November 8, 2019.
16. "Loom, by Katie Gately". Katie Gately.
17. "Loom". www.fabriclondon.com.
18. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (February 14, 2020). "Katie Gately: Loom review – nightmarish orchestrated despair". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
19. Reynaldo, Shawn (February 14, 2020). "Katie Gately Loom". Pitchfork. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
20. Freedman, Max (February 13, 2020). "Katie Gately Finds a Novel Approach to Documenting Grief". Paste. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
21. Bočev, Danijela (March 6, 2020). "Katie Gately Loom". The Quietus. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
22. Jenkins, Dafydd (February 10, 2020). "Katie Gately Loom". Loud and Quiet. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
23. Devlin, Ben (February 10, 2020). "Katie Gately – Loom". musicOMH. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
24. Sacher, Andrew (February 14, 2020). "Notable Releases of the Week (2/14)". BrooklynVegan.
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26. "Music Staff Tell Us Their Top 10s of 2020".
27. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (21 December 2020). "Best albums of 2020 in a mixed year for pop". Financial Times.
28. ^ "The Quietus | Features | Escape Velocity | Out-Of-Body Music: An Interview With Katie Gately". The Quietus.
29. Doran, John (July 18, 2014). "Bountiful Summer: Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2014". The Quietus. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
30. Hutchinson, Kate (September 2, 2016). "Katie Gately: 'I'm a pretty diehard Billy Joel fan'". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
31. "Review: Katie Gately – Katie Gately". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
32. "Katie Gately: Color". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
33. "Katie Gately's second album, Loom, is dedicated to her late mother". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
34. "The Quietus | News | Katie Gately Shares New Track, 'Waltz'". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
35. Orl, Nicola; ino (2019-11-18). "[Video]: Katie Gately – "Bracer"". SonOfMarketing. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
36. Listen to "Pivot" by Katie Gately, retrieved 2020-07-22
37. "The Quietus | News | Katie Gately: New Lathe & Pipes Reissue". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
38. "Katie Gately "Last Day"*Public Information*". XLR8R. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
39. Tapes, Blue. "blue eight: Katie Gately". Blue Tapes. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
40. Gately, Katie. "work". Katie Gately. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
41. ^ "The Quietus | News | LISTEN: New Katie Gately Remix". The Quietus. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
42. "Passer Passer". Show Me The Animation. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
43. Gately, Katie. "Sound Design". Katie Gately. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
44. "Seattle Phonographers Union". www.and-oar.org. Retrieved 2020-07-22.

External links

• Official website

• Living people
• 21st-century American women musicians
• American women composers
• American sound artists
• Musicians from Brooklyn
• Songwriters from New York (state)
• Writers from New York City