OCTOBER 25-28, 2012
"Telsa Instrument Family"
II International Scientific Conference
Special Education and Rehabilitation - Cerebral Palsy
Milan Petrovic School, Novi Sad, Serbia
Conference Program

OCTOBER 7-12, 2012
"Hollywood to Serbia"
Novi Pazar, Bujanovac, Vranje (Serbia)
Presented by the United States Embassy and VOCA

AUGUST 3, 2012
Introduction: Telsa Instrument Family Project
Presented by Guest Speaker - Petar Bursac
The Festival Europa Cantat XVIII Torino 2012
International Conference on Adaptive Technology
Turin, Italy

JUNE 17, 2012
Arranger/Conductor: Percussion Ensemble
Hearts in Harmony Festival, SPENS, Novi Sad, Serbia

JUNE 16, 2012
Guest Speaker: Telsa Instrument Family
International Conference on Adaptive Technology
Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

JUNE 15, 2012
Arranger/Conductor: Percussion Ensemble
Hearts in Harmony Festival, Main Square, Belgrade, Serbia

MARCH 27, 2012
Interview: Radio Novi Sad

MARCH 20, 2012
Interview: Serbian National TV

MARCH 17, 2012
Presentation and Demonstration Tesla Instruments
III Inclusion and Choral Singing Conference
Sponsored by Moviment Coral Catala
Museu d'Historia de la Barcelona, Spain

MARCH 13, 2012
Guest Speaker: Music and Technology
SUNY Purchase, NY
Presented by Phil Moffa and Joel Thome

JANUARY 6-8, 2012
Invitation: Techfest 2012
Sponsored by Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Presented by Siddharth Bidwan

NOVEMBER 26, 2011 - JANUARY 24, 2012
Installation: "Jam Session"
Curated by Karen Shaw
Islip Art Museum, 50 Irish Ln, East Islip, NY

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
Introduction: Europa Cantat Inclusion Initiative
Host: Marina Velazquez
4th IMC World Forum on Music (Tallinn, Estonia)

JUNE 19, 2011
Hearts in Harmony Festival Concert
Main Square, Novi Sad, Serbia
Live National TV Broadcast

MAY 12, 2011
Article: "Muzucuranje uz pomoc robota"
By Ljiljana Popadic - Blic ISSN: 0354-9283

MAY 11, 2011
Establish: Tesla Drum Project
Commission: Hearts of Harmony
Milan Petrovic School, Novi Sad, Serbia

DECEMBER 5, 2010
"Free Arts Day in Westchester Celebration"
Westchester Arts Exchange Building, White Plains, NY
Presented by ArtsWestchester

DECEMBER ISSUE 2010
Cover Story: ARTS W NEWS
"Get Ready for the Attack of Robotic Musicians!
A Fascinating Blend of Music, Technology, & Innovation"
By Jim Ormond

OCTOBER 28, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
Premier: "Nosferatu Reinvented"
The Alternate Press
Brickford Theater
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

APRIL 9-11, 2010
"Monsterpalooza 2010"
Mariott Burbank Convention Center
Burbank, CA
Presented by Eliot Brodsky

APRIL 2, 2010
Performance: "Variation of Madness"
with Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
Presented by PNC Bank Arts Alive

APRIL 1, 2010
Performance: "Variation of Madness"
with Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Rotunda @ Liberty Place, Philadelphia, PA
Presented by PNC Bank Arts Alive

MARCH 26, 2010
Lecture Demo: "Math + Science = Music"
Hommocks Middle School, Mamaroneck, NY

MARCH 19, 2010
Lecture Demo: "Math + Science = Music"
Bronxville High School, Bronxville, NY

February 10, 2010
Award: "2010 Arts Alive Project Grant"
Presented by ArtsWestchester
and NY State Council on the Arts
White Plains, NY

OCTOBER 23, 2009
Performance: "Variations of Madness"
with Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA
Presented by PNC Bank Arts Alive

