Christine Southworth (b. Boston, Massachusetts, 2 January 1978) is an American composer of

postminimal music Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. ...

and works with combinations of Western ensembles, electronics, and world music ensembles including Balinese gamelan and

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. She performs Balinese gamelan and gender wayang with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gamelan Galak Tika, as well as

Galician Gaita The Galician gaita ( gl, Gaita galega, pt, Gaita galega, es, Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. The word is used across northern Spain as a generic term for "bagpipe", although in the south of Spain ...

and

Great Highland Bagpipes The Great Highland bagpipe ( gd, a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the Great Irish Warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British Armed ...

. She co-founded Ensemble Robot, a cooperative of engineers, artists and musicians working together to invent robotic musical instruments. She was also the general manager of Gamelan Galak Tika from 2004 through 2013. Her own music incorporates her work with Balinese gamelan and with technology and electronics, as well as reaching beyond these influences with an expanded palette of contemporary classical,

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

and rock, and world music from

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and

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. Southworth has released four albums on Airplane Ears Music: ''Zap! Music for

Van de Graaff Generator A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an insulated column, creating very high electric potentials. It produces very high voltage direct ...

, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices'' (2008), ''Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age'' (2009), ''Christine Southworth: String Quartets'' (2013). and ''In My Mind and In My Car'' (2013). Southworth's compositions have been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Indonesia by ensembles including

Kronos Quartet The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...

, Gamelan Galak Tika,

Calder Quartet The Calder Quartet (CQ) is a string quartet based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1998 at the University of Southern California, the group takes its name from American sculptor Alexander Calder. The ensemble is currently composed of its ...

, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gamelan Semara Ratih,

California EAR Unit The California EAR Unit was an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. The group was founded in March 1981 in Los Angeles, California. The original members of the EAR Unit were Dorothy Stone (flute) ...

Andrew W.K. Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American conceptual performance artist, rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his m ...

, and Ensemble Robot. She has received awards from the

American Music Center New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the American Music Center with Meet The Composer on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media program ...

, LEF Foundation,

American Composers Forum The American Composers Forum is an American organization that works for the promotion and assistance of American composers and contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1973 as the Minnesota Composers Forum and is based in Saint Paul, Minn ...

Meet the Composer New Music USA is a new music organization formed by the merging of the American Music Center with Meet The Composer on November 8, 2011. The new organization retains the granting programs of the two former organizations as well as two media progra ...

New England Foundation for the Arts The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and by private foundations, corporations and ind ...

(NEFA), the MIT Eloranta Fellowship, and fellowships from

Bang on a Can Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted contemporary classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. Called "the cou ...

(2009), UCross Foundation (2012), and The Hermitage Artist Retreat (2014).

Career

Southworth's compositional career began in 1999 with a trip to

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, Indonesia, where she began studying Gender Wayang with I Wayan Loceng, in the village of Sukawati. Upon returning to the United States,

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's Orchestra of Excited Strings premiered her short piece ''Timor Cotton'' at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

Kresge Auditorium, which was based on styles she had learned in Bali. In 2002, she was a fellow at the first annual

Summer Institute of Music at

Mass MOCA The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing ar ...

. She attended the Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (MEME) program at

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from 2004 to 2006], during which she premiered her hour-long work ''Zap! Music for Van De Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices'' at the

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's Theater of Electricity. The first performance of ''Zap!'' on February 4, 2004 overfilled the

’s Theater of Electricity with energized crowds of students, professors, artists, children, and adults.

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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) In 2008, she released a recording of "Zap!" featuring Robert Black (bass), David Cossin (percussion), Felix Fan (cello), Philippa Thompson (voice), Charles Whalen (guitar), and

Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn h ...

(clarinet/keyboards). The album received praise from reviewers including WNYC's

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, "Classical music certainly not in danger of becoming a museum piece" and was named "Pick of the Week" on WNYC on July 30, 2008. In 2007, Southworth was commissioned by the Carlsbad Music Festival to compose "Honey Flyers" for the

. "Honey Flyers" received wide acclaim after performances at

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in New York, The Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA, Lakeshore Theater in Chicago, and the Swedish American Theater in San Francisco, described as " an absolutely beautiful song reminiscent of a combination of

God Is An Astronaut God Is an Astronaut are an Irish post-rock band from County Wicklow, formed in 2002 by Niels and Torsten Kinsella. Their style employs elements of electronic music, krautrock, and space rock, reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. The band currently co ...

mixed with the

Tosca Tango Orchestra The Tosca Tango Orchestra is a joint effort between various Austin, Texas-based musicians founded by Glover Gill, in collaboration with The Tosca String Quartet, Luis Guerra, and Jeanine Attaway in 1997. The group performs original compositions ...

's Waking Life soundtrack, with huge dramatic breaks and patterns that drew out the beauty of these "Honey Flyers" by Joe Dahlstrom of JamBase The Chicago performance was reviewed by Laurie Rojas of

Time Out Chicago ''Time Out'' is a global magazine published by Time Out Group. ''Time Out'' started as a London-only publication in 1968 and has expanded its editorial recommendations to 328 cities in 58 countries worldwide. In 2012, the London edition beca ...

