The music incorporates recordings just made by the incoming audience, along with material and musical contributions from participants on the World Wide Web. The Brain Opera went on tour after it completed its run at Lincoln Center on August 3, 1997. For a long time I've found his ideas about music very stimulating, although they are not widely known. I first contacted Minsky when I was a student at the Juliard School in New York, some 20 years ago. I was a fan of his, I wanted to meet him.
Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
Minsky is one of the few people to look at emotions and music and seek the connections. He asks the bold questions about how it may work. Minsky has provided a general model that changes how we think about the mind. The Brain Opera is intended to encourage audiences to reflect on this process. I deliberately wanted the title to be provocative.