Tender Circuit
Program Notes :
The piece portrays the relationship between human and machine, not as opposites, but as collaborators, recognizing that behind every machine is a human creator. The machine, as a human-made work of art, carries within it a fragment of its maker’s personality. Yet, alongside this innate human legacy, it also introduces a new standard of inhumane productivity. Even if the human cannot match the machine’s speed and precision, it is the living spirit, the capacity for the unprescribed and the unexpected, that allows the human to transcend the machine. And in those moments, the machine, with all its precision and beauty, steps aside.
Made possible in part by a grant from the Brown Arts Institute.
Performers:
Percussion: Russell Greenberg
May 6th, 2025