: "Clapping didn’t have to wait for the end of the piece; head banging had never felt so painless; foot stomping had never been so welcome. A string quartet has rarely been so loose. The members could rarely hold themselves from smiling and rocking out, banging their heads to their own chords." In 2009, Southworth was the first composer to be commissioned by

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in New York, which commissioned "Volcano" for the

, and was awarded the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund commission for "Concerning the Doodle" for the Bang on a Can All-Stars which was premiered on February 24, 2010 at Merkin Hall at the Kauffman Center in New York, NY. Allan Kozinn from ''

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'' described the performance "Christine Southworth’s “Concerning the Doodle” accompanies a film (about the adventures and fantasies of a dog) by the Clever Girls Collaborative. It is straightforward, texturally and harmonically: the piece begins as an assertive blast of hard rock, driven by David Cossin’s drumming, the guitarist Mark Stewart’s power chords and Robert Black’s solid bass. But Ms. Southworth soon moves the players through a parade of quirkier, bright-hued pop styles in an appealingly unpredictable structure driven by the film." Also in 2009, she was commissioned by Performing Arts Center for a work for Balinese Gamelan Selonding with electronics, which was premiered at the International Gamelan Festival Amsterdam at the Lichthal Tropenmuseum by Gamelan Semara Ratih on September 10, 2010, and she was commissioned by the

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to accompany historical films for the collection Treasures V: The American West. On August 13, 2010, she premiered "Supercollider," for the Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elektrika, at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival to an audience of approximately 5000. A subsequent performance at MIT's Festival of Arts, Science and Technology was hailed by the Boston Globe's Jeremy Eichler as "coolly exhilarating", "courted both common ground and the energy of culture clash by pitting the Kronos Quartet in traditional and avant-gardish sonorities against the interlaced rhythmic complexities of the gamelan."

Yo-yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...

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commissioned Southworth to compose ''La Fée Verte'' for

Galician gaita The Galician gaita ( gl, Gaita galega, pt, Gaita galega, es, Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. The word is used across northern Spain as a generic term for "bagpipe", although in the south of Spain ...

string quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

in 2012, and in 2013 she began collaborating with

on an evening length work for solo bass clarinet and electronics, called ''In My Mind and In My Car'', released as a digital album in fall 2013 by Airplane Ears Music. Southworth's most recent album ''Christine Southworth: String Quartets'', featuring the

, Gamelan Galak Tika's Gamelan Elektrika, The

, and Face the Music, received acclaim from Frank Oteri and WNYC's New Sounds

Recordings

*''In My Mind and In My Car'' (2013, Airplane Ears Music) : Solo Clarinet / Bass Clarinet performed by Evan Ziporyn, music by Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn *''Christine Southworth: String Quartets'' (2013, Airplane Ears Music) *''Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age'' (2009, Airplane Ears Music) : by Gamelan Galak Tika w/ Ensemble Robot & Camerata Gamelanica, with music by Christine Southworth, Ramon Castillo, Po-Chun Wang, and Midori Matsuo *''ZAP! Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments, and Voices'' (2008, Airplane Ears Music)

Music

Standard ensembles

String quartets The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

*''The Music Room'' (2013, 5'15") for Apple Hill Quartet :Commissioned by the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. *''La Fée Verte'' (2012, 12’) for Galician gaita, string quartet and percussion :Commissioned by Yo-yo Ma and The

*''Super Collider'' (2010, 18’) for

& Gamelan Elektrika *''Volcano'' (2009, 8') for string quartet + piano/percussion/sampler/voice :Commissioned by the

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for The

and Danny Holt. *''Honey Flyers'' (2007, 25') for string quartet + honeybee samples :Commissioned by the Carlsbad Music Festival for the

*''Mesem'' (2005, 2:00) string quartet *''Wild Warped Wax'' (2001, 8:34) String quartet in three movements.

Solo instrumentalists

*''Sharktooth Frenzy'' (2014, 4') solo pianist with snare drum and bass drum *''Sandpiper Dance'' (2014, 4'40") solo violin *''Scale'' (2013, 6'18") cello, electronics :For Eric Byers, inspired by mountain climbing and The Nose of El Capitan. *''In My Mind and In My Car'' (2013, 23') 4 movements for solo clarinet / bass clarinet plus electronics. :For

. Premiered September 7, 2013 at Contemporary Arts International (CAI) First Biennial Festival of Sound Art and Performance Art in Acton, MA. :1. ''In My Mind and In My Car'' (5:54) :2. ''Monks Not Thelonious'' (6:20) :3. ''Blow / In the Storm'' (5:50) :4. ''Underwater'' (4:55) *''Ann Lee Songs'' (2011, 20') soprano, electronics :Song Cycle for Shaker mother

Ann Lee Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers. After nearly two decades of participation in a re ...

