The Machine Orchestra brings together custom-built robotic musical instruments and human performers with modified instruments, unique musical interfaces, and hemispherical speaker-pods. Directed by Ajay Kapur, KarmetiK founder and Director of Music Technology at CalArts, The Machine Orchestra features performances by North Indian sarodist Ustad Aashish Kahn, electronic artist Curtis Bahn, Balinese gamelan master Nyoman Wenten, and vocal synthesis innovator Perry Cook. With production design by Michael Darling. Students from the emerging Music Technology program at CalArts will be featured alongside these skilled performers, breathing new technological life into the instruments and music normally found playing in traditional World Music ensembles. This one-of-a-kind performance features new compositions melding musical tradition with modern engineering.
The world premiere of The Machine Orchestra will take place at REDCAT on Wednesday, January 27th 2010 at 8:30pm. Please visit the REDCAT site for box-office and ticketing information.
The Machine Orchestra features: Ajay Kapur | Curis Bahn | Aashish Khan | Nyoman Wenten| Perry Cook | Carl Burgin | Dimitri Diakopoulos | Jordan Hochenbaum | Jim Murphy | Owen Vallis | Meason Wiley | Tyler Yamin
This event is supported in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum and the Durfee Foundation Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant.
For information about tickets to this event, please visit www.redcat.org.