Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky

Words

9 New Poets, 9 New Poems

Berklee Students

Cassie Long, “Atropos”
Aidan Meachem, “Swimmer”
Sara Gougeon, “Ojala”
Haley Griffin, “Go to Therapy”
Simon Hubbard, “Drain”
AL Riordan, “Tea”
Riley Goldstein, “Shelter in Place”

Delaney Parker, “Femme Fatale”
Olivia Rodriguez, “Meeting You”

Bella’s World

Montserrat Turriza

Charades and Four Other Poems

Robert Carr

Social Distance and Two Other Poems

Eileen Cleary

“The Longest Day” & Two Other Poems

Cristopher Gonzalez

“Whisper Down the Lane” & Five Other Poems

Brianna Nelson

The Last Sound You Hear and Two Other Poems

David P. Miller

Music

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

Neil Olmstead

“What Hurts” is based on a poem by Sara Pirkle Hughes. It is the first piece in a song cycle of five art songs for mezzo soprano and piano that I composed within the last year and recorded this past August. This piece questions the reasonableness of our efforts to forget pain, physical or emotional, in order to “get on with life.” I was inspired by this viewpoint and also by the overall rhythm and form of the piece. The poem is a “pantoum,” a verse in quatrains, in which the second and fourth lines are repeated as the first and third lines of the following quatrain. Sara gave me permission to omit a section of the poem and to change the wording slightly to satisfy the music. Although such omissions are considered taboo in some circles, this flexibility is …

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

T. Allen LeVines

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto

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 …