Tapetail Presents:
A Gently Tilting Planet
Saturday, February 15, 2o25 4pm
A Gently Tilting Planet is an hour-long video and sound composition tracing the slow, continuous movements of light over a year—the shifting ocean tides, cacti acting as sundials, shadows stretching and retreating in a valley, and weather altering visibility. Over the course of an hour, we see and hear the effects of a single day’s changing light within a shifting environment, presented simultaneously in separate aural and visual tracks.
Saturday’s presentation is a segment of the full work premiering in 2026, a four-channel video piece showing 96 cumulative hours from the 2024 Quarter Days: the Spring and Fall Equinoxes, Winter Solstice, and Summer Solstice. In this initial showing, we see one “Quarter Day” of the four films that make up the full piece.
Jennifer Bewerse’s films are composed of 24 vertical time slices. Each slice plays one hour, in real time, from a 24-hour recording. The accompanying sound is distributed across adjacent speakers of varying sizes and construction, mirroring the shifting light in the film’s vertical stripes.
The piece captures both the barely perceptible and the immense, revealing the passage of time on a planetary scale, grounding us in the vast motion of Earth itself.
TICKETS
General Admission: $18
Students, Members, Seniors, Artists: $15
Seating is limited. Ticket reservations are recommended.
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.
Jennifer Bewerse works as a collagist, collecting and arranging the elements of each piece. Her compositions are built from sounds she wants to hear using simple mechanics that yield complex results. Often, she asks performers to thoughtfully engage in everyday activities, such as preparing a special lunch, having a conversation with a loved one, or remembering stories. The goal of her compositions is to create an opportunity for reflection, both for the performer and the audience. The collage, with all of its layers, generates collective moods, the sensation of meaning, and, most importantly, makes space for listeners to draw new connections in their perspectives and experiences.
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.
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