CUSP Presents: BATTERY (Weston Olencki & Jennifer Torrence) // Aurie Hsu & Steven Kemper

BATTERY, (Weston Olencki and Jennifer Torrence) is a work for massed marching percussion, sculpted from the component parts of traditional drumline, feedback-induced cymbals, and an array of robotic woodblocks. The work centers both the immediacy of these instruments' sonic impact and their broader cultural entanglements. Aurie Hsu and Steven Kemper will present a series of works that combine dance, robotic musical instruments, and sound. Ethereal electronics weave through the performance, blurring the boundaries between human expression and machine agency. They explore themes of embodiment, interactivity, and the evolving relationships between humans and machines.