BATTERY is a new long-form work for massed marching percussion by Weston Olencki and Jennifer Torrence. The work's setup is sculpted from the component parts of a traditional drumline, two pairs of feedback-induced crash cymbals, and an array of robotic woodblocks. The work centers both the immediacy of these instruments' sonic impact and their abilities to resonate and project extreme amplitudes and their broader cultural entanglements in the complex histories of military music, imperial/colonial legacies, and rural social practices. // 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. Through this fusion of dance, electronic music, and robotics, Hsu and Kemper explore themes of embodiment, interactivity, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines.