January 1, 2006
Beyond 2006
Happy 2006, all! In the interests of being future-looking, I’ll start off the new year by looking right on ahead to 2007. In the fall of next year the incredible-sounding opera Death and the Powers will go on, with music by Tod Machover (of the MIT Media Lab; The Brain Opera, Resurrection), libretto by Robert Pinsky (Mindwheel, The Figured Wheel, Jersey Rain, The Favorite Poem Project), robotics engineering by Cynthia Breazael (MIT Media Lab), and production design by Alex McDowell (Minority Report, Fight Club, The Crow) – see the page for full credits and a link to a seven-page PDF description. The production will feature incredible-looking sets, autonomous robots, and hyperinstrumental music. The main character is Simon Powers, an aged inventor whose attempt at a seemingly extropian transformation is at the heart of the piece.
But I’m sure there will be plenty of incredible work to enjoy in this new year, too. And, on behalf of all of us here at Grand Text Auto, have a great one.
January 2nd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Thats an opera I might actually be interested in seeing.
2006 is going to be a big year for the games industry, just the right confluence of bold people going indie with innovatice ideas will make this the year remembered as when the tide turned and interactivity grew up.
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Death and the Powers
Hyperinstruments, Sonitronics, and Musical Propulsion “…In the fall of next year the incredible-sounding opera Death and the Powers will go on, with music by Tod Machover (of the MIT Media Lab; The Brain Opera, Resurrection), libretto by Robert Pins…
January 5th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
But Will It Be Staged With LEGOs?
Hey, speaking of robots… Coming in 2006: Death and the Powers, a robot opera. It’s a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, poet Robert Pinsky, and the production designer behind Minority Report. To which I say: COOL. (GTA-tastic.)…
November 23rd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Death and the Powers is now set to premiere in Monte Carlo in November 2008 and go on a worldwide tour from there. There is a video introduction to the project that is now available, which I found linked from this page about the project. The page offers several other video clips and images and further information.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
[…] reach the stage. Death and the Powers has been in the works for about a decade, I wrote about it as we rang in the new year (2006) at Grand Text Auto, and I was very pleased to hear the workshop performance of the opera at A.R.T., here in Cambirdge. […]