[SLOrk-announce] (POSTPONED) The Furies: A Laptopera

[Ge Wang]

Dear all,

We write to notify that the Premiere of The Furies: A Laptopera (March 
15th & 16th) is being postponed to a future date (TBA), consistent with 
and in support of Stanford Department of Music policies regarding 
concerts and COVID-19.  Our gratitude goes to all of you who have 
already RSVP'ed.  We have worked hard to bring you The Furies and we 
remain committed to its production.  We look forward to sharing it with 
you at a future time.

All our very best,
Ge (on behalf of the laptopera team)

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

On 2/27/20 10:15 PM, Ge Wang wrote:
> 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
> ~
> Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!
> -- what we make, makes us --
> https://artful.design/
> ~~~