Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times enthusiatically previewed weekend productions of Associate Professor of Music Ash Fure's immersive 2020 performance installation Hive Rise, performed by avant-garde L.A. opera company The Industry, of which Fure is co-artistic director. "The immersive sonic experience uses 3D-printed megaphones, an electroacoustic score and the skills of Fure playing on two subwoofer speaker cones oscillating at a subaudible frequency," explains the Times. As Professor Fure describes the experience of Hive Rise: "You are in an evolving atmosphere that is viscerally allowing you to tune into your body and its relationship to vibration and covibration in a really unusual way." The production marks the first live performance staged by The Industry since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the premature shutdown of the critically acclaimed opera Sweet Land in March 2020.
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