Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars: Music for New Bodies Residency
September 5, 2024, 4pm
Free Open Rehearsal
Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, Providence, RI
Texts by JORIE GRAHAM
Libretto assembled by MATTHEW AUCOIN and PETER SELLARS
MATTHEW AUCOIN, composer and conductor
PETER SELLARS*, director
*denotes guest artist
A major new work and first collaboration between AMOC* member and co-founder composer Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars is brought to life by five vocal soloists and an 18-instrument ensemble conducted by Matthew Aucoin.
Music for New Bodies is inspired by the visionary poetry of Jorie Graham, addressing some of the most urgent questions of our time: In our quest for immortality, what have human beings done to the planet, and what are we doing to ourselves? What are these post-human, machine-generated intelligences that we so heedlessly continue to create, and which seem almost capable of replacing us? Music for New Bodies is a 360-degree portrait of the moment we are living in, a piece that brings together questions of environmental responsibility, scientific progress and the ethics of humanity’s questionable quest to surpass the human.
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