Futurity

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GlindatheGood22
#1Futurity
Posted: 9/10/15 at 9:27pm

Anyone excited for this? It sounds a little bit like the Comet and Ghost Quartet with the electropop and crashing percussion. Enough to get me interested.

https://soundcloud.com/thelisps/sets/futurity

http://sohorep.org/futurity


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JBroadway
#2Futurity
Posted: 9/10/15 at 9:30pm

Yes, I'm excited to see this! I know a couple of people involved with it. Also, César Alvarez, who is writing the music, is very talented. Alvarez wrote the original music for An Octoroon, and this cool immersive piece called "The Universe is a Small Hat." I'm very excited to hear more of his music. 

FindingNamo
#3Futurity
Posted: 9/10/15 at 9:34pm

Speaking of, Ghost Quartet's at the former Zero Arrow Theater at the ART this weekend featuring the original ghosts.


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ghostlight2
#4Futurity
Posted: 9/11/15 at 2:23am

There was a sort of song cycle version of Futurity at Ars Nova some years ago, performed by The Lisps with Michael Ceveris as a featured musician, playing several instruments, from his "manjo" to various very odd and improvised percussion instruments (aka "contraptions"Futurity.. Quirky fun and with steam punk elements. I'd certainly see it. Thanks for posting this. I hadn't heard of this latest version.

https://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/the-lisps-futurity-walker-commission-musicals

Updated On: 9/11/15 at 02:23 AM

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orangeskittles
#5Futurity
Posted: 9/11/15 at 8:48pm

I saw this years ago in the basement of HERE. I still listen to the CD; the music is great. I'd love to see it live again. The percussion instruments ghostlight2 refers to really resonated live.


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cjmclaughlin10
#6Futurity
Posted: 10/9/15 at 4:51pm

Anyone seen this at SOHO Rep yet???

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JBroadway
#7Futurity
Posted: 10/9/15 at 4:55pm

I'm seeing it in 2 weeks. Will be sure to report back, especially if no one else has by then. 

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VotePeron
#8Futurity
Posted: 10/9/15 at 4:56pm

A few friends went the other night, and they cannot stop raving about it!

VintageSnarker
#9Futurity
Posted: 10/11/15 at 11:48pm

I will have more to say in the next few days but for now I'll say that this is a very special show. I was never bored and completely captivated. I don't think it's as strong as most shows on a character level but it has big ideas, uses its ensemble (who almost all play instruments!) incredibly well, and makes great use of the set. This is really a production, small though it might seem. There are a lot of moving parts. The music is on the whole very good though there was one song where I could not decipher the lyrics at all. The lyrics can also be a little dense. Not difficult to understand (OK, Ada did have some run-on sentences) but you have to stay engaged to follow them.

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GlindatheGood22
#10Futurity
Posted: 11/24/15 at 8:50pm

Very happily saw the closing performance on Sunday night. Sammy Tunis is really something to see. I would hope there is a future for it, but from what I understand they've been working on it for a long time and this seems to have been the culmination.

Question: I'm familiar with the Soundcloud concept recording, but there are a lot of songs that are missing from it. Does anyone know of a more complete recording?


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Fan123
#11Futurity
Posted: 11/25/15 at 3:47am

The same version of the recording is up on Spotify and iTunes, so I imagine that there isn't a longer version in existence at this stage.

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Kad
#12Futurity
Posted: 11/25/15 at 10:13am

There's no recording of the score as it is now. However, they did put in "Singularity," which is from another one of The Lisps' albums called Are We At the Movies?.


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