TAPETAIL presents:
GHOST ENSEMBLE
interius/exterius +
Game Time: Three Exercises for Intrepid Performers
Monday May 15, 2023 at 8pm
AUTOMATA's Experimental Sound series TAPETAIL presents:
Ghost Ensemble: interius/exterius + Game Time: Three Exercises for Intrepid Performers
Automata’s Tapetail series is excited to welcome Ghost Ensemble’s presentation of the West Coast premieres of Catherine Lamb’s interius/exterius and Cassia Streb’s Game Time: Three Exercises for Intrepid Performers, developed in collaboration with the musicians of Ghost Ensemble through the 2021-22 season. interius/exterius investigates how collective intentions or focal points allow various and sometimes unusual pathways to emerge. As the group links together in phase, the greater web of activity aligns intention and desire within a community of musicians sounding together, the initiation of sound constantly shifting, unfolding new sonic dimensions. Cassia’s piece explores the ensemble’s close-knit performer dynamic by asking them to perform unrehearsed actions collectively from simple written instructions. The piece functions as a prelude to Cat’s piece where the tuning system from interius/exterius is first introduced.
Tickets:
$15 Students, members, seniors, underemployed
$18 General Admission
Seating is extremely limited, advance reservations strongly encouraged
Note: Masks are required for all events at Automata.
About the Artists:
Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Collaboration with living composers is its primary focus. Since its 2012 inception, the ensemble has commissioned dozens of new compositions by a diverse range of highly original composers who share a belief in music’s potential for individual and community transformation. Rethinking the norms of composer/performer collaboration, Ghost Ensemble conducts innovative workshops to nurture adventurous new music over the course of multiple seasons. The resulting work often straddles contemporary classical, experimental chamber music, avant-garde jazz, sound art, and territories in between. Critics acclaim Ghost Ensemble performances as “prodigious … a thrilling listen” (Christian Carey), “beautifully performed and recorded … a body-felt sound mass … a multifaceted texture that evokes the primeval” (Meg Wilhoite), “cloudy, mysterious, and dark … Beckettian in its slow spread” (Brian Olewnick), “a warped ride both exhilarating and a bit scary” (Peter Margasak), and “strong music, made with a singular spirit” (George Grella).
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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