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Christine Southworth (b. 1978) is a composer and video artist based in Lexington, Massachusetts, dedicated to creating art born from a cross-pollination of sonic and visual ideas. Inspired by intersections of technology and art, nature and machines, and musics from cultures around the world, her music employs sounds from man and nature, from Van de Graaff Generators to honeybees, Balinese gamelan to seismic data from volcanoes.
Southworth received a B.S. from MIT in 2002 in mathematics and an M.A. in Computer Music & Multimedia Composition from Brown University in 2006. In 2003 she co-founded Ensemble Robot, a collaborative of artists and engineers that design and build musical robots. She has been a member of MIT-based Gamelan Galak Tika since 1999, and has composed several pieces for the group and performed at venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, EMPAC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, several Bang on a Can Marathons, and the Bali International Arts Festival. In 2010, she helped design Gamelan Elektrika for her piece Supercollider, which was premiered at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival with the Kronos Quartet. In addition to gamelan, she studies bagpipe, playing both the Galician Gaita and the Great Highland Bagpipe.
Southworth's compositions have been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Indonesia by ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Gamelan Galak Tika, Calder Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gamelan Semara Ratih, California EAR Unit, Andrew W.K., and Ensemble Robot. She has received awards from the American Music Center, UCross Foundation, LEF Foundation, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), the MIT Eloranta Fellowship, and Bang on a Can and has been a fellow at UCross Foundation and The Hermitage Artist Retreat. Her multimedia work has been exhibited/performed at the Rubin Museum in New York, The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Off Festival in Katowice, Poland, and in Havana, Cuba, Intersection Festival in Toronto, Ars Musica in Brussels, and in venues throughout the US. Her most recent large-scale multimedia piece Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone was a collaboration with clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, engineer Isabel Su, and computer music specialist Ian Hattwick.
She has four recordings available on Airplane Ears Music: Zap! (2008) and Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age (2009), Christine Southworth String Quartets (2013), performed by The Calder Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Gamelan Galak Tika, and Face the Music, with support from the American Music Center CAP Recording Grant, and In My Mind and In My Car (2013), for Evan Ziporyn on bass clarinet, electronics and video.
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Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone
Multimedia performance inside interactive 3D model of tent spider web
Christine Southworth / Bandcamp
Christine Southworth Bandcamp Profile
Christine Southworth / Apple Music
Christine Southworth Apple Music Profile
Christine Southworth / Apple Music
Christine Southworth Apple Music Profile
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1978
Institution/Business Type:
Artist / Creative (Individual)
Legal Status:
Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1978
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ALISON CHASE PERFORMANCE [APOGEE ARTS]
Performing Group
Date: 01/2016-01/2016
Music for dance choreographed by Alison Chase
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$1,000 - $20,000State of Residence:
MassachusettsMinimum Number of Performers:
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5Technical Requirements:
Fee Range:
$1,000 - $20,000State of Residence:
MassachusettsMinimum Number of Performers:
1Maximum Number of Performers:
5