Cassia Streb + Tim Feeney
Friday, August 30 2024 at 8pm
New year and a new piece by Cassia and Tim.
A park
A cemetery
A second park
Many leaves rustling
And a river of bells
As composers and musicians living in an urban environment, Cassia and Tim are hyper aware of the cacophony of sounds that surround them, from planes, air conditioners, leaf blowers and other machines, to organic sounds like children playing, birds singing, and leaves rustling. They relish brief moments of silence but are also intrigued by the moments when one sound suddenly stops and a different sound, one that has been happening all along, is revealed. They are interested in recreating this effect for an audience, who experience the sounds around them in different ways over the event, leading them to altered interpretations of their sound world.
About the Artists:
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.
TIM FEENEY performs, composes, and improvises sounds and images in and for forests and waterfronts, investigating unstable sound and duration. He appears in bookstores and basements with Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart as the trio Meridian; in galleries and libraries with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski; in tunnels and train stops with Cody Putman and Cassia Streb as the trio Tasting Menu; in living rooms and warehouses with Clay Chaplin and Davy Sumner; in colleges and museums with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and Jane Cassidy; on recordings for Intakt, Black Truffle, Rhizome.s, Caduc, Full Spectrum, Sedimental, and Marginal Frequency; and in the occasional festival or concert hall with Anthony Braxton and Ingrid Laubrock.
He is a faculty member in percussion, improvisation, composition, and experimental sound practices at the California Institute of the Arts.
Tapetail is Automata’s new experimental sound series, launched in October 2022.
Tapetail presents live events and sound installations featuring the work of experimental sound artists.
We are currently looking to present shows and installations that deal with "liveness" where something about the experience is best presented live, whether through improvisation, special acoustic treatment or audience experience. There’s been a lot of great art happening in the virtual and digital world so now we’re turning our focus back towards bringing people together for sound experiences that are best experienced in a live setting.
Automata’s Tapetail series
is curated by Cassia Streb.
If you are interested in proposing work for the Tapetail series,
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