Carlos Alberto Augusto’s new opera — “TMIE: on the threshold of the outside world†(TMIE is an acronym for Trans Membrane Inner Ear) — for soprano and electronic track, interleaves three stories of audition and spirals. A single soprano plays three women — a Selene goddess, a deaf astronomer named Henrietta Leavitt who “heard what the stars were telling her”, and Beverly Biderman, a Canadian who underwent cochlear implant surgery to regain the pleasure of music.
Augusto produced the electronic track entirely in Kyma using roulette curves applied to different sonic parameters.
The libretto is based, among other texts, on books by Beverly Biderman and George Johnson.
The work, a Miso Music Portugal production with support from Widex Portugal, premiers on February 25th in Lisbon at the O’culto da Ajuda venue with two more performances on the 26th and 27th, and will start touring Portugal later this year.
