New Voices, Traditional Forms: Student Sonnets & Sapphic Stanzas

Words

Excerpts from “Alva and the Beast”

L.S. McKee

These poems are excerpted from a series in progress currently titled “Alva and the Beast.” This project, through its central character Alva, explores tropes of passion, longing, loss, and mortality through the lens of nature and technology—and how these two forces, increasingly intertwined and blurred in contemporary society, can challenge, generate, and define narratives of self as well as our relationships with one another. Alva On Getting Dumped in the Desert It was the last home she’d chosen for herself, though the air gave her nosebleeds: blood suddenly on the sofa pillows—a few drops that would never wind their way back to the heart. But still. The air made her bleed. The desert sky a low ceiling. The altitude of the city higher than the mountains of her hometown, where lush trees clambered up the slopes. When he’d taken her …

Promise Me You’ll Hide a Part of Yourself

Darcy Reeder

“What Hurts” and Other Poems

Sara Pirkle Hughes

Seeking Thought Itself

Bryce Perry

Sri Aurobindo & Me

Casey Williams

GUADAGNINO – CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan

Sean Brennan

The Poetics of Entanglement

Judson Evans

Music

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 they do not control while they sing, as well as dynamic awareness by their fellow musicians. Our BTOT session was an interactive panel discussion and demonstration led by experts in vocal pedagogy from the voice department, to address how best to work with singers. Topics included the impact of thought on singing, supportive breathing techniques, anatomy through the lens of the Estill method, healthy belting approaches, speech-level singing, recognizing a student at risk for injury, and knowing when a singer should take it easy. This ongoing discussion is especially important in Berklee classes and ensembles, to support singing that is …

Hole

Anwen Crawford

“For Kounellis”

Neil Leonard

Triloka—Three Realms

Composed by Bruno Råberg

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 …