Archive of Reversals
October 17 - November 16, 2025
102 Main St, Willow Creek, MT 59760
Reception October 17, 4:30 -7:30 pm
Archive of Reversals examines what it means to disrupt the familiarity of habitual patterns and the balance between human intention and nature’s persistence. It considers how we impose order onto our daily lives, our institutions, and our built environments, only to witness those structures gradually undone, reclaimed, or absorbed back into cycles of growth and decline. The work imagines reversals not as endings, but as moments that expand perspective, provide space for change, and remind us that permanence is only an aspiration. Consisting of all new work that experiments with these ideas, the exhibition includes a collaborative performance with contemporary chamber music to pair the visual art with an aural expression and suggest the interdependence of transformation.
Secret Leaves (2011/2019) Dai Fujikura, b. 1977
Secret Leaves originally comes from the solo bassoon part of my orchestra work Secret Forest. The bassoon has always been a special instrument for me. In Secret Forest, the bassoonist plays from the centre of the auditorium throughout the piece because the bassoonist is the central character, naturally.
I pictured the bassoonist walking into an imaginary forest. The forest has a smell you never experienced. It rains on the leaves, but you don’t get wet. The forest has a
somewhat new kind of colour that glows.
Developing the stand alone solo bassoon piece from the existing orchestra work was a lot harder than I thought. It took me many attempts to get the flow of the piece right to my ear. I hope you see what the bassoonist sees, the secret leaves of the secret forest.
Live Performance on October 17, 2025 of Kaikro, (2022) by Ailem Carvajal, b. 1972. Musicians: Dorian Antipa -Bassoon, and Jake Henneford - Percussion.
KaiKro (2022) Ailem Carvajal, b. 1972
KaiKro is a work for bassoon, percussion and three metronomes that plays with the concepts of time and tempo. The Greeks had two words to define time: Kairos, which refers to the ideal or opportune time, and Kronos, which represents the chronological time. KaiKro is a single movement work, with a duration of approximately 5 minutes. The bassoon, as a solo instrument, is in dialogue with the rhythmic and timbral atmospheres of the percussion instruments. The piece is based on an ostinato of three metronomes in different tempos, that from the beginning to the end of the movement will mark a persistent interplay of time and counter time.
About the Musicians
Dorian Antipa is a bassoonist and instrument repair technician in Great Falls, MT. In addition to broad orchestral and pedagogical experience, he has been a dedicated chamber musician with a special interest in new music and unconventional performance opportunities. He now also owns and operates Big Sky Bassoon, an instrument repair shop in Great Falls.
Marimbist Jake Henneford has performed across the United States and China as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. He currently plays regularly with orchestras in Montana, maintains a private studio of up-and-coming percussionists in Great Falls, and collaborates in chamber music performances around the region.