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,
please fill out this short query form.

Upcoming Tapetail Events

A Gently Tilting Planet
Jennifer Bewerse, Cassia Streb, and Tim Feeney
Saturday, February 15th, 2025
Tickets $18/$15

Program Note

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, compressed and 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.

Past Tapetail Events

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