A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise

A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise is a reworking of Matthew Sleeth’s A Drone Opera, which was an ambitious multimedia work combining a battalion of flying drones, lasers, video projections, opera singers and an electronic soundscape. The version written about here furthers explorations from that work, specifically the variety of human responses to the promise, allure and threat of technology. A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise encompasses elements of opera, liturgy, new myth, chamber music, ritual, electronic music, audience participation and the latest in audio technology. In it we assert, through the structure and content of the work itself, that the ‘problem’ of the relationship between technology and people is best dealt with interactively, with many people involved, and through a feminist, or at least womanist lens.