Episode Guest

Marti Epstein

Loading...

Media is loading
 

Episode Description

Composer Marti Epstein has been on the faculty at Berklee for almost 30 years, and since 2008, she has taught at both Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Her music has an unpredictable, dreamlike quality to it, often made all the more strange by her choice of reference points: a fairy tale, a piece of abstract art, or a passage from Moby-Dick, for instance. In this episode of Sounds of Berklee, Epstein unpacks what it means to create “unimaginable music”—music that creates its own unique world of sound. She also explains why she advises her students not to use a computer to compose music, and how she went about developing her opera, Rumpelstiltskin.

Producers

John Mirisola; Bryan Parys

Engineers

Tony Brown; Brandon Bichajian

Document Type

Podcast

Duration

25:51

Publication Date

3-10-2020

Excerpted Music

"Oil & Sugar" by Marti Epstein.

Theme Music

You Made Me by Sleeping Lion.

Comments

Note to listeners: this episode refers to a planned performance of Rumpelstiltskin at the Kennedy Center that has now been canceled.

Share

COinS