A1 Mirrors
A2 Life Size
A3 Back Into Chaos
A4 Magnetic Fluid / My Face
A5 Back From The Dead
A6 Light
A7 Fast Work
A8 My Skull
A9 Bad World (Double Quintet)
B1 Fighting For Houses
B2 We Just Went In
B3 Find Stuff For The House
B4 Here Come The Snakes (for Jim Tenney)
B5 The Reality
B6 More Books
B7 Which One
B8 Two Pianos
The music here is all taken from Object Collection’s 2023 theatrical production of HOUSECONCERT - an homage to the long, beautiful, essential history of strange events in DIY home-spaces. Giving flowers to Jack Smith & Sam Rivers & Co.
A collection of short songs. Written completely without meter or pulse, just groupings of specified numbers of attacks and occasional shifts between slow and fast. Momentum without tempo. Like GBH or the Osees playing Christian Wolff.
The fourth in a series of quintets dating back to 2003 (Quintet 1: voices; Quintet 2: strings; Quintet 3: pianos). All composed using precisely the same form of nine 1-minute sections, alternating between motion/pulse and static/drone. This quintet being doubled with 4 guitars+1 bass and 5 drummers.
Two guitarists, each seated on a rolling platform. Each with a battery-powered amplifier on board, each executing a constant left-hand tremolo a major second apart at high volume. Pulled slowly through the length of the performance space by two long ropes. Dedicated to my teacher, James Tenney.
Transcriptions of two extremely slow, interlocking improvisations around a Thelonious Monk composition. But I can’t remember exactly which one, perhaps Crepuscule With Nellie.
Performed by Object Collection
Catrin Lloyd-Bollard - Guitar, Vocals Chloë Roe - Guitar, Piano on Two Pianos James Oldham - Bass, Vocals, Piano on Two Pianos, Drums on Bad World (Double Quintet) Kara Feely - Drums
with Travis Just - Guitar on Bad World (Double Quintet) Jack Lynch - Guitar on Here Come The Snakes Robin Margolis, Daniel Allen Nelson - Drums on Bad World (Double Quintet)
Composed by Travis Just, 2023, Brooklyn, NY Text by Kara Feely Recorded May, 2023 in Brooklyn, NY by Joseph Ippolito Mixed by Travis Just Mastered May, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA by Justin Asher for mNemonic Recordings
Photos by Hunter Canning and Marvin Just
Design by Steven Ziadie
Object Collection was founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just. The Brooklyn-based group operates within the intersecting practices of performance, music, and theater. They are concerned with simultaneity, complexity, and radicality, combining dense layers of text, notation, objects, and processes. They work to give audiences unconventional viewing experiences through a merging of theatricality and pedestrian activity. The company’s works upset habitual notions of time, pace, progression, and virtuosity, and value accumulation above cohesion.
Object Collection performances can take the shape of large-scale performance projects, experimental operas, and duo performances. Object Collection has premiered six original operas. Their work has toured to Norway, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Canada, Italy, and the US. Object Collection’s pieces have appeared in New York at La MaMa, Performance Space 122, Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church, National Sawdust, Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Invisible Dog Art Center, Roulette, and Issue Project Room, among others. Albums have been released on Slip Imprint, Infrequent Seams, and khalija. Object Collection has received extended profiles in Frieze magazine, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Wire, BOMB, and on BBC Radio.
