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  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

Words

Reflections

Lisa Luckenbach

  Feel confident, beautiful and empowered in your new wig, the instructions read. In the mirror a stranger stares back—weak, powerless. I see her ghostly image. She looks raw, bound, and scared. I sit in the pretend “barbershop” in our kitchen. My mom and two young daughters gather around me, while my husband shaves the last patchy clumps of hair from my scalp. Tears overflow in my mother’s eyes—she wipes them quickly. I remove the towel from my shoulders and hold the mirror up close. “There,” I say. “Not so bad, is it? Mommy’s a fierce woman warrior now.” I bend my elbow and make a muscle. The girls giggle. I have to laugh for them. I have to be strong for them. “Just give me a few minutes, okay?” I walk into my bathroom, close the door, sit on …

Fire and Rust:

a Suite of Poems from Pat Pattison’s Poetry Workshop

Hamilton The Musical and Political Reception of Art

Emma Pawl

3 Poems

Leana Borsuk

Charlestown High

Joseph Hughes

Creativity

Bella Komodromos

Reduced: (She/Her) Why I Struggle With My Pronouns

Natashia Deón

Music

Music in Islamic Philosophy

Peter Adamson

Despite his importance as the first Muslim intellectual to make use of ideas from the Greek philosophical tradition, we don’t know much about the life of al-Kindi. We do know roughly when he lived (the ninth century CE), that he was descended from a companion of the Prophet, and that his father was governor of Kufa. Beyond that we have only a few anecdotes about him. But one of them, preserved for us by the the historian al-Qifti, is well worth recounting. It seems there was a rich merchant who had taken up against al-Kindi and went about slandering his name. Then the merchant’s son fell ill, paralyzed and unable to speak. It was both a personal and financial blow, because the son was in charge of keeping track of the books for the merchant’s business and vital information was …

Musical Setting of Sara Pirkle Hughes’s “What Hurts”

Neil Olmstead

The String Revolution: Beux’s Etude pour violin solo & The Responsibility of the Composer/Performer

Sean Brennan

Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms

Vessela Stoyanova

Which Way do the Trade Winds Blow?

Rick McLaughlin

Art

Soundreaming

Ewa Doroszenko & Jacek Doroszenko

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You’ll walk the same streets, (…) Constantine P. Cavafy     The Soundreaming is an interactive Internet presentation that takes the form of an audio-visual archive of locations around Barcelona. This website documents out site-specific compositions and sound impressions. Recording the dreams and both natural and human designed sounds during the expedition we created sound compositions derived from this material. Sound installations are complemented with a unique electronic audio composition, mixed with sounds recorded in Barcelona and lo-fi music.     When traveling, most people take photographs and  use them to communicate a sense of what the experience of being in that place might have been like. However, the acoustic environment can provide a tremendous amount of the sense of place and feeling of a location in a different way than photographs. In our artistic practice soundscapes are playing the role of images. The …

Aldon Baker

Art of Absence

Simon Patch and Mary Sarpong

Boston Sequence

Alexandria Pierre Etienne

Paola Calatayud-Serna

The Garden@FUSION

Film

Scottish Fiddle & Harp

Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul

When I’m Old, music video

Rumle Sieling Langdal Jensen

Croíbhualadh (Heartbeat)

Louis De Paor

Nanos

Music by Sara Ontaneda | Video by Callie Huber

The Fringe

Bliain Le Baisteach

Sean Taylor & Mikael Fernström

Features

Polyrhythm Clocks

Jerry Leake

The Hidden Curriculum – Definitions and Uses

Kevin Block-Schwenk, Associate Professor of Liberal Arts (Economics & Math)

BTOT 2016 Synergy Presentation

Co-leaders Gail McArthur-Browne and Helen Sherrah-Davies with artist collaborator Jim Zingarelli, Gordon College.

Contests

FUSION Magazine Faculty Photography Contest and Exhibition Winners

Winning Stories: FUSION Student Fiction Contest

Archives

Creative Nonfiction: 2014

FILM STUDIES

INTERVIEW

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Events

Deadstring Ensemble: Celtic FUSION 2012

Celtic FUSION 2012: Jenna Moynihan:

Celtic FUSION 2012: Holland Raper, Ellen & Drew Story

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.