Tiny Music       
​-Sound Design -Live Performance
@Vancouver (2014)

A Great Review of Tiny Music


Tiny Music is an original “sound design musical” loosely adapted from Shalom Aleichem’s short story “The Fiddle”. The show follows Ezra, a 23-year-old autistic man, who has an auditory-processing disorder that gives him a heightened experience of the sounds around him. Through songs, scenes, and mezmerizing soundscapes, the audience hears through Ezra’s ears as he navigates his way through family dynamics, unconventional passions, and an always-shifting, ever-present, strange and beautiful sonic landscape.

Tiny Music is about individuality and responsibility: what it means to make good choices when what (or who) you love hurts people in your life. It’s about what it means to truly listen — to others, to the world around us, and to ourselves. And most of all, it’s about the inevitability, the human need, the inexplicable holiness — of music.

Tiny Music is created and produced by Jump Current, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, Concordia University (Matra Lab and Department of Theatre), and Canadian Actors Equity Association.


Tiny Music feature on CBC Radio, with sound design by Joseph Browne
Tiny Music was featured on CBC Radio Vancouver’s flagship program The Early Edition on Friday February 21st.  The piece was produced by Catherine Rolfsen, and features interviews with Noah Drew & Anton Lipovetsky.  Sound design for the radio piece was done by Joseph Browne. 

February 25 & 26, 2014
Norman Rothstein Theatre (Vancouver)
Presented as part of the 2014 Chutzpah Festival

Written and Composed by Noah Drew
Directed and Dramaturgy by Jamie Nesbitt
Arrangement and Musical Direction by Yawen Wang
Sound Design by Joseph Browne

Stage Managed by Joanne P.B. Smith
Assistant Stage Managed by Melanie Thompson
Technical Direction by Jayson McLean
Dramaturgical Consultation by John Langs
Performed by:
Anton Lipovetsky
Susinn McFarlen
Caitriona Murphy
Bob Bossin

Musicians:
Yawen Wang: piano & accordion
Mike Braverman: clarinet
Jodi Proznick: bass
Jason Overy: drums
Elyse Jacobson: violin
Caitriona Murphy: violin
Joseph Browne: live electronics