Slow Cooking 慢炖
Squash & Biscuit 瓜和饼干
Saturday October 29, 2022 at 8:00 PM
AUTOMATA' s new Experimental Sound series TAPETAIL presents
Slow Cooking 慢炖
SQUASH & BISCUIT 瓜和饼干
Saturday October 29, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Life is the act of waiting—waiting to meet someone, to hear about an application, for a new product, fresh content, or simply the sunrise on a cool morning. In their debut evening length work, Squash & Biscuit’s Slow Cooking 慢炖 uses this shared experience as a vessel for new ideas and exploration. Waiting gives you time; time gives you the opportunity to become the strange creature you truly are.
Presented in three short sections, Slow Cooking 慢炖 is a quadraphonic sound performance that uses acoustic instruments, manipulated samples, voice, video, and movement.
Slow Cooking 慢炖 is presented, composed, and performed by Brian Griffith and Shuwen Zhao. Movement Choreographed by Taylor Donofrio, rendered by Mao Tokunaga (Hino 7).
Tickets:
$15 students, members, underemployed
$18 general admission
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Seating is extremely limited, advance reservations strongly encouraged
Note: Masks are required for all events at Automata.
About the artists:
Shuwen Zhao and Brian Griffith create musical atmospheres for moving images. Their experience with traditional musical structures informs their approach and experimentation with sounds. Zhao, a pianist, has an ear for detail creating lush soundscapes and intricate melodic lines. Griffith, a bassist, builds deep currents of sound and delicate tonal whispers. website: squashandbiscuit.co Instagram: squashandbiscuit
“...Squash & Biscuit’s evocation of memory is apt and rewards repeat listening through increased awareness of meaning attached to their collection of sounds."—I Care If You Listen
ABOUT THE SERIES
Automata is excited to announce the launch of a new music and sound series, TAPETAIL which will present live events and sound installations featuring the work of experimental sound artists. Tapetail will center on performances 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. The Tapetail series is curated by Cassia Streb.
TAPETAIL is named after the rebel teenager form of the Whalefish. For decades, it was mis-categorized as a fish that mysteriously had no adult form and just hung out at the surface of the ocean and gorged on shellfish. The mystery was finally solved when it was discovered that this “tapetail” larva would grow into either the male or female adult Whalefish, and go to live at the bottom of the sea. We like to think of our Tapetail series as a rogue, hard to define sound series that contains within it the potential to become something completely different.
Artists interested in proposing work for the Tapetail series can appply by filling out this query form.
About the curator:
Cassia Streb is the curator for Automata’s music and sound series TAPETAIL. She is a sound artist who lives and works in Los Angeles who writes music for specific situations and for special places. Cassia’s work is often composed for friends and colleagues in order to highlight aspects of their musicality that she admires. She plays viola, small percussion instruments and found objects in her work with improvisation and interpretation of notated scores. A champion for experimental music and sound, Cassia has worked alongside her peers to curate shows for the Dog Star Orchestra, the Southland Ensemble and Music for Your Inbox.
AUTOMATA is located in Chinatown, Los Angeles
504 Chung King Court MAP
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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