Music For New Bodies

Composed & Conducted by MATTHEW AUCOIN
Directed by PETER SELLARS
Texts by JORIE GRAHAM
 

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.

Co-commission of DACAMERA, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, AMOC*, LA Opera and Aspen Music Festival and School

Upcoming Performances:

August 7, 2025 at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA – More info

Previous Performances:

April 20, 2024 at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, presented by DACAMERA, Houston, TX

September 5, 2024 at the Brown Arts Institute, Providence, RI

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