{"product_id":"sentences-vocal-score","title":"Sentences Vocal Score","description":"\u003cp\u003eComposer:  Nico Muhly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSentences\u003cbr\u003eCountertenor and Chamber Orchestra Vocal Score\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:  St. Rose Music Publishing Co.\u003cbr\u003eCategory:  Vocal\u003cbr\u003eSeries:  Music Sales America\u003cbr\u003eFormat:  Softcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSentences 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. I'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInventory # :  00276515\u003cbr\u003eUPC:  888680990671\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  \u003cbr\u003eWidth:  9\"\u003cbr\u003eLength:  12\"\u003cbr\u003eHeight:  0.454\"\u003cbr\u003eProduct Weight:  0.4 lbs.\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages:  48\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItem# 00276515\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAuthorized Dealer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hal Leonard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49491169181990,"sku":"00276515","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0128\/7762\/7456\/files\/01dc49ba-4f57-5271-a4b0-0216976ec25b.jpg?v=1725822984","url":"https:\/\/retrostar-gifts.myshopify.com\/products\/sentences-vocal-score","provider":"Retrostar Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}