OCTOBER 22, 2009
Performance: "Variations of Madness"
with Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
The Gallery East - 9th St. and Market, Philadelphia, PA
Presented by PNC Bank Arts Alive

OCTOBER 1, 2009
Performance: "Metropolis Reinvented"
Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY
Article: New York Examiner

JULY 14, 2009
PNC Bank Arts Alive Award Ceremony
Philadelphia, PA

APRIL 13, 2009
New York University Composers Forum
Presented by Robert Rowe and Mary Farbood

WINTER 2008
Article: "Wired for Sound"
By Daniel Webster
Philadelphia Music Makers Vol. 7, No. 4

NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Review: Daniel Webster - Philadelphia Inquirer
"An Arguement Plays Out in Music"

NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Television Article: "Robot Musicians To Play With Humans" Fox News
Radio Interview with David Patrick Stearns WRTI
Article: David Patrick Stearns - Philadelphia Inquirer
"An 'On the Edge' Night for Virtuosi"

APRIL 5, 2008
Performance: Spellbound Concerto (Miklos Rozsa)
Gabriela Imreh, pianist
featuring "Rosy the Robotic Theremin"
Sabin Pautza, Music Director
Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, Plainfield, NJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2008
Installation: "Digital Leap"
Presented by the Discovery Museum & Planetarium

FEBRUARY 26, 2008
Visiting Artist - Yale University
Music 309b:"Practical Applications in Music,
Multimedia Art, and Technology II"
Presented by Dr. Kathryn Alexander
Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT

SEPTEMBER 2007
Review: "The Metropolis Project"
By Ptah Gabrie - Philadelphia City Paper

AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2007
2007 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Performance: "Metropolis"
Film Score to 1927 Silent Era Film Classic by Fritz Lang
Presented by Drexel University College of Engineering
Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

AUGUST 29, 2007
Philadelphia City Paper Cover Story: Fest Guesses
"Must See at This Year's Live Arts/Fringe Festival"
("The Metropolis Project" listed as #6)
Article by Joel Tennenbaum

MAY 26, 2007
Performance: "Metropolis"
Film Score to 1927 Silent Era Film Classic
Playhouse on the Green, Bridgeport, CT

MAY 24-30, 2007
Cover Story: "Mr. Roboto"
Patrick Verel
The Fairfield County Weekly, CT

MAY 18, 2007
Demonstration: "Math + Science = Music"
Presented by Egg Harbor Township School System
Egg Harbor Township, NJ

MAY 12 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2007
Installation: "Science in Toyland"
Presented by the Discovery Museum & Planetarium

FEBRUARY 15, 2007
Performance: "ETHEL Fair" (Part of the Symph Mix Series)
Presented by the ETHEL String Quartet
Featuring James Bilagody, Thomas Dolby, David Krakauer,
Mark Stewart, Electric Kompany, and ETHEL
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space, NYC

JANUARY 8 - APRIL 15, 2007
Installation: "Connecticut Inventors"
Presented by the Discovery Museum & Planetarium
4450 Park Ave Avenue, Bridgeport, CT

WINTER 2006/2007
Article: "Model Making for Vans Warped Tour 2006"
By David Quinlan
The Leading Edge
Association of Professional Model Makers

DECEMBER 2006
Publication: Mobile Robots - Toward New Applications
Edited by: Aleksandar Lazinica
Pro Literatur Verlag, Germany / ARS, Austria
ISBN 978-3-86611-314-5

OCTOBER 12, 2006
Film Premiere: "Witch's Dungeon 40 Years of Chills"
Produced by the Silver Screen Movie Museum
Showcase Cinemas, Southington, CT

AUGUST 5, 2006
Exhibition: 2006 Van's Warped Tour
Presented by Kevin Lyman
Nassau Coliseum, Hempsted, NY

July 27, 2006
Exhibition: 2006 Van's Warped Tour
Presented by 500 Shots
Post Gazette Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA

APRIL 21 - 22, 2006
Premiere: "Metropolis"
Film Score to 1927 Silent Era Film Classic
Littlefield Recital Hall, Arnold Bernhard Center
University of Bridgeport, CT

APRIL 22, 2006
Video: "Speaking in Strings"
Produced by Marlo
Live Stream on Internet
Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Channel 56)

APRIL 16, 2006
Radio Interview: "The David Schwartz Show"
Produced by WPKN

FEBRUARY 24 - 26, 2006
New Media Installation: "Still Life With Tea"
Manipulated Video Images of PAM Band by Erik Sanner
Art for Healing NYC Foundation Gallery
405 West 50th Street, NYC

FEBRUARY 2 - 11, 2006
Exhibition: "Speaking in Strings" with Ken Butler
Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
"The Lab Gallery"
501 Lexington Avenue @ 47th, NYC
Opening reception/performance Feb. 3
www.rogersmitharts/thelab

DECEMBER 2005
Review: "Over the Top - Under the Rug"
By Valery Oisteanu
D'Art Magazine (Toronto)
#17 Winter Volume 8 Number 1

OCTOBER 29, 2005
Performance with LKB Dance Company
Leah Kreutzer-Barber, Choreographer
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ

SEPTEMBER 9 - OCTOBER 8, 2005
Installation: "Over the Top - Under the Rug"
Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Shore Institute of Contemporary Art
Long Branch, NJ

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
Gallery Demonstration
Presented by Dorkbots
Postmasters Gallery, 459 W. 19th Street, NYC

AUGUST 13, 2005
Performance with Leah Kreutzer-Barber
Asphodel Studio, Richmond, MA

JULY 26, 2005
Premiere: "Dies Irae" with Leah Kreutzer-Barber
Watermill Center, South Hampton, NY

APRIL 2, 2005
Premier: "The Master Class" with B.art42 and Vytas Baksys
(A Comic Play in One Act by Coble/Grinhauz)
The 27th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young
The Rivers School, Weston, MA

MARCH 31, 2005
Article: "Musicians a Bit Artificial"
by Denise Taylor
The Boston Globe

MARCH 30, 2005
Professional Critique
Conducted by D. Dominick Lombardi, Art Critic: New York Times
Silvermine Art Gallery, New Caanan, CT

MARCH 5 & 6, 2005
Premier: "Blue"
LKB Dance Company, Leah Kreutzer-Barber, Director
Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC
Commission: 2005 Live Music for Dance Award
Presented by the American Music Center, NYC

JANUARY 10, 2005
Recording Session: House of Sound, Pelham, NY
Adam Abeshouse, Producer
Release Date TBA

JUNE 27, 2004
Television News Feature: News 12 Connecticut
Produced by David Springer

JUNE 28 - SEPTEMBER 17, 2004
Installation: The Discovery Museum & Planetarium
4450 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT
Presented by Linda Malkin

JULY 1, 2004
Article: "Discovery Exhibits Strike A-Mazing Note"
By Phyllis A.S. Boros
The Connecticut Post

SUMMER 2004
Interview: "Positively Connecticut with Diane Smith"
Produced by Diane Smith
Connecticut Public Television

JUNE 13, 2004
Premier: "Four Settings of Secret Verticle Music for Joan 1992"
(Intrepretations of a Musical Score by Earle Brown)
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

APRIL 25, 2004
Review: "Perfect Pitch"
By Helen A. Harrison
The New York Times

APRIL 15 - JUNE 13, 2004
Installation: "Perfect Pitch"
Curated by Karen Shaw
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

FEBRUARY 29, 2004
Review: "Be Seated Reveals Passion for Assemblage"
By L.P. Streitfeld
The Stamford Advocate

JANUARY 29 - MARCH 11, 2004
Exhibition: "Please Be Seated" Invitational Chair Show
Curated by Jody Silver and Nina Bentley
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

JANUARY 21 - MARCH 25, 2004
Exhibition: "The Image Speaks"
Photographic Images of the P.A.M. Band by Jeff Montanaro
Empire Gallery, 225 Varick Street, NYC

