Do You See What I Hear?

Strange Fangs Song Factory

Pine Bush, NY

Maturity Rating

General Audience

Synopsis

“Do You See What I Hear?” is a dramatic conversation between music and spoken word, hailed as “Incredibly modern and inventive” by Edinburgh Guide (Edinburgh Fringe 2018). Internationally acclaimed composer James Wright Glasgow performs the music he has composed for the new poems of Mario Moroni (winner of the Lorenzo Montano Poetry Prize) as Moroni recites his works. “Do You See What I Hear?” has been performed at festivals in Brazil, Italy, London, Scotland, and in major cities across the United States.

The poetry is atmospheric and immersive, and the music is haunting and beautiful. The music is performed on an electric cello with an adjoined pocket-sized drum synthesizer and ranges from a modern take on orchestral impressionism to experimental usage of a looping pedal, creating a dynamic back and forth with Moroni’s words. In addition to projected video images, the production features a new method of graphical musical notation based on recursive algorithms and the symbol language Blissym, mimicking themes of Moroni’s works, dancing between the rational and irrational.

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