. Commissioned by soprano Anne Harley. *''Khaen Song'' (2005, 2:30) solo cello

Chamber ensembles Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

*''100 Pieces for 2 Pianos'' (2011, 50') two pianos :Commissioned by Radio Orchestra New York *''How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat'' (2010, 3:20) two acoustic guitars :Commissioned by

for Treasures V: The

merican ''Merican'' is an EP by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released February 10, 2004. It was the band's first release for Fat Wreck Chords and served as a pre-release to their sixth studio album ''Cool to Be You'', released the follow ...

West *''Seeing Yosemite with David A. Curry'' (2010, 3:31) – violin, cello, piano, guitar, bass, drums :Commissioned by

for Treasures V: The

West *''Concerning the Doodle'' (2010, 14') – clarinet, cello, bass, guitar, piano, percussion :Commissioned by

People's Commissioning Fund. *''JAMU'' (v.3) (2009, 10') – clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics :Commissioned by California E.A.R. Unit *''Wind Quintet #1'' (2005, 2:40) *''Mars Polar Landing'' (2003, 7') for clarinet, sax, trumpet, drum set, vibraphone, marimba, guitar, and bass *''Feed and Fly'' (2002, 6:19) for clarinet, electric guitar, cello, bass, piano, drum kit, and optional Balinese gangsa and reong. *''Elf Grass'' (2002, 7:53) for clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano. *''Timor Cotton'' (2001) for marimba, vibraphone, violin, and electric guitar

Large ensembles / orchestra /
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*''The Green Fairy'' (2013, 12') for chamber orchestra *''Bend'' (2005, 4:30) for orchestra *''Play Me'' (2002, 16') for chamber orchestra with electric guitar; also arrangement for wind ensemble :Won

competition for reading by New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble.

Non-standard
chamber ensembles Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

*''Jamu'' (revised 2013, 7:30) for small Balinese gamelan, violin, cello, piano and bass clarinet :Commissioned by Radius Ensemble. *''La Fée Verte'' (2012, 12’) for Galician gaita, string quartet and percussion :Commissioned by

*''Talek'' (2011, 6') for banjo, Galician gaita, & clarinet :Commissioned by Roger Michel *''Super Collider'' (2010, 18') for

& Gamelan Galak Tika's Gamelan Elektrika :Premiered at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, August 13, 2010 by Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Galak Tika *''Zap!'' (2005, 45' in 7 movements) for Van de Graaff Generator, Lyricon, voices, guitar, cello, bass, percussion, piano, robotic xylophone and electronics. :Commissioned by the

Gamelan Gamelan () ( jv, ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, su, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ban, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. T ...
+ other instruments or robots

*''Orang Besi'' (2010, 8') for Selonding Gamelan and electronics :Commissioned by ANMARO Performing Arts for Gamelan Semara Ratih. Premiered at International Gamelan Festival Amsterdam September 2010. *''Mars Rover / Snow White'' (2008, 6') for Beta gamelan (just intonation tuning), bass, keyboard, drum set, and computer voices *''Heavy Metal'' (2006, 18') for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar, guitar, violin, bass, lyricon, and robotic instruments :Commissioned by the

with the support of NEFA and

. *''Jamu'' (2002, 10:30) for small Balinese gamelan, violin, electric guitar, and bass. *''Flying Goldfish Flower'' (Sekar Ikan Emas Yang Terbang) (2002, 7:17) Gamelan Gong Kebyar. *''Music for Two Gender (''2000) Suite for two gender wayang, balinese metallophones which accompany shadow puppet plays.

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+ small ensembles

*''Robot Organic'' (2007, 10') for pipe organ, bass clarinet, Whirlybot & Heliphon :Commissioned by Technology Review Magazine

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*''In My Mind and In My Car'' (2013, 23') 4 movements for solo bass clarinet and electronics, written for

:1. ''In My Mind and In My Car'' (5:54) :2. ''Monks Not Thelonious'' (6:20) :3. ''Blow / In The Storm'' (5:50) :4. ''Underwater'' (4:55) *''Morse Norse Love Song'' (2013, 3:36) *''Myanmar'' (2013, 3:30) *''Proton Shake'' (2013, 3:14) *''Jamu'' (remixed 2005, 5') for electronic gamelan and robots, performed by Eric Gunther *''Violin/Clarinet'' (2001, 2:09) Original electronic piece made from sampled violin and clarinet *''HarmonicsonG'' (2001, 4:30) Experiment with low G string on a violin, forming a song out of the harmonics. *''Clapping Music'' (2001, 4:45) Instrumental ambient music commissioned by MIT for production of BHOMA, directed by Sudipto Chatterjee.

Awards

*Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow – 2014 * NEFA /

Grant – 2012 *

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Commission – 2012 *UCross Foundation Fellow – 2012 *

CAP Recording Grant – 2011 *International Festival of Gamelan Amsterdam Commission – 2010 *

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Commission – 2010 *

Commission – 2009 *

People’s Commissioning Fund Commission – 2009 *

Creative Connections Grant – 2009 *LEF Foundation grants for Ensemble Robot – 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 *

Composer in Residence – 2005–07 * NEFA /

grant – 2005

References

* *

External links

Christine Southworth Official Site
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