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  • Musings of a 21st-century Composer

    Marti Epstein

  • Musings of a 21st-century Composer

    Marti Epstein

  • Musings of a 21st-century Composer

    Marti Epstein

  • Musings of a 21st-century Composer

    Marti Epstein

Words

“The Autobiography of Frogs” and Other Poems

Duy Đoàn, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for We Play a Game

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — First Kiss Scene
 
Interior – Black and white. The VAMPIRE’s bedroom – Night
 
POSTERS cover the walls: Michael Jackson Thriller cover, Madonna Madonna cover, lots of other posters. There’s a BED in the background, a DISCO BALL hanging from the middle of the room, a RECORD PLAYER against the right wall. It’s Halloween.
 
ARASH, dressed as a vampire, is lying face-up on the vampire’s bed. He’s on the comedown from E. The vampire is facing away from him, standing in front of the record player. She puts a record on. He’s lying still. She starts the record…

 
0:14 – “Death” by White Lies is the song.
 
0:37 – Arash stirs.
 
0:48 – Lyrics start / “I love the feeling when we”
 
0:50 – “lift off”
 
        Four seconds after “lift off,” but not AT “lift off…

2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Carl Phillips: Two New Poems, exclusive to FUSION

The Realities of a Young Woman Immigrating to America

Tiffany Columna

“Scenes from a Morning” and Other Poems

Berklee Student Poets at The Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival

Star Power

Creative Nonfiction by Jack Scaife-Elliott

Where Am I

Creative Nonfiction by Lisa Luckenbach

A World Through Her Eyes

Creative Nonfiction by Ailin Ledwidge

Triptych

Creative Nonfiction by Susan Belanich

Music

Adventures in Collaborative Cello Playing (So Far…)

Celia Sieckert

Late spring. Minneapolis, Minnesota. A dusting of pollen is starting to give everything a slight golden tinge. Even Peavey Plaza, sitting in its little corner off of Nicollet Mall, with its tiered concrete fountains and abnormally still sheets of running water, has a forest-like look about it. Traffic in the Twin Cities is not usually too boisterous, but for some reason, there is a constant rushing of noise in my head, like every car on earth is passing by on 11th Street. Luckily, this is not the nauseating stage fright I usually have before a big performance. Just a light, almost pleasant humming between my ears and behind my eyes: more excited than anxious, but anxious all the same. I am eighteen years old. I graduate from high school in a week, but I debut as a soloist at Minneapolis’s …

Berklee Alumni Column #4: Natalie Dodge

Joely Cromack-Kluko

Dexter Gordon on Rittenhouse Square

Daniel Picker

Berklee Alumni Column Introduction

Joely Cromack-Kluko

Berklee Alumni Column #3: John Keyes

Joely Cromack-Kluko

Film

Transcendental Horror and the Future of the Genre

Tyler R. Jenkins

Freud describes the nature of horror as un-homelike; unheimlich. When one’s idea of safety is subverted, the effects of horror set in. All horror films strive to achieve this to an extent, whether it’s a killer stalking the protagonist, or a monster …

Black Lives Matter: What Would It Cost Us to Weep with Those Who Weep?

Ricky Staub & Aaron St. Jean

Vinyasa for Two & The Waiting Room: 2 Plays by Naomi Leites

The First Assistant Director: Communicator-in-Chief on a Movie Set

Hristo Dimitrov

A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema

Isabella Komodromos

Art

The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

by Mali Olatunji and Paget Henry

 

At Play: New Photographs

by David Hollender

Pastoral Mosaics: Journeys Through Landscapes Rural

Brian Michael Barbeito

ALLAMERICAN

Margo Davis

Bathtub Series

Eva Redamonti

The Garden@FUSION

SPACE // PLACE

an anthology by THE GARDEN @ FUSION

Visual Art

Features

Landscapes in the Time of Covid

Students of Professor Wayne Wild

Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms

Vessela Stoyanova

New Faculty Fiction

BTOT

Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms

Vessela Stoyanova

Capturing Berklee’s Stories: The Berklee Oral History Project

Sofía Becerra-Licha, Archivist, Berklee Archives

Exploring New Teaching Techniques with Case Studies

Alexandre Perrin (Valencia)

Interviews

FUSION Meets the Fuze

An Interview with David Fiuczynski

Interview with Silvina Moreno

Meaning Through Music: An Interview With William Ross

Michael Hazani

Events

A Faculty Dinner, Reading, & Conversation with Brian Turner

An Evening of Poetry & Music

with Sara Pirkle Hughes, Neil Olmstead, and Ana Guigui

Photos from Celtic FUSION – Am Fuaran

A Celebration of the Music of Scotland

Reviews

Student Book Reviews from Prof Beth Denisch’s class: Music, Gender and Society

Beneath the Skin of “Under the Skin”

Taylor Page

Kairos by Mateus Starling

A review by Erin Thomas

FUSION, Berklee’s global arts magazine, publishes writing in all genres, photography, video, and music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across the U.S. and our international communities. We feature distinguished guest artists, including three U.S. Poet Laureates, a U.K. Poet Laureate, National Book Award finalists, and writers whose awards include NEA, NEH, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, a PEN Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.