Music review: 'Auksalaq,' the so-called telematic opera with a smartphone app

When people incorporate art and technology, the first question is, how do you get the technology to work? This has been true since the days when early electronic composers manually cut and spliced audiotape to the lengths they wanted; and it's true for today's multimedia, multi-computer productions such as "Auksalaq," the so-called telematic opera by Matthew Burtner and Scott Deal that rolled out at the Phillips Collection on Monday night. "Auksalaq" involved amplification, projections, electron...