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Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Manu Martin

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The ALAN Song
The ALAN theme song - how it all began
New World Order
The Making of Teleportation in the Lim Fantasy
Tedd Joselson returns to the stage perform the World Premiere of the Lim Fantasy
New World Order w/Jerome Buigues, Tedd Joselson & Musicians’ Initiative Orchestra and Choi, Singapore 8th June 2022
Teleportation w/Tedd Joselson and the Musicians’ Initiative Orchestra and Choir Singapore 8th June 2022
Brooklyn SciFi Film Fest screening online
1 Overture  
2 Jungle Song  
3 ALAN Song  
4 Transition to Origins  
5 Origins  
6 Life on the Shelf  
7 Transition to Companion Friend  
8 Companion Friend  
9 Off the College  
10 Timeless  
11 Transition to Ode to ALAN  
12 Ode to ALAN  
13 Synthetic DNA  
14 Transition to New World Order  
15 New World Order  
16 Evil Professor  
17 Transition to Boy Scientist  
18 Boy Scientist  
19 Tribal Bushman Song  
20 Transition to Teleportation  
21 Teleportation  
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Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity as physical forms embedded with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems fulfil an urgent need for previously unimaginable companions, such as robot caregivers, to address the twin challenges of longevity and loneliness. 

It is precisely this concept of an inanimate-human companionship that pioneer surgeon Dr Susan Lim, together with her project Co-Creative Director, Dr Christina Teenz Tan explore in the ‘Lim Fantasy of Companionship' for Piano & Orchestra, composed by Manu Martin and released on 23rd April 2021 on Signum Records.  Recorded in November 2019 at Abbey Rd Studios, the Lim Fantasy draws its inspiration from fifteen original songs composed for a proposed musical, ‘ALAN'.  It unfolds the story of an inanimate, ‘ALAN' and the journey of its soul, twice teleported, from an animate to inanimate and ultimately into a human being.  The Fantasy is brought to life through the performance of acclaimed pianist, Tedd Joselson alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fagen, together with solo electric guitar, solo voices and choral ensemble, London Voices.

It is hoped that the Lim Fantasy will inspire a discussion about what is life and what is non-life, a topic which no longer belongs just to the confines of medicine, but which invites the participation of artists, musicians, psychologists, philosophers, engineers, politicians and more.

A pioneer in the field of transplantation, robotics and stem cell research, Dr Susan Lim first introduced the concept of enabling inanimates to be companions of the future at  the ‘Road to the US - India Global Entrepreneurship Summit' in partnership with INK 2017, in Hyderabad, India, in the session ‘Giant Leaps: Thrilling Potential of AI and Robotics'.  Dr Lim has concerned herself with the very real problems of both an ageing global population and loneliness on one hand and disruptive new science and technologies on the other.  Dr Christina Tan, a neuroscience researcher at Stanford University, California has been fascinated by the possibility of enabling inanimates with artificial intelligence.  In the ‘Fantasy', both jointly explore through music the potential of inanimate life and how these factors may influence new concepts of companionship. They see that the bio-engineering of inanimate objects has started to blur the line between life and non-life and feel passionate about opening this up as a global conversation through a creative medium of communication, namely their project  ‘ALAN the Musical', from which the ‘Fantasy of Companionship' for Piano and Orchestra draws inspiration.

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  • Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano and Orchestra has World Premiere at Esplanade Singapore
    Posted At: July 20, 2022 12:00 AM
    Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity as physical forms embedded with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems fulfil an urgent need for previously unimaginable companions, such as robot caregivers, to address the twin challenges of longevity and loneliness. It is precisely this concept of an inanimate-human companionship that pioneer surgeon Dr Susan Lim, together wi...
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  • 'Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate' wins 'Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short' at Pacific Beach Film Festival
    Posted At: February 2, 2022 12:00 AM
    The winner of the ‘Pacific Beach Film Festival: Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Film & Best Original Story Short’  goes to "Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate" by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan.In April 2021, The pioneer surgeon Dr Susan Lim, together with her project Co-Creative Director, Dr Christina Teenz Tan released the album titled; 'Lim Fantasy of Companions...
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  • 'Lim Fantasy for Companionship and Orchestra' makes capradio's 'The classical music we loved in 2021'
    Posted At: January 21, 2022 12:00 AM
    As you wrap up your year, here are some of CapRadio Music's classical music hosts' favorite pieces from 2021. Victor Forman, Jennifer Reason and Mike Nelson write…..Classical music can be both timeless and intimately connected to the times we are living through today. As new music is written and old favorites reinterpreted, the music can connect the past to the present and the future. Included on capradio's...
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  • 'Lim Fantasy for Companionship and Orchestra' makes capradio's 'classical music we loved in 2021'
    Posted At: December 21, 2021 12:00 AM
    capradio writes……Classical music can be both timeless and intimately connected to the times we are living through today. As new music is written and old favorites reinterpreted, the music can connect the past to the present and the future. As you wrap up your year, here are some of CapRadio Music's classical music hosts' favorite pieces from 2021.capradio's Jennifer Reason…..Music should speak to the times ...
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  • Robotics and AI inspire new orchestral piece / HollywoodSoapbox
    Posted At: July 27, 2021 12:00 AM

    HollywoodSoapbox - Jon Soltes writes.....It's not everyday that a new orchestral piece comes around that has been inspired by robotics, artificial intelligence and the relationship between humans and inanimates, but that's exactly what listeners can expect when taking in the sounds of Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano & Orchestra. The new work comes courtesy of French composer Manu Martin, who w...
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  • Susan Lim and Samudra Kajal Saikia's 'Boy Scientist,' makes The New York Times '5 Things to Do This Weekend'
    Posted At: June 11, 2021 12:00 AM

    The New York Times critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.......June 3, 2021. The New York Times - LAUREL GRAEBER writes......Cinema Treats, Short and Often Sweet. These are just a few of the subjects in KidsFilmFest, an international slate of short cinematic adventures that this year, like last, will be shown entirely...
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  • The Oniros Film Awards Q&A's with animated short director; Christina Teenz Tan
    Posted At: May 24, 2021 12:00 AM

    We had the great pleasure of interviewing Christina Teenz Tan, one of the directors of the animated short: Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate, recently awarded at the Oniros Film Awards. The movie is a touching story about the friendship between a young girl and Alan, a plush inanimate with a soul of a baby lion, that aspires to become independent by gaining artificial intelligence. It'...
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  • LA Indies Q&A's with 'Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate' creators; Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
    Posted At: May 17, 2021 12:00 AM

    LA Indies writes......This is a fictional story about the future of companionship between human and inanimate. It tells the story of a plush Inanimate , with a soul from a baby lion, who craves the new science and technologies of synthetic DNA, artificial intelligence and teleportation, to be an enabled companion, and its soul quantum entangled with its human partner, for eternity.  Fantasy of C...
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  • BBC3: In Tune explores themes of robotics and artificial intelligence with Dr. Susan Lim
    Posted At: April 23, 2021 12:00 AM

    Society currently finds itself at an intersection of technology and humanity as physical forms embedded with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems fulfil an urgent need for previously unimaginable companions, such as robot caregivers, to address the twin challenges of longevity and loneliness.  It is precisely this concept of an inanimate-human companionship that pioneer surgeon Dr Susan Lim, tog...
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