T. Allen LeVines
Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto
When is there not music? ... bursts of morning sun or night shadows in a full moon rising ... thundering spring waterfalls or silent mountain snows in winter ...
Category:Music
Aliya Cycon Project
Interview by Xingyu
Aliya Cycon is an 8th Semester CWP major at Berklee. Her band, Aliya Cycon Project, just released their first album called “We Will Be Light” this past spring.
Y—Xingyu Yao
A—Aliya Cycon
Y: Hi Aliya, Congratulations on your first album…
Preab Meadar – transforming Poetry to Dance
Tadgh Dall Ó hUigín (Blind Taigue Higgins), a professional poet in 16th Century Gaelic Ireland, had seen two patrons suffer ignominy and defeat before he wrote The Lion and Fox for his patron Brian MacGuire in 1588 AD. This poem…
Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms
Vessela Stoyanova
The overwhelming majority of Bulgarian folk music happens to be in odd meters–typically 5, 7, 9 and 11, with occasional combinations of those creating 13, 15, 17 and larger. Some musicologists have linked these odd meters to the history…
Essential Singing Approaches for Contemporary Styles
Jeannie Gagné, Professor, Voice, Berklee College of Music
Adapted from 2015 BTOT presentation with professors Jeannie Gagné, Cassandre McKinley, Maureen McMullan, Laurie Monahan, and Linda Balliro
For vocalists, the body is the instrument. In contemporary styles, singers must rely on the PA system to be heard, which…
Hole
Anwen Crawford
Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer. She is the music critic for The Monthly magazine, and her essays have appeared in publications including Frieze and The New Yorker online.
Lunaria
Moira Lo Bianco
“This album is a cloud of thoughts, a nest of feelings”- Moira Lo Bianco
The Lunaria is a leaf that seems to be made of silk but develops a sharp stem, like it wants to protect itself from the world. Framed by the essence of the Lunaria leaf, Moira Lo Bianco’s album Lunaria continues the delicate story of romance wrapped in the silks of classical, jazz and middle eastern styles.
“For Kounellis”
Neil Leonard
For Kounellis is a meditative, evocative electronic work featuring samples from Jannis Kounellis' sculpture, voice, live electronics and soprano saxophone. The sounds are based on Kounellis' untitled installation comprising 23 large church bells that Leonard recorded at the environmental sculpture park, La Marrana di Montemarcello in Italy.
Triloka—Three Realms
Composed by Bruno Råberg
Bruno Råberg recorded his original "Triloka - Three Realms" in Shames Family Scoring Stage at Berklee College of Music with students and faculty.
Musical Interpretation of The Song of the Old Mother (1894)
Music by Matias Ambrogi Torres
Lyrics taken from “The Song of the Old Mother” a poem by William B. Yeats from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
[Link to Score]…