Composer: Manu Martin
Performer: Tedd Joselson, Matthieu Eymard, London Voices
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Arthur Fagen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Release: 2021
Size: 361 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano and Orchestra
01. Overture
02. Jungle Song
03. Alan Song
04. Transition to Origins
05. Origins
06. Life on the Shelf
07. Transition fo Companion Friend
08. Companion Friend
09. Off to College
10. Timeless
11. Transition to Ode to Alan
12. Ode to Alan
13. Synthetic Dna
14. Transition fo New World Order
15. New World Order
16. Evil Professor
17. Transition to Boy Scientist
18. Boy Scientist
19. Tribal Bushman Song
20. Transition to Teleportation
21. BTeleportation
‘For over a decade, my partner in the operating room has been a robot surgeon. Outside of surgeries, I have noticed the changing landscape of companionship driven by two forces facing us in society today: longevity and loneliness, on the one hand, and disruptive new technologies on the other.
This, coupled with a love for music, and a great partnership with composer and orchestrator Manu Martin, led me to imagine a futuristic companionship between Human and Inanimate, life and non-life, in this post modern classical work, the Lim Fantasy of Companionship for piano and orchestra.
Created and composed in 2019, it draws inspiration from the original songs composed by Joi Barua, Ron J Danziger and Matthieu Eymard, for the ALAN the Musical soundtrack. The Fantasy imagines—with compassion, sensitivity and with optimism—what possibilities may exist for a future companionship in this new world order of synthetic life forms and embodied artificially intelligent inanimates.
Who is ALAN? A plush inanimate baby lion with a soul, who craves the new science of synthetic DNA, and the new disruptive technologies to become an enabled companion. It pleads for some intelligence, perhaps a sprinkling of artificial neurons embedded in its cotton-filled head, that may enable it to communicate a little louder than the imaginary whispers which reach its partner’s ears as an echo of her own thoughts. It demands respectability.
The lnanimate’s journey unfolds through the six acts of the Fantasy, artfully delivering the storyline of ALAN the Musical. It culminates in a riveting musical climax of ‘Teleportation’ and an ultimate, shared existence through the phenomenon of quantum entanglement; two hearts, one soul.
It is after all a fantasy, and one Christina Teenz, co-creator and I, hope you will enjoy.’