Prose

Microcosmos and Macrocosmos

Louis C. Stewart

I Avrom Nichols was frustrated with his scientific results. After years of observations of remote galaxies he felt that he had no handle on the real concepts. It is one thing to observe and correlate data and decidedly another to actually have a hands-on experience by scientific interaction. Physicists have a much more rewarding experience in the fact that there is a real element of control in their scientific life. He decided to see his friend, Bauer, who was working in particle physics to discuss the matter. “Bauer,” Avrom said, “your work consists of the discovery of new particles and their interaction with other particles. There is always a measure of control with the particle collider in setting up experiments. I have absolutely no control over my observations. The universe is going to do what it will. That …

Reflections

Lisa Luckenbach

Hamilton The Musical and Political Reception of Art

Emma Pawl

Charlestown High

Joseph Hughes

Creativity

Bella Komodromos

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

Natashia Deón

How Real Is Your Brain?: a Playful Warning About a Science of Our Selves

Nathan Greenslit

Bella’s World

Montserrat Turriza

Gardens and Psychedelia

Pat Pattison

Music

Letter for Berklee

Steve Vai

Greetings enthusiastic music students, and congratulations. You have chosen the entertainment industry as your profession. I have been in it for the last forty-seven years, and I can tell you it’s truly a fantastic industry. The number of options and fields to explore in the entertainment industry is vast, and the Arts are paramount to the mental health of any culture. We need your brilliance! Your entire career experience in any industry is 100% joined at the hip with the quality of your attitude and your perspective on what you do. This great industry is here to serve you, and you to serve it. When you make a deliberate decision to see the best in everyone in it, you will have a supreme experience. As you start to feel a pull towards a particular field in this industry, you will …

Where Is Jazz Going?: Reissues, Jazz Industry, and the Future of Jazz

Jiwon Kwon

Sustaining Notes: From Grammy Award Winner Brazilian Singer Luciana Souza To Berklee Students

Luciana Souza

A Beautiful View from the Berklee Bridge, Flowing with Music, Energy, and Glimpses of a Fruitful Future

A Reflection by Dr. Bill Banfield

Music in Islamic Philosophy

Peter Adamson

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

Poetry

Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky

“Russian soldiers stayed in our building,” the poet Lesyk Panaisuk wrote to me a few weeks ago. When the war began, Lesyk left Bucha in a hurry, fleeing the Russian invasion.

“War will live in Bucha long after the soldiers are gone,” Lesyk emails me, “because they left a lot of mines throughout Bucha.” Now it is dangerous to walk around the town. Lesyk’s neighbors found some mines in the halls of their building, inside their slippers and washing machines. Some neighbors returned only to install doors and windows. “In our neighbourhood doors to almost every apartment were broken by russian soldiers,” Lesyk writes.

Fire and Rust:

a Suite of Poems from Pat Pattison’s Poetry Workshop

3 Poems

Leana Borsuk

Introduction To Trans Literature and Two Other Poems

Stephanie Burt

For He Was a Great Man

Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus

“Lightning Decides” & Three Other Poems

Andrew Motion

9 Poems from Poetry 2

Terza Rima, Italian & English Sonnets, Free Verse

Full Circle Sail

Daniel Picker

Poems in Feet & Poems on Feet: Readings & Performances by Berklee Students

Film

Train

J.T. Welsch

Characters: STEVE: 30-ish, travelling businessman SIMON: early thirties, academic KATHRYN: university student on holiday LISA: university student on holiday HOSTESS: attractive, French A train carriage, rumbling along at night, empty except for four passengers: a pair of female university students, speaking to each other quietly; a professional-looking man in his early thirties, reading a packet of papers in the row ahead of them; and another man of about the same age, slouched in the seat facing him.

Questions

Matthew Baamonde

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 …