The Maxamoo Podcast Chats with Composer Joe Diebes about his New Opera, OYSTER

An interview with composer and multidisciplinary artist Joe Diebes on his new work oyster and how he's expanding the meaning of opera.

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Joe Diebes, who sees the composition of video and words as inseparable from his music, has long been rigorously deconstructing the technologic structures and perceptions through which contemporary lives are led. At once high-concept and sly, his opera projects have bent and expanded the meaning of "opera," drawing on the theatricality of the form while eschewing operatic vocal traditions-rather using the melodies and rhythms inherent in everyday speech. BOTCH, a collaboration with the same performers who appear in oyster, was his "broken-word" opera whose score followed a digital logic, consisting of if/then statements and operations common to software programs such as cut/paste, sampling and filters, resulting in a richly layered soundscape of pulverized language.

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