FULL Lost Connection (Knight) Montreal 2022 Concordia Department of Music

Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO         

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Lost Connection  
• Composer: Juanita Marchand Knight and co-created with the RISE team and the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk)  
• Libretto: Juanita Marchand Knight    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Concordia University's 4th space, Montreal, Canada  
• Recorded: April 7, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: RISE team
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk)  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Concordia Department of Music  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

A distributed mini-opera about how technology fails us.

Envisioned by Juanita Marchand Knight and co-created with the RISE team and the Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk), this mini-opera performance will take place in four locations around Montreal, enacting technological crises in four time periods:
Act 1: Lost Formats/Lost Art (1980s-1990s)

Act 2: Y2K and the end of everything as we thought we knew it (2000)

Act 3: the social network and the afterlife (2020s)

Act 4: Lost connection and posthumanism (2040s)