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) and Laurie Anderson (Boston Globe), Southworth is introducing a brand new genre of music to Boston, born out of the area’s complex community of scientists and artists.  Her 2005 & 2007 performances of Zap! overfilled the Boston Museum of Science’s Theater of Electricity with energized crowds of 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 robots. Her compositions draw from her interests in modern American and European music, jazz, Balinese music, and rock and roll, and have received awards and recognition from the LEF Foundation, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), the MIT Eloranta Fellowship, and Bang on a Can. Her music has been played throughout the U.S., Europe, and Indonesia by ensembles including Gamelan Galak Tika, the Calder Quartet, and Ensemble Robot.
As a performer, Southworth plays with, as well as manages, the acclaimed Gamelan Galak Tika.  She also plays Highland Bagpipes, which she performs with robots and musicians from Ensemble Robot. 
Southworth recently released her debut recording, "Zap!" which features several members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and was named "Pick of the Week" by WNYC's prestigious Soundcheck program in August 2008, as well as Bronze Age Space Age, a new Gamelan Galak Tika album featuring her "Heavy Metal."  She was recently commissioned by the Bang on a Can Peoples Commissionoing Fund to write a new work for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Concerning the Doodle, to be premiered at Merkin Hall in February 2010. She is also writing a new work for the Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Galak Tika’s Pocket Gamelan, Super Collider, to be premiered at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival in August 2010.


kawol / guitar, voice & noise

Swaying strings, Quivering voice.
He is a enigma of ancient Samarkand.

He was born in the port town. 
When he was a cub, he was listening to the noise of shortwave. 
He began to play the guitar at the age of 12. 
He began composing at the age of 14. 
He began performance activities at the age of 17. 
He wandered about North Africa and the Mediterranean region
at the time of his twenties, and studied Arabic traditional music 
under Mr. Ali Sriti. 
And when it was after he did much work as a professional guitarist, 
arranger and songwriter.
After that, he began improvisation of a guitar and voice 
according to the sounds of the universe. 
In 1997, He launched independent handmade record label 
"PLAKA for EARDRUM". 
In 2004, He started solo concert series as a life's work
"kawol`s tariqah al istima - solo guitar improv". 
In 2020, He started internet radio broadcast program 
"KAWOL radio motion" from bedroom studio "432den".

"it is the will to cross the border with silence and notes,
also it's a method for recognize the world.
so, i sit straight and just play it."

contact : kawolofsamarkand@gmail.com

Richard Wilmer is an experimental musician combining elements of electronics, guitars and synths to create unique ambient soundscapes. 

Richard Wilmer ran the now defunct experimental ambient net label aReW recordings from 2009 to 2014 and has also contributed to the following projects: My Pet Zombie Frankie, Lienullnoyz , Hadeanera, so far away assignment (sfaa) & strain carriage.

I am OneNamedPeter. Latitude 50.89 North, Longitude 0.058 East. Songs within...

Demos etc
Linus and Lucy
Psychic Viking
The Self-Righteous Brothers

http://michaelvincentwaller.com
Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living and working in NYC. Waller's work is expansive in its incorporation of avant-garde sound worlds and connecting them back to a more traditional, classical beauty - hailed by the New York Times as "sweetly lyrical" and "pensive". He also has studied world music, specifically raga, and focused on modal analysis. Waller's chamber works have been commissioned and performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Ensemble Epomeo, Ensemble Dedalus, Eric Huebner, Jenny Q. Chai, String Noise (Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim Harris), Hilo String Duo (Caroline Chin & Brian Snow), Zentripedal Duo, Project SiS (Christine Kim), Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and many more, at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and Spectrum. He has studied with La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, Petr Kotik, and Elizabeth Hoffman as a graduate of New York University.

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