{"product_id":"sentences-countertenor-and-chamber-orchestra-vocal-score","title":"Sentences — Countertenor and Chamber Orchestra Vocal Score","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSentences\u003c\/i\u003e is a thirty-minute meditation, in collaboration with Adam Gopnik, on several episodes drawn from the life and work of Alan Turing. Turing lived, in a sense, many different lives, but at the heart of his work was, I think, a very musical set of anxieties. Even the idea of code-breaking is inherently musical; the French for score-reading is déchiffrage: deciphering. His wartime work on the Enigma code translated, later in life, to a more nuanced relationship to code in the form of a primitive but emotionally (and philosophically) complicated artificial intelligence. The piece uses a single voice not to speak necessarily as Turing, but as a guide through these various episodes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've always felt that the question of sentient computers is wildly emotional: we anthropomorphise the Mars Rover, imagining its solitude on that dusty planet. Any act of communication in which the second person is unseen can be a one-way conversation. An email, sent, can never be returned - did it arrive or did it not?, or a text message can be delivered but never read. The thrill of a fast response is immediately tempered with the harsh but empty rudeness of an out-of-office reply. Anybody who has made a condolence phone call only to hear the voice of the deceased on the outgoing answering machine message knows the complexities of what could be a simple binary communication.” –Nico Muhly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Rose Music Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53481082257726,"sku":"00276515","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1396\/9982\/files\/00276515-wl.jpg?v=1778701199","url":"https:\/\/themusiciansclub.net\/products\/sentences-countertenor-and-chamber-orchestra-vocal-score","provider":"The Musicians Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}