MATT ROBIDOUX: The SPIRAL
WORKER RODRIGO BARRIGA ENSEMBLE

MATT ROBIDOUX presents the Bay Area premiere of The Spiral Worker, developed during his Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency (DEAR).

The Spiral Worker, is a new work that operates as a connector within a rhizomatic network, fundamentally distinct from tree-like hierarchical structures that impose predetermined order. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the rhizome and Stockhausen’s moment form, this happening establishes multiple entry points and non-linear pathways through which performers engage with material transformation: corn synth, corn silk, corn husk. The spiral worker gathers, transfers, and transforms these materials through a performance process that operates sculpturally and sonically. At the core of this system sits the corn synth, a modular system built around two touch-controlled aluminum corn ear sculptures. These objects serve as both interface and world unto themselves.

Featuring: matt robidoux, Chris Cooper, Michelle Lee, Ava Lynch, Mitch Stahlmann, and Jasmine Zhang.

RODRIGO BARRIGA is a composer and performer based in Santa Cruz. His music explores performer interaction and participants’ relationship to space. His project, the Rodrigo Barriga Ensemble, focuses on the performance of improvised and indeterminate music as well as performance art, often through the interpretation of text and graphic scores.