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After award-winning runs in the Nordic Fringe Circuit, "Do You See What I Hear?" is returning to tour in 2024! A dramatic conversation between music and spoken word, hailed as "Incredibly modern and inventive" by Edinburgh Guide (Edinburgh Fringe 2018) and “The reason festivals like ours exist” by the Atlanta Fringe Board (2022). 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, Iceland, Sweden, 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 video images generated live by the music, the production features new methods 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.
233 Federal Street
General Admission: $15
233 Federal Street
General Admission: $15
233 Federal Street
General Admission: $15
“Do You See What I Hear” is brought to you by composer James Wright Glasgow and poet Mario Moroni. While each have been creating works and performing independently for years, Glasgow’s music company, Strange Fangs Song Factory, first partnered with Mario Moroni in New York in February 2017 to create new music for Moroni’s poetry.
James Glasgow is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning music composer and producer. His work has been performed in cities across the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden, and Brazil, including compositions commissioned for major world festivals such as Burning Man and the Edinburgh Fringe. Glasgow is also the co-creator and director of Song Factory, a nationally top-ranked music creation program for young people recovering from trauma.
Mario Moroni was born in Italy. He moved to the United States in 1989. He has taught at Yale University, Colby College, and Binghamton University, NY. Moroni has published ten volumes of poetry. In 1989 he was awarded the Lorenzo Montano prize for poetry in Italy. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies of contemporary Italian poetry. As a literary critic, Moroni has published three volumes on various topics of modern and contemporary European and Italian literature. He has also co-edited three volumes of essays on issues of Modernism and Avant-garde. Moroni has had multiple albums of his work released on CD and streaming services, and has performed his interdisciplinary work in dozens of events and festivals in Italy, the UK, Spain, France, Brazil, Iceland, Sweden, and across the United States.
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