SEPTEMBER 26 - 28, 2003
Performance: "Phantom of the Opera"
Film Score to 1925 Silent Film Version
Produced by the Silver Screen Movie Museum
Presented by the 42nd Annual Bristol Chrysanthemum Festival
Forestville Theatres, 815 Pine Street, Bristol, CT

MAY 2003
Review: "Ear & Eye: MATA Breaks the Sound Barrier"
By Amanda MacBlane
New York Press

MAY 8 - MAY 24, 2003
Installation: 2003 MATA Festival "Setting the Tone"
Philip Glass, Executive Producer
Lisa Bielawa and Eleanor Sandresky, Artistic Directors
Curated by Randy Nordschow
GAle GAtes et al Gallery, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.musicattheanthology.org/festival.html

APRIL 4 - APRIL 30, 2003
Installation: "Bubble Big Band"
Austin Mather Theater, University of Bridgeport
Sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America

APRIL 2003
Published Paper: "Experimental Robot Musician" (Sobd/Coble/Wang)
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Amsterdam
"Experimental Robot Musician"

MARCH 28 - 30, 2003
Premiere: "Phantom of the Opera"
Film Score to 1925 Silent Film Version
Mertens Theater, University of Bridgeport, CT

MARCH 23, 2003
Article: "Phantom Meets the Robots - Artificial Orchestra Backs Horror Classic"
By J. Clyde Wills
Stamford Advocate
Greenwich Times

OCTOBER 2002
2002 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Award
University of Bridgeport Robotic Music Lab 2002
2002 Sigma Xi Award Winners

SEPTEMBER 29, 2002
Article: "Partially Artificial Musicians Make Perfectly Real Music"
By J. Clyde Willis
Stamford Advocate

SEPTEMBER 5, 2002
Article: "Programmed to Perform - Building on Robotics"
By Pam Dawkins
Connecticut Post

APRIL 17 - JUNE 14, 2002
Installation: Westchester Biennial
The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
Jurors: Susan Edwards, Richard Klein, Rosemary Erpf, Dede Young

JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 3, 2002
Installation: "New Members Show 2002"
Silvermine Guild Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Silvermine Artist Guild New Members Show 2002

DECEMBER 2, 2001
Performance: "Pleine Luna" (1988) with Mazlo Piano Trio
New Rochelle Public Library, New Rochelle, NY

NOVEMBER 8, 2001
Exhibition: "Friends of Lime Rock" Invitational Art Show
Curated by Jim Lesko
University of Bridgeport Art Gallery, Arnold Bernhardt Center

OCTOBER 7, 2001
Performance: "Unity Day Celebration"
Stamford Nature Center, Stamford, CT

JULY 16, 2001
Demonstration: Battlebots Screening Party
Presented by Trey Roski
Penta Luma, CA

JUNE 15, 2001
Public Access Television: "The P.A.M. Band"
Produced by the Dreadnought Concert Series
Recorded at LMC-TV, Mamaroneck, NY

MAY 13, 2001
First Public Demonstration
St. John's Lutheran Church, Mamaroneck, NY

SPECIAL THANKS FOR PROJECT SUPPORT
Dr. Jeffrey Johnson
Dr. Terek Sobh
Harriet Sedgwick
John Whitfield
Eastchester Music Center
Jerry Celestino
Dr. George Groth
Mike Witch & LMC-TV
Pamela Hill
Jasche Schmiedel
Philip Wharton
Gary Munch
Alfredo Oliva
Amy Papaelias
Ron Hill
Frank Hill
William Kilburn
Eric Kilburn
Larisa Inic
Dr. Oliver Engel and Mettrix Technology Corp
Radmila Gasic-Ristovski
Dushan Dunjic
Maja Dunovic
Djura Kovacevic
Miroslav Otrupcak
Milos Majzla
Eric Dehais

Dedicated to the Memory of Nicola Tesla (1856-1943)

Last Update: December 3, 2012