October 10, 2013
By David Weininger
On the eve of the Gardner Museum’s Boston premiere of Tim Fain’s multimedia project “Portals,” Boston Globe writer David Weininger previews “Portals” as work that looks “into music performance in the digital age.”
Weininger notes, “Two distinct catalysts went into the creation of “Portals,”…One is his enthusiasm for American composers; [and] the second motivation is more ambiguous: Fain’s fascination with the digital era and its effect on social relations. This is hardly a new theme; we are continually fretting or exulting over the effect that social networking and new communication tools have had on our interpersonal lives. That revolution, though, has left classical music, and especially its concert rituals, largely untouched.
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