![]() Because then when they come in, they’re a new element.” Twenty-five percent of the power of electronics is the silence when you’re not playing them. “I’ve found in my symphonic music that electronics are a little bit like a pet snake,” Bates said. ![]() But much of the score is richly melodic and relies on more-or-less traditional orchestration to accompany the singers. The opera unfolds in a single act of about 90 minutes, in Campbell’s words, “as quick and streamlined as the technology Jobs created.” This sense of fleetness is reinforced by the production, directed by Kevin Newbury, which uses rectangular screens with projected images that move about the stage for seamless scene changes.īates makes extensive use of the synthesizers and other computer-generated effects for which he is known. ![]() He and Bates also agreed the opera would neither glorify nor vilify Jobs, a genius innovator but flawed human being who long refused to acknowledge a daughter born out of wedlock and drove his employees - and himself - ruthlessly.
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