July 11-31, 2010
Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music @ Mass MoCA
North Adams, Massachusetts
Friday, July 23 4:30 pm
Mass MoCA galleries
Christine performs Highland Bagpipes with The Drone Zone in "Day of Viagara," a new composed improvisation based on music by LaMonte Young and Arnold Dreyblatt, for bagpipe, baritone saxophones, and strings.
Wednesday, July 28 4:30 pm
Mass MoCA Courtyard
Concert of new works for gamelan composed and performed by Bang on a Can Summer Institute composers.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Bang on a Can Summer Marathon @ Mass MoCA
North Adams, Massachusetts
Southworth's ZAP! Part 4: Charged performed by students of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music as part of the all-day Bang on a Can Summer Marathon concert, with live samples of the Boston Museum of Science Van de Graaff Generator.
Friday, August 13, 2010 7:30 pm
Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elek Trika: SUPER COLLIDER by Christine Southworth
Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival
Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
World Premiere of Christine Southworth's SUPER COLLIDER for The Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Galak Tika's brand new MIDI gamelan, GAMELAN ELEKTRIKA, designed and built by GGT alum and founder of Harmonix Music Alex Rigopulos.
Don't miss this FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT at Damrosch Park Bandshell as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival.
Come early (6 pm) and join us in the Broadway Plaza in front of Lincoln Center, for a giant public Kecak workshop and Beleganjur.
September 9-11, 2010
World Premiere of Christine Southworth's Orang Besi for Gamelan Selonding (performed by Gamelan Semara Ratih from Ubud, Bali) and electronics.
International Gamelan Festival with leading ensembles from Sunda - Java and Bali. From Sunda Gugum Gumbira and his Jugala ensemble, Euis Komariah, Nano S. and Iwan Gunawan with his gamelan Kyai Fatahillah. From Ubud, Bali the well respected Semara Ratih with the Semaradhana gamelan directed by Anak Agung Anom. They perform both traditional and modern repertoire. The modern repertoire is dedicated to Steve Reich and will be under supervision of Evan Ziporyn (member of the Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang-on-a-Can).
Years ago in Tenganan, my friend Ketut showed me her freshly woven gringsing, the unique traditional cloth of the Bali Aga. They looked different than her older weavings - the colors were brighter, the pattern tighter, and when I asked her why she said that a mouse had eaten holes into her old cloth so she reused the thread, mixed with a new thread that she had just spun.
Orang Besi ("Iron Men") is a concoction exploring the oldest, most authentic and most sacred form of Balinese gamelan, the selonding, blended with the newest and in a sense most artificial form, the electronic gamelan. Weaving elements of modernity into the fabric of the ancient Bali Aga melodies and forms, I hope to present a bright new take on a tradition that I hold in the utmost respect, preserving the essence of one of the most perfect musics in the world, embellished with a neoteric yarn.
- CHRISTINE SOUTHWORTH
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
Bayu Sabda Idep, Evan Ziporyn's stunning work for string orchestra and Beta Gamelan, at Carnegie Hall. Galak Tika will perform with New York cutting-edge chamber orchestra, Signal, on this ALL ZIPORYN concert in Zankel Hall.
