Eric Basta
Tasting Menu is a Los Angeles-based collaboration between Feeney, Cassia Streb, and Cody Putman, exploring instrumental and found sound, movement, tape recorders, door frames, window panes, rainstorms, pine cones, concrete floors, and children’s cartoons. Recent work includes LA performances at REDCAT, Coaxial, Human Resources, Avenue 50, and the underwolf summer festival.
Tim Feeney has performed as an improviser with musicians including the trio Meridian, with percussionists Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart, pianist Annie Lewandowski, cellist and electronic musician Vic Rawlings, saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar, banjo and electronic musician Holland Hopson, video artist Jane Cassidy, and many others. He has toured throughout the United States, including notable performances at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, New York's The Stone, the Hong Kong International Festival, and the Big Ears Festival. He has recorded for Marginal Frequency, Weighter, Caduc, Accidie, Full Spectrum, Sedimental, homophoni, Cantaloupe, and Brassland/Talitres.
Cassia Streb is a Los Angeles-based violist, improviser and composer. She is active in the field of contemporary and experimental music and performs regularly as a soloist and a chamber musician. As a composer she uses electronics and acoustic instruments to create pieces for site-specific performances. More recently, she has been collaborating with poets and writers to create a larger works for reader, orchestra and meditators. As a performer, she is a founding member of the Southland Ensemble, a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music, as well as the Koan Quartet, a string quartet performing works by living composers. Cassia is a board member of the Dog Star Orchestra.
Cody Putman is an LA-based performer, composer, organizer, and radio host working primarily in experimental music and sound. In addition to improvising and performing on the bassoon, he composes sound and chamber works accessible to musicians and non-musicians alike. Cody also programs the wulf.'s annual season, organizes adventurous and forward-thinking programming at DIY/gallery spaces around Los Angeles, and hosts a monthly experimental radio show on Archipel Community Radio in Berlin.
Recordings
Stand closer when you have something to say, mappa editions MAP024, 2021.
A site-engaged exploration of a concrete floor, glass and drywall, swinging doors, and a rare LA rainstorm.
Art and limited edition print by Sofia Serebriakova, with accompanying essay by Leah Levinson.
Review by Daryl Worthington in The Quietus.
Mueller Tunnel, Full Spectrum Records FS086, 2020.
Sound recording with 40-page photo essay, with photography by Eric Basta and graphic transcriptions by Cassia Streb.
The Mueller Tunnel is located in the Angeles Mountains, roughly 20 miles north of Pasadena, California. The hundred-yard tunnel was blasted out of the middle of the mountain by the US Forest Service in 1942 to serve as a fireroad gateway to the summit of Mount Lowe. A landslide in 2009 closed the tunnel to motor vehicles, and today it is only accessible by driving to the Eaton Saddle trailhead and hiking or cycling further towards Mount Markham, sometimes with a wagon full of recording equipment and an instrument on your back.
Reviews by Jack Davidson in Noise Not Music and Vanessa Ague in The Road to Sound.
Tasting Menu at Whitney Canyon, web release for Music for Your Inbox, August 2021.
A virtual hike into the Southern California natural landscape, an environmental improvisation alongside powerlines, airplanes, and a lone jogger, a hiding in the sonic crevices and highlighting the present sounds using bells, small radios, ball bearings, spinning tubes, cardboard boxes, and other sundries.
