Tod Machover: Death and the Powers

BMOP/sound's latest release is Tod Machover: Death and the Powers, the MIT composer's "robot opera." Featuring baritone James Maddalena as Simon Powers, this opera explores the intersection of humans and technology, corporate superpowers and wealth inequality, and the nature of consciousness itself—what does it mean to be "alive"? With electronic realizations by the composer and sound design by Ben Bloomberg, this is the first BMOP/sound release in Dolby Atmos, available exclusively on Apple Music.