Recordings
Flint and tinder, Falt Recordings, 2022.
Bits of flowerpot, rusted fence
Two files, transmission tower
High tension wires, planes, helicopter, hikers, train, coyotes
Sunlight, heat, drought.
Associated film premiere for Non-Event, September 2022. Keith Prosk writes on the recording for harmonic series.
In the heat it will magically go away, recorded for AMPLIFY2020: quarantine, 2020.
One brush, two drums, one rock, transmission tower, high tension wires, CA-14, train, birds, plane, dust.
Recorded and assembled May 16-23, Whitney Canyon Trail, Newhall, California. A Closer Listen gave it a kind word.
Many thanks to Jon Abbey.
Burrow, Marginal Frequency MFCS K, 2018.
Four improvised poundings, a drum, a pair of sticks, a metal plate, a pair of dowels, a heavy cymbal, a large room, and a small squirrel.
Reviews from Brian Olewnick at Just Outside, Massimo Ricci at Touching Extremes, and Peter Margasak for Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: August 2018.
Caroline, Weighter Recordings WR02, 2014.
A drum, with hands. For Lou Cohen
Reviews from Fluid Radio, Brian Olewnick, and Vital Weekly. Richard Pinnell and Patrick Farmer also give the record a close read in a longer discussion in Sonic Field.
Weakness, Full Spectrum Records FS025, 2013.
Digital download with accompanying booklet, featuring essays by Feeney and Andrew Weathers, who writes:
Weakness is a piece about failure and anxiety. Tim Feeney channels the pressure of the classical music world into an expansive work of stripped-back solo percussion; a single snare drum in a reverberant stairway. Weakness gives us alternating zones of sound and silence, touching on techniques related to the work of Alvin Lucier, the Wandelweiser group, and Full Spectrum's own Sarah Hennies.
"The obvious description of the piece involves talking about the beauty of simple acoustic phenomena, releasing the voices that live inside our instruments, listening to what is and refraining from judgment of what it might be in relation to something else," Feeney states.
Work of this nature is delicate, but Feeney transcends the trope demonstration of a phenomena into something more telling of the composer's character. There's something personal between those strokes.
Reviews from Tiny Mix Tapes, who liked the format, and Vital Weekly, who didn't.
Recent Performances
ArtShare, Los Angeles, CA, November 2018
Wayne-o-Rama/Shaking Ray Levi Society, Chattanooga, TN, January 2017
Anxious Sound, New Orleans, LA, January 2017
Dreamland, Louisville, KY, March 2016
Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL, April 2015
Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, March 2015
Open Ears series, Blue Nile, New Orleans, LA, December 2014
Louisville Experimental Festival, June 2014
Green Fish series, Dartmouth College, February 2014
Lindsay Metivier