https://www.harvestworks.org/may-31-making-of-one-multi-lingual-audio-visual-mini-opera/
Voce-MO is a 15 – 18 minute composition for voice, violin with interactive graphics projected on dresses, accompanied by a string quartet. Voce-MO explores the relationships and conflicts between people who have the same ethnicity but live in alternative cultural and geological environments. This project was made with support from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) via Harvestworks.
Mari Kimura is a violinist, composer, technologist, and entrepreneur known for inventing the subharmonics technique, which lets violinists play an octave below the instrument’s range. The New York Times called her a “virtuoso playing at the edge.” A Guggenheim Fellow and 2025 SEAMUS lifetime achievement honoree, she has premiered works by Adams, Sciarrino, Berio, and Tania León, and collaborates with IRCAM on SOMAX – AI improvisation. A Juilliard faculty member since 1998 and UC Irvine Professor Emeritus, she created MUGIC®, a motion sensor used at Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale, and Osaka Expo 2025.