Word: musication
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...Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes” is exactly that—an original hour-long work of contemporary opera featuring music by Spanish composer Hèctor Parra and a libretto by Randall herself...
Just as “Warped Passages” appealed to the lover of literature, so too will “Hypermusic Prologue” appeal to the music-lovers of the world and bring elements of science into an artistic scene typically void of such empirical discourse...
...role in demonstrating the communicative difficulties between the opera’s two characters—how do two people interact when they are in entirely separate worlds? Parra offered a succinct answer: “It was clear you couldn’t do this with typical classical music...
...Hypermusic Prologue” has already been very successful, but it looks as if the opera will have future life as well. Besides a workshop performance at the Longy School of Music on February 27, the production will make its way in March to the Guggenheim Museum in New York...
...intense, empathic relationship that develops between themselves and an elated (or simply drunk) audience. Ultimately, DJs find this relationship the driving motivation behind their practice: the opportunity to make a crowd happy. Indeed, student DJs, given the amount they spend on gear, the time they spend searching for new music, and the time they spend preparing for gigs, make a mere pittiance by comparison. Moreover, they rarely find opportunities to play music beyond a repetitive and narrow set of Top 40 hits. What’s left qualifies the art of the college-aged turntablist as an ecstatic and sweaty...