At Home/Out of Place
Description, from Artist Ira Klein:
(5 min) November 2021. Due to visa and Covid travel regulations, It’s been 3 years since my last visit to Israel, my home country. Using audio and video recordings made by my iPhone, I set out on a journey to learn more about the notions of home, what it means to belong, and how we change when we live in a different culture.
Ira Klein is an award-winning guitarist, composer, and producer from Jerusalem, Israel, currently based in Boston, MA. He aspires to create deeply rooted, fresh, and idiosyncratic contemporary music. Inspired by his fascination with several folk music traditions (predominantly Ladino and American roots music), as well as his background in jazz and rock, Ira takes a melting-pot musical approach to create his sound. He believes that when ancient songs meet a modern interpretive approach, the creative possibilities are boundless. Ira has taught at Berklee College of Music, the Cambridge Music Consortium, the Club Passim School of Music and the Concord Conservatory of Music. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music in 2020 from Berklee, and is currently a Masters program student at the Longy Conservatory of Bard College in Cambridge. He has performed widely, including local performances at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Smith Center, and Holden Chapel, Boston University Hillel, the Longfellow House Museum, and Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Reflections
The sounds of home
How do sounds conjure up a sense of place? What sounds remind you of home?
Empathy
Where does your sense of empathy come from? Were you born with it? Is it cultural? Did a significant event in your life impact the way you emphasize with others?
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