Sciences Participating with Arts & Culture in Education

STUDIO VOICE-SPACE COLLABORATION 3

The third iteration of this crossover endeavour between the Studio Voice class in the Professional Theatre Department and SPACE, under the auspices of Arts and Science, was another success. Professor Andrew Katz of the Department of English provided an overview to the two groups of theatre students, they then went about exploring the SPACE website for articles, essays, short stories and poems to record; the idea being that the recordings accompany the publications as mini audiobooks. 

The 21 recordings were conducted in late February and early March in the studio in 5E.1. Once again, there was a great variety in the poems, short stories, and essays, despite the fact that there were a few repeats from last year’s material (though different voices and interpretations) and a few recordings of the same selections. It shows that many of these pieces speak to a wide range of readers, and the recordings seek to reflect that to the listener. 

Thanks again to Andrew for facilitating this collaboration, which manages to be both fun and fruitful, and thank you to Ursula Sommerer for her invaluable technical help. 

—Matt Holland, instructor, Studio Voice 

Number 91 read by Bram Lackman-Mincoff