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Machine Orchestra

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An ensemble of custom-built robotic instruments alongside human performers on modified instruments, unique interfaces and hemispherical speaker pods, drawn from CalArts’ Music Technology and Technical Direction programs. Co-directed by Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling; premiered at REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall, on 27 January 2010. I’ve been involved as composer, performer and instrument designer.

January 2010.
Darkened two-tier stage under a purple and orange projection, seated players flanking a tall metal robotic instrument.
Blue-lit stage from above: performers at laptop tables among robotic drums, mallet instruments and white speaker pods.
Close-up of a machined solenoid beater clamped at a drum rim, chrome ball striker poised against the shell.
Red-lit hall from the balcony, silhouetted audience below a stage of machines and three glowing screens.
A gilded head mounted above a robotic rig of tambourine, cymbal and snare, microphones angled in from both sides.
Two motorised beater arms poised over a white drumhead in a riveted aluminium hoop, red horn behind.
A performer reaching up to a drum kit suspended overhead while two others work at glowing laptops.

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