Lizée sees the opera as a culmination of her ideas and aesthetic. Performers will wear networked devices that light up with animations sound will emanate from everywhere 3D-mapped projections will make objects seem to come alive percussionists and string players will play an array of 100 musical instruments and singers and dancers will use vocabularies of music and motion inspired by machines. (Rossum’s Universal Robots),” which introduced the word “robot” into the international lexicon, the opera features a struggle between tech “power couple” Dom (played by baritone Peter Barrett) and Helena (mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó) over how much autonomy to grant the humanoid robots they have invented.ĭirected by Tapestry executive director Michael Hidetoshi Mori, the production features new technology built by professors and research assistants in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University, in whose Great Hall the opera will be staged. “There are a lot of surprises.”īased loosely on Czech writer Karel Čapek’s seminal 1920 play “R.U.R.
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A Torrent of Light” - which premiered Saturday in a production by Tapestry Opera. Lizée laughs, recalling how she and Billon, a Governor General’s Award-winning playwright, ended up so disappointed that they told each other, “We must never speak of this again.”Īnd yet, on the phone from her Montreal home, she keeps coming back to that “brain-dead experience.” It seems to have spurred her ambitions for “R.U.R. As she recalls, “I asked the guard, ‘Is there another section?’ ‘No, but here is the T-shirt, and next door, you can get the coffee that people at Apple drink.’” A Torrent of Light” - but all they found was a smaller-than-usual Apple store in the visitors centre. They were seeking inspiration for their new opera about artificial intelligence, “R.U.R. All Rights Reserved.While on an artist’s residency in Silicon Valley, composer Nicole Lizée took a trip to Apple’s headquarters with librettist Nicolas Billon. Equip electronic countermeasures, plasma shields, and savage beam weapons for intense skirmishing.īig Robot Ltd and The Signal From Tölva, in addition to all game code, audio materials, and visual materials are © 2017 Big Robot Ltd.Recruit allied robots to fight alongside you.Fight a war of territory control against dynamic and ferocious AI.Delve into science fiction mystery as you investigate the haunting highlands of Tölva.Explore a single-player shooter set in a sprawling, hand-crafted landscape.You will make use of a range of powerful tools to overcome your enemies and uncover secrets: hack robots to battle alongside you, equip powerful weapons, and detonate savage defence systems.įight, explore, and solve the mystery of The Signal From Tölva! The Signal From Tölva is a journey into a wild science fiction landscape, filled with danger and beauty: you must survive terrible hazards, navigate through impossible spaces, and fight an ongoing battle to control this haunted, blighted world.
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