“Here in your brain,” a Study Excerpt for Opera, Luminarium
Music by Dongryul Lee
Libretto by Nathan Christensen / Alexander Shakar
based on the original novel, LUMINARIUM by Alexander Shakar
2017 Contemporary Performance Institute Fellows:
Amber Evans, Soprano / Yvonne Chen, Piano
Lyrics
Here in your brain,
The parietal lobes
Are working and working,
Working and working
To orient yourself within physical space,
To know where you are
And where you are not,
To know where you end
And everything else begins.
But we have applied
Electromagnetic signals.
Electromagnetic signals
To block the sensory data.
Electromagnetic signals
To block the sensory data
That’s streaming into your brain