[SLOrk-announce] November 11, 12 & 13: The Furies: A Laptopera (world premiere)

[Ge Wang]

Dear all,

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra presents the world premiere of The Furies: 
A Laptopera (a laptop orchestra opera by Dr. Anne Hege) at Stanford 
University:

     Friday (11/11/2022) 7:30pm
     Saturday (11/12/2022) 7:30pm
     Sunday (11/13/2022) 4:00pm

     CCRMA Stage, Stanford University
     In-person + Livestream
     FREE and OPEN to all

In-person space is limited -- please RSVP here:
     https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/furies-laptopera

Livestream:
     https://ccrma.stanford.edu/live/slork/

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More information:
     https://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 re-imagines the potential of 
instrument building to support dramatic elements and character 
relationships—while simultaneously positing 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.
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Come one, come all.

Ge, on behalf of the Laptopera team

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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
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/
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-- what we make, makes us --
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