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For a few years now, when on the road, I’ve
kept a journal that I fill with short ideas for pieces. Occasionally, they
come together as complete, crystal-clear entities that I have only to hand
to a neighbor in order to hear and see miracles; more often they are
fragmented, disjointed, or maddeningly unfinished, hinting at small
possibilities for making sounds, for layering them in dialogue with one
another, or gesturing towards a vague poetry suggestive but incomplete.
"Music of what happens"
became a folio of these text pieces and is an attempt to connect the agency
so important to our improvising ethic to our memories and to older musics, collaging abstract sounds with fragments of
folk music, including some sean nós songs of western Ireland. It allows for an
explicitly nostalgic source to be renewed and repatterned, in a way that
feels viscerally important at a time when nostalgia seems to be a hiding
place from an otherwise increasingly fragmented and fearful present.
—Tim
Feeney
This
release comprises a recording of a performance of the score by Tim Feeney,
Cassia Streb, Cody Putman, Laura Steenberge, Mustafa Walker, and Jessika Kenney at REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA, on February 28, 2020; an
audio recording of the score, as read by Cassia Streb;
an audio recording that superimposes the reading of the score and its
performance; a PDF of the score; the six folk melodies included in the tunebook, presented on 3 x 5 cards; and a series of
photographs by Feeney that provide a visual counterpart to the score. The
audio portions of the release as well as the PDF of the text score and the
photographs are provided on a USB flash drive and are also available via
download with use of the included code.
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1. Music of what
happens (Performance) 37:03
2. Music of what
happens (Instructions) 02:53
3. Music of what
happens (Scene I) 08:39
4. Music of what
happens (Tunebook) 02:08
5. Music of what
happens (Scene II) 08:12
6. Music of what
happens (Scene III) 10:05
7. Music of what
happens (Voiceover) 39:00
8. Music of what
happens (Score) PDF
Tim Feeney performs, composes, and improvises
sounds in and for forests and grain silos, 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 Weighter, 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.
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