[SLOrk-announce] this weekend: The Furies: A Laptopera (world premiere)
Ge Wang
ge at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Thu Nov 10 12:59:17 PST 2022
Dear all,
(Update: in-person tickets are sold out, barring any last-minute
cancellations; see below for live-stream information.)
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 ticket reservations (sold out):
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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