Foraging
Cassia Streb
Artist-in-Residence
November 27 - December 12, 2022

Cassia Streb is a sound artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She writes music for specific situations and for special places. Her work is often composed for friends and colleagues in order to highlight aspects of their musicality that she admires. Cassia plays viola, small percussion instruments and found objects in her work with improvisation and interpretation of notated scores. Some of her recent projects include Sound House, a modular, interactive sound and puppet piece and co-founding Music for Your Inbox, a digital concert platform that presents the work of experimental visual and sound artists. 

Automata Residency
Cassia's residency consisted of three parts:

She composed a graphic score called Post-Score for the CO-Opt gallery in Lubbock, Texas. The curators invited artists to create new event scores on index cards and sent them as mail art through the USPS. The score has 3 layers. The first is a graphic transcription of a solo piece she recorded in Joshua Tree. The second has long, vertical lines and cutouts that act as masks over the score. The third layer is a frame that is covered in vellum to create a milky filter over the entire page.

Cassia also made a recording with Tim Feeney of a piece by Philip Corner called Borderline Music that will be included in a celebration of Corner’s work in a festival in Portland, Oregon hosted by the Extradition ensemble in January and February of 2023. They dropped small metal objects on the floor as a realization of a graphic score. They then recorded a second layer of bells inside a recording booth and then another track of sound from the courtyard outside Automata. The result is a 15 minute recording that captures these different acoustic spaces.

Cassia started running experiments for a video realization she's making with Jennifer Bewerse of a collection of Fluxus scores. They worked on filming techniques and storyboards for the pieces. The video will be coming out on Music for Your Inbox in the summer of 2023.

Website :: https://www.cassia-streb.com/
Instagram:: @cassiasoundslikethis