Christine Southworth

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Christine Southworth (b. 1978), through her work with robots and automated music systems as co-founder and Director of Ensemble Robot, is making groundbreaking music based on the interaction between technology and creativity. Compared to Thurston Moore (Boston Phoenix, 2/11/05) and Laurie Anderson (Boston Globe, 2/4/05), Southworth is introducing a brand new genre of music to Boston, born out of the area’s complex community of scientists and artists. Her February 2005 performance of Zap! overfilled the Boston Museum of Science’s Theater of Electricity with an energized crowd of 500 students, professors, artists, children, and adults. The Boston Phoenix called the show “truly electrifying,” describing that “Ever since Bob Dylan, ‘going electric’ has had many connotations, but this was something different: though Zap! utilized the talents of a flutist, two keyboardists, a cellist, a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, a vocalist, a double-helix-shaped robotic xylophone, sound engineers, and computer programmers, the centerpiece of Southworth’s performance was electricity itself, as millions of volts buzzed, fizzled, and sparked in deafening cracks that punctuated her music.” (Will Spitz, Boston Phoenix) Southworth received a B.S. from MIT in 2002 in mathematics and music and M.A. in Computer Music & Multimedia Composition from Brown University in 2006. She composes for Western ensembles, Balinese gamelan, and mixed ensembles of gamelan, western instruments, electronics, and robot

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Christine Southworth String Quartets

String Quartets

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In My Mind and in My Car

ZAP! Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices

Zap! (Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments & Voices)

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Flying Goldfish Flower (feat. Gamelan Galak Tika) - Single

Zap!

Honey Flyers

Music & The Invasion of Technology

Zap! (Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instru

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Heavy Metal

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Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age

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