Photos from Zap! and Jamu, by Bill Southworth

2008 spring| summer February - April 2008 Boston Museum of Science Ensemble Robot's Heliphon at the Creativity Workshop April 15, 2008, 8 pm Calder Quartet performs Honey Flyers at Composers Inc. Concert Green Room, Veteran's Building 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102 Saturday, April 26, 2008, 8 pm Gamelan Galak Tika @ MIT / Broad Institute Auditorium 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Spanning the past to the future, the local and the global, Galak Tika brings the ancient beauty of Balinese gamelan together with electric guitars, basses and keyboards. Featuring master dancer I Made Bandem performing traditional Balinese dances, as well as Evan Ziporyn's classic fusion rock gamelan piece TIRE FIRE! Special guests Eddie Whalen on electric guitar and Blake Newman on bass. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 student and seniors, $5 for children under 12 and MIT & Harvard students Buy tickets online and receive a $2 discount per ticket! Sunday, June 15, 2008, 7 pm Ensemble Robot & Gamelan Galak Tika @ International Festival of Arts and Ideas World Stage, New Haven Green, New Haven, CT Galak Tika once again teams up with Ensemble Robot for a Balinese - Electronic extravaganza! Featuring Christine Southworth's Heavy Metal and Evan Ziporyn's Tire Fire, as well as a world premiere by Jenny Olivia Johnson commissioned by Ensemble Robot! Don't miss this outdoor concert with rocking gamelan, electric guitars, and circuit-banging robots! Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Stonington, Maine CS and Evan Ziporyn perform Gender Wayang for the Stonington Opera Company Live for $5 Series. Details soon.

SELECTED PAST PERFORMANCES of WORKS by CHRISTINE SOUTHWORTH

The Calder Quartet
Carlsbad Music Festival September 28-30, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007, 2 pm
Carlsbad, CA

World premiere of Christine Southworth's new string quartet Honey Flyers, commissioned by the Calder Quartet and Carlsbad Music Festival.

 

Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT
September 27, 2008
MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

Ensemble Robot performs new works by Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn for the Emerging Technologies Conference closing performance.

 

ZAP!
April 27, 2007, 7 & 8:30 pm
Boston Museum of Science Theater of Electricity

Don't miss the return of Zap!, Christine Southworth's groundbreaking work for live musicians, singers, musical robots, and the Boston Museum of Science's 50 foot high Van de Graaff Generator. The 2005 premiere performance was hailed as "Truly electrifying!" by the Boston Phoenix and "as gently balladic (as it is) hard-driving and otherworldly" by the Boston Herald. Two years later, the show is returning with more robots, more singers, and more voltage!

This performance will be presented as part of The 1st Annual Cambridge Science Festival, April 21-29, 2007, Cambridge, MA

 

Ensemble Robot @ Boston Museum of Science
January 27, 2007, 12-3 pm - Interactive Exhibit with Performances throughout the afternoon

 

Ensemble Robot @ Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music
Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
July 11-30 , 2006

HEAVY METAL by Christine Southworth
at the Bang on a Can Summer Marathon
Saturday, July 29 4 pm
Hunter Center @ Mass MoCA
Tickets are $22 each or $35 for two

Southworth's rocking piece for 40 people and 5 robots opened the Bang on a Can Summer Marathon at Mass MoCA and featured Bang on a Can Summer Institute students and faculty on Balinese gamelan, electric guitars, winds and string orchestra, plus the Heliphon, Beatbot, Blobot, and the world premiere of Bot(i)cello v.3!

Commissioned by the Boston Museum of Science with the support of Meet the Composer and New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).

Music & the Invasion of Technology @ Boston Museum of Science
Wednesday January 25, 2006 7 pm
Boston Museum of Science, Cahners Theater. Science Park, Boston, MA

See Webcast at WGBH Forum Network

KEBYAR KEBYAR (Gamelan Galak Tika with the BloBot)
by Evan Ziporyn

ANTHROPOMORPHIC (Heliphon, BeatBot, and Marc Chan on keyboard)
by Ramon Castillo

BELLE LABS: World Premiere
by Evan Ziporyn

Featuring the critically acclaimed Todd Reynolds on violin and Ziporyn himself on clarinet, Ziporyn's "Belle Labs" is a virtuosic dialogue between two humans and a robot, pushing the musicians and the machine to their limits to create a mind-bending sonic sensation.

Commissioned by the Boston Museum of Science and Ensemble Robot, with the support of the LEF Foundation.

HEAVY METAL: World Premiere
by Christine Southworth

Southworth's rocking new piece for Balinese gamelan, robots and electric strings! Featuring Gamelan Galak Tika, Ensemble Robot, and special guests Todd Reynolds (violin), Eddie Whalen (guitar), Erik Nugent (lyricon) and Blake Newman (bass).

Commissioned by the Boston Museum of Science with the support of Meet the Composer and New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).

 

Ensemble Robot @ Boston Cyberarts Festival
April 23 - May 8, 2005

Heliphon: YPTRATRPY (You Play the Robot and the Robot Plays You)
by Leila Hasan & Giles Hall

Concert: Saturday, May 7, 2005.

JAMU: World Premiere
Music by Christine Southworth
Performed by Eric Gunther and Ensemble Robot.

Choreographed by Ashley Salomon
Danced by Kristin Marrs, Bethany Leclerc, Katrina Sukola, & Ashley Salomon

ANTHROPOMORPHIC
Music by Ramon Castillo
Performed by Sachi Sato (accordian) and Ensemble Robot

ZAP!
Boston Museum of Science Theater of Electricity
February 4, 2005

Music by Christine Southworth
Robots by Leila Hasan

Conducted by Ramon Castillo
Performed by Ensemble Robot musicians

Gamelan Galak Tika performances of "Flying Goldfish Flower"

April 20, 2002 at Wesleyan University, New England Gamelan Weekend (world premiere)
April 21, 2002 at MIT Kresge Auditorium
July 9, 2002 at University Park in Cambridge, MA
Bali Tour, Summer 2005: Kuta Carnival at Kuta Beach, Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar, and in Negara

"Feed and Fly" @ Mass MoCA

Performed by Eileen Mack, John Benthal, Wendy Sutter, Peter Askim, Michelle Schumann, Greg Beyer and Evan Ziporyn July 25, 2002 at Mass MoCA. Written for Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music in June 2002.