[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!
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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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