Malosma
Katie Porter & Christine Tavolacci
Thursday, March 21 2024 at 8pm
Malosma is named after the first flower to rise from the ashes of wildfires; it explores new normals, extreme weather events, floods, fires, cities filled with smoke, and sounds that both sit on the edge of perception and fill the entire room. Porter and Tavolacci present the expanded version of this full-length work at Automata for the first time in LA.
Tickets:
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 8pm
$15 Students, members, seniors, underemployed
$18 General Admission
Seating is extremely limited, advance reservations strongly encouraged
About the Artists:
Katie Porter is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, performer/composer, writer, and artist. She is currently a 2024 Artist-in-Residemce at ISSUE Prokect Room. Devoted to collaboration, Katie's projects include: Phase to Phase a bass clarinet duo with Lucio Capece in Berlin, Eternities with sound artist Bob Bellerue in NYC, and MUD with poet/filmmaker Anne Penders in Brussels. Passionate about fostering musical communities, she co-founded Listen/Space in Brooklyn, the Listen/Space Commissions in the mountains of Utah, and the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, electronic and improvised music. She has premiered works by Andre Cormier, Raven Chacon, Sarah Hennies, Yvette Janine Jackson, Jurg Frey, Laura Cetilia, Phill Niblock, Carolyn Chen, Teodora Stepančić, and Christian Wolff, among many others. Her writings are published in the journal Sound American, and she can be heard on the labels Another Timbre (UK), Gravity Wave / Erstwhile (US), Edition Wandelweiser (DE), FTARRI (Japan), Infrequent Seams (US), Karl Records (DE), Editions Verde (US), and Harmonic Ooze (US).
www.fromkp.com
Christine Tavolacci is a Los Angeles based flutist specializing in contemporary and experimental music. Christine is active as a soloist, improviser, curator and chamber musician both in California and internationally. She is co-founder and co-director of Southland Ensemble, and has been a frequent performer in the Monday Evening Concerts series in Los Angeles, the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Christine has also performed with The Industry, Ojai Festival, LA Phil Noon to Midnight, the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, the Angel City Jazz Festival, and Microfest. Her playing has been released on Orenda Records, Bridge Records, BIG EGO Records, Slub Music(Japan) and Tzadik. In addition to her musical pursuits, Christine is a formally trained clairvoyant, trancemedium healer and psychic development teacher. Her metaphysical practice is a continuous source of inspiration for her musical explorations. http://christinetavolacci.com
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.