Charlotte Symphony to Perform Adams’s “Become Ocean” as Immersive Audio Experience

In Thursday’s (12/19) Charlotte Observer (North Carolina), Catherine Muccigrosso writes, “Blumenthal Arts’ next immersive experience at its newest venue will dive into the ocean with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will perform an audio immersive experience of ‘Become Ocean,’ a Pulitzer prize-winning orchestral composition by American composer John Luther Adams, at Blumenthal’s Blume Studios on Post Street, in the Iron District … Three shows will be held Feb. 28 and March 1 featuring 360-degree spatial audio, custom lighting and orchestra musicians spatially divided to create a sensory experience … Each show is about 90 minutes with 80 musicians performing, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra CEO David Fisk said, and limited to 400 people. ‘It is going to be a space you can choose where to be and how to listen,’ Fisk said. ‘We want people to lose themselves in this music and to be swallowed up by the experience of being part of nature.’ The orchestra will also partner with the North Carolina Aquarium Society to present activities that celebrate the link between humanity and the oceans…. ‘Become Ocean’ is part of the orchestra’s exploration of immersive programming … The conductor for ‘Become Ocean’ is Courtney Lewis.”