[SLOrk-announce] March 15th & 16th: The Furies: A Laptopera (opera premiere)

Ge Wang ge at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu Feb 27 22:15:22 PST 2020


It's here.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra's veteran performance ensemble, SideLObe, 
presents the premiere of The Furies: A Laptopera (a laptop orchestra 
opera!) at Stanford University:

     The Furies: A Laptopera
     Sunday (3/15/2020) 7:00pm
     Monday (3/16/2020) 7:30pm
     CCRMA Stage, Stanford University
     FREE and OPEN to all

Space is limited -- please RSVP here:
     https://laptopera-2020-premiere.eventbrite.com

More information:
     http://laptopera.org/

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) presents the first-ever 
"laptopera". The Furies: A Laptopera is a retelling of the Greek tragedy 
Electra. Blending a number of versions of the Electra story including 
works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Jean Paul Sartre, this 
retelling explores central questions regarding how communities escape 
from cycles of violence, the role of guilt and shame in community 
identity, personal responsibility, how justice interfaces with cycles of 
violence, and redemption. The artistic medium of the laptop orchestra 
both serves to recast the traditional instrumental role in a new kind of 
operatic medium (the “laptopera”) that reimagines the potential of 
instrument building to support dramatic elements and character 
relationships—while simultaneously positing critical questions about 
technology in our lives presently, both in its promise to help us 
flourish and in its perils to perpetuate and amplify the existing cycles 
of violence in our world today.

Come one, come all!

Ge!

~~~
Ge Wang
Associate Professor
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy)
Stanford University
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!
-- what we make, makes us --
https://artful.design/
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