Sunday April 30, 2023
Doors at 6:45pm; Performance at 7:00 pm

AUTOMATA' s Experimental Sound series TAPETAIL presents

DesoDuo, Katie Eikam and Kevin Good; Trails and Topographies

"The unearthing of practices and resonances into handcrafted performances"

Desoduo has a wide variety of projects including compositions of their own, commissions of contemporary composers,such as Laura Steenberge and Gillian Perry, as well as improvisational music co-created together. 

Their newest project "trails and topographies" combines two individual practices each member does in their solo work and creates a new cooperative and coexisting score and performance. 

Katie Eikam has been creating graphic scores using plant materials and pen on paper for several years. A specific series of these pieces has been titled "topographies". And deals with the landscape of a place. Kevin Good has written several short melodies, each after going on a hike or walk, this collection is ongoing and titled "trails". 

Desoduo takes these two practices and creates new scores using Katie's drawings and Kevin's melodies and layers them on top of each other, places them adjacent to one another, and juxtaposes each other. This serves as a starting point for them to open a world improvisation exploring the natural world around us and bring that world into the space inside.