MUSIC

Anthony Davis, composer of the opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” has completed a new work in which he uses computers to explore the musical qualities of speech. The piece “song was sweeter even so”, which received its premiere in Boston at MIT last weekend, is a first for Davis. With the help of MIT’s Experimental Music Studio, he made a tape of computer-generated sounds to be played simultaneously with music he wrote for his chamber ensemble, Episteme.