Audience
Sound Immersion
Nightscapes
~ Melting Sensorial Boundaries ~
Come and experience a night of music, poetry reading, and a lecture. In this interactive performance, audience members are invited to listen while activating all senses, share thoughts, and create artworks in response to the music featured in the program. This event will start at 7:00 pm on Friday, October 24, 2025 in the Recital Hall, Nancy R. and Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center.
The program will feature a lecture on synesthesia, piano music depicting various nightscapes, composed by Claude Debussy, Philip Cashian, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Leonid Desyatnikov, and Dobrinka Tabakova along with poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke, Basho Matsuo, Charles Baudelaire, and Edgar Allan Poe.
James Mantell, Associate Professor of Psychology, lecture
Sadie Grzymalski, psychology and neuroscience major (’26), reading
Katie Gantz, Provost and Dean of Faculty, reading
Rie Moore, Instructor of Music, piano
Nightscapes is the first installment of Sound Immersion, a performance series where music is united with other worlds to explore specific themes. This project is supported in part by Arts Alliance of St. Mary's College of Maryland. For more information about this project, please contact Rie Moore at rnmoore@smcm.edu.