Discography
Pebbles, bells, keys, nails,
Rice cooker, cigar box, tin can,
Flowerpot bits, broken glass, rattle,
Bows, pencils, large rock.
Tim Feeney and Cassia Streb, tiny sounds, viola, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tim Feeney, Los Angeles, June 2022-September 2023
Visual art by Sara Roberts, design & Layout by Cecyl Ruehlen, Harmonic Ooze 2024
An apocryphal memory palace built from an archive of local recordings and live intercessions.
Performed by Tim Feeney and Cassia Streb
stiff brush, viola, superball, rough stick, files, ceramic rattles, broken flowerpots, bottle caps, small bells, 10d nails, old keys, and river stones.
Recorded live on Lunar New Year, Chung King Court, Los Angeles, January 2023
Released November 3, 2023
Three Los Angeles improvisers, coming together to freely interpret one another’s compositional systems. Bells, spoken word, wine glasses, viola, tuba, drums, bones, beaks.
A park, a train, and a secondary highway, Cassia Streb
Another Pattern, Tim Feeney
The Day Moved, William Roper
Recorded at violahouse in Highland Park, Los Angeles
Released on February 7, 2023 with Infrequent Seams
Cassia Streb, Solo Album
Sound and composition by Cassia Streb (viola and small objects)
Audio editing help from Colbert Davis
Audio mixing by Tim Feeney
Cover design by Cecyl Ruehlen
Produced For Cassette Tape + Digital By Harmonic Ooze Records
Recorded in the Joshua Tree National Park and in Highland Park, Los Angeles, 2022
Released October 6, 2023
Extradition Plays Philip Corner
Track 38. Borderline Music, realised by Cassia Streb and Tim Feeney
Bells, Field Recordings, and dropping keys and nails on a concrete floor.
From January 21 through February 18, 2023, Portland, Oregon's Extradition Ensemble staged EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: five concerts over five consecutive Saturdays devoted to the music of experimental great Philip Corner. This album includes all 22 live recordings from those concerts plus an additional 39 Corner compositions realized by Extradition musicians, friends, and peer ensembles around the world.
“I gave myself the task to test this: What are the limits of what is ‘interesting.’ And I found this, once and for all proved: There are none.” — Philip Corner, from Lifework: A Unity (Frog Peak Music, 1993)
Mountain Air (INDEX-8) is the second full-length release by Ghost Ensemble, and features the first commercially available recording of Pauline Oliveros’s "Mountain Air," composed in 1992. The work, originally conceived as "Arctic Air" for the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, changes title to reflect the performance environment; this release was recorded at the studio Wind River in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Oliveros’s work is followed by works commissioned by the ensemble between 2016-20, composed by Teodora Stepančić and Marguerite Brown, and recorded in Santa Cruz during Ghost Ensemble’s 2018 and 2020 tours.
Released in 2021 by Indexical
Performance by Ghost Ensemble
Mueller Tunnel documents a site-specific performance that was recorded on-location within the Mueller Tunnel itself, which 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.
Windward, Warren, and Leeward
Tim Feeney, Cassia Streb, and Cody Putman (sounds)
Photography art by Eric Basta, Full Spectrum 2020
Vinny Golia: Even to this day…
This epic album includes 158 tracks that involve soloistic journeys, short interludes, transitional forms, and improvisations involving orchestral textures. Performed live, Vinny would have used a combination of conducting techniques I have been refining since the first concert of the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble in 1982. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do this live because of Covid restrictions and instead created an alternate composition system to supplant and expand on those techniques.
“Our West Coast community of creative musicians is vast and intensely innovative, and from this communal pool, I used improvisers accustomed to performing New Music and freer forms of improvisation.” –Vinny Golia
Johanna Beyer: String Quartet IV
The Koan Quartet releases their debut digital EP with the premiere commercial recording of Johanna Beyer’s String Quartet IV. An important experimental composer of the 1930’s, Beyer worked closely with Henry Cowell, Percy Grainger and Ruth Crawford, and wrote the first known work scored for electronic instruments by a female composer (Music of the Spheres, 1938).
Koan Quartet: Eric KM Clark and Orin Hildestad (violin), Cassia Streb (viola), Jennifer Bewerse (cello)
Editing: Doug Grean and Jennifer Bewerse; Mixing: Scott Worthington; Mastering: Sean McCann; Publisher: Frog Peak Music
Stand closer when you have something to say
This cassette release documents two separate elaborations upon a single physical space: a studio in Los Angeles, California with concrete floors and large, wooden firehouse-style doors that face a moderately busy street. Tasting Menu gives attention to the room by rubbing its surfaces; opening and closing its portals; allowing its natural resonances; and moving about it spatially, left to right and front to back.
Tasting Menu: Cody Putman, Tim Feeney, and Cassia Streb
Instruments, tapes, objects, rocks, garage, weather
Recorded in 2019; engineered and mixed by Tim Feeney
Released in 2021 by Mappa with Artwork by Sofia Serebriakova