Disembodied Voices and the Technological Uncanny: an investigation through interactive multi-media music-theatre

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The project is a practice-based exploration of new interactive audio-visual technologies for opera and music-theatre, investigating the dramaturgical implications of combining the real and virtual within music­ based theatre. The project will use live performance, voice-synthesizing programmes and projected sound and images to examine the phenomenon of the technological uncanny, investigating cultural anxieties about mechanisation in modernity, and in particular cultural representations of the mechanically disembodied voice from the nineteenth century to the present. The project is part of collaboration between the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex and three European